If you are from spain or have some spanish descent can you be considered Hispanic?

Question

On wikipedia it says that if you are from spain or if you have some spanish descent then you can be considered as hispanic but i thought hispanic people were people from Latin America?

Answer 1

Spanish or Hispaniola (as in the ethnicity, not language) is UNMIXED Iberian-Origin / European.  

Latino`s are almost all part indigenous indian, and most are majority indian with partial iberain ancestry many generations ago, all of whom also speak the language of spanish but are not ethnically spaniards.  

Answer 2

Officially, anyone with a certain percent heritage of the Iberian peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Andorra) can be considered hispanic, but it makes no sense as "hispanic" refers to people from former Spanish colonies, not Spain itself and the word is derived from Hispanola, Spain's first colony in the Americas (currently Cuba).

Answer 3

no- hispanics are latin american/spanish decent.

Spainards are spainsh decent.

fyi- dont believe anything you read in Wikipedia- ANYONE can change the info written there-even you can change data in it.

Answer 4

Latin america has got an hispanic history and culture for those territories were mainly conquered and colonized for Spain and Portugal you fool!!!.

All of you are misusing the term "Latino".

A Latino is a person from the region of "Lazio" in Italy you ingorants!. Due to the Roman Empire conquers all over europe, the language of the Roman troops, the "vulgar Latin" was taken for those conquered places and it evolved into the "Romance languages" such as french, spanish portuguese, italian, Rumanian and so forth...

When the spaniard who spoke a Romance language and had a Latin  heritage conquered most of the current Latin America (as well as portuguese did), those lands recieved the Latin cultural heritage of spain and portugal, but the term Latin america apeared until the the second half of the 19th Century when The French Troops of Napoleon the Thrird invaded Mexico and stablished the "Mexican Empire" ruled by Maximilian of Habsburg. Napoleon´s the Third intention was, not to defend the Spanish heritage (for france was not Spain), but to defend The Latin heritage of those lands from the emerging power of the anglo saxon culture of the united states.  

Napoleon The Third felt that France, Spain and Portugal sheared a Latin cutural heritage for once they where part of the Roman empire and, this is very important: they all were catholic nations, they shared common roots, they have more in common with each other than with  the Anglo Saxon culture, So we own the The term "Latin america" to Napoleon the Third.

Now a days latino has been used to name people from mexico and other countries from "Latin America", because this people share a Romance language and a latin heritage although a lot of the people who crosess the border illegally to the united states belong to the lowest social clases of those countries and they are mainly half bloodeds ot even native indians more than Latins which is a term to designate a ethnic group from Lazio Italy.

You should read more about universal history and history of Mexico. You would realize that there is an importan histrory and cultural background in "Latin America". The world is not only the States fellows!!!!.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Emp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazio_regio...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_inte...

Answer 5

Spain is part of Europe and like most of us, you would be of European descent.  You indicate some Spanish --what are the other nationalities in your family?  If you had English grandparents --you'd be Engllish -Spanish descent.  I have a nephew by marriage whose parents are from Spain & believe me, they make it very plain that they are not "Hispanic".  They are very, very proud of their Spanish heritage.

Answer 6

read more carefully

yes i suppose you are right

Answer 7

Yes, if the question does not exclude Europeans of Spanish descent.

Answer 8

Hispanic means relating to Spain, Spanish-speaking Latin America, and its people and culture and so it encompasses both EUROPEAN Spain and LATIN America.

Ian, Hispanic comes from Hispania, which was a Roman province which is now present day Spain and Portugal

Answer 9

Hispanic people include Spanish.

h**l, they are the most Hispanic thing there is.  They created the whole empire!!  Hispanic means relating to Spain, how can it not include the birthplace itself???

Yes, they are European, thus Hispanic Europeans.  And of course they are Spanish, but everyone from Spain is a Hispanic European.

Answer 10

Spanish If Youre From Spain Or Have Some Spain Decent.

Hispanic If You're From Latin American Countries So You're Right.

You Can't Be Spanish If You're From Mexico That Makes No Sense. Lol.

They're Classified As Latinos. :D