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Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.
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A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central, or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
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person of Latin American or Spanish descent.
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Linguistic distinction often used as ethnic classification of individuals living in the United States with ancestry from Spanish-speaking countries (created by Nixon to use in census).
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any scene containing one or more Latino women.
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See Spanish/Hispanic/Latino.
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Things or people that come from Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America.
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an American whose first language is Spanish
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related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain; "the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"
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a person of Latin American descent from the Spanish-speaking nations, either native-born or an immigrant
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a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish cultures or origins AND that many of these groups have different taste, food, and cultural preferences
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a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. Also know as Latino.
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Persons (based on self-identification) who are descendants of the Spanish settlers in the Southwest; descendants of early immigrants from Mexico; recent immigrants and their descendants from Mexico; Cuban refugees and their descendants; Puerto Ricans; and immigrants and their descendants from Spain and Central and South America. Hispanic is a cultural identification and not a race category. Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race.
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A term grouping all people of Spanish-speaking descent. This is the preferred inclusive term in some regions, especially in the Southwest. See Chicano/Chicana, Latino/Latina, Mexican American, Tejano/Tejana.
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Populations of Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American descent residing in countries other than the country of their origin.
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Persons of Hispanic Origin identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, etc. Origin can be viewed as ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors.
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Person of descent from a Spanish-speaking country, regardless of ability to speak Spanish. The term is always capitalized.
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(word created by U.S. government) of or relating to, or being a person according to physical features of Latin American descent living in the U.S., Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
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A self-designated classification for people whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, the Caribbean, or those identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, etc. Origin can be viewed as ancestry, nationality, or country of birth of the person or personís parents or ancestors prior to their arrival in the United States. Spanish/Hispanic/Latino people may be of any race. (Census)
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Hispanic (Spanish Hispano, from Latin Hispānus, adjective from Hispānia, "Iberian Peninsula") is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. It follows the same style of use as Anglo, which 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.
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