Does the word "Hispanic" mean indio?

Question

A capricious English translation of the Spanish prefix hispano-..., always used with another word. The right translation is Spanish-...
The colloquial sense of that word seems racist, sounds like indio. I bet a Spaniard in America won't be seen as a "Hispanic"

a certai "mo" gave the reason. Spaniards are from Spain = Hispania = Iberia

Answer 1

Hispanic (Spanish: Hispano) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. It follows the same style of use as Anglo indicates a derivation of England and the English. Thus, the Spanish-American War in Spanish is known as Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, the "Spanish-German Treaty" is Tratado Hispano-Alemán, and "Spanish America" is Hispanoamérica.

As used in the United States, Hispanic is one of several terms employed to categorize all persons whose ancestry hails either from the people of Spain, any of the various peoples of Spanish-speaking Latin America, or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United States. The term is used as a broad form of classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, and numerous business market researches.

In Spain, Spanish-speaking Latin America and most countries outside the United States, Hispanic/Hispano is not commonly employed as an indicator of ancestry; however, this can be implied depending on the context. When used in this manner, in Spanish-speaking Latin America an Hispano is commonly regarded to be any person whose ancestry stems, in whole or in part, from the people of Spain — to the contrast of the non-Hispanic (ie. non-Spanish descended) population. In this sense, when speaking of a nation's Hispanic population, those who are implied are Spaniards, criollos, mestizos, and mulattos, to the exclusion of indigenous Amerindians, unmixed descendants of black African slaves or other peoples from later migrations without any Spanish lineage who today reside in any of the Hispanic nations, regardless of whether they now use Spanish as their first and only language.

Answer 2

Actually, the word Hispanic descends from the word Hispana.(With the wavy thing above the n).The Spanish word for Spain.
All it means is that it refers to people of Spanish descent.The problem people have with it is that its used to cover all Spanish-speaking people within the US.Many people in the US prefer to use Latino instead.
I myself dont like the term myself.It sounds like your saying "poor Hispanic".By the way,technically speaking, couldn't the French and the Italians be considered Latino's also?Especially the Italians since thats where Latin comes from?
Anyway,I believe it has more to do with class than race.I don't think many Spaniards would consider themselves "Latino". Latino's come from Spain,not the other way around.
By the way,there is one thing that bothers me.You can call a Mexican a "Aztec" (Azteca) and he's proud.But you can't call him an indio.Were not the Aztecs indios? Just like the Toltecs?Just like the Olmecs?
Many Mexican citizens are of Spanish-Indian descent.Called the Mestisos(Mestizos).The rest are white Spaniards who run the country.Isnt that why the country's called Mexico in the first place?

Answer 3

A Spaniard is from Spain ,Hispanics encompasses the people of North and South America and the caribbean islands, Central America, meaning we are Hispanics from the new world Spain being the first European country to step in the nuevo mundo! Indio is given the title to the Native Americans! Capish? Comprende?

Answer 4

Hispanic
2 entries found for Hispanic.
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Hispanicpre-Hispanic

Main Entry: His·pan·ic
Pronunciation: hi-'spa-nik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin hispanicus, from Hispania Iberian Peninsula, Spain
: of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent living in the United States; especially : one of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin
- Hispanic noun
- His·pan·i·cism /-'spa-n&-"si-z&m/ noun
- His·pan·i·cist /-sist/ noun
- His·pan·i·cize /-"sIz/ transitive verb

Answer 5

If you don't believe I am be harassed, you aren't reading those posts from all of those pods. I am not only being harassed but stalked.
You are right about not needing my permission to foward e-mails but that certainly lets me know what kind of a person you are to just do it without permission from me. I do agree with you on one thing that you claim: it's not right to stalk and use those kinds of tactics and that we should be acting like adults but as for what people have told you, you shouldn't believe everything you are told.

Sat Sep 09 08:13am PDT
Renegadesprincess

* Reneg…

Well at first I wasn't sure about you. Now I am. You sent or showed my message TO YOU to the imposter which means you obviously know her/him. You did this without my permission. I am just disappointed that you are as low as they are.

Sat Sep 09 04:46am PDT
Renegadesprincess

* Reneg…

could care less about controlling anyone. I have noticed, however, that you seem to agree and jump on the bandwagon, so to speak, whenever someone who is anti-criminal is attacked. I don't report people for anything and everything like some of the dumbasses on here, they know why they are. So, no...I have no desire to control anything.

Answer 6

hispanic means latino, a person who speaks spanish, is from south America, central America, or Spain, for ex., a mexican is hispanic, so is a columbian, and a person from spain. Get it?

Answer 7

You can explain the meanings or origins of the word and they still will not get it.. they don't want to get it.. and they don't understand "capricious" and "colloquial" ..

Answer 8

don't know. does El Indio mean pod?

Answer 9

It means they clean our crap for 2 dollars

Answer 10

??? spaniards are european