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Spaniards are NOT Latino; Latino is NOT a federal ethnicity

Federal law establishes TWO ethnicities - Hispanic and Non-Hispanic.

Latino/Latina/Latinx is NOT an ethnicity in U.S. federal law. It is, however, an ethnicity or a race in some STATE laws.

Nota Bene: The federal United States has NO constitutional authority to establish national classifications of race or ethnicity. It can only establish definitions for its own purposes. The power to define race and ethnicity is a power reserved to the states.

"Hispanic" includes Spaniards but not Brazilians or Haitians,

"Latino," which is both a Spanish and a Portuguese word, includes all Latin Americans who are not Anglophones, Francophones, or Netherlandic.

The census groups in Latino with Hispanic (and Spanish), see https://2020census.gov/en/about-questions/hispanic-origin.html Erinius (talk) 22:39, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

French part's of Latin America

French parts of Latin America would include French Guiana, Haiti, the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe, and Martinique. Doremon764 (talk) 04:35, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, people forget about them, Quebec is also Latino L1948L (talk) 00:52, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of race and ethnicity pages

See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States#Race_in_2020_Census_data for more. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 03:21, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hundreds of millions of Latinamericans have ancestors who were NOT Spanish but Italian, Quechua, German, Bantu, French, Maya, Croatian, Lebanese, Aymara, Guarani etc, etc. Should their ancestors be considered "Hispanic" in the U.S. just because they arrived from Latinamerica? --88.12.248.187 (talk) 02:33, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Hispanic" means that their first language or name is Spanish. For Example Whites, Blacks or Native Americans with British style names are "Anglo" by default.31.40.131.100 (talk) 20:28, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]