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I got a call the other day and the person over the phone asked my race and I said Hispanic and he said that was my ethnicity, he said my race was Latin...
I thought ethnicity was related to your nationality-origin and race with your skin color. Now, I got totally confuse!
Can you help me? How do you understand the difference between race and ethnicity?

2007-02-16 08:18:17 · 4 answers · asked by Vzla 2 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

I'm Venezuelan

2007-02-16 08:58:05 · update #1

4 answers

Latin means of latin origins. French and Italians are latin.

There is no such thing as a latin race. The person on the telephone was wrong.

" relating to a people using a language derived from Latin, especially a people living in Latin America or in southern Europe"
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861625154/Latin.html

2007-02-16 08:21:26 · answer #1 · answered by a bush family member 7 · 0 0

ok before everything we would desire to understand that throughout the time of the US whilst it includes purposes or census they crew this 3 in same classification regardless of the actuality that they are diverse. Latin is a term that used to generalize spanish conversing human beings besides the undeniable fact that this is actual meaning is a great way from that.. all and assorted that speaks a latin derived language is think approximately latin.. latin countrys now a days are Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and each spanish conversing u . s . in the yankee continent. it relatively is as a results of the fact this languages have been constitued after the unfold of latin in the process the Mediterranean sea. over eighty% of the words used in this u . s . discover their origins in latin. Spanish is merly a individual from Spain, regardless of the actuality that now a days human beings use spanish to % out them selves as spanish audio gadget.. Hispanic is a term that originated in the past in what now a days is Haiti. this island back then replaced into stated as the recent Hispania(hispania in spanish is suggested comparable to Spain) human beings from this Spanish colony have been stated as Hispanics.. interior of time the term unfold in the process the yankee continent to confirm spanish audio gadget.. To the different guy, yeah, this is actual that the iberic peninsule replaced into stated as Hisapania yet it relatively is not why human beings now a days are stated as Hispanics, this is simply by large unfold of Haitian investors and slaves that occured on the time. The funniest area of it relatively is that now a days in Haiti human beings speaks a mix of Spanish an French.. :P there you bypass, wish this helped.. stable good fortune ;)

2016-10-02 06:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Latin America (Portuguese/Spanish: América Latina) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages — those derived from Latin, namely Spanish and Portuguese — are officially or primarily spoken. Latin America is distinct from Anglo-America, a region of the Americas where English, a Germanic language, predominates.

Latin means you speak spanish.

As used in the United States, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry. It is therefore NOT A RACIAL TERM, although as used in the United States it often carries racial connotations. The term was first adopted in the United States by the administration of Richard Nixon[1] and has since been used as a broad form of classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, mass media, and business market research.

SO... I guess LATIN means you come from a latin american background (RACE) and HISPANIC means ETHNICITY.
I think....ow I'm confused too!

2007-02-16 08:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

Actually Latin means you are a Spanish speaking person born in the Americas. If you are Hispanic, you are from Spain.

2007-02-16 08:24:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 4

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