hiihi! you’ve already had 2 pretty good responses but i’ll also explain. also, not intrusive at all! very good question and it warms my heart that people are so interested in learning abt different cultures <3
hispanic comes from the anglicised version of the spanish term for spanish speakers which is “hispanohablantes”. hispano being spanish and hablantes being speakers. this is the same as other language’s ways of referring to speakers of that language, for example french. in french “francophone” is french speaker, and the english version of that is…francophone.
therefore hispanic is the english way of saying spanish speakers. this means a lot of latino people consider themselves hispanic.
however, latin america is a region where of course spanish is spoken, but not all countries speak spanish. for example brasil, whose main language is brasilian portuguese. ‘latino/latina/latinx’ is the shortened way of saying ‘latinomamericano/a/x’ which is “person from latin america” in spanish. in this, latino people can be those who do not speak spanish.
a lot of people who consider themselves latino are usually people descended from latinoamericanos and now live in a different country. almost every person who is born in these countries and has lived all their life in latin american countries wouldn’t say they’re latino at all, instead go with their actual country. a lot of actual native latinos see it as more of an immigrant thing/american thing bc america is kinda obsessed with categorisation over there lol.
but i still see it as valid, to me it’s a way of referring and grouping all these different countries together into a region like how we say europeans and asians.
for many people being latino is also about the culture you hold from your country and community and many people find the latino identity being lumped together with the hispanic identity redundant because they are completely different despite easily being confused.
thank you for asking so politely! i hope this made sense and cleared up stuff, and if u have anything else to ask feel free to :-)
Thank you for clearing that up! I wish they actually taught stuff like that in highschool spanish classes, would probably stop a lot of confusion that way.
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