Remember, not all people that speak Spanish are Mexican😤

as a brazilian no one here talks about being latino everyone forgets that fact idk why usa people is obsessed with this word

As a Brasilian, I am grateful that this video is made. In US schools some teachers ( well just one) would say I was Hispanic. After correcting said teacher, she said that she would reprimand me for lying in front of the class. I gave her condensed version the info as in this video.

Yes, Haitians are Latino from the Hispaniola island, sharing the island with the very Spanish Dominican Republic. We speak Créole, French, and Spanish. Coming to America this concept has always been wild to ppl when they ask me why I speak Spanish as a Haitian and I don't understand why that's so hard to grasp

*me: i'm from Brazil* *people from my class: so you speak Brazilian?* *me: ...*

Americans are obsessed with redefining people and places around the world but have no clue about global demography and geography (most of them).

As an American of Filipino descent, I've always considered the ethnicity of the Philippines as Hispanic. The culture is more similar to Mexico than to any of its Southeast Asian neighbors. The people there are more Westernized than Asian. If the Americans did not take over in 1900, the country would still be speaking Spanish. Before that era, all of its history is written in Spanish. Many families still remember their Spanish forbears and retain their Hispanic names.

Latino/a came from Italian. Not Spanish originally and was first used to describe ROMAN ITALIANS AT THAT TIME latino americano came centuries later to divide North Americans and southern Americans but is not a legit debate. Anyone who speaks a Latin language is automatically Latino irrespective of race

The term Latino actually tells you more about the people who invented it than about the people who it is describing.

As a Mexican, I don't mind it if people call me either Hispanic or Latino. But DON't fucking call me Spanish. Spanish refers to people from Spain.

Thank you for clearing this up because I knew this for a long time but never had back up.

latino is not spanish and portuguese only but it for italians like me and french and romanians. the work world latino appears from its origins in italy specially in the Capital Roma and its in district name latino Lazio. And another district or city in italy or Italia is name Latina. Fino al Domani. Edwino.

*Philippines be like.. Heyy uhmm.. I guess ill just be Asian*

And remember, latinx is not a term

You’re mistaken. Italians are Latinos. Latino refers to anyone who speak a language from Latin.

French Guiana is an actual part of France, in the same way that Alaska is part of the US, so I think it should be excluded.

Someone who speaks Spanish: Hola. American: you speak Spanish, so you are Mexican ?. Hispanic America and Spain : ...................

I came here confused and ended up more confused

I am Latin European! 🇪🇸

As a Brazilian man I am truly happy to see somebody educating people on something that I always had to explain that being Brazilian makes me latino but not Hispanic. We are lusitans.

I'm Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Romanian. I guess that makes me Hispanic, Latino, and white, aha. Super Latin

During my childhood days in New Mexico people's ethnic identity was generalized as Anglo, Spanish, or Indian, and to a lesser degree the generalized Anglo was broken down to Italian, German, Polish, and etc. Indigenous people were referred to by which Pueblo they came from, or other tribal affiliation, e.g. Navajo. It became more confusing by the 1970s, however. This video adds some clarity to what I have intuitively come to know over the last 50 years, or so.

Thank you, I took blood tests and DNA test that revealed I'm an Indengenous American, Choctaw & Cherokee and a large part of my ancestry foundation is Mexico. I have relatives in Mexico that I have never met, but I know they are my people and I have always known that I'am an American Indian it also shocked me that I'm 41% European. We are all mixed up with something, thank you for the video.

Remember: if you say to a brazilian if they are Latino, and they say no, keep calm; Latino is an famous singer in Brazil.

I`m from Quebec, can I start claiming to be Latino now?

Very informative as well as entertaining!! I love the graphics and the music in the background. Awesome video. I learned a lot, unfortunately I don’t quite remember what I learned. Lol Being Latino, Hispanic myself, I really enjoyed this video of my “confusing” race. 😂

This is the best explanation I've ever received!

As long as I DO NOT get called Latinx, I couldn't care less. I cannot stand the attempt of that word being more inclusive than latinos when it does the opposite and actually alienates others.

All this problem began when US tried to classified latin american immigrants on his country. They took the word "latino" from spanish to group all this people like a "race", even when the semantic and etymological use of the word is so wrong. If we stick to the very first meaning of the word, "Latino" refers to all romance languages that came from Latin. In that sense, Latin or "latino" could refers to any person who speaks any romance language (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or Italian) or even any cultural thing that comes from any romance language speaking country. Other definitions just have a political sense, but it doesn't mean that this definitions are right. You have two ways to solve this problem: 1. Don't be lazy person and call this people for its name: latin americans. 2. Call them by its geographic origin: central-american, south-american or caribbean. We are "americans" too, US can't forget that the whole continent is named AMERICA.

Thank you for posting this!

thanks for your contribution! Obviously in Europe the definition of Latino is a lot clearer than in the US. Nevertheless, there are also different opinions on this. I am Spaniard and born in Switzerland, a country that has always been shaped by migration and has therefore grown very strongly both economically and culturally and has benefited accordingly. After 1990, the origin of migration has changed a lot until today, which caused gigantic problems that can still be felt in many things today (migration has moved to countries outside Europe - but that's another topic). There are four distinct languages ​​(no dialects) in Spain: Galician, Basque, Catalan and Castilian, which has its origins in Castile, although "Castilian" is the most widely spoken. However, Spain/Spanish is not a term for one country in Spain Language. The term "Spanish as a language” is mainly used in America. By America I don't mean a country, but a continent. Thank you for your efforts and best regards

*Latin America:* Argentina 🇦🇷 Bolivia 🇧🇴 Brazil 🇧🇷 Canada (Quebec) 🇨🇦 Chile 🇨🇱 Colombia 🇨🇴 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Mexico 🇲🇽 Panama 🇵🇦 Peru 🇵🇪 Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Uruguay 🇺🇾 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Etc.... *Latin Europe:* Andorra 🇦🇩 Belgium 🇧🇪 France 🇫🇷 Italy 🇮🇹 Moldova 🇲🇩 Monaco 🇲🇨 Portugal 🇵🇹 Romania 🇷🇴 San Marino 🇸🇲 Spain 🇪🇦 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Vatican City 🇻🇦

It really depends on the idiom you're speaking, in spanish "latino" basically means "someone from a country that speaks a lenguage derivative from latin", which includes all of latin-america and latin-europe, including Spain and all hispanic countries outside of América (the continent). However normally it's just used by latin-americans and not latin-europeans so it doesn't really matter. The video explains what it means in english, so it only works in the US and other english-speaking countries.

Latino is of Spain, Portugal, Italian, French and Romanian ancestry. Hispanic is only Spanish.

Good video. This definitely cleared some of the confusion of many terminologies.

Thank you for educating me. This was very well done! 👏🏿👏🏿

Portuguese speakers are called LUSOPHONES. (Lusitans are just another name for Portuguese speakers from Portugal 🇵🇹) 🇧🇷💚 😔😔

Momento épico de la historia Un angloparlante que conoce un país de Latinoamérica que no es México

Originally the term Latin was supposed to designate countries that speak languages ​​derived from Latin, something quite simple, but the Americans used this term in another sense, in my opinion in a pejorative way, and with that generated a negative view of the term Latin, to the point that many people are offended by being called Latinas.

Italians are Latins. In fact, they are the original Latins. Latins were in the Italian Peninsula before it became Rome.

I'm latino and hispanic and I didn't know this was so complicated Greetings from Costa Rica

People: Oh you speak Spanish? You must be from Mexico :) Me: Yes i am Mexican but it’s not the only spanish speaking country.......

This was an excellent video. Thank you!!

God save me, there comes a person who thinks he knows EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF LATIN, and only thinks that Spain is the only Latin European country, but Portugal, France, Italy and others are too, and few know but Angolans or other peoples in Africa who speak a language derived from Latin are Latinos even Asians, but most of the Oxford population thinks that Latinos are just Latin Americans, but they are much less Latino than European Latinos

And the U.S. census bureau is the perfect example of just how deeply ingrained ignorance is in the United States.

neither latino or hispanic are definitions of anything, they're two words people from USA use to refer to Spanish speaker inmigrants. As Chilean myself never defined me as latino or hispanic and nobody taught us in school what those terms mean.

It's an incredible thing in the United States, this obsession with "racial" classification. A Mexican is a Mexican, a Salvadoran is a Salvadoran, a Brazilian is a Brazilian, an Argentinian is an Argentinian... It's so much simpler. And if he gets US citizenship, he becomes a US citizen, period.

This video is so useful, thank you! 😊

In Mexico we mostly refer to ourselves as Mexican or Hispanic and never “Latinos” lol

Hispanic is a Latino who lives or was born in the U.S and enjoys watching Univisión a las 9/8 centro

Nice informational video. Nice presentation.

I work in a US retail pharmacy, and this "Are you hispanic/latino?" question always had some animosity around it. The US in general loves to include the terms as part of their data collection, so it's always floating around in my head. This video was a great eye-opener and leeds to even more questions still. But that's a good thing for the most part. One of the few applications in which I believe that the terms are truly important and helpful are in the judicial system. When you need to identify a suspect, describing them as simply "White" makes it very very difficult to narrow down. But "white hispanic" or "white latino" makes it significantly more specific. Either way, thank you for the video! I would love to see more like it! 👍🏼

Brazil speaks Portuguese, they do not speak Spanish, I'm Brazilian, I get annoyed.

7:10 +25% gold from trade routes XD Good old Civ V references!

I'm black native American and Cherokee Indian Portuguese and Italian Puerto Rican so I guess I'm Hispanic and Latino.

Ya already know us Haitians 🇭🇹 never get included in the “latino” conversation 🤣🤣 so it’s crazy to find out that the French were the ones that first used the term “Latin America”

American: Oh you speak Spanish? So you're Mexican, right? English: Oh you speak Spanish? WELL GEORGE DO COME HERE OLD CHAP WE MUST TELL THIS DELIGHTFUL CHUMP FROM MADRID ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE ARMADA FOR 37 MINUTES!

At the end of the day, we can all shit on anyone claiming to be "Latinx"

Good info for the masses.

If Latino or Latin America is anywhere that a Latin or Romance language is spoken, then you'd have to include Canada (i.e. French is an official language nationally). Yes, Quebec has primarily French, but there's also large regions and cities in Ontario that speak French, and French communities across the country. New Brunswick is also provincially official French and English as well. And then, there are obviously increasing parts of the US which speak lots of Spanish, so does that count too? What stats are you using to say that the "majority of people in Latin America are mixed between European and Amerindian"?

This made me more confused ❓

When I was a teenager, about 15 years ago, we avoided titles and labels. Nowadays Americans are obsessed with labels. It's insane.

Really i don't understand, Latino from Latium, a region located in Central italy. For USA "Latinos" means people with features of "native Americans". No? So Latinos are people speaking a Latin-based language? So Moldavians and Belgians are Latinos? Really I don't understand.

Excellent video I really enjoyed it

Once I was talking with an american and he ask me where I'm from and I told him that "I'm" spanish, he automatically thougth that I'm mexican ............ there's a big difference between being spanish and TALK spanish

"Americans" needs geography urgent in theirs schools. Im from Argentina and we have great history and geography in ours schools.

I'm excited and interested in this content

The video was interesting and fairly thoughtful about the various contradictory definitions of "Latino" and "Hispanic". That's what made the inclusion of "Amerindian" surprising and a little disappointing . Yes, you can find it in a dictionary, but that doesn't make its use any more appropriate than the common misuses of "Latino" and "Hispanic" that are also found in dictionaries. For those who are confused, "Amerindian" is a shortening of "American Indian"--an old term for the native peoples of the Americas. The problem is that neither word properly applies to the ethnically native people of the continents. America was a European name, and "American" is often used loosely for descendants of European immigrants in the Americas. Of course, those in the USA use the term exclusively for themselves. The native peoples weren't from Europe and some don't like being called "American" because of the association with Europeans and how they were treated by them. As for "Indian", it originally referred to the people from India, but then the early European explorers who traveled west looking for another route to India stumbled upon the Americas and mistakenly called the natives "Indians". Even after the Europeans quickly realized that the Americas in fact weren't India, the use of the term "Indian" for natives has persisted since. At least in the USA, many natives use the term for themselves. However, more are looking to move away from the mistaken association with people from India, especially as more Indians immigrate here. This confusion left people searching for a more appropriate name for the many different native peoples of the Americas. The term "Amerindian" was coined as a lazy academic whitewash over "American Indian" that sought to distance them from the complicated history of the term while doing the least possible to address any of its issues. So, what term to use? That is still up for debate and probably won't be settled for years. One that does seem to be gaining support is "first nations", as it excludes all of the colonial baggage while recognizing that the native peoples are not a single homogeneous group. Of course, why not just ask the natives themselves? Well...they often use their own group or tribal endonym, which does little to address the original issue. My apologies for the off topic rant. It just seemed off that an otherwise thoughtful video about the use of ethnic terms would give little consideration for an ethnic term.

Well.... Another point of view: We, the Italians, consider ourselves latino, as our cousins spanish, french, portugues .... that's a cultural appartenence

Colombian culture ≠ Chilean culture ≠ Mexican culture ≠ Argentinean culture ≠ Brazilian culture and so on.

The obsession with race and ethnicity in the United States has influenced Latino Americans, leading to a growing preoccupation with these aspects among Latino Americans in recent years, affecting the use of the term "Latino". In Spanish, "Latino" and "Latinoamericano" are distinct terms with different connotations, yet due to the American influence, Latinoamericanos often identify themselves simply as "Latinos," contributing to confusion. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where African Americans begin to refer to themselves solely as "African," later denying Africans from the continent the right to call themselves as such. I know many latinoamericanos who do not like at all when a Spaniard or Portuguese refer to themselves as being "latino", even when in Spanish they have all the right to call themselves "latino". This is a great example of how cultural dominance can impact identity perception.

Thank you for explaining this.

The way that Americans are obsessed with these kinds of no sense terms bothers me.

and I'm back in square one I don't have a clue still

Hey everyone, I'm a Latin American Bolivian and obviously a Spanish speaker. I'll answer your questions concisely because, from what I see, you (the Anglo-American community) often have trouble understanding how culture and society work in the case of Latinos. This is because for us, both roots are widely mixed and not as differentiated as in the case of the United States and its quite different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, which are somewhat segregated (in the sense that, unlike us, they don't tend to homogenize and form a truly unique and distinct identity as in the Latino case). As the guy in the video said, technically there are not many significant differences between "Hispanic" and "Latino" because both, in real terms, are a consequence of the other, with Spain being a province of the Roman Empire, among other things. What makes us Latinos is the simple fact that we speak a language derived almost purely from Latin. This means that virtually all of Latin America and a large part of the Caribbean are obviously Latinos, which also makes us part of the Western civilization. Regarding populations within Spanish-speaking societies that "don't speak Spanish," referring to indigenous people, it must be said that while they are technically not 100% of Hispanic (Spanish) origin, they are actually direct descendants of mestizos. As an example used in the video, the so-called "Collas," these indigenous populations are culturally Latino. Their customs are often highly influenced by Hispanic culture. For example, their clothing is not really "indigenous" because garments like the "pollera" have Spanish origins. However, their embroidered and other ornamental aspects are not of Spanish origin, creating an intercultural mix almost entirely of Latino nature. This makes them Latinos by derivation as much as the rest of the inhabitants of Hispanic America, although with changes in the interpretation of their worldview. Now, considering this, it can be said by extension that every known inhabitant born, living, or having spent most of their life in the densely populated regions of Hispanic America is Latino. The only "real exception" to this are the tribes that were not conquered or assimilated by the Spanish or the mestizos. These are the tribes that won their respective conflicts against the Spanish Empire, although they were also assimilated, speaking their original language and Spanish. In my country, in the eastern sector, the following tribes were not conquered or assimilated: Chiquitano, Guaraní, Mojeño, Guarayo, Movima, Chimane, Itonama, Tacana, Reyesano, Yuracare, Joaquiniano, Weenhayek, Baure, Cavineño, Chacobo, Esse Ejja, Ignaciano (this one is more difficult to establish as it has over 400 years of existence and is unique to this region, but it is influenced by us and is effectively native to this place), Pacahuara, Siriono, among others. As a curious fact, in my country, 36 indigenous cultures are officially registered, of which 34 are located in eastern Bolivia, in the lowlands. So, to answer what a Hispanic and a Latino are: A Hispanic American is an individual resulting from the mix of Latin European culture with native American cultures, giving rise to us. This makes us Westerners by extension because even though this mixture occurs, the cultural, religious, social, and dogmatic dominance is practically Latin. That's why we are called Latino-Americans. Why? Because our strongest and dominant cultural root is Latin. Regarding Paraguay: The information that the guy mentions is partially true. While it is true that Paraguay has Guarani as its dominant language, this, in no way, makes Paraguayans indigenous. Just to clarify, what happened here was that through functional and quite efficient policies, efforts were made to prevent the disappearance of Guarani as a language. It was dignified and its value was emphasized, which it indeed holds in Latin culture, and even more so in Paraguayan culture. This would be the equivalent of cultural dignifications in Spain, like holding Roman parades or reviving their roots as a sort of commemoration (it's more complex than this, but this is the basic idea). Paraguayans consider themselves Hispanics above all, despite having more living heritages than us in the eastern region.

I'm from Tx and I still strongly believe that the word Latino comes from the Latin speaking people of the Roman Empire. So Hispanic and Latino I can identify with. Also, that being said, Latin people originally came Italy. So yeah, they are Latin. They still speak a Latin language. I don't care how ignorant others are of this. It is their choice.

Spanish was an official language of the Philippines between 1565-1987, the culture and tradition of the Philippines is heavily influenced by Spain and Mexico. 90% Filipinos are Christians, 80% are Roman Catholic. Does that make the Philippines Hispanic? Most Filipinos have Spanish surnames. Filipino have 6000 loan words from Spanish.

french, italians, romanians, hispanics, portuguese and brazilians are all latinos which represents a language and a culture (not a race), because we are white too.That b.s. of "latino race" was invented in the racist U.S. but hispanic means only the ones who speak spanish.

people from italy are not latino really??????? they are the authentic latino ethnicity, while hispanic from the american continent are hispanic indigenous, not latino. mexican or peruvians, are mostly hispanic indigenous, not hispanic latinos, if hispanics are latinos because they speak a romance language then french canadians also are latinamericans. latinos come from europe, while hispanic indigenous arent latinos are indigenous or native americans(yes america is a continent not a countrey)

Great video, thanks!

Well I'm from Belize, but having mestizo blood (Spanish and indigenous mix) i still consider myself a Latino.

Fun fact: Brazilians don't care about it. Lmao

Those that speak Portuguese or Spanish are all Latin and they all are alike they have a romantic lagunage that they speak

I’m more confused now , I’m from south TEXAS . What am I? Family from Mexico but my great grandparents on one side of family is from Ireland

IT IS EASY: HISPANIC: a person who belongs to a country that speaks Spanish LATINOAMERICANO: a person who belongs to a country that speaks a Latin language AND is located in America BY THE WAY, “AMERICA” IS A WHOLE CONTINENT, NOT A COUNTRY. That's why I believe that United States citizens should NOT be called "Americans", when speaking of the COUNTRY they come from. For example, I am from Brazil and I consider myself a American! BECAUSE AMERICA IS A F*CKING CONTINENT (a solution for this kinda mess: I heard once a girl call US citizens: USONIANS and found that great!)

I've never heard someone from Spain refer to themselves as Hispanic. They're Spanish. Actually, this is more of a discussion in the Americas. European countries aren't as concerned with this. They usually identify themselves by nationality.

So what’s the most important difference to remember ?

I'm half Brazilian, half Spanish. That makes me both latina and hispanic alone, but not the intersection of both.

the thing that makes me want to pull my hair out in the USA is when someone equates Mexican as a race. Mexico is a nation that can be diverse and not all of its citizens are spanish/indian descent i have tried to school coworkers in this but it doesn't make a difference.

As long as Hispanics born in America don't use that whole "latinx" stuff, I'm fine.

Philippines somewhere standing in the rain outside the door, being forgotten in the party

I think I am more confused now.... while on this type of theme, can you tell me what constitues being a person from Australasia?

We are neither Hispanics or Latinos, we are simply AMERICANS. America is a CONTINENT not a country. Hispanics are from the Iberian Peninsula. The Latins were from the Italic Peninsula (Italy) We were born in this American continent that extends from Bering Strait to the Strait of Maguellan. WE ARE THE AMERICANS.

You kinda missed a big point... Most Brazilians don't identify themselves neither as Latino or Hispanic. There's a very clear cultural and racial difference differences between Brazil and the rest of Latin America. And as you said... because the term Latino is an American term, it doesn't have any meaning for someone from Brazil. Because... going back to colonization... Brazil had a very different colonization than the Spanish Americas. We had a lot of Dutch, Italian, German, British, Polish and even Japanese colonist and immigrants who came to Brazil. Most people can trace their heritage to several European countries, not only Portugal. When you ask Brazilians to identify themselves... Most of the responses are, White/Caucasian (47,5%), Pardo (43,4%) or Black (7,5%). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo_Brazilian) Another important point you missed... is that Brazil has very different racial and cultural composition depending where you are. Because it was colonized by several different people, and other several immigrated to it. Trying to classify the entire country in one race or group is impossible. In the south there's cities who speaks German as first language, while in the north who speaks some native language. Trying to classify this two groups as Latino makes the word Latino mean nothing since can be a person with German descend or with a American Native one. What I'm trying to say is... calling Brazilians Latino, is basically calling all people from Eurasia, Eurasians. Is technically correct? Yes. Has any meaning to the people living there? No. Has any meaning in trying to identify race/culture? No.

I gotta start filling out those forms differently.

Pues etimológicamente Latino viene de Latín, idioma usado por los romanos. Y de la que derivan todas las lenguas llamadas romances. Con eso en mente, yo diría que latino como tal es todo el que tiene procedencia de Italia y España, no restringido sólo a latinoamerica ni a latinoamericanos. Hispano es como el vídeo dice derivado de la denominación de la provincia romana que no solo incluía la actual España sino también Portugal. Así que aparentemente también es incorrecto ese uso, o cuánto menos incompleto.

A video NOT about Romania that acknowledges Romanian is a Latin language, yey!

latino europeos: Personas de España, Francia, Portugal, Italia... Latino americanos: Personas de México, Brazil, Perú, Argentina... Todos somos LATINOS, no por razas, por idioma nada más...

En EEUU se les trata de Hispanos o Latinos?es una duda que tengo. Gracias por la respuesta de antemano.

Thank you for explaining this