What's the difference between Hispanic and Latino?

Have you ever wondered what the distinction is between Hispanic and Latino? You've probably heard them used interchangeably, but that's not always correct. In this video, we'll go through the meanings and histories of both terms, and deal with some outlier situations, like Suriname.

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[leoni]

I will never forget when I lost 30mins trying to convince an american that I was brazilian and latino, but not hispanic.

[caellencaellen]

What about Guyana and Belize? No mention.
And I dare you to find a single Spaniard happy to be described as "Hispanic"!

[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹🧐Latinos is the term used in English to identify Latin Americans, predominantly Hispanic, from Latin American countries and inhabitants of the United States of America.
Although the terms are often used as synonyms, there is actually a difference between "Latin American" and "Hispanic": the first indicates a person who comes from a Latin American country that is not necessarily Spanish-speaking (for example Brazil), the second is someone who comes from a country where Spanish is spoken, not necessarily in South America (for example Spain or Mexico).
In Italy, the term South Americans is used to indicate Latin Americans.

The true Latins were the Italic populations born from the fusion of groups of Indo-Europeans with the local Aboriginal populations and settled in ancient Latium on the Alban Hills.
The Ancients said that Lazio was so called because Saturn had hidden there (latere, Virgil, Aen., VII, 322; Ovid, Fast., I, 232).
In fact, according to the Roman myth, when the God Saturn was deposed by his son Jupiter, he was exiled to Italian soil and, welcomed by the God Janus, he founded the mythical Saturnian cities. Janus gave him the "Sickle", that is, the sickle, a symbol of harvest but also of death, teaching him agriculture that Saturn in turn taught to men. In fact, the God taught agriculture to the people of the place, bringing peace and justice. For his many merits he received a part of the kingdom of Janus, to whom he also conferred the gift of foresight.

[PM-ldnn]

There was a concept undestood (Hispanic) 25 years ago, so Someone invented a concept that none can understand at all. Is an Haitian latino? Is a Romanian latino? Angola? Equatorial Guinean?

[Hollywhite]

I came for a lesson because I didn’t know what to say when referring to a community.

Puerto Rican, Mexican, et

[Hollywhite]

I came for a lesson because I didn’t know what to say when referring a community

[LanguageKing]

You should make a video about the origin of the term “gringo”. From what I know about it, it was a term giving to the Europeans who fled from to South America who couldn’t speak Spanish properly. Anybody know more about this term?

[HispanoAmericaPlustUltra]

*Hispanoiphone Americans are from Hispano America*

[BellaFmay]

If your dad is Latino and born in Latin American but your born in Britain are you still Latin American/latina

[alexkkx]

Can Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara and the Philippines be considered Hispanic? All are former Spanish colonies which absorbed much of Hispanic culture. Spanish may not be widely spoken but it has immensely influenced the culture and local languages. No to mention Spanish and Spain plays a great role in each country/territories history much like other mainstream Hispanic countries.

[Georgina-lysu]

Spanish" refers to Spain, and true Latins are the indigenous people of Lazio, Italy. Therefore, people who live in countries on the American continent and speak Castilian as their mother tongue are neither Latin nor Hispanic; they are Castilian speakers with diverse cultures, cuisines, music and idiosyncrasies. Consequently, both expressions are insulting since they aim to erase people's nationalities and all that goes along with them.

[FossilizedKindness]

Hispanic is spaniard. Latino is mostly americas and anything not spaniard but colonized by.

[andresfelipevegaromero]

I consider Québec part of Latin America.