What is the difference between a Latino and a Hispanic?
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I wondered the same thing.
Hispanic used to mean people from the Iberian Peninsula, but now it has been stretched to anyone speaking Spanish.
Same for Latino, so why do they use both?
If memory serves, Latino is a person of origin from the Americas -— where Hispanics originated from Hispanola (discovered by Columbus) in the Caribbean (Island of Haiti and Domenican Republic) — I think.
I think, technically, I'm Hispanic, since my grandfather was born in Spain. I'm not Latino, however - I think Latinos are those from Spanish-speaking America.
In short, Hispanic focuses on Spanish-speaking origin. This means Spain is included, but Brazil is not because Brazilians speak Portuguese. Latino refers to people of Latin American origin. This includes Brazil and excludes Spain.
“What is the difference between a Latino and a Hispanic?”
In general usage the words are used interchangeably.
A Hispanic is a person who speaks Spanish.
A Latino(or Latina) is a person whose country of origin is in Latin America.
What is the difference between a Black and an African-American?
What is the difference between a white and a caucasian?
I know official databases where each of the above pairs makes no sense at all. There is no standard definition.
“What is the difference between a Latino and a Hispanic?”
A Latino is of Central American/Caribbean ancestry and not a “White Hispanic”
I think
Latinos speak Latin