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- Hispanic Americans, people living in the United States who are descendants of Spanish-speaking peoples. Since most Hispanics trace their ancestry to Latin America, they are also often called Latinos.
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Feb 10, 2022 · Chicanos, boricuas and more. As the racial and ethnic makeup of the U.S. changed over time, people from the Spanish and Latin American diaspora often referred to themselves based on their...
Sep 14, 2020 · The terms Latino, Hispanic and Latinx are often used interchangeably to describe a group that makes up about 19 percent of the U.S. population.
In the United States the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino" (or "Latina" for a woman; sometimes written as “ Latinx ” to be gender-neutral) were adopted in an attempt to loosely group immigrants and their descendants who hail from this part of the world.
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For some, Latino is a term of ethnic pride, evoking the broad mix of Latin American peoples, while Hispanic, tied etymologically to Spain rather than the Americas, has distasteful associations with conquest and colonization.
Apr 4, 2024 · There are 64 million Latino Americans in the United States, and together they form a population larger than any Spanish speaking country in the world except for Mexico. And they have roots in dozens of different countries, with distinct cultures.
Sep 27, 2023 · Latino is recorded as early as the mid-1940s in the United States ultimately shortened from the Spanish word latinoamericano (“Latin American”), but it wasn’t included on the US census for the first time until 2000—20 years after “Hispanic.”
In Latin America, the term latino is not a common endonym and its usage in Spanish as a demonym is restricted to the Latin American-descended population of the United States, but this is not always the case. The exception is Spain where latino is a common demonym for immigrants from Latin America. [citation needed]
