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> We also have the term Hispanic to refer to folks from Latin America Not quite. Brazil is in Latin America, but Brazilians are not Hispanic.
by bdhess 8y ago
> We also have the term Hispanic to refer to folks from Latin America
Not quite. Brazil is in Latin America, but Brazilians are not Hispanic.
- mieseratte 8y agoThank you for the correction! I had always thought Hispanic / Latino / Latina were interchangeable. This whole time I thought the Latin* descriptors just meant something along the lines of "native Spanish speaker of the Western Hemisphere."
- narvval 8y agoAs a side note, most of Spain itself is in the Western Hemisphere.