Are Portugese People considered Caucasion or Hispanic?

Answer 1

The Portugese will be considered as Caucasion as the term is used to refer to people whose ancestry can be traced back to Europe, North Africa, West Asia, the greater Indian subcontinent and parts of Central Asia. Whereas the term Hispanic specifically refers to Spain, and to the Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas as cultural and demographic extensions of Spain.

Answer 2

Caucasian refers to a "race" and Hispanic refers to "ethnicity" based on the country of origina and culture from which you come.

Hispanic by definition is: "A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish Culture."

So, the Portuguese are caucasians and not necessarily Hispanic.

But some might make a case for the Portuguese being Hispanic in that Portugal is part of the Spanish Peninsula (Hispanola) shares a Spanish culture, and others would also say that Brasilians, who speak Portuguese and share Portuguese colonial history are a part of South America.

Answer 3

Strange slew of answers.

I think the confusion is in your intent.

By US Census Bureau standards, Hispanic is not a racial classification (though for many surveys they are asking if the individual is of Spanish descent or Spanish-speaking). Hispanics, Latinos, etc are classified as either Caucasian or African-American. It's self-reporting, but if you have to pick, those are your choices.

Hispanic is a term that is used primarily by Caribbean-born people (especially Dominicans and Puerto ricans). Even a majority of Mexicans do not use the term, instead preferring to be called "Latino".


Natives of Portugal are Portuguese. They could be considered Latin, but would not be considered Latino nor Hispanic. But the same is true of a Spaniard from Barcelona. They are Latin, but neither Latino nor Hispanic.

If the Portuguese person were born in the Caribbean, s/he would be considered Latino, but not Hispanic.

If the person were born in the US of Portuguese parents, he (like Emeril LaGasse) would be an American of Portuguese descent...nothing more.

Answer 4

Well, since Portugese people are that because of where they are born and not what color they are born into then I guess it's safe to say that Portugese people can be white, black, yellow, brown, and heck maybe even green in some cases. If a black guy in Portugal and a white guy in Portugal are both taking the same survey they would put respectively white or black, just because you are born in Portugal doesn't mean you have to look like everybody else to be portugese.

Answer 5

The Portuguese are not considered Hispanic, because they are not descended from Spanish-speaking peoples. Instead, they are Lusitanic.

Asking whether or not the Portuguese people would be considered Caucasian is like asking whether or not the people of the United States would be considered Caucasian. It would depend entirely upon the individual.

Answer 6

"Hispanic" refers ONLY to natives of Spanish-speaking countries of the New World (Western Hemisphere), not Europe, though even that is misleading, since the island of Hispañiola contains only one country with Spanish language and culture, the Dominican Republic.

The people of Portugal, like those in Spain and the rest of Europe are caucasian, with the exception of those descended from other, non-Caucasian, racial groups who emigrated there.

There are, however, many people in these New World Latin countries who are the descendants of slaves brought from Africa from the period of, roughly 1500-1850 (especially in Brazil and the Latin countries of the Caribbean, such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic). Though they now share the larger Latin culture, racially they are not Caucasian.

Trying to equate Hispanic or Latin with Caucasian or non-Caucasian is like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. The answer, as you can see, is a bit more complicated.

Answer 7

As different have noted - Caucasians aren't to any extent further yet the minority (in variety). yet, even as people talk about majority and minority is immediately with reference to the skill and administration that team has over it is own society. So, besides the actuality that if Hispanics will ultimately outnumber both Caucasians and African American they could or received't develop right into a majority. it is going to remember fullyyt on the quantity of impression and authority they'll carry interior the country.

Answer 8

Portugese r both.
they r of the same origin as othe hispanic races (such as spanish, Brazilian, Cuban, etc.), and they r white, and therefor caucasion

Answer 9

Portugese people are Mulato (mixed) not hispanic not caucasion ..... just the perfect mix.

Answer 10

All Europeans are considered Caucasian, so are Hispanics, but they consider themselves to be "brown" which is not a race. Before intermarriage there were three races, Caucasoid, *******, and Mongoloid (asian). People often confuse race with nationality.