Someone Spanish please explain this to me - Hispanic, Latino, Brazillian, Spanish etc
 

Someone please help me sort this out?

latino = from latin america
brazillian = from brazil
spanish = general term, spanish speaking.
hispanic = general US classification

any other niches similiar to these i am missing ?

thank you for your input.

no clue :thumbsup

Well you could add one from each country... masculine and feminine.

Also others like "Brazilera" to describe a Brazilian woman, or Cubana(o)... and so on. You also have skin colors.. Negros... Negras... Mulattos... and so on.

Too many terms and names to list bro. You have some homework to do.

brazilians are Latinos. they try to deny it but its true.

they are not hispanic though

Latino means coming from a country that was colonized by ppl from the Iberian pennisula. Both Spain and Portugal make up the Iberian pennisula so all of south america is Latino

hispanic means coming from a Spanish background...this includes all of south america except brazil

We are not hispanic bro, we were discovered and colonized by Portugal not Spain. We don't speak spanish, we speak portuguese.

thanks for the info so far. How do you tell the girls apart from looking at them, is it possible or do they look similar.

Anyone else can shed some light on hispanic, spanish, latino.

I don't follow how can all of south america be latino and hispanic ? do they mean the same thing. (except for brazil) Brazil seems to be the easy part. Are mexicans, just mexicans or are they hispanic latinos too. :Oh crap someone help please. lol .

Along the same lines with orientals, japanese - chinese - vietnamese. At least they are from different countries, but can you tell them a part from looking at them. Not trying to sound racist, but from an american's point of view that doesn't see any orientals often.

If you want to go straight here and be serious, you can search in some history and culture books and you will find that latin countries include:

1) All latin american countries, cinluding Brazil (except holland, french and UK districts/colonies)

2) Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Part of Switzerland and some other small regions in Europe. (all these countries were formed by the latin culture and considered latin european countries) You can ask the specialists.

In this biz latinos are only considered only latin-american countries.

Usually some european webmasters consider theirselves insulted when you call them latinos (Specially those form spain and france). But they are nothing but stupid ignorants. Even in the Spanish Real Academia it says that Spain and France is a latin country. Even in the French Academy it says that.

Bye.

If you want to go straight here and be serious, you can search in some history and culture books and you will find that latin countries include:

1) All latin american countries, cinluding Brazil (except holland, french and UK districts/colonies)

2) Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Part of Switzerland and some other small regions in Europe. (all these countries were formed by the latin culture and considered latin european countries) You can ask the specialists.

In this biz latinos are only considered only latin-american countries.

Usually some european webmasters consider theirselves insulted when you call them latinos (Specially those form spain and france). But they are nothing but stupid ignorants. Even in the Spanish Real Academia it says that Spain and France is a latin country. Even in the French Academy it says that.

"Latin America" was an incorrect stupid term invented by one of those post-war nazi USA govs, to separate The Supreme American Nazi race from the rest of America.

Bye.

Yes i am being 100% serious. I want to know how people look at this, not what some off the shelf book says. Even if common opinion is wrong, i plan on using this for marketing, so i want it to make sense to the people who see it, not be correct with the encyclopedia.

Thanks for replying but still lost how hispanics and latinos fit in this.

brazillian are not considered spanish....especially since they don't speak spanish.

but yes they are from latin america. but I wouldn't consider them to be latino.

Alguien satisface me ayuda

Yes, Brazilians are latinos.

I don't want to cause a cultral war here.


Who calls themselves hispanic.

Who calls themselves Latino

Brazil = people from Brazil.

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Brazilians are Latino

They always deny it but it is true.

I got into an argument about this with a Brazilian once...we happened to be having dinner with a professor who teaches Latin American politics at a well known university (guy had a PhD)

The professor confirmed that Brazilians are indeed Latino but definitely not Hispanic.

You forgot the Phillipines, smarty pants. Though not in South America (latin america) is still very much Latin.

We don`t use spanish to talk about people that speaks spanish.. SPANISH is to refer people from SPAIN.

wikipedia:

Often the term "Hispanic" is used synonymously with the word "Latino", and frequently with "Latin" as well. Even though the terms may sometimes overlap in meaning, they are not completely synonymous.

Latin in this context refers to "Latin America," a term introduced by the French in the 1860s when they dreamed of building an empire based in Mexico. It was closely connected to the introduction of French positivism into Latin American intellectual circles. The French understood "Latin" to include themselves and exclude the "Anglo-Saxons" of the U.S. and the U.K.

"Hispanic", on the other hand, specifically refers to Spain, and to the Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas as cultural and demographic extensions of Spain.

Meanwhile, Latinos are only those from the countries of Latin America, whether Spanish, Portuguese, or Creole-speaking, though in the latter case, not so frequently and with some ambiguities.

The confusion that arises is from the similarity between the words Latino and Latin, and between the concept of Hispanic and Latino. Latino is a shortened version of the noun Latinoamérica (Latin America). In the Spanish language "Latín" (Latin) is the name of the language of the Romans. This means that "Latin" is not confined solely to Hispanics and/or Latinos, and has always included such people as the Italians, French, Romanians, Portuguese, etc.

Thus, of a group consisting of a Brazilian, a Colombian, a Mexican, a Spaniard, and a Romanian; the Brazilian, Colombian, and Mexican would all be Latinos, but not the Spaniard or the Romanian, since neither Spain nor Romania are geographically situated in Latin America. Conversely, the Colombian, Mexican and Spaniard would all be Hispanics, but not the Brazilian or the Romanian, since Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese, and neither Portugal nor Romania are extensions of Spain. Finally, all of the above nationalities would all be Latin, including the Romanian.

It should be noted that "Latino" is very rarely applied to French-speaking Québec in Canada, and almost never to Haiti. The categories of "Latino" and "Hispanic" are used primarily in the United States to socially differentiate people. As social categories they are not mutually exclusive and without ambiguities and cannot be seen as independent of social discrimination (socio-economic, ethnic or racial).