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November 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Ok
Latino/Latina just means you speak a language that developed from Latin (Romance languages). Generally there are two types of Latinos, the Latin Europeans and the Latin Americans. Latin Europeans are the nations that were provinces of the Roman Empire and speak a Romance language today, and they include the Spanish, French, Italians and Portuguese.
Latin Americans are the peoples who live in the Western Hemisphere (North & South America) and were colonised by the Latin Europeans. Latin Americans are the more common Latinos in the United States, and so they’re the ones that are most often reffered to as Latino, even though it really includes Europeans too. Latin Americans are also much more racially mixed than Latin Europeans, who are all white, and so they get seen as "different"
Hispanics are just people who come from a Spanish-Speaking country, or have origins in Spanish speaking countries.
I know its kinda confusing but look at it this way. If you had a Brazilian, an Italian, A Frenchman and a Mexican in a room, all of them would be Latin, but only the Brasilian and the Mexican will be Latin American, and only the Mexican is Hispanic
November 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
she some light on me too, ill be taking notes.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
LATIN: someone from an European country such as Italy or Spain whose language developed from Latin. / A member of a Latin people, especially a native or inhabitant of Latin America.
HISPANIC: A Spanish-speaking person.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Latin
The term *Latino* comes from Lazio which is a region in Italy: Lazio. Latins were a populations of the centre of Italy so the ancient Rome was a Latin town.
Basically Latinos can be anything: mestizos, mulattos, blacks, whites, Asians, natives.
Spain is a latin country, so is Italy, Portugal, France and Romania and all of South and Central America.
The term *hispanic* is used by the USA to group all people of spanish speaking countries into one group.
Hispanic is an ethnicity,not a race.
http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/businessetiquette/a/pc-hispanic.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzpqvxYSjc&feature=related
Watch this video, it might help u understand. =]
November 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Nowadays… "Latino/Latina" is a term used to describe a person (regardless of race) who was born in a Spanish-speaking country. "Hispanic" is also just a term that simply states that you speak Spanish – nothing more, nothing less (the term, has nothing to do with race or ethnicity). Anyone from a Spanish-speaking country of the Americas or certain parts of the Caribbean are considered, "Latino/Latina". Basically, no matter how you look at it, the Spanish-speaking people of Mexico are Hispanic and Latino/Latina (note that, Spanish is not the only language spoken in Mexico; there are many different dialects). The Spanish, on the other hand, are not Latino – they are LATINS (or Latin Europeans).
So basically, to sum it all up… Hispanics are anybody (regardless of race), who speak Spanish. Latinos/Latinas are people born in Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas (e.g. Mexico, Guatemala, Peru), or certain parts of the Caribbean (e.g. Dominican Republic, Cuba).
November 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Latino/a can be any1 who was born in a country where a romance language(developed from Latin like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Roman) is spoken.
Latin american: a Latino from America (the continent)
Hispanic: a person who’s from a coutry where Spanish is spoken.
Mexican: person from mexico
Colombian: person from Colombia
Venezuelan:person from Venezuela
Spanish: person from Spain
hope that helps
December 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Everyone tries to say it his or her way but there is only one history. The Latin Language, Culture and Civilization originate in Italy (Italia), Not Spain, Not “Latin-America”.
There is no difference between ther term Latino/Latina or Latin.It all depends on who is talking. The French and British say Latin all the other of us Latin Europeans say Latino/Latina.
So don’t make up stories.
No, the real Latins , that is those who can claim Latin Culture are the Italians. Then the French,the Romanians and lastly the Spaniards. I said lastly. These people were all colonized by the Romans,the ancient Italians, and that’ why they inherited the Latin Language, the Christian Catholic Religion and Roman Laws. Eventually the Latin evolved into other moderm Romance languages spoken today.
No, a Mexican or a Puerto Rican or a Dpminican doesn’t have the same Latin Culture of an Italian or any other Latin European. “Latin Americans” only have languages which come from the Latin. That’s all.