I don’t think many Filipinos consider themselves Hispanic, but who knows? There are honest-to-goodness Latin-Anericans of Chinese or Japanese descent, though, particularly in Peru (where Alberto Fujimorinbecame president).
If you’re an Argentine whose four grandparents were Italian, Croatian, Ukranian and German, you’re “Hispanic.” Not only is Hispanic not a racial category, it is barely an ethnic category.
It seems to me that the census bureau may have been the ones to invent it the term (in the way that we are using it) in the first place.
My former considered herself Hispanic in addition to being Filipina (but also Caucasian, Native American, Eastern European, Scottish, Chinese... et al). She was hired at the local Sears because they thought she was (exclusively) Hispanic and would be serving the same-race clientele (or specifically Mexican & Central Americans, many illegal, of which she wasn’t).