What's the difference between Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish?
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- Hispanic, Latino and Spanish are often used interchangeably in describing race. But what's the right terminology? Kat Lazo lays down some wisdom.
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Hold on !!!!! Why America is USA when America is a continent ?
Because when the founding fathers drafted there declaration of independence the official name was "The United States of America" but you can't be the united states of american, so instead the denenonym was american. The country name simply says that it is a union of states on the american continent.
In Spanish there is a name for the people in USA. It is "estadounidense" and comes from "Estados Unidos de América" (United States of America)
Roberto González what do you mean by America? It's either North America or South America
HOLD ON !!!!! why would you not use your (surely extensive) google machining skills if you actually had a question?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia are the 7 continents.
Hold on !!!!!!!
lol
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.
Totally agree except north America U.S and Canada only, not Mexico.
+Metalgears1968 Nope. North America includes Mexico.
+Jorge Mujica I just said U.S and Canada are not latin America, by saying except Mexico means Mexico is latin America pendejo.
+Jorge Mujica Aprenda inlgés y aprenda comprensión al leer en ves de criticar sin saber con quien se comunica, la palabra exepto significa menos idiota.
+Metalgears1968 Que no fue a la escuela o universidad???? Mejór callese ignorante
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.
Yup! Actual, factual information:)
Exactly. That's why personally I prefer the use of Hispanic over Latino to describe cultures descended from the Iberian peninsula.
Is there a need to get disagreeable just because someone's opinion or knowledge isn't the same as yours?
Jack Brown yes but a distinction was made because the cultures are different- portuguese speaking descendentes are lusophones and not Hispanic.
Mari Trindade is right, Portuguese speakers are not Hispanic. Hispanic=Spain, sounds close enough right? Spanish speaking America has no link to Hispania the Roman province but it does to modern-day Spain.
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.
Pablo, that's exactly what I always try to explain. I'm Uruguayan and don't have much in common with other Latin Americans (except Argentinians and southern Brazilians). In fact, our culture might be a bit closer to that of Spaniards or Italians, for example.
Correct. In fact, Uruguayans and Argentinians are almost the same as Spaniards and Italians. And some German influence in there. I love Uruguay and Argentina.
Pablo Ferrari
Thanks. Then we can say that we are descendants from the real Latinos ;-)
Una pregunta no relacionada: ¿Atlético de Madrid o Real Madrid? xD
No muy futbolero, pero Atleti hasta la muerte!
Muy bien ahí!!! Estamos de acuerdo en esto también! xD
Latin Europe: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, etc
Latin America: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brasil, etc
Race: all
channel409 Indeed, Latino is not even a race, as the US' people think. Is good to know there is people who understand this things.
Greek doesn't come from Latin
dvdinf
That's true, they had a different culture (aside from the language).
Davowski Lyon No not even language. Greek falls in it's own category of the Indo-European languages, the Hellenic group. While Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian fall under the Romance category being modern vulgar forms of Latin. Only relation Greek and Latin have is both being Indo-European languages.
channel409 Greece?you are wrong xD
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".
Can u explain ur last line??
@@DanishKhan-tv3ju She meant that the nationality for the USA is called American. This problem doesn't exist in Spanish because a person from the USA is called "Estadounidense", so the term American (Americano in Spanish) is reserved for people born in America (Continent).
You got that right. They don't know what the term "Latin or Latino" means but it was a Mestizo man called Frank del Olmo who invented the term Latino (Which is grammatically incorrect when wring or speaking in English) instead of using "Latin American" to identify the "Ethnicity" of all the Spanish-speaking people of the Americas. They have to use their race to identify themselves and leave the Latin and Latino alone. Now they're coming up with another lie by calling themselves Latins also!!!
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@rishi patel Brazillians are not hispanics, we're Latinos
Hispanics are peaople who theyr coutry speak spanish or offspring from it
Latin is everyone that speaks a language that comes from the Roman empire. Spanish,FRench,italian,portuguese etc....
Latin is a language that was spoken in the roman empire, but not the ethnicities. French were gaulish celtic tribes , italians were etruscan tribes greek and latin tribes, in spain in portugal you had iberic and celtic tribes. When the roman empire conquered them they brought there language along with them. However the people of rome didn't all just speak latin, there was greek, arabic, aramaic, magrebh, berber, egyptian, celtic languages, proto-germanic.
???? Yes. Thats BEFORE. The modern Spanish, French, Portuges are mixtures of the original tribe language with Latin. Therefore this Modern languages are evolutions of Latin in several diferent ways. If you read my statement I said "...a language that comes from..." which doesnt mean they are Latin language speakers, But they are of Latin Culture, making the people of this Zones "Latin".
The genetic origins the inhabitants of Hispania, Gaul, and Italia were all the same. Northern Italy, Spain, Portugal and France ALL have same genetic base, that is mainly celtic. Therefore the languages evolved from Latin differently because the connection between the countries was blocked for centuries, not because of the different tribes in each region. And these 3 provinces ALL adopted Latin as their common day to day tongue, it wasn't like in the eastern provinces, the celtic languages in these provinces died during the empire. The term Latin refers to culture and language (in Europe) and to language and history (in Latin America).
Latin means you are a descendant of Latinus or you came from Latium (Lazio / Latina). The Language was named after the people who invented it or the area the language came from. Speaking a Latin *based* language doesn't make you Latin.
Chris Hidden I totally agree with this. That's factual information.
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.
it' not that hard. Brazilians speak Portuguese and other countries in South America and Latin America speak Spanish. If nothing else know that Brazilians are NOT HISPANIC.😎
@@RoddieSimmonswhat about Suriname? Guiana? French Guiana? Haiti? lol
Hey how are you
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.
Actually there were italian colonies in South America
I was born in Mexico and I consider myself American. because America is the continent I was born in.
Trust me your not American. Nice try, your Mexican. But that’s what you Identity with, so that’s you.
lol. Thats precisely why Trump is building a wall. You are about as much 'American' as you are Chinese
Michael H he's making the wall bc ppl(not all of them) bring drugs in the US and some just go without documents
Michael H I’m not Latino, but it looks like people in the USA forgot that “American” works for everyone born in AMERICA (which isn’t only the US)
If you were born in the US sure
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
Exactly
@@IRequireMedication okay "michael" headass
Noooooo to be a Latino/Latina you have to be from Latin America or Spanish speaking (Central American). If u are french ,Italian etc you are not Latino or Latina.If you are Latino or Latina you have the culture in your blood
The Latin is still the official language of the Vatican and is studied in all the Italian colleges by people who want to become lawyers and doctors.
No. Those languages are from Latin, but people from France, Spain, Italy are not Latinos. Latinoamerica AKA latino!
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*
Both terms are more complicated than that, but still you got it better than the girl in the video.
That's also wrong bcs Africans aren't Latinos even if they speak any Romance language. To be latino you need to speak a Romance language AND be a descendent of Latin-Europeans.
Rúben Luso not true
Rúben Luso so people who are black can't be latino even if they were raised exactly like one please
Latinos, West Indians, Hispanics is a mixed region through and through. Most of my DNA is African but I am not 100% Black, I was born into or descended from a South American and Caribbean family that has Portuguese ancestry, I am still considered Latino, whether I speak the language or not. Race doesn't dictate culture or ethnicity. Indigenous people throughout Central and South America may not speak Spanish, doesn't make them any less Latino. Cuba, Peru, Guyana and so many other islands and countries have Chinese, Japanese and Indian populations those individuals are still considered Caribbean/West Indian/Latino. Ethnicity is used to connect groups of people with a shared culture, history and or language. The Middle East isn't a continent or a country, it's a region but the inhabitants are referred to that way or called Arabs.
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.
Génesis x finally someone got it right!!
Génesis x actually, latin america also includes francophone regions. It was actually a French person who first used the term latino (or a variation if it) to refer to people in the America's whose language is of latin origin or such. So Spanish, Portuguese, and French Speaking america is all latin america.
Génesis x Why did you exclude French speaking regions when it was the French who coined the term L'Amérique Latine and started the concept of Latin America in the first place? A Frenchmen by the name of Michel Chevalier was first to use the term.
you forgot to mention Haití...they speak French there.
Are people from Haiti Latino
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.
Yes!! She even tried saying Latino is a mixture of native black and Spanish... Just no
goodaim shield NOW I GET WHY I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EUROPE
StuckInThe80ssss - to be clear everyone should check their ancestry and the biggest % that is what you are the most.
Spain is more latino LMAO 😂 here is a video for ya. th-cam.com/video/H6yaOHi-IE8/w-d-xo.html Bandas latinas?? o.O but spain is latin too. Lol I guess they dont think so, plus when i lived there they used iberian as their identity. Italian who happen to be the real latins cuz they invented the language call themselves romans to avoid confusion with mestizos immigrants living in italy. Cuz god forbid they are the same as us. The europeans dont want to be one of us. And its pathetic to pretend I am one of them when they are totally against the idea, I have my dignity and I was highly welcomed by my native family. I am indigenous, in a pile of quichua no one could say hey she's 45% not pure. Cant say the same for spain there they new I was NOT Spanish.
goodaim shield she's a dumbass bro she has no fucking clue what she's saying
I'm an American of French descent. Hispanic is a Roman term, using that same method I'm a Gallic.
Exactly. I completely accept that now a days Hispanic is used in Latin Americans, but it is quite shocking to me, a Spaniard aware of my history, that they are called that way. It's like if people from Hiti were called Gallic. The correct term should be hispanophone, like some canadians and people in Hiti are Francophones. Just my opinion, though.
+BAM Calling those people Spanish people is like calling Nigerians or Canadians English people. And actually, most French friends I have call Italians and themselves Latins, when talking in french, and Latinos, when talking in Spanish.
***** Most of these categories are complicated, I once watched my grandfather from Louisiana whose first language is Cajun French communicate just fine with an old man from Haiti, and these languages are seperated by Native American influence on Cajun French and African influence on Haitian Creole but they're still similar enough to understand from one speaker to another.
goodaim shield this is a result of early American Hispanics from former colonies sour at the strained relations with Spain co-opting the term to try to reduce any association with anything Spain. I'm Puerto Rican and Latino/a is defined as a catch-all term for people of nationality/ancestry of countries who's mother tongue is of Latin origin. Hispanic "Hispano/a" is a subcategory for specifically Spanish origin.
This has become an entrenched misuse of the term because some of the former colonies continue to push the negative image of Spain and bred the nationalism that causes negative association with Hispanic that'll won't be addressable any time soon. But then again not every colony was able to maintain amicable relations with Spain like Puerto Rico to an extent.
Outbound Shane What African influence?
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!
I’m Mexican and I hate when people call me Spanish
She's latino
@@blacklyfe5543 latina **
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.
Lol dude i didn't know the english colinized mexico???
+Iron Fist They did?? Neither did I!
+Junior Lopez Same as I
+Iron Fist Not everyone from a latin american country is descendant of the colonized people. For example, my ancestors were east europeans that immigrated here at WW2. And it seems that Junior Lopez is descendant of english and spanish people.
That_Ford _Guy In Brazil We also think like you. But we see mexicans, colombians, argentinos, bolivians, etc like latinos, But does not include us.
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.
Don't forget Belize too. Englush, Spanish & Kriol speaking
Yeah!
***** Anyone not descended from Spanish-speaking ancestry is not Hispanic. But everyone with ties to a Latin American country (Mexico, Central American countries, South American countries, and the Caribbean) are all considered Latino/a.
***** Saint Martin is bicultural. French is spoken in the north side of the island (and the name is spelled St. Martin), and Dutch is spoken in the southern part (where they prefer the Dutch spelling of St. Marteen)
Wow,I didn't know that!
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.
You should be marking White (Caucasian) being you have Spanish family. Spain = European. Lets take the "Hispanic and Latino" terms off our Governmental Paperwork. Its a waste of ink! Just like the term "African American". The term "African American" means being black and being American. Which is 100% False! Northern Africa is mostly Caucasian! Arabic blood (ex. gypsy) such as Morocco. People of Northern Africa are Caucasian. Below the desert in Central and South parts of Africa are Black Africans.
B. O. There is no such thing as Caucasian please please educate yourself
I,m spanish and green
@@brettodette6658 Most Latin countries resemble the Arabs of North Africa, does that mean they are Caucasian too?
@@pomu10 Tú debes de ser la novia del Grinch 😆
So, my mom was born in El Salvador, but her parents were born in Spain. So, she encompasses all three?
your mom would be latino. And you would be latina. Your mother's grandparents are spaniards. We spaniards do not use the term Hispanic.
Your grandparents are Spanish and Spaniards, your mother is Hispanic american, Central american, Latin american, Iberian american, Caribbean, Salvadoran and un the US you and your mom would be considered Latinas.
@@115DELDE COMO ES QUE LA FISTA NACIONAL ES EL 12 DE OCTUBRE DIA DE LA HISPANIDAD
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.
True. And don’t you tired of simply because you have a SPANISH surname getting lumped into a group and receiving things like advertisements in Spanish?
Just as Hispanic includes Spain, Latino also includes Italy.
So you speak Latin
Don't forget Greece romanie and France
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!
Very informative & much needed -- thank you Kat Lazo & Bustle!
She sounds like she is trying to start arguments when she knows she’s that only one that knows
I identify mostly as human.
Sir Derpius Maximus III I identify as a flying helicopter
Sir Derpius Maximus III flying helicopters are the dominate race bow before my wheels human
I identify as a unicorn and with people who are never racist towards me
Sir Derpius Maximus III only Dark Black Original Africans can say they are 100% Human aka 100%homo sapien right?
Sir Derpius Maximus III
That made me chuckle!
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!! ;)
JManelKnowles So Brazil would be hispanic too, but it's not. In modern times is only for spain and spanish speaker countries. The thing are some(lot) people from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Romania don't consider themselves as latinos. But if it's said latino is called that way because the country of these people talk some romance language, technically she is a european latina.
JManelKnowles well i am not too sure about that... i read in the link that you gave me that '' In Portugal, Hispanic refers to something related to ancient Hispania, Spain or the Spanish language and culture, not Portugal'' so idk if the right term to use is 'hispanic' but who really knows?
thanks btw :)
Marcos de Quadros i agree with you, but the girl in the video says that Brazil is considered as latino...so idk man it's really confusing. I also think that the term 'latino' should be used to all the people whose their first language comes from latin or 'some romance language' as you said...
thanks btw :)
Sara CC Brazil is latino, and portugal could be considered an latin european. But both are not hispanic(is that what i mean saying "Brazil is not".
Being born in Portugal, you would be Portuguese. Latina or Hispanic don't apply to you since the country you live in was not colonized by a European country, since it is one.
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?
ASTUESP I know we are not Spain we are proud Aztec blood not white we are brown pride
@@michaelcoz1485 These people agree with you:
www.mexica-movement.org
of course not! haitians were a french colony, despite of the language and colonization these nations have nothing to do with each other
This video was perfect. Helped clear up the many conceptions I had. Thanks.
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
MigueLuz11 Please note the mistakes in the Venn Diagram and in her definition of Latino (it is not a "sense of community through colonization from Spain," as Filipinos are not Latinos and Brazilians and Haitians are!) before you teach your students the wrong thing and confuse them further. Latino is a Spanish word derived from contracting Latinoamericano, which means Latin American. And a Latin American is anyone raised in or identifying with (in the case of immigrants or derived generations) a Western Hemisphere country colonized by people who spoke a language of Latin roots (i.e. Spanish, French, or Portuguese, in the case of the "New World.")
MigueLuz11 But do not forget to talk about the french and dutch speaking latinoamerican countries such as Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Martin, etc.....
@@bobbymoya Abre el diccionario y busca latino, anda
@@vooideseso le digo a usted, ella esta en lo correcto.
Latinoamérica también es Lusitana (Portuguesa) y Francesa, NO solo Hispana.
Chao.
''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.
Latino is the one who has a Romance language as its mother language, Spanish, French, Italians, Portuguese or Romanian are Latinos (Latin) too. It has nothing to do with races.
Zio Dres para los americanos de EE UU ''latinos'' son los mestizos de suramerica. que con Latium (Region de Roma) no tienen nada a veer; veo tu bandera chilena y creo que entiende lo que escribo (mal, ya lo se, pues que aprendio el espanol hablando con los turistas en Roma; a la escula de Italia solo Ingles.... :(
I undestand, but if the Americans think that the word ''Latino'' makes reference to the ''Mestizos'' who live South of their border it's their problem, they are the ones that are wrong, most of the rest of the world know that Latino has nothing to do with races but with the language that we speak. I think that the real Latin (because of the language) are the French, Italians, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish, and we are Latin Americans. I agree with your opinion though, greetings from a Chilean with Italian roots :).
Zio Dres Chilean with italian roots: I'm sure your ancestors were not from Rome; I realize that 98% of italian-americans come from the rest of Italy; this is very strange becouse the Capital is a large city!
Yes, my great grandpa was from Genova
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
Personally, (my opinion) I don't think those born in Latin/South America call themselves American, because that is generally referred to those who were born in the United States of America. (I mean, we can't call ourselves United States of Americans..that just sounds...weird.) Just like how Canadians call themselves...Canadians and not Americans. Here in this video, it talks more about ethnicity, sense of identity and touches a little on race. But in terms of nationality, it's really very simple; just where you were born and/or have citizenship in. In that case, people in South America wouldn't be calling themselves Americans but instead if from Brazil, Brazilians, if from Mexico, Mexicans and etc.
ForCommentingMusic&Etc. :D♥ that is because "United state of America" ist a complicated Name. Also Mexicos official Name is " United States" but although is in in North America, like the USA it cant USe the Term "America" in its official name. . I mean all modern nations of the Americas have the SAME origin, for the first hundred years they where "Just" european Colonies. I dont know what american nation Emancipated at first from the Europe, but the it should be a common sense for all amricans,Emancipation from harsh conditions and trying to achive a free life with eqal opportunities for ALL! that is what THE AMERICAS stands for!!
***** idk that was just my opinion. when one says American, most people think of someone from the USA so that's just where the term comes from. and when someone says North American, they think someone who's Canadian or American, or if someone says South American...well that's just a very broad term that encompasses the many countries and different cultures of Latin American countries. so one could be Brazilian, Argentinian, and on....
***** Actually, the Americas (this is saying, the CONTINETS. difference between countries and Continents! USA is in North America, Brazil is in South America, Ethiopia is in Africa, Spain is in Europe, etc. etc.) only consist of North America and South America, the continents. And all of the languages spoken in South America, derive from Latin. Spanish, Portuguese, also I think some French. So South America, is indeed Latin America. If not, what do you think Latin America is?
I respect your opinion and how respectfully you are stating it as well, but most people in the world would disagree using logic, therefore... even though you may not agree, if we are called Americans by most people, and if most people think of the USA when someone says "America", then can't we just let it be? There's also differences between continents and countries. People think of North America as Canada, and the USA, what they actually are. No one will call Canada, "North Americans" or "Americans" first! Because the country is Canada, they will call people from there, "Canadians" first. You may argue that it's stupid to name USA as America, but we can't argue with history. It is what happened, and the people of the USA are Americans. I hope you understand this and that it makes sense. Countries are very different from continents -- each country has a different culture and it's silly trying to group a whole group of 2 continents together under one name and label when they have such a variety of differences. BTW, to give a bigger insight on the Canada thing, think of Brazil. You don't first call people from there Americans, right? You call them Brazilians...yet with the USA...we call them Americans first. :)
I respect your thinking!
***** I can see your perspective. I just think differently. Accept that people will think differently, I accept it too. :) Thank you for staying respectful.
This is so helpful! Kat is the best.
marinashutup Thanks!
marinashutup Agreed!
TheeKatsMeoww hi there. i wanted to give you the link to the english captions i made for this video for Deaf, hard of hearing, and others with barriers to accessing audio, but can't seem to make my own comment above for some reason.
If you go to the site, click "english" in the language section on the left (hopefully soon others will add more languages), it'll take you to the page where you can, by clicking on the right side of the page, download the caption file in a number of formats, then upload them to the original.
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I live in Latin America.Here the definition of latino is different than from the US.People are latinos because they speak a language that come from the latin language.Here people born in the US are not consider latinos if you do not speak a latin language.That is why people born in the US cannot participante in Latin Summit.
kahn Very well said, as what you say is a reality you live with and have experienced. It's based on the language.
and as always, spain is the bad guy
Well we were the bad guys lmao
Don't remind me that :(
I mean,,,
@@jude4673 Still... We would have been invaded by another country/culture ngl
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").
US-Americans are really funkin' obsessed.
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.
Iria Merian I thought this was a joke....u people are mentally ill trying to chop everything up. Cultural Marxists. People with the fewest amount of culture are the ones who want to claim they have the most.
Fuck you're stupid......
They are obsessed with race
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.
Obito Uchiha Castilian = Spain Spanish. It's not quite that simple. Spain is made up of former kingdoms and countries. These people have different languages and cultures and many of them identify with the region they come from. Someone from Galicia, for example, wouldn't appreciate being called a Castilian.
Obito Uchiha Well done Obito! But you also need to define Latin America = Group of countries in the Western Hemisphere with a contemporary official language derived from Latin. French Guiana is part of Latin America; Jamaica isn't.
Obito Uchiha Wrong. "Spain Spanish" is not a thing, considering that Catalonian is not spanish at all. Castillian is a Spanish dialect (one of four main ones)
As for Latino, then you wouldn't be Latino if you actually came from a language that once spoken latin? So essentially the root of this word is meaningless, according to your definition?
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
Latino doesn't mean Latin American. A person from Latin America is a Latin American. Latino refers only to language and culture. ww.latino-news.press
Open the books clown.. A spanish boy🇪🇸🇪🇸 LATINO HISPANO
WRONG. Latino doesn't mean "Latin American". You are all ignorant. Latino is not the same as Latin American. Latino refers to the Latin language spoken by the Romans, refers to the Romance Languages derived from the Latin and refers to the Latin Culture of the Romans which they imposed on all the people that they conquered including the Spaniards and Portuguese in what they called "Hispania".
"Latin American" instead refers to a geographical location where a person comes from and whose languages originate from the Latin. Don't try to change history because history cannot be changed. There was nothing Latin on this continent before the Latin European colonizers, French, Portuguese and Spaniards, brought it here with their Latin-derived languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese.
No, Latin/Latino is not a Skin Colo, it's not an ethnicity, it's not a DNA and it's not your Blood and nothing to do with you. You are Mestizo Indians speaking languages derived from the Latin and that's all.
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Latino no es lo mismo que latinoamericano
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.
French men, French canadians, Italians, Romanians, Italian and French Swiss, Catalans, Portugueses are in a straight sens latinos too.
lucaspata You are right. People need to know this.
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
I'm from Puerto Rico and I've always identified as latina.
Im a Social Studies and I love your video. I am going to tuse it in my lesson plan next week!
Saw this on Buzzfeed. Very informative. Thank you!
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.
***** "Denying a part of who you are to say otherwise" ? Because of colonization we try to erase our native and afro ancestry as much as possible. And this whole romantic take on history that the Spanish "intermixed" is bullshit. The spanish killed, raped, and stole from our ancestors. Those of us that remained were brainwashed to "mejorar la raza" by marrying someone whiter than yourself. Yes we have Spanish blood but it's tainted by a violent history of rape, theft, genocide, whitewashing, and erasure. People continue to identify as "Spanish" even when they are clearly not, because we have a 500 year long history of colonization brainwashing us to empathize with our colonizers.
LynxChan That is true, the term "hispanic" was pretty much invented by the U.S. Census Bureau but most people nowadays don't know that.
***** Go back and read my comment because you missed my entire point. I never said I didn't have Spanish blood, I actually stated the complete opposite. My point is that there's just something that feels wrong when a Latinx person who wans't born or raised in Spain calls themselves "Spanish". A lot of Latinxs feel ok calling themselves spanish becasue they're ignorant of their history and they think the Spanish were superior to Indigenous and the West Africans.
***** The term Hispanic derives from Hispanicus (which derived from Hispania), Hispania may in turn derive from Latin Hispanicus, or from Greek Ισπανία Hispania and Ισπανός Hispanos.
In English the word is attested from the 16th century.
Hispanus was the Latin name given to a person from Hispania during Roman rule.
LynxChan Lots of Filipinos who are of Spanish descent consider themselves Hispanic but NOT Latino, not necessarily the majority mind you but certainly many of those upper-class Filipinos with a quarter or more Spanish.
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.
If both of my parents are from dominican republic but i was born in spain, am i spanish or Dominican? Or both
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!
How do you guys connect with polynesian btw? Not at all or maybe a little bit?
The problem with Filipinos is that they don't speak Spanish and only a small minority of Filipinos have Spanish ancestry. You should be more proud of your Chinese roots though because most Filipinos have strong Chinese ancestry about 25% on average. Filipino food also has a lot of Chinese influences
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)
Greeks are not Latin, their culture predates Rome
This was mega useful, thank you.
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 watched this just to say, this was a waste of my time
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 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.
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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.
She is "Americanized" and that's what shapes her views. It's no different to a categorized view a person would have in another country like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, etc. they all view race and ethnicity in different ways based on their education and environment.
+bsstv Totally agree... Latino is for all the people who speaks a romance/latin language! Include people of Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Portugal...) not only people from south america -.- The girl who makes this video is a completey ignorant and she is wrong!
Data Base despues de 500 años del descubrimiento de América, decir que NO ERES LATINO o HISPANO, es errado, TODOS SOMOS MESTIZO YA SEA RACIALMENTE, CULTURALMENTE O AMBOS CASOS. Yo soy AMAZONICO, SUDAMERICANO, LATINOAMERICANO, AMERICANO E IBEROAMERICANO. Utilizo el español, como el ingles, y cuando visito EUROPA veo muchas cosas que tiene nuestros países con AMÉRICA. La palabra LATINO ES UN TERMINO MUY AMPLIO, PERO TAMPOCO ME MOLESTA, PERO ES MAL UTILIZADO EN EE.UU. Antes de la llegada de los EUROPEOS, tambien habia distinciones, los QUECHUAS NO SON AYMARAS, LOS MAYAS NO SON AZTECAS, LOS TOBAS NO SON MAPUCHES, LOS TAINOS NO SON GUARANIES.
i dont fully understand so if i half from europe and half from the caribean that means i cannot fit in this , what am i ?
+Viviana yanukovych cuba? republic dominican? puerto rico?
Both of my parents are 100% Brazilian, and I asked them if we were Latino.
They laughed and said no.
Moltenblood My grandma read me the riot act when I asked if we were "chicanos" Oh lol. NO. Silly nonsense no such country! We are American and of Spanish descent. I am Mexican in birth but with no indian blood. Chicano chicano *huff huff*. Heh decades later I asked her about chollos . Omgerd. Can never look at that kinda of guy without giggling now.
Moltenblood You might have Portuguese blood your ancestors where the colonizers from Portugal and also their is some Brazilians who have Japanese mix.
***** Well yeah, my dad's whole family is from Brazil and they are totally white. Which indicates European blood.
Moltenblood well according to this video you are latino but not hispanic and not spanish. be happy now and tell them they were wrong :)
DJ FANTASTICO EN CHICAGO No. This video is wrong dude. Take it from actual Brazilians. Most people in Brazil don't consider themselves Latino. Even if the government considers us Latino are under a certain technicality, we share little to no culture, language, or blood. So no. We aren't Latino.
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
French Canadians*
Latino is a misnomer that comes from Napoleon's attempt at flattering the newly formed Republics in South America for assistance in his wars.
Hispanic/Hispano or even Ibero would be right.
But a person from Spain is Latino too? Because I know some Spaniards that deny being Latinos
I thought someone from spain is called Spaniard and the language that they speak is called Spanish
Nel TB the Portuguese and the Spanish are the same people even by culutre. They only got more African influences bc at the table when Portugal and Spain divided the conquest up that is what they did.
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.
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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.
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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.
Comprendo lo que dices, y estamos de acuerdo en eso, lo primordial de la nota era para dejar claro que lo que hacen los estadounidenses en calificar como etnia a latinos o hispanos es un gran error y de no comprender nada de su génesis, saludos.
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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.
Haitians are not Latinos or latinas they are french or black or carribean
@@blacklyfe5543 are you reading what you’re saying? French people are from France, and Haiti is in the French-Caribbean- the term Latino/o/a comes from the French referring to their colonial territories in the Western Hemisphere, one of them being Haiti, by the term ‘L’Amerique Latine’. Haitians are considered some of the first Latines, NOT Hispanic. Don’t ever come for me again with your ignorance and disrespect, I can trace my lineage back to my country’s revolution and I know my history and that of the Caribbean and Latin America but you fucking tried it 🖕🏾 you don’t get to uninclude me and mine from our rightful place in the history of the Western Hemisphere
@@blacklyfe5543 and how ignorant do you have to be to not understand that you can be black and Latine/o/a at the same time? Educate yourself your toxic ignorance is showing
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.
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.
+Jessica Plume I agree.
+Jessica Plume Agreed with you. The girl in this video didn't do her research before doing this video. Latin is a language that leads to others five languages.
The funny thing is that in "recent" times, the first latin people were the French lol. It was them who came up with the Idea of Latin Europe and Latin America.
The Roman named for the province which made up the Iberian Peninsula was "Hispania". Supposedly, the word "Hispanic" evolved from the word Hispania. The following map shows this roman province - pages.uoregon.edu/mapplace/EU/EU17%20-%20Spain/Lindsay%27s%20Spain%20maps/Roman%20Spain/Roman%20Spain.jpg
J H if Portugal and Spain didn’t colonise South America , they wouldn’t be calling themselves “Hispanic or Latino” since they got the language from us lol
Thanks so much for this--super clear and super helpful. I think I got it now. 😀
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.
maybe trivial isn't the right word, just... dated? I don't know if I'm accurately conveying what I mean. When someone asks me "what are you" or "what's your heritage", I don't feel it necessary to give them a 300 year history lesson to explain. Ie: I was born in New Jersey and raised by parents who came from Panama. So my heritage is Panamanian, but in reality I was in fact raised in New Jersey, so I'm just American with Panamanian blood, genes, and a good understanding and respect for the Panamanian history (this isn't my background, i'm just giving an example).You don't have to trace back to Montezuma to explain "what are you". It's a can of worms that anyone could open up.
Now it's tough to identify exactly what country their genes are from on the surface, so I am definitely guilty of just saying "spanish", which can quickly be corrected by saying "I'm from Panama", which I'd respond "gotcha".
Yeah I'll say dated is the better word.
In my opinion, it's just a means of dividing people to better easily control them.
Well I am from Argentina but my surname and heritage are Italian. At home we eat pasta more than we eat meat and we follow Italian costumes more than Argentine ones. We don't dance tango, we dance tarantella, and we have double nationality. So I think it's about respecting your ancestors and keeping traditions alive. Idk. The town where I live was first inhabited by Italian people who came to South America. We've always identified as Italo-Argentinos
Adam Domo No lol. If you're ancestors or relatives are from somewhere you should recognize it. My family was born in Barbados and I love that culture and the people. How could someone only focus on being American? It's boring lol.
White Americans are descendants from Europe... but I don't know why a lot of them don't know about their cultures.They usually just call themselves white.
Colonization is a huge part of peoples' histories, of course she has to dive into it lol. You don't feel "attacked" do you???
If these buggers in the US would stop obsessing with my identity and also to try to enforce who they think I should be which in fact they just want to smack an ignorant stereotypical label on me. rather than get their lazy butts to google quichua indians.
Latin@ comes from a language but not from a race. In fact, the word Latin@ comes from Italy and its meaning is because it comes from a region called Lazio (Roma is its capital), where latin language was born thousands of years ago. The Latin language gave the fundations for latin languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and others minor languages. On this point,we can say that the term Latino comes from Europe and therefore Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian people are Latin European (that's the reason because it exist the differentiation when you do a reference with latin american people); So, you need to think twice before referring to a latin american poeple as a "Latino". The factions of those south European people mixed with Indians and African slaves created a "variation of the races" resulting in the common parlance as Latinos.
Hispanic term it refers to descendants according to geographic location. Spanish people were locaded on Hispania. Hispania was the name given by the Phoenicians to the Iberian peninsula, later used by the Romans, and part of the official nomenclature of the three Roman provinces who created there.
I hope all of this be helpful for so many of you!
Greetings from Colombia!
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.
+Hector Garcia you deny were you came from your ancestors are ashamed of your existence.
I know my heritage, I am not denying that. What I am denying is using labels to describe who I am as a person. Labels are for products. If you feel that you have to label yourself in order to identify with others, then, that's your business. Why should it bother you when others don't feel the same?
***** Exactly
Yes, true, but it's a label that encompasses all of us. It doesn't leave anyone out. ;D (At least in this part of the world.) Maybe I should have just said "Human"? LOL
You 'reside' in America. That's why we require President Trump to build that wall, keep some of those hispanics (of which you are not) out of this country.......lol (now go mow my lawn)
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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". :)
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
and by the way you don't have to specify yourself as and "indigenous latina" 'cause the mixture of races in all countries of Latin America were stronger than USA, so only people that live in Tribes are consider indigenous, the rest of us, society in general are ALL a mixture of indigenous and European races, so you are maybe a "latin american" girl or "half Peruan half Colombian" girl, but most of all you are an american girl, just as simple as that...
+carlos verdugo I agree but you forgot to mention the African and East Asian influences in Latin America. Africans in Latin America are very much relevant yet people act as if Blacks are invisible. There are many Chinese and Japanese that have been in Latin America for generations.
yeah I know, and the African Mexican people were segregated a lot of years, they are not present in my state, but they are a known community in parts in the south of Mexico, they're called Afro-Mexicans I think, because of the etnial differences and the strong racism that occurred in the past and shamefully, nowadays, they didn't blend in society as well as other indigenous cultures, the Chinese and Japanese people I think, in our actual days are married in most cases to Mexican partners, I have friends that are from a 4th or 3rd generation of Asian ancestors, but they actually are just maybe a 8th or a 4th asian, a flow of Chinese and Japanese people that come to live and build industries in Mexico still exist, but as I said before, they are not consider a lot like a different etnial group, cause they blend in society just as they arrive, but they still have their culture and lenguage as part of their daily life, but they don't seem to have a problem with mixing their children with Mexican people so the mixture I think (this is just me guessing) is more common than in the USA, this is maybe because in USA the number of immigrants are a lot more, so the possibilities of marrying a same etnial origin partner are bigger...
@@IMNME45 There are no indigenous "Latinas" but there are "Indigenous Latin American women".
why isn't the philippines included on your hispanic comparison chart :'(
Definition of hispanic: "It commonly applies to countries once under colonial possession by the Spanish Empire following Spanish colonization of the Americas, parts of the Asia-Pacific region and Africa."
Philippines was colonized for over 300 years and includes a heavy influence from Spain.
Liz frfr si si
You are poor country. Go to hell! You are not Asian. You are not Pacific Islander. You are not Hispanic. You are trash.
A. Stab wtf
Liz because you guys speak tagalog
@@thankuslay6766 lol I'm a USA and Philippines citizen. The USA is a very strong country, and I support the Philippines too. 한국어도 할 수 있어요. 세상에 어디에 왔는데...? I also speak Korean. hehe. 따뜻한 열린 마음을 가져야 되요.
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.
The Latin America term of they DON'T IS CORRECT.
@@juanmanuelgomezrubio3036 Please educate yourself before you come at me. That was embarrassing.
Fantastic clip. Thank you!
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 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!
***** Guayan and belice speaking english. Is not Latino
Ryan Estes Thank you for answering. Then why is Brazil. (a non-spanish speaking country) considered a Latino country?
Latino refers to a Latin based language like Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Those languages, and many others, developed from Latin after the Roman Empire fell and spread to the Americas through colonization starting after 1492. That's why those languages are also known as Romance languages because they come from the language of the Romans: Latin.
Interesting. I never considered Haitians or anyone from the French Caribbean to be latino.I don't even think most latino people from spanish speaking countries consider them to be latino. It really is a confusing term lol.
Fabian Prado thank you.
THANK YOU OMG IVE BEEN QUESTIONING THIS FOR YEARS
Wait so im british my grandad moved to spain(from the uk) and my grandads wife (not my grandma) is from Uruguay does that mean im techinically hispanic or no since i dont have any blood from any where spanish but my grandad moved to spain and his wife is from uruguay meaning i have a connection to the spanish community or does it not count because of my dna??
Yeah, hispanic is not a race. There's no such thing as a specific hispanic/latino race or something.
Brown/Amerindian people from Mexico and Latin America are mestizos/amerindian blooded.
J.J. Lemstra what do you mean
jose villegas I'm proud to be mestizo :D
You're right. They're not races even though people like to pretend that they are.
+Vi Ma nothing wrong about it. I only dislike blacks and jews.
Brazilians are mostly Pardo....
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.
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"What's your nationality?" Umm.. I'm American. I was born in the United States.
***** Yea, you're right. I'm Brazilian (nationality) of Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and native Brazilian ethnicity. I look white, but I know I have native Brazilian because it was present at 2% on my DNA test. :-)
Ethnicity/Ancestry - African, European, Middle Eastern/Arabian, Asian, and Native American.
Culture/Heritage - Nationality.
Race - Human Race.
Phillip Guy YES
***** yes, nationality is which nation you were born in. ethnicity is culture you live by.
Just used this video to explain the difference to a friend, and thank you for adding that example with the 3 ladies. Is hard to explain specially to fellow Hispanics/Latinos that is a culture or linguistics term not a race or people.
Those three women would never pass for Spanish in Spain...
But that wasn't the point made in the video. Spanish isn't a race, at least not anymore.
spaniards look like latino/Hispanic peoples of the carribean and central-south americas hun
+Micca Santiago errr no they don't, mainly because spaniards are not native to those regions nor are they mixed with people from those regions...
+world-in-the-evening that's not true. slaves were brought to Spain African Americans and Native American. The language itself has Arab and German influence also with Northern African migration being pretty evident.
+Micca Santiago Slaves were sent to the Americas, the miniscule handful of slaves in Spain would never have been enough to change the demographic structure of Spain, as people didn't marry and breed with their slaves. As to north african influence, the moors ruled Spain like brits ruled India ie not mixing with the population. Muslim don't mix with with christians now, nor did they back then (Not to mention their expulsion by the Catholic monarchs largely dimineshed their numbers).The Basque language and culture, which predates even the roman invasion of the iberian peninsula, has had a stronger influence in Spain than any other subsequent influence, a clear example is the fact that Garcia (which comes from the Basque) is the most common surname in Spain.
El término latino (adjetivo; del latín latinus, "aquél o aquello que es natural de los pueblos que hablan lenguas derivadas del latín)
Creo que estas un poco equivocada...latino es todo aquel que sus antepasados sean romanos, por lo tanto los españoles tambien somos latinos.
La muchacha no tiene idea de lo que esta hablando. Quizás se refería a los latinoamericanos pero se olvido de la real definición de la palabra latino. Quizás nunca la leyó, pero aún así; está totalmente fuera de la realidad. Una vergüenza que alguien de origen latino como ella este enseñando mal el concepto a personas de otras culturas.
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.
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.
I am Spanish (currently living in Canada) and I never considered myself Latino..ever.
Suzaku Ryan cuz....you’re not
First of all it's "LATIN" in English and not "Latino" then if you're Spanish that is from Spain and you don't know that you're Latin, linguistically and culturally then it's because of your ignorance. People from Latin America are "Latin Americans". The Latino term apart from being wrong in English is an invented tern by Frank del Olmo. He cause all this problem. People from Latin America have nothing to do with identifying with Roman culture. They are Red-Skin Indians.
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@Alberto Castillo All of you want to play "professor" but are actually ignorant . First of all Latino is grammatically incorrect t in English. The correct way is LATIN. When speaking or writing in Italian ,Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish then Latino/Latina is correct but not when writing or speaking in English. In addition Latin was the language spoken by the Romans and refers also to the languages coming out of the Latin and known as Romance languages; Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish then Latin also refers to the Latin Culture of the Romans. Secondly it was an "Hispanic" named Frank del Olmo (do a Google search about Frank del Olmo) who chose the terms "Hispanic-Latino" to unite all the Spanish-speaking people of the Americas.. Frank del Olmo thought that Latino was an abbreviation for Latin American which it is not because Latin means one thing and Latin American means another. And Latin is not your ""native" heritage. It's the heritage of the Italians and of the Latin Europeans. You have to use your RACE to identify yourselves like we all do and not use a term which doesn't belong to you. Everything Latin be it the Latin people, the Latin Language and the Latin Culture all comes from Italy and has nothing to do with the Red-Skin Indians of Latin America.
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NO HISPANIC, NO LATINO..
@Alberto Castillo no it was a so called Hispanic named Frank Del Olmo who chose the terms Hispanic Latino. The French only named that part of this continent Amerique Latine .
Latino is incorrect in English. The correct way is Latin. Latin is only about Language and Culture. Latin -derived languages and Latin Culture. You may be confusing Latin as being a Race/Ethnicity, Blood, DNA as the so-called Red-Skin Indians from Latin America are doing.
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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.
Exactly!
Latino is anything that derives from the Latin Spanish (Castellano) derives from Latin there for any body who's primary language is Spanish (Castellano) is Latin and Hispanics but not Spanish unless they r from Spain and that is why Brazilians from South America r Latinos but not Hispanic, because they don't speak Spanish but they speak Portuguese which is a Latin derived Language so they r the only Latinos in South America that r not Hispanic .
ricardo delgado
I agree with that; and as someone else on this thread stated, indigenous are only those who live in tribes. I identify as a hispanic. It’s confusing but this is a subject that fascinates me! Jajaja
Saludos
Nice video. Do you have videos in Spanish that deal with any of these issues?
Could you possibly do this video in Spanish? I'd love to use it in my Spanish classes :)
I despise the words Latino and Hispanic. I am macehualli (Indigenous).
Yeah, like thats better......lol
Latina and hispanic terms are from Europe.
Yes. www.latino-news.press
yuppp! straight facts!!!
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.
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.
I love this argument. I also enjoy the subtle anti-European bias in the video. I find it really interesting how people in their native countries simply refer to themselves as "Mexicans", "Cubans", etc. The whole idea of identifying with a unified term to describe anyone with a Hispanic last name is silly. Here is a concept... If you are a citizen, you are an American. It's that easy.
Another observation... When did Hispanics stop accepting their European roots? Last I checked (at least in Mexico) the majority of people are mestizos, or people with BOTH Spanish and Indiginous roots. Both of my parents were born and raised in Mexico, they have always acknowledged both lines of ancestry. Why is this young generation so quick to deny a history so rich in accomplishments? Are left leaning "Hispanic studies" professors that effective in essentially brainwashing our youth?
It's time that we as Americans with both Spanish and indigenous roots, otherwise known as Hispanic, start accepting our diverse culture and stop dividing ourselves into groups that left leaning groups want us to divide ourselves into. We are better than this.
Brainwashing
Latino: Que nacío en Latinoamerica.
Español: Que nacío en Esapaña.
Hispano:Que habla el idioma Español.
No tienes ni puta idea,como diría un Español,o sea yo.
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
Wherever you are now being Latino or Latina is not a Skin Color, not a Race and not an Ethnicity. There is no Latin Look. Latino/Latina refers only to Latin languages and Latin Culture.
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.
this girl has more Spanish blood than indigineous that is for sure.
you can't always go by looks
Yeah, she can easily pass for white or even far East Asian.
Pass for what? She might be "white" in Colombia or Peru but if she tried to call herself white in the US or Canada they would think that she is delusional
***** It must be a culture shock when people leave their home countries thinking that they are white and come to the US and are shown that they are far from it.
To be fair, in most central and South American countries, pure indigenous people (just like the US) usually occupy the lowest rungs of society and have the highest poverty rates, highest suicide rates, highest child mortality rates and lowest educational rates. And there are so few unmixed European descended whites that mestizos have been elevated to de facto white status.
I'm Mestizo = Indigenous Mexican + European Heritage.
Thats the samething as French European Heritage and Indigenous people. They're called Metis.
mestizo is still native
Why you Mexicans don't recognize the colony of Black Mexicans in Mexico? Y'all hate each other so I wouldnt expect you all to embrace Black Mexicans
@@garymiles4752 black mexicans lol
@@iconofsin4578 Whatever that means?
Live this! Super educational!
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! :)