Latino or Hispanic? What's the difference? - BBC News
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Published 2019-11-05
But when do you classify a person as Hispanic or Latino? BBC journalist Angélica Casas explains the difference between the terms and why it matters.
Filmed by Chloe Kim.
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All Comments (21)
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No one has adopted latinx stop lying
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The term in English "Latin" is already gender neutral. No need to "fix" my Spanish from an anglophone perspective.
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"We recently adopted the term LatinX" ? who made this decision?
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nobody has adopted "latinx" ..........
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If you expect me to understand the difference after watching this video, you must be very confused yourself!
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Both of those terms I never heard outside of the USA.
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As a Latino, Lantinx is not a word
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Latino: Pre-Roman people who lived on the Italian peninsula. Hispanic: People who lived in the Roman province of Hispania (Iberian peninsula). The rest is American invention ...
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They could just resurrect the neuter gender from Latin, and call everyone "Latinum" or some such :D
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Yeah, I’m never saying Latin x. Ever.
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We don't even use those terms here in the UK. WTF! BBC! Those two terms are American categories and are rarely used outside of the USA.
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“LatinX” yikes, que feo.
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Latino is a despective anglo-saxon word. As Spaniard. Right ? My Britards? Is called Iberoamericano. And its funneh to see a person who barely speaks spanish, working for the BBC, to lecture me about my country and my culture. Greetings from Hispania and Lusitania, aka IBERIA. I didnt expect less watching your anglo museums, fullfilled with Brittish history and pieces of the brittish culture.
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The French politician Michel Chevalier is often credited with popularizing the term "Latin America" in his 1836 book "Des intérêts matériels en France, en Espagne, et surtout en Belgique" (Material Interests in France, Spain, and especially in Belgium). Chevalier used the term to distinguish the countries of the Americas from Anglo-Saxon America, referring to the English-speaking countries.
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I would argue that Spaniards are also Latin; not Latin American, but Latin European, like the French, Italians, Romanians, and other peoples who speak Latin-derived languages.
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Hispanic comes from the word Hispania which was the Roman Region of the entire Iberian peninsula. So Hispania encompassed both Portugal and Spain. And even within Spain, several different languages are spoken apart from Spanish, i.e, Aranese, Basque, Catalan, and Galician.
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So that's why it is confusing to use "Latino" just for those in Central and South America. Latinos logically are any people who speak a Latin language like: French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, or Spanish.
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i’m puerto rican and they way she said “puerto rico” irritates me. also, “latin x” ? get that shit out of here 🤨
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This is stupid ,very stupid . Latin can be found originaly in Europe and these are the real Latinos: Italians (where is coming from) ,French ,Romanians ,Spanish and Portuguese are the real latin country's . The rest are just impersonators especially coming from American continent where the "Indians" lived.
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Latin x sounds like something I watch a 3 am and deleted the evidence 🤦♂️🥴😅
