What's the Difference Between Latino and Hispanic?
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Published 2015-09-30
I also attempt to define where actually Latin America is. Something that, like so many things, does not have a clear definition.
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All Comments (21)
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Remember, not all people that speak Spanish are Mexican😤
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me: i'm from Brazil
people from my class: so you speak Brazilian?
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As a Brasilian, I am grateful that this video is made. In US schools some teachers ( well just one) would say I was Hispanic. After correcting said teacher, she said that she would reprimand me for lying in front of the class. I gave her condensed version the info as in this video.
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Yes, Haitians are Latino from the Hispaniola island, sharing the island with the very Spanish Dominican Republic. We speak Créole, French, and Spanish. Coming to America this concept has always been wild to ppl when they ask me why I speak Spanish as a Haitian and I don't understand why that's so hard to grasp
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as a brazilian no one here talks about being latino everyone forgets that fact idk why usa people is obsessed with this word
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Americans are obsessed with redefining people and places around the world but have no clue about global demography and geography (most of them).
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Thank you, I took blood tests and DNA test that revealed I'm an Indengenous American, Choctaw & Cherokee and a large part of my ancestry foundation is Mexico. I have relatives in Mexico that I have never met, but I know they are my people and I have always known that I'am an American Indian it also shocked me that I'm 41% European. We are all mixed up with something, thank you for the video.
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The term Latino actually tells you more about the people who invented it than about the people who it is describing.
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And remember, latinx is not a term
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Well that ending basically summed up to "its up to you to decide who you are/want to be"
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I came here confused and ended up more confused
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Philippines be like.. Heyy uhmm.. I guess ill just be Asian
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As a Mexican, I don't mind it if people call me either Hispanic or Latino. But DON't fucking call me Spanish. Spanish refers to people from Spain.
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Thank you for clearing this up because I knew this for a long time but never had back up.
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The extravagance of the Tang Dynasty for women makes it my favorite. I just love the hairstyles and accessories
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It really depends on the idiom you're speaking, in spanish "latino" basically means "someone from a country that speaks a lenguage derivative from latin", which includes all of latin-america and latin-europe, including Spain and all hispanic countries outside of América (the continent). However normally it's just used by latin-americans and not latin-europeans so it doesn't really matter.
The video explains what it means in english, so it only works in the US and other english-speaking countries. -
As a Brazilian man I am truly happy to see somebody educating people on something that I always had to explain that being Brazilian makes me latino but not Hispanic. We are lusitans.
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Remember: if you say to a brazilian if they are Latino, and they say no, keep calm; Latino is an famous singer in Brazil.
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I work in a US retail pharmacy, and this "Are you hispanic/latino?" question always had some animosity around it. The US in general loves to include the terms as part of their data collection, so it's always floating around in my head. This video was a great eye-opener and leeds to even more questions still. But that's a good thing for the most part. One of the few applications in which I believe that the terms are truly important and helpful are in the judicial system. When you need to identify a suspect, describing them as simply "White" makes it very very difficult to narrow down. But "white hispanic" or "white latino" makes it significantly more specific. Either way, thank you for the video! I would love to see more like it! 👍🏼
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During my childhood days in New Mexico people's ethnic identity was generalized as Anglo, Spanish, or Indian, and to a lesser degree the generalized Anglo was broken down to Italian, German, Polish, and etc. Indigenous people were referred to by which Pueblo they came from, or other tribal affiliation, e.g. Navajo. It became more confusing by the 1970s, however. This video adds some clarity to what I have intuitively come to know over the last 50 years, or so.