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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are Hispanic if you or your parents are from a Spanish speaking country. There is no more to it. It doesn't matter how you look like. I am a white, caucasian Hispanic because I am originally from Argentina.
I you are from Spain, you are also Hispanic. Is about language, not race.
This said a person from Spain is Hispanic but not Latino. Latino means your ancestry is from Latin America.[/quote]

Ok and I always thought that someone from Spain is NOT Hispanic, because they are European.  I've always understood Hispanic to mean being mixed with Spanish/Portugese & Native American blood.  Not saying I'm right and you're wrong.  But it does seem to me that Hispanic is a fuzzy category for a lot of people.  [/quote]

The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, [b]or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race[/b]" and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity.

So no, that is why it's a bullshit classification. [/quote]

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