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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is simply a distinction based on language that simplifies how they view themselves. They are not white, nor black, nor do do they all come from the same country or look alike. The one thing that unites them is the language spoken at home.
It is also what differentiates them from other "categories".
As a Colombian, proud of my country and my nationality, I dislike being bundled up as "latina" or "hispanic". I might look like  a Venezuelan, but I look very different from a Bolivian or a Uruguayan or a Dominican. The one thing that ties us together is a continent and a language. Yet to others we are all one and the same. 
I honestly don't think Spain as a country or as a historic colonizing empire factors in at all. It is simply language.
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Yes. This person has it right. [/quote]

+1. So many of these answers are just off.

I want to add that most people I know are specific (I am Bolivian, Salvadoran, Peruvian), especially when speaking with others who have a sense of the geography. But because so many Americans don't really, and tend to group all the countries together, people help out by simplifying.

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