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Because they belonged to the Spanish Empire about the same time most Spanish American colonies did, and following Anglo's logic, they should be called Hispanics as well.

--93.176.131.106 (talk) 19:34, 24 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Please provide a reliable source that they are considered hispanic. ~ GB fan 20:26, 24 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

The poster was arguing from logical consistency, not from a source. Kdammers (talk) 20:13, 21 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

They were not colonies of Spain and do not speak Spanish. They were part of the holy roman empire. You are literally just wrong about their relationship with Spain and the Spanish culture and language. Meskarune (talk) 09:40, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

"Brazilians may identify as Latin-Americans, but refute being considered Latinos or Hispanics" - What is the basis for this claim (It's contrary to what one Brazilian-Jew says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm521AmMLX8 ca. 53.:30.) Kdammers (talk) 20:16, 21 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Brazilians speak Portuguese. They were a colony of Portugal NOT Spain. The term Hispanic refers only to the people from former colonies of the Spanish empire who speak Spanish today. Meskarune (talk) 09:43, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Is that an official situation, under any government legislation? HiLo48 (talk) 09:51, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Brazilians are Latino, but not Hispanic because Hispanic is a US legal term for people with Spanish origin from Latin American Countries. Latino is someone who is from Latin America. You can read this in the pdf on this US gov website here on page 2: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2011/dec/c2010br-02.html and this is the direct link to the pdf: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2011/dec/c2010br-02.pdf Meskarune (talk) 10:15, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello,

to use the word precedence case basic to the United States I would like to know: which words corresponding to Hispanic do exist? Sarcelles (talk) 22:11, 11 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

The term Hispanic was invented for use in the US in the 1970s by Mexican-American, Cuban-American and Puerto Rican activists who made the term in order to have the US government use it in the census. See: https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-the-term-hispanic-come-from/

The word was based off the word 'hispano' which referred to a person who descended from Spanish settlers **in the new world**. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/problematic-history-of-hispanic-word/

The term Hispanic absolutely does not mean people from Spain or people from the Philippines or anyone outside North, Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean where the primary language is Spanish. If you check the linked 'sources' for calling people from Spain "Hispanic" the sources literally do not say this at all. This entire article has the wrong history, wrong etymology and wrong list of Hispanic groups of people and none of this wrong information is even supported by the linked sources. Meskarune (talk) 09:58, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply