Hold on !!!!! Why America is USA when America is a continent ?

This video is wrong, because Latin America is not a geographical concept, it is a cultural one. There is no Latin America, but South America, Central America and North America.

Latin is everyone that speaks a language that comes from the Roman empire. Spanish,FRench,italian,portuguese etc....

Latino is any person that speak the language that originated from the Latin hence Europe. French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Latin is a dead language today but these languages came from it. Latin America is a term we have developed but is somewhat inappropriate

Latin Europe: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, etc Latin America: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brasil, etc Race: all

Latino: languages and cultures that come from Latin (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian...). Hispanic: from the region called Hispania (Spain+Portugal), also called Península Ibérica. Latino is a word that the people in the States use wrong, just because they want to own the word "american".

I personally have a hard time explaining to people these differences, especially when they are trying to put me in one of the boxes on a mental form. It seems that in the U.S., people are obsessed with finding a race and an ethnicity to every human being. Your explanation is very thoughtful and thought-provoking. Thank you for helping folks understand the complexities around these terms. I could not have said it any better.

Actually Hispanic derives from the term Hispania, the Latin for the entire Iberian peninsula whose culture and descendants include both Spain and Portugal, thus Brasil.

I was born in Mexico and I consider myself American. because America is the continent I was born in.

Well done! Very informative. I think its important to learn of what ways we can describe someone and still be respect of their cultural and heritage background. Plus your color is on point!

Spanish: someone born in Spain. For example, a person born in Venezuela, even though they speak the language Spanish, is not considered Spanish.Hispanic: every person who's native language is Spanish. For example, Brazilians are not Hispanic because they speak Portuguese.Latino: every person who is born in Latin America, which covers every country in both Central and South America colonized by Spain or Portugal, which official language is Spanish or Portuguese. For example, someone born in Barbados is not Latino, because they were colonized by the UK and speak English.

Thank you for that! I'm Spanish and white, and whenever I fill out forms and they ask about my race I'm always confused as to whether I'm meant to pick "white" or "Hispanic" since both apply. Now it makes a lot more sense.

Ok... to add to the video: In the videos list: Saint Martin: They speak Dutch (not a latin-origin language) Haiti: French Martinique: French Saint Barthélemy: French French Guyana (South America): Is more french than a mime eating a croissant whilst getting pleasured by a baguette in a café. Other countries in the Caribbean and South America that aren't on the list and don't speak Spanish: Surinam (South America): Dutch [English] Guyana (South America): English (duh!) Aruba: Dutch Jamaica: English actually this list could go on forever. Out of 34 different (for lack of a better word) countries in the Caribbean only 5 list Spanish as an official language (according to Wikipedia). Cheers from Perú. Here we speak Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.

Spanish here! I knew all of these, and I think most people from latino-america will understand this too. Maybe is just that Americans have more to study a little bit more. I mean, these terms are understood implicitly by children here in Spain, especially if they know their country's history.

This video is confusing , Latino literally means anyone who speaks a Latin language and is from a former Latin colony. Haitians brazilians and other Spanish speakers from South America and West Indies are Latino. It doesn't have anything to do with someone's ethnicity like this girl implied. If ur a Latino of African and native ancestry you'd just be called Afro mestizo . I think the US census confuses people especially when they try to make Latino seem like it's a cultural identity. As for Hispanic I always took it as ancestors of spaniards who were left in Spanish colonies that Spain doesn't claim? Could be wrong *shrugs*

I'm an American of French descent. Hispanic is a Roman term, using that same method I'm a Gallic.

I don't identify myself as Latino OR Hispanic, I identify myself as Mexican. Regardless of ethnicity, race, origin, culture, bla bla bla, i consider myself Mexican as well as my parents, grand parents, and great grandparents. Yes we might have Spanish or English blood in us but still I consider myself Mexican.

Sorry Kat. Not 100% correct. The Venn Diagram on the cover is incorrectly labeled. All French and Portuguese speaking countries (Brazil, Haiti, St. Martin - which is half French and half Dutch - Guadeloupe, etc etc) should be on the extreme left light green side. They are Latino but not Hispanic. "Latino" is a Spanish-language contraction of the term Latinoamericano, which means Latin American. This is where most of the confusion comes from, because LATINO is a Spanish term, but it covers cultures who speak other languages. Latin American (or Latino) means any culture from the Western Hemisphere that in the present day speaks any language derived from Latin (namely Spanish, French and Portuguese, because there are no Romanian or Italian colonies in the "New World.") It does NOT mean a sense of community through colonization from Spain. Filipinos (colonized by Spain) are not Latinos. yet Brazilians (NOT colonized by Spain) are. On the other hand, the Aztecs, Cariocas and Incas Pizarro and Da Gama found centuries ago were not Latinos, until they assimilated to Spanish/Portuguese colonization generations later. Finally, people in English-speaking countries can sometimes also identify as Latinos, especially if they have ascendency or recently migrated from any of the French/Portuguese/Spanish colonies in the Americas.

You don't like the term Hispanic for the colonization? lol Where do you think the term Latino comes from? Actually, the term Latino is a much stronger (or recent) reminiscence of the colonization than the term Hispanic, as people in the Americas NEVER called themselves "latino" (that was a pretty European name to call themselves), but "hispanoamericanos", but you know? This is what happens when all history people know about is about victimism, and not real history. Spain is actually much more "latino" than all those countries you call "latino". Also, Latin America is a cultural concept, not a geographical one. No wonder Americans know nothing about this topic, when even the explanations are messed up.

It's interesting, we don't use these terms at all in my country. If you are talking about someone from another country you will say: "He's from Colombia" or "She's Costa Rican" or "Brazilian" or "Spanish" etc. (and if they are citizens you would just think of them as "Australian").

Remember that latino/na not only include people from latin america. The correct meaning of the word latino/na is people who descend from country, or towns in europe and/or america in which the spoken language is derive from latin (Search this in the RAE dictionary), that means than an italian could be latino/na too, since italian is also a language derive from latin. I guess that was a very important part that wasn´t included in the video. But still the message that you are trying to communicate is really important and hard for some to understand.

Beautifully done! I am a Professor of Urban Sociology in NYC and this is a HUGE topic (and debate) in my class. Students are confused, white-washed and fed to identify with Hispanic without ever questioning it (when asked why they identify as Hispanic, an answer I almost always get is: because that is what Univision and/or Telemundo call us). I am going to send this to my students and will show it at the beginning of every semester. Gracias! A fellow Afro-Latina

It really bothers my Spanish friend when she says she’s Spainish and so people say, “ Where in Mexico are you from?” She’s from Spain. Thank you for explaining!

This is so wrong....As a Spaniard, let me tell you that the real latinos are: Spaniards, Italians, French, Belgians and Portuguese. Here in the USA, all these concepts are so f**** up. Latino means the countries that speak languages that derive from Latin, the language spoken by the "Romans". Hispanic is someone from Hispania, that is Spaniard, as opposed to "Lusitano", that comes from Portugal. All these are white europeans. Btw, by putting Spain and all countries of Latin America together it creates nothing but confusion. For example, a Spaniard has nothing in common (besides the language that is not even 100% the same) with a Mexican, not the same culture, not the same food, not the same expressions, not the same political system...nothing. An Argentinian has nothing in common with a Peruvian, etc. This is just a silly way the US has to simple throw us (I am from Madrid) in the same basket. It's like if in Europe we said that all US citizens, Canadians (except Quebec), South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, British and Indians (because they were a Brit colony for a long time) were put in a category named, let's say, "Britanos". Totally ridiculous.

Spaniard = Person born in Spain. Spanish = Language. | Related to the language or to Spain. Castilian = Spain Spanish. Latino = Neutral American Spanish. | Person born in Latin-America. Hispanic = Related to / born in a Spanish-speaking country.

This video is actually very informative!! But i need to ask something: I'm portuguese (yes, PORTUGAL, right next to spain) and i was always thought that I was latina... so where do I fit in? because you don't mention Portugal in this video... I went to wikipedia and there says that Brazil, French, Italy, Portugual and Rome are also countries that can be associated with the term 'latinos' and now i am really confused HELP!! ;)

She sounds like she is trying to start arguments when she knows she’s that only one that knows

So, my mom was born in El Salvador, but her parents were born in Spain. So, she encompasses all three?

French men, French canadians, Italians, Romanians, Italian and French Swiss, Catalans, Portugueses are in a straight sens latinos too.

love the video! going by your definitions here, where do filipinos fall? we identify with the effects of spanish colonialism, we are connected to spain through language and culture. we have so much in common, but are rarely in a position to identify with hispanic or latino communities. just food for thought!

Very informative & much needed -- thank you Kat Lazo & Bustle!

''Latino'' from ''Latium'' the Region of Rome (my town); we sould have the right to be named ''latins'', now ''latino'' means a native-american with ''indian'' features speaking ''a local version of spanish''. It makes me sad.

I identify mostly as human.

THANK YOU FOR THIS SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! I am Haitian, and that does makes me Latina, but not Hispanic, and I am very glad for that specification, because sometimes people act like I have no right to claim that.

ok just to make this clear. The term Latinamerica came from the French who wanted to differentiate Anglophone from Latin speaking people in the Americas continent back in the days of colonialism. Latin languages are: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Italian and Catalan. Therefore, Latins are whoever speak one of these languages. Latinamericans are those who speak Spanish, French or Portuguese and they can be black, natives, white or mixed races. The term Latino is an expression created or just used in the USA. It stereotype people from Latinamerica as being just natives when Latinamerica is composed by other races.

And you should think of yourself as AMERICAN, I mean the double Continend America not just the USA. Usa claims the name of an ENTIRE continent, thats wrong in my eyes

I'm from Puerto Rico and I've always identified as latina.

I agree with the girl in this video. Spanish may only refer to people from Spain, despite many Latin Americans in the east coast calling themselves 'Spanish'. Latino means Latin American and Hispanic means you come from a Spanish-speaking background. Even if you don't speak Spanish, your parents or grandparents probably do. And you have a Spanish surname. The girl is cute btw

Lo primero decir que eso de hacer que las personas las etiqueten por su color de piel, rasgos o facciones, en el resto del mundo se vería bastante racista, y lo entendería si hubieran ganado los nazis, pero creo recordar que no fue así. Lo segundo, es que están intentando clasificar desde un error primigenio que parte de una falacia: En USA parte de sus 13 colonias “originales” de europeos anglosajones, con una cultura calvinista-luterana en la que no consideraban que tuvieran alma (no eran personas) los aborígenes-americanos, con lo cual nunca se mezclaron ni tuvieron familias mixtas, en cambio los portugueses y españoles de cultura católica si le dieron la potestad a los aborígenes americanos de personas con alma, y si tenían alma podían ir al paraíso si les daban a conocer a su Dios, al mismo tiempo que crear familias con ellos. Esta es la primera diferencia de porque en Iberoamérica (Latinoamérica es un invento francés para tener presencia en América), hay mezcla, menos en Argentina y Uruguay que los hicieron “desaparecer” y expulsaron, los inmigrantes que llegaron de Europa después de independizarse. - Aún con esta mezcla en Iberoamérica, las familias más pudientes que llegaban se relacionaban sólo con los de su misma clase, con lo cual no llegaron a mezclarse, son parte de los llamados criollos que están en todos los países iberoamericanos, son una minoría, completamente europeos o casi y que controlan esos países, desde la época de la colonización y posteriormente cuando ellos (los criollos) provocaron la independencia de esos países que ya controlaban sus familias. Con lo cual dentro de Iberoamérica hay sólo europeos, criollos y posterior inmigración, luego mestizos, mezcla aborigen y europeo, y aborigen solamente, estos dos grupos son la mayoría de la población, contando también con la de origen africano y sus mezclas, por lo tanto lo que ahora se llama Latinoamericano es un mezcla o por separado de tres razas, amerindia la aborigen, caucásica la europea, y negra la africana, con lo cual intentar clasificar bajo latino, hispano a todas esas personas es un gran error, lo que le une es una cultura e idioma, de estar cientos de años bajo una cultura española o portuguesa, pero ni son una raza ni nada parecido. - Por cierto el 70% de lo que ahora es USA fue territorio español anteriormente, por eso tantos nombres en español y banderas de estados con el símbolo de la bandera imperial española, como la sureña, anexionándolas después de independizarse de España, o quitándoselas por la “fuerza” a España, como fue con Florida, Puerto Rico, las islas Filipinas, (o Cuba) que nunca se independizaron.

Latinos include people that speak Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, And French, while Hispanic just includes Spanish speaking Latin Americans And Spanish is Spanish originally from Spain

That was very interesting. Glad I learned something from this ^^ My dad always gets pissed off when people refer to him as Latino, he always says "Just call us Mexican" and I guess I'm in the same boat here. I'd rather be called what I am as apposed to just being put under an umbrella term.

I feel like all these identifications are separating us even further. To people it's cool to be able to identify yourself and where you come from, but to me it just seems like you're trying to give yourself a sense of value due to feelings of inferiority. I think that once we truly give up these labels, we can start understanding each other. Giving up our labels and traditions doesn't necessarily mean surrending them. Letting our traditions and cultures melt together without prejudice gives way to a new sense of self that fits everyone.

I've just always used the terms "Central American" and "South American," when I am unaware of country of origin. For those from the Caribbean, I try to use specific country names. To me it matters because I don't think that indigenous populations need to be identified by their colonizers, but by their location. Growing up in the 80s in San Francisco, a sanctuary City for those who were trying to survive the revolutions happening in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, I met many students who were escaping horrific situations seeking a better life. one thing I find interesting though is that what I was taught when I was growing up as far as geographical locations goes, there were different names for different parts of the world then what are taught today.

I am an Argentine who has just come back from New York. One of the things that surprised me most was that Latin-Americans talked to me in English, and even called me "gringo". The "Latinos" I saw in New York are very different from the people I see in Argentina everyday. Argentina was second in terms of European immigration, after the USA. But Argentina doesn't have black people -although there is a minority of indians from neighbour countries. So, to put all Latin-Americans under the same label does not make any sense. At least, the "latino" or "hispanic" label does not go along with Argentines very well.

I identify as Spanish American because I'm legally and culturally from both countries. I cannot fathom why anyone not from Spain would identify as Spanish (seriously, lots of African countries speak French, and no one calls them French). Spaniards don't consider themselves Hispanic, though to be fair most people only know the term Hispanic because of American culture. So I guess for Spain Hispanic would be all the people originating in the former colonies who speak Spanish, and Latin American covers everyone South of the US border, no matter what they speak. It's definitely not a matter of connection to Spain, because the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea are also former Spanish colonies and I don't think ANYONE is calling them Hispanic, least of all themselves.

This is so helpful! Kat is the best.

Finally a video that states the differences correctly and well-informed. Too many people, like the vast majority, get these three terms absolutely incorrect and are used interchangeably when it's quite inaccurate. They aren't well promoted well and since most don't understand, therefore continue the mistake by using these words to describe a person mainly of Latin American origin as one of these terms when it's not always right.

You should make a video about the differences between AMERICA and USA as I see most of people from USA doesn't know the name of their own country. Also, the term latino or hispanic is really disgusting. Why don't you call people from Jamaica, USA, India or South Africa (english speaking countries) "anglosaxon" or "germanic", that's the same you did with the Spanish culture. I'm from Spain (In Europe, you know) and I feel it really offensive, like if you tried to disparage the countries from America where Spanish is spoken. You can't say Latin America as a whole because there are different countries, ethnicities, culture, and languages. For you is the same an Indian and an "American", or an Jamaican and a British just because they speak the same language? People from the US should open their eyes and go out from their ethnocentrism.

meh I've always felt people get way too caught up with "heritages". Wouldn't a person simply identify with the country they were born into and/or the culture they were raised in? IE Peruvian, Colombian, Brazillian, Mexican, Dominican, Puertorican, Spanish, etc... the term latino or hispanic feels far too broad and even outdated. It'd be like calling most white people "europeans", which I guess you could, but why? It'd be like if people referred to be as a "slav", which I guess is historically accurate, but I was raised in American, but taught Ukrainian culture throughout my life by parents born in Ukraine. I'm American with a deep understanding of my heritage. The fact the video has to dive into colonization from over 300 years ago seems trivial at this time.

Why are Spaniards put in the same box as Latin Americans by the US citizens/government, But for example French people are not in the same box as people from Haiti? Who knows the answer?

US-Americans are really funkin' obsessed.

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO ❤️🇨🇷 I can identify as Hispanic because I speak Spanish and as a costarican Latina because I'm from Costa Rica which is in Latinoamérica. I prefer "Latina" over "Hispanic". :)

Latina and hispanic terms are from Europe.

Saw this on Buzzfeed. Very informative. Thank you!

I'm a Spaniard and don't consider myself hispanic. Like it does make sense that people would try to classify us as such but i feel like it is just separating us out as it's a term that only really applies to people either from or directly related to Spain. Instead I'm either considered Spanish, plain caucasian or just really a person. I don't understand why we should categorize ourselves this much.

Thanks so much for this--super clear and super helpful. I think I got it now. 😀

Americans always forget the FIRST LATINOS. The first Latinos are European. If Mexico, Cuba, Peru etc. Didn't speak Spanish etc. they wouldn't be Latino. If Brazil didn't speak Portuguese they wouldn't be Latino. Spain, Portugal, Italy etc. Are Latin countries with the origin of these Latin languages. This video is stupid.

and as always, spain is the bad guy

Love this!! Indigenous American, African and European ancestry over here too! Well done!!

Its good to know and acknowledged your ancestry but be even more proud of where you are now. I was born in Mexico but was raised in America. That makes me an American who happens to be of Mexican decent, God bless America.

Latino is appicable to the people from the Lacio, it's the geographic area around Rome. Latino is not only for Hispanic o Spanish people, Italians, french, greeks, portuguese, are latin people too. About the french people, there are normands, gallic and other roots depending of wich region of France are we talking about. I hope had to be useful. (English is not my language, I'm sorry if its not clear)

El término latino (adjetivo; del latín latinus, "aquél o aquello que es natural de los pueblos que hablan lenguas derivadas del latín)

I don’t feel anything about when people call me… I know who I am, and I rest confidently in who I am, and that’s enough for me. Other than that I accommodate Hispanic, Latino it doesn’t matter to me because I know who I am. I don’t trip on people. Call me unless they want you to educate them. I’m Peruvian Argentinian.✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

To add/clarify- Spanish is a language not an ethnicity. Spaniards are from Spain. Latinos also include the Suranamese (they speak Dutch), Guyanese (they speak English), and the French Guiana (they speak French) all of them located in South America; in addition Latinos includes the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico (Spanish speakers).

Hispanic = a person from a country that has Spanish as its main/one of its main languages Latino = a person from Latin America (countries that has a Romance language as its main/one of its main languages, excluding Canada) Spanish = a person from Spain

Hey Kat! Love your vlogs. About those terms, I don't live in the U.S., I live in Brazil, a melting pot of races and people, so for me it is very strange/funny/off-putting to see how americans make race such a big deal! Everything is so labeled everywhere, and I understand the need for that, because there's so many racism in the states, but for me, personally it's weird. (of course, there is A LOT of racism here in Brazil, I can't deny that, and it's very confusing to see the identity Brazil has, I've travelled to some contries in latin america and I see that most people don't consider Brazil as latin america, because it is a continental country. I disagree with that, but...) I can't define myself entirely in terms of race. I'm white, but I have italian, portuguese and indigenous ancestry, and in my family there are some african americans, and my sister is mixed race (I don't know if it is politically incorrect to say that... There's some many eggshells to step! I don't even know where to begin!). I identify as brazilian, period. (I don't know if I expressed myself well... Sorry if I wrote something wrong, haha)

Just for further clarity - this is the correct definition of these terms in an American context. In Europe however latinos/latins are terms more often used to refer to southern Europeans who speak latin languages (spanish, portuguese, french, italians, etc), and does not refer to latin americans typically.

Im a Social Studies and I love your video. I am going to tuse it in my lesson plan next week!

Thank you so much for making this! I appreciate your effort to help educate others and potentially reduce some daily microaggressions we face when some feel the need to define us. If I say I am not Hispanic, don't "correct" me!

I think you should stick with "latin american" if you don't know the procendence of the specific person or group of poeple you're talking about, but is more polite to refer to them as the specific country they are from, just the same as we people from Mexico don't refer to american and canadian people as "englishers" just because you both were colonizaed by England and speak english

I'm Cuban. I consider myself Latina/x or Afro-Cuban/Afro-Latino. I'm so tired of people telling me I don't look Cuban or Latina. *insert side eye here

I am an American. Period. I need no labels such as "Latino" or "Hispanic." If you feel that you have to represent yourself in such a manner to the world, it means that you are not secure of your own identity and have not come to terms with your history. Yes, what the colonist did to the peoples of the lands they conquered was horrendous, but there is nothing we can do about our past. The future, however, is wide open. And I choose to be freed from the negativity that the past can bring up by using labels that does nothing but separate us. Therefore, that is the reason why I declare myself as an American. With no prefixes such as "Latino" "Hispanic" or even "Korean-American." Those are labels I have no need of. I am an American by birth with parents whose ancestry includes Korea, China, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. I am proud of my heritage, but I am also proud to stand without those labels as a human being of the world. It is what will advance us as humans, labels only causes hate and anger and separation from each other.

Both of my parents are 100% Brazilian, and I asked them if we were Latino. They laughed and said no.

Topics like these can get ridiculous. I'm Peruvian/Brasilian from Miami and I don't really care whether people refer to me as Hispanic or Latino. The argument of being politically correct can get annoying in our society. We have bigger problems to worry about. On that note, I do appreciate that this video spreads knowledge and information on the subject. All I'm saying, in the end, it's not a very big deal.

I loved this video! The only part I think may confuse people is that you defined Latino as "a sense of community through a history of colonization from Spain" despite the fact that Brazil was colonised by Portugal? I am Brazilian and see myself as Latina but Brazil is sometimes forgotten about when it comes to the Latin American culture just because we don't speak Spanish/were colonised by Spain! Regardless, the video still made it clear that Brazil is included in the "umbrella" of Latino and for that I thank you! :)

The speaker is light-skinned. Light skin/Anglo originated from an evolutionary perspective in the region we now call Europe… a very long time ago. When non-Anglo ethnicities have light skin, it is because genetically they are mixed with Anglo-origin skin color alleles. She identifies as Indigenous Latina heritage. Genetically she is mixed, Indigenous and European/Spanish. As indigenous Latinx people have more alleles that code for more melanin (e.g. nature’s sunblock).

Can someone clear this up? Is there a difference between nationality and ethnicity? I always thought that nationality means the country that one belongs to and have legal residency in. Whereas, ethnicity is where one's heritage/lineage is from. Correct? It just bothers me when people incorrectly interchange these, more often using nationality in place of ethnicity; much like the host of this video did. --- "What's your nationality?" Umm.. I'm American. I was born in the United States.

Creo que estas un poco equivocada...latino es todo aquel que sus antepasados sean romanos, por lo tanto los españoles tambien somos latinos.

Awesome video. First latina I hear proudly identifying herself as indigenous latina... amazing!

A bit disappointed here in the half truths of this video. For context, Latin culture did not originate in Latin America. It originated in the western Mediterranean. Thus there are two significant omissions in Italy and Portugal not being recognized in the Latino category on your chart. Plus, “Latino” is inclusive of “Hispanic” (though not visa versa), so Spain is overlooked on the left side of your chart as well.

I have a question. Since Brazilians (a non-Spanish speaking country) are considered Latino, why are people from countries like Guyana, Belize, Haiti, etc not considered Latino? (Especially since Haiti shares an island with DR). I always understood the term as someone from a Spanish speaking country in the Latin American region. But since Brazilians are considered Latino that messes up the definition and opens up Inquiry as to if those other countries should be considered Latino too. Thanks in advance to anyone who answers my question!

Hispanic: heritage from Spain Latino: From Latin America Latin America: Spanish,Portuguese and French America; south of the US and Canada Spanish: From Spain Mestizo: Mix of European and Amerindian heritage Amerindian: Identifies as native to America Those are the real definition of these words

There is a distinction between the terms Latin and Latin American. One is an ethnicity, the other a geographic location. Both are interchangeable with the terms Hispanic or Spanish, though their application depends specifically on wether one is referring to language, geographical location, or race.

If a family moved from Italy to the USA, its members would be Italo-American. But if the same family emigrated to Argentina, instead of the USA, they would be "Latino" (a new race). That's according to USA logic. Similarly, 10% of the Argentines have German ancestry (Jonathan Schunke, Gabriel Heinze, Carlos Reutemann, etc.) but according to USA's genetic scientists they become "latino" race due to the fact of living in South America.

I am Spanish (currently living in Canada) and I never considered myself Latino..ever.

It's all about the Romans. Hispanic comes from the Latin "Hispanus" meaning a native of Hispania or the Iberian peninsula. "Beati Hispani quibus vivere bibere est." Hispanic is anyone with roots in the Peninsula, including Brazilians and Portuguese. Latino or Latin is anyone whose mother tongue is a Romance language, meaning a language based on the language of the Romans, including Italians, Romanians, French, etc. Thus a French speaking Quebecois is Latino but not Hispanic and a Basque speaking Vasco is Hispanic but not Latino.

Hispanics are Spanish and Portuguese. Latinos refers to Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese. These are Europeans plain and simple.

Just curious about Why Québec (in Canada) is not considered as Latin americaif they speak French? And why Belize is considered Latin america if they speak english?

I despise the words Latino and Hispanic. I am macehualli (Indigenous).

By definition Hispanic, are those from Hispania. Latino are those from Iberia, France. Italy and Romania. Spanish are those who identify as from Spain or that European ethnicity.

This video was perfect. Helped clear up the many conceptions I had. Thanks.

Anyone interested in finding out more about Hispanic/Latino Identity read 'Hispanic/Latino Identity' by Jorge J. E. Gracia. He says, correctly, that 'Hispanics are the group of people comprised by the inhabitants of the countries of the Iberian peninsula after 1492 and what were to become the colonies of those countries after the encounter between Iberia and America took place, and by descendants of these people who live in other countries.' I couldn't recommend this book enough. It explains the Hispanic/Latino history and it demystifies certain preconceptions. The Iberian countries and the Latino American countries are incredibly mixed and we all share history, language and even cultural aspects and even though we may not want to call ourselves Hispanic or Latino, history tells us that we are both. Gracia even suggests that a person can be for example, Hispanic and Colombian or Hispanic Brazilian or even Hispanic Portuguese. The book says much more, really worth a read.

Those three women would never pass for Spanish in Spain...

Latino: Que nacío en Latinoamerica. Español: Que nacío en Esapaña. Hispano:Que habla el idioma Español.

I am 1/16 Native American and the rest Anglo-American. Italian, French, Scottish, English and Blackfoot Sioux heritage.

It's always good to find out who you are and know who you are, in terms of race, ethnicity, and nationality. But, we must always remember, in the end, we are all humans. Sometimes, we tend to forget that. Have a nice day.

This is WRONG. Latino is LATINOAMERICAN (mexico, peru, brasil, cuba....)+ LATINOEUROPEAN (spain, portugal, italia, france... ) + LATINOAFRICAN... and THE PHILIPPINES. I am SUDAMERICAN, LATINOAMERICAN, HISPANOAMERICAN, AMERICAN AND IBEROAMERICAN. This video is wrong. This girl uses the word LATINO according to the vision of the "Americans". I dont like THAT WORD "latino", I prefer LATINOAMERICANO.

I guess everyone is different. That solved nothing for me. How am I supposed to look at someone and know whether or not they feel a sense of community to Spain or if they feel a history of colonization from Spain?

Latin and Latinos the origin started from Vulgar Latin (In the Latin Language, "vulgar" is the word for "common," so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin"). The biggest Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan. They are called "Romance languages" because they originate from a language spoken by the Romans, therefore all previous mention countries and languages are "Latin" but not necessarily "Latinos".

no. Latin includes people from spain and also people from france, italy, portugal, and romania. Latin american refers to latins of the americas or latin america.