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The masculine term Latino (/ l ə ˈ t iː n oʊ, l æ-, l ɑː-/), [1] [2] along with its feminine form Latina, is a noun and adjective, often used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, that most commonly refers to United States inhabitants who have cultural ties to Latin America.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
The US ethnic designation Latino is abstracted from the longer form latinoamericano. [43] The element Latino-is actually an indeclinable, compositional form in -o (i.e. an elemento compositivo) that is employed to coin compounded formations (similar as franco-in francocanadiense 'French-Canadian', or ibero-in iberorrománico, [44] etc.).
On the other hand, someone from Brazil is considered Latino but not Hispanic; Brazil is in Latin America, but the country’s main language is Portuguese, not Spanish. It can get a bit confusing ...
There's a lot of overlap, but one factor determines the difference in the Hispanic vs. Latino meaning.
Almost 1 in 5 people in the U.S. are Hispanic, but growth comes with rethinking the terms of a “mixed ethnicity.”
Latin American countries (green) in the Americas. Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French—are primarily spoken.
Hispanic is a term that refers to people of Spanish speaking origin or ancestry. Think language -- so if someone is from Spanish speaking origin or ancestry, they can be described as Hispanic. Latino?