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People who identify as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race, because similarly to what occurred during the colonization and post-independence of the United States, Latin American countries had their populations made up of multiracial and monoracial descendants of Spanish and Portuguese settlers, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, descendants ...
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.
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."
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.
People who identify as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race, because similarly to what occurred during the colonization and post-independence of the United States, Latin American countries had their populations made up of multiracial and monoracial descendants of settlers from the metropole of a European colonial empire (in the case of Latin ...
Latino, Latina and Latinx refer to people who are of Latin American descent. This includes people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America and Brazil, but excludes people from Spain.
[16] In Latin America, the term latino is not a common endonym and its usage in Spanish as a demonym is restricted to the Latin American-descended population of the United States, but this is not always the case. The exception is Spain where latino is a common demonym for immigrants from Latin America.
The terms Hispanic or Latino and Middle Eastern or North African will now be listed as a single race/ethnicity category in federal forms, reflecting the reality of how many Americans identify ...