“I hate when people call me Spanish, because I’m not. If you’re Spanish, it’s because you’re from Spain.”
Bustle made this handy video to simplify the definitive differences between the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish.
Host Kat Lazo breaks it down to basic definitions:
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Hispanic is a term that refers to Spanish speaking origin or ancestry.
"Hispanic is basically based on whether you or your family speak the language of Spanish."
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Latino refers to origin or ancestry to Latin America.
"Latino is focusing more on geographic location, that being Latin America."
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This handy venn diagram sorts out both the overlap between, and exclusions from each term.
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