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Latino—which in Spanish means "Latin" but in English is probably a shortening of the Spanish word latinoamericano—refers more exclusively to persons or communities of Latin American Spanish-speaking origin. Of the two, only Hispanic can be used in referring to Spain and its history and culture.
The Pew Research Center believes that the term Hispanic is strictly limited to Spain, Puerto Rico, and all countries where Spanish is the only official language whereas "Latino" includes all countries in Latin America (even Brazil regardless of the fact that Portuguese is its only official language), but it does not include Spain and Portugal.
The 2010 census asked if the person was "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino". The United States census uses the Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."
For example, the main language spoken in Honduras is Spanish, so a person from there can consider themselves Hispanic. Latino or Latina applies to anyone from Latin America, or with family ties to ...
Hispanic, Latino and Spanish are popular terms people use to identify themselves. For many who identify as Hispanic, Latino and Spanish, they recognize their family’s origins and/or speak the ...
This resulted in many Hispanic and Latino participants to have a “partial match” on the 2020 census under the two-part ethnic and race question, because many people consider Hispanic or Latino ...
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.
Hispanic refers to people who share a common language, specifically Spanish, and typically includes individuals from Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.