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Actually, ironically I don't think that someone from Spain is intended to be considered Hispanic. Which also doesn't make sense, I know.

• ceejayoz 1y ago
  Technically, they're included. In practical usage, they'd far more likely be called Spanish or European in the US context.
  • MangoToupe 1y ago
    Technically according to what? These labels were based on implicit understanding that shifted over time and place.
    • ceejayoz 1y ago
      Technically according to Wikipedia, at the very least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic
      • tokai 1y ago
        No Wikipedia explicitly states that people from Spain are not included; "The term commonly applies to Spaniards and Spanish-speaking populations and countries in Hispanic America and Hispanic Africa" I.e. not mainland Spain.
        • ceejayoz 1y ago
          “The term commonly applies to Spaniards AND…” This is not a complex sentence.
          • bombcar 1y ago
            A friend in college from Spain had way too much fun pretending to be stereotypically hispanic and would insist that he had more a claim to it, being from Hispaniola, after all.
            • skylurk 1y ago
              To be pedantic, if he was from Spain, he would be from Hispania[1] not Hispaniola[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola
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