How do you tell if people are Hispanic or Spanish?

Answer 1

spanish people are white people(not American white but pure european white). Hispanic is mixture of Asian(Ame indian) and white(spanish)

Answer 2

Prehistoric Iberia = Hispanic Decent
Portuguese, Spanish, Andorra and Gibraltar people

During the Spanish colonial period between 1492 to 1898, most people from Spain migrated to new lands they had conquered. The Spaniards brought with them their language, culture and integrated with the society they had settled, creating a large empire that strech all over the world and producing several multiracial populations. Their descendance are found in the following continents and countries that were originally colonized by the Spanish people

The Hispanics in the United States or Hispanic Americans are an ethnic group in the United States with Hispanic heritage. A Hispanic person may be of any race (Amerindian, Mixed-race, white, black, and Asian). Also, a Hispanic person's status is independent from whether one speaks the Spanish language, as not all Hispanic Americans do. As of July 1, 2004, Hispanics accounted for 14.1% of the population, around 41.3 million people. The Hispanic growth rate over the July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004 period was 3.6% - higher than any other ethnic group in the United States, and in fact more than three times the rate of the nation's total population (at 1.0%). The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is of 105.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 25% of the nation’s total population on that date.[11]

Historically, a continuous Hispanic presence in the territory of the United States has existed since the 16th century, earlier than any other group after the Native Americans. Spaniards pioneered the present-day United States. The first confirmed European landing in the continental was by Juan Ponce de León, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened La Florida. Within three decades of Ponce de León's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi River, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. Spanish ships sailed along the East Coast, penetrating to present-day Bangor, Maine, and up the Pacific Coast as far as Oregon. From 1528 to 1536, four castaways from a Spanish expedition, including a "black Moor", journeyed all the way from Florida to the Gulf of California, 267 years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answer 3

Ak them. If they come from Spain they are Spanish. If they come from a former Spanish colony and are part of the hispanicized culture they are hispanic. This would exlude indians who do not participate in the predominant culture of a Hispanoamerican country and do not speak Spanish.

Answer 4

Hispanic isn't a race. They are very diverse looking people.


And Spanish is a language. Or a person from Spain.

Answer 5

Hispanic: pertaining to a person of Latin-American decent living in the United States, esp. of Cuban, Mexican or Puerto Rican origin.
Latin: pertaining to peoples and countries that use the Romance languages,this includes Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, and languages of the Latin-American countries.
So when I think of Hispanic I think of all the above nationalities that live in the United States
Ask a Mexican-American, if they are Hispanic, and they will tell you no, I am Mexicano, or Latino, or neither I am an American, because none of my ancestors ever lived in a Latin-American country,or Europe, I am a descendant of an American Indian and a European Spaniard.
Many will tell you that they don't consider European Spanish, Italian, French or Portgueses as white, because all are descendants of the Ancient Moors.........
They also feel that people of the non-white European countries call themselves white just to fit into the U.S. and in doing so have lost their Latin pride.
They ask, why are the people of Spanish-American decent singled out for racism when their ancestors are the true founders and Explorers of the America's and of the Native Americans. They say if your Spanish-American, and want to give up your pride,to be eliminated from racism in the U.S. just tell people that your from one of the other non-white Latin-European countries.
White Europeans are viewed as Irish, English, Russian, German, and those of the other Scandinavian countries.
My husband is of what people define as being Hispanic,because his family are of the American- Mexican culture, his ancestry is Spanish and Comanche, once called a Comacherio, and his ancestors have never lived below the boarder of Mexico, so hispanic in its literal since dosen't actually apply to him, unless Texas which has always refers to it self as being its own country is a Latin-American country. He was born in Texas and his birth certificate says hes white? So what is he?
I think that anyone that was born, or born to U.S. parents while in another country that have not given up citizenship, or have become citizens of the U. S. should all call themselves Americans, the beaking down of the cultures is whats causing the continued racism in the U. S.
Because all Americans except for native- Americans are from the decent of another country, no matter how our ancestors came to be in U. S. America.
Even the name of the country is of Spanish-American decent. ummmmmm?

Answer 6

If they speak Spanish, they are Hispanic. If they are from the country of Spain, they are Spanish.

Answer 7

Spanish people from Spain speak much slower, other hispanics like central and south americans speak super-fast. As for looks, Spain Spanish people are usually lighter in complection, hair and eyecolor, and look white. The hispanics that happen to look this way have a lot of Spanish blood in them.

Answer 8

Spanish would be from Spain. Hispanic is anyone who comes from a country that speaks Spanish, like Mexico, many of the countries of central America, and the islands in the Gulf of Mexico, many countries in South America as well.

Answer 9

Hispanic: A pejorative word created by the US government to describe UNITED STATES CITIZENS who speak SPANISH. Those people can be, but are not limited to white, black, indigenous people who are UNITED STATES CITIZENS.

Spanish: A White European person from SPAIN.

The pejorative word HISPANIC does not exist outside the united states.

Geezus creepers!

Answer 10

spanish refers to people from the country of Spain.
Hispanic refers to a broader group of people, Mexican, Spanish, Portugese, Cuban, and others.

Answer 11

By their language.

Hispanic or Latin American Spanish is different from the Spanish spoken in Spain.

The rain in Spain...