What's the Difference Between Latino and Hispanic?

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Published 2015-09-30
What's the difference between the terms 'Latino' and 'Hispanic? Most people use these words interchangeably, but there is actually a difference. I try to tackle this difficult and complex topic, but looking at the origin and different uses of the words.

I also attempt to define where actually Latin America is. Something that, like so many things, does not have a clear definition.

Music:
No Frills Cumbia - Kevin MacLeod
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All Comments (21)
  • me: i'm from Brazil
    people from my class: so you speak Brazilian?
    me: ...
  • @Denver_____
    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.
  • 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
  • @sourcandy8658
    as a brazilian no one here talks about being latino everyone forgets that fact idk why usa people is obsessed with this word
  • @fabriceizzo2922
    Americans are obsessed with redefining people and places around the world but have no clue about global demography and geography (most of them).
  • @Theodora555
    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.
  • @hansfranz7347
    The term Latino actually tells you more about the people who invented it than about the people who it is describing.
  • @infinityguy16
    Well that ending basically summed up to "its up to you to decide who you are/want to be"
  • @abun6876
    I came here confused and ended up more confused
  • @daibeet4159
    Philippines be like.. Heyy uhmm.. I guess ill just be Asian
  • @PonchoANS7
    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.
  • @mazukamba2573
    Thank you for clearing this up because I knew this for a long time but never had back up.
  • @jLachelle3
    The extravagance of the Tang Dynasty for women makes it my favorite. I just love the hairstyles and accessories
  • @martin5902
    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.
  • @brunoder303
    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.
  • @otheooo
    Remember: if you say to a brazilian if they are Latino, and they say no, keep calm; Latino is an famous singer in Brazil.
  • @keenanhenry95
    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! 👍🏼
  • @tommunyon2874
    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.