It is used to signify that a person is from or descended from people from Latin America. Unlike Hispanic, which refers to language, Latino is a term that refers to geography. So while Hispanic might refer to ethnicity in the dictionary and governmental definition of the term, in practice, it often refers to race. This suggests that Hispanics have a unique view of race that doesn’t necessarily fit within the official U.S. survey of multiracial Americans finds that, for two-thirds of Hispanics, their Hispanic background is a part of their racial background – not something separate. Elaborating on this, Pew Research Center wrote in 2015: Some people who identify as Hispanic may also identify with one of these racial categories, but many do not, and as a result, choose to write in Hispanic as their race. Race options include white, black, Asian, American Indian or Pacific Islander, or some other race. This is a matter of identity, but also of the structure of the question about race included in the Census. However, self-reports of race in the Census indicate that some identify their race as Hispanic. In today’s Census people self-report their answers and have the option to choose whether or not they are of Hispanic descent.īecause the Census Bureau recognizes that Hispanic is a term that describes ethnicity and not race, people can self-report a variety of racial categories as well as Hispanic origin when they complete the form. People of all different races identify as Hispanic, including white people. Census in 1980, as a question prompting the Census taker to determine whether or not the person was of Spanish/Hispanic origin. Hispanic is most commonly used in the eastern U.S., including Florida and Texas. Reports indicate that it came into use by the United States government during Richard Nixon’s presidency, which spanned 1968‒1974. Because of this, many people considered Hispanic today equate their ethnicity with their or their ancestors’ country of origin, or with an ethnic group within this country. Consider that people who originate from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico will have come from very different cultural backgrounds, excepting their language and possibly their religion. However, people of many different ethnicities can identify as Hispanic, so it’s actually more broad than ethnicity.
This means that, as an identity category, it is closest to the definition of ethnicity, which groups people based on a shared common culture.
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