Hispanic is not a race and only an ethnicity to people who think that “all them spiks are alike.”
None of us think all them Hispanic’s are alike. I don’t think of them as a race either. However, it sure seems like the people who came up with these five groups do. Maybe you should educate them.
I use the term because it would be wrong to mention Mexicans every time I address a certain body of people made up of Mexicans and other people from a number of different nations. I don’t mean it in a derogatory way.
The media, the government, and others refer to Hispanics constantly when referencing groups from Mexico and various Central and South American nations.
What is it with some people who think they are the only people on the planet who know some things? You don’t think folks know what you’ve written there?
As for using the word “spiks”, you seem to be going out of your way to cast dispersions. I’ve never used it in my life. I don’t anyone who has.