They are different. Hispanic relates or identifies a person from a spanish speaking nation and a connection with the Iberian Peninsula. Latino/a is relates or identifies a person from Latin countries - regardless of the language spoke - and would include indigenous peoples who cannot trace a spanish lineage (i.e., not mestizos). For example, you would not call someone from Brazil hispanic but you would call them latin
I always wonder, why do we call used cars pre-owned? Huh.
Yes - which is not Spanish, which is what Hispanic refers to. It does not extend to the entire Iberian peninsula. Also, if you want to argue with the people in Brazil who have corrected me on this I will ask them if they are interested in chatting.
Most are just happy that most Americans have stopped calling every brown skinned person a Mexican and recognize there are different countries and cultures.
You wouldn't call someone who speaks Portuguese Hispanic, but you would call them Latin.
I can't help you there. You should have taken geography during your time as FSU. The Latin in Latin America generally identifies countries that speak the romance languages and were predominately settled by roman catholics....as opposed to the Protestant-English/Dutch speaking colonies.
So islands in the Caribbean that were settled by the Dutch are not considered Latin?
In the truest sense of the word, correct. You would exclude the ABC islands, Belize, etc. However, there is a broader (better word)--but still accepted-definition which includes all countries sough of the US.
I heard a speaker one time saying that Hispanic is a made up word and shouldn't be used either.
Well that’s obviously offensive. I‘m sure those that don’t speak Portuguese would have their feelings hurt.
Yes; but I don't "go around" asking brown skinned people...we merely laugh about it at my family parrillada or crawfish boil--where my Peruvian, Colombian, Argentinian and El Salvadoran friends intermix with my Mexican family.
No particular reason. I was just curious why you don't acknowledge your hispanic heritage. I am not suggesting that is wrong....just was curious because we are the opposite.
I guess I don’t wonder or worry about someone’s nationality, nor is it a subject of conversation often. If someone has a heavy foreign accent, I might ask where they are from out of curiosity and to spur conversation. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brown skinned person and assumed Mexican. Or ever vocalized it. Just seems weird that people would do that in any normal situation.
I do acknowledge it. I just never seek any additional benefits from it. My Mother was 100% Danish. I’m more Danish than Mexican. But I don’t really care. I’m an American with a mixed background.
I do not. A few within my family can, but growing up in small town Iowa, everyone spoke English. Speaking Spanish was not an option. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother spoke both Spanish and English.
Have you ever asked your Grandmother about how she crossed the border. It would be interesting to learn how a Mexican immigrated to Iowa around (what I assume was the turn of the century). As you probably are aware, there was a free flow of Mexican labor until the early 1970s. She must have fallen in love in stayed rather than returning to Mexico at the end of the season.
