Mexican, Latino, Hispanic...What is it?

Question

I was just curious, Im still confused on the difference but would I be considered mexican if my grandparents or great grandparents were from mexico?

Answer 1

I think you would be considered an American of Mexican descent or ancestry.

Latino and Hispanic are relatively synonymous, as far as I've learned, and are not specific to Mexico.

Answer 2

hispanic is people from spanish speaking country that live in the united states
Latino is you are from central american included mexico to south america (included brazil) and part of the curribean
mexican is your from mexico living in the usa.


You could be called hispanic Latino and A mexican

Answer 3

First of all, don't pay too much attention on labels.

You are american with mexican anscestry, for this reason you can consider your self as an american latino or mexican american.

Latino can be used to all the people who are or came from latinamerica or with latinamerican anscestry.

Many people think you should have dark skin to be latino, but as the other answers told you Latino refers to people from latinamerica so you can be blonde and been latin even.

Answer 4

You are not considered mexican, because you were born in the United States...
Mexican is the person who is born in Mexico or has the mexican nationality.
Latino are all those people who were born in a country where any romance language is spoken, such as portuguese, rumanian, spanish, italian and french... Romance languages are the ones which are closer to Latin.
And Hispanic is the one who speaks spanish...

Answer 5

Hispanic and Latino means you are from Latin America
Mexican means you are specifically from Mexico
I think you are a Mexican American, an American with Mexican heritage

Answer 6

Mexico is a country. Mexicans are the people that live in Mexico.

Latino means that it's pointing out the people that live in Latin America which is all of Central America and all of South America, except Brazil.

Hispanic can mean 2 different things. It can refer to only people from Spain or it can refer to all people who live in countries that speak Spanish.

Answer 7

ok there IS a difference between Latino and Hispanic.
Latino means you either come from or descend from people from anywhere in Latin america (thus spanish speaking)

Hispanic means you have SPANISH blood in you. there are many mexicans who are full native american descent who aren't hispanic on blood terms. but they would be considered Latino because they are part of the spanish culture.

there is a parallelism between Latino and Anglo.
Latino anyone speaking spanish, Anglo anyone speaking English.
Hispanic from Spain, English from England

your an american with a Latino Heritage, more specifically mexican. if you have spanish blood as in blood from spain (europe) then you are of hispanic heritage.

Answer 8

You would be considered Mexican by ethnicity.

Latino means coming from a Latin country
and Hispanic means decendant of Spain.

Answer 9

Um how much both or just one.