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  2. Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories) - Wikipedia

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    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."

  3. Hispanic - Wikipedia

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    The term Hispanic (Spanish: hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly. [1] [2] In some contexts, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an ethnic or meta-ethnic term.

  4. Here's the Important Difference Between Hispanic, Latino and ...

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    The word Spanish refers to both a language and a nationality. A common mistake is calling a Spanish-speaking person Spanish. A person who speaks Spanish is Hispanic.

  5. Latino (demonym) - Wikipedia

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    Of the two, only Hispanic can be used in referring to Spain and its history and culture; a native of Spain residing in the United States is a Hispanic, not a Latino, and one cannot substitute Latino in the phrase the Hispanic influence on native Mexican cultures without garbling the meaning. In practice, however, this distinction is of little ...

  6. What's The Difference Between 'Hispanic' And 'Latino?' - AOL

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    As the population continues to grow, there are now more than 62 million Latinos and Hispanics in the U.S., meaning they make up nearly one in five people in the country. Hispanic applies to ...

  7. Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia

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    The terms Hispanic and Latino refer to an ethnicity. Hispanic first came into popular use to refer to individuals with origins in Spanish-speaking countries after the Office of Management and Budget created the classification in 1977, as proposed by a subcommittee composed of three government employees, a Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican ...

  8. Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating culture, history ... - AOL

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    Hispanic Heritage Month is very important to Zamanillo as part of his career focused on making Hispanic and Latino history included in U.S. history. After a trip to Washington, D.C., 30 years ago ...

  9. Spaniards - Wikipedia

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    Spaniards, [a] or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the ...