latino

a native of Latin America an artificial language based on words common to the Romance languages related to a Spanish-speaking people or culture

"the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"

Latino refers to anything connected with Romance languages and the associated cultures and ethnicities.

Etymology - Latino, feminine Latina derives from Latin (the adjectives ''latinus'', ''latina''), originally referring to Latium, the area of Rome, by aitiology derived from a king of the name Latinus.The term should not be confused with Ladino languageLadino (the Spanish-based language traditionally spoken by Sephardic Jews) or Ladin (a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the ItalyItalian Alps), even though the origin for all three names is the same.

US Ethnic usage - In the United States, Latino refers to non-Anglo-Americans who are living in the United States of America and are of Hispanic background, typically Spanish languageSpanish speaking people. The feminine form of the word is Latina. Most frequently the term ''Latino'' is restricted to immigrants from Spanish speaking countries in Latin America and their descendants. American inhabitants of Brazilian origin are sometimes considered Latinos, even though their language is Portuguese languagePortuguese. Some define Latino as also including SpainSpanish and PortugalPortuguese people in America. Inhabitants of the French languageFrench-speaking areas of Haiti, French Guiana, and the French West Indies are generally not considered to be Latinos; they are typically thought to have more in common culturally with English languageEnglish-speaking West Indians than they do with residents of Mexico and Central AmericaCentral and South America.The U.S. Census Bureau defines "Hispanic or Latino" as having a background in a Spanish-speaking Latin American country or being of actual Spanish ancestry. Thus immigrants from Spain are considered "Hispanic or Latino", but those from Brazil are not. The label also thus includes ethnically Spanish people with roots in the United States, such as the New Mexico Spanish and Louisiana Cajuns of Spanish origin.

Critique of Latino usage in US - The word Latino is debated as to whether it is an appropriate label for the people living in the Americas outside of the US and Canada. Controversy surrounds on the usage since it implies a mirroring of Europe Latin area (see Latin Europe) in the Americas. But in doing so, it has excluded millions of indigenous descendants (many of whom speak only a native language) that are very much grounded in what is called the Americas. Thus the critique of the word falls on the exclusion of others and/or perpetuating a homogenuity of one race in the Americas. The exclusion falls on the indigenous societies and the seized populations of Africa.Recently, Mexican-descent organizations such as the Mexica Movement have challenged the legitimacy of the newly-introduced term of "Latino" on the grounds of its non-applicability to people who are non-European. Since the term Latino refers to Latin Europe and its descendents, people of American indigenous descent are necessarily excluded from such a term. The heavy promotion of the term Latino by European-descent Cubans in Miami onto the much larger Mexican population that is non-European, has fueled sharp critiques of the term as it is currently applied. Given that approximately 10% of Mexico's population continues to speak an indigenous language as its mother tongue, the Latino moniker is especially problematic. The media application of the term "Latino" in conjunction with non-Latino patrimony images (such as Aztec and Mayan pyramids) promises to stir debate about an "umbrella" term encompassing people of separate races and separate civilizations.Critics further point out that Native Americans primarily speak English but are never referred to as Anglos or as "Britannic." Latino, they assert, is likewise non-applicable as an identity to people of indigenous stock (full-blood and mixed-blood) in other regions of the same continent.

See also -

Afro-latino

Asian Latino

Boricua

Chicano

Filipino AmericanFilipino

Hispanic

Hispanic America

Ibero-American

Isleños

La raza

Latin rap

Latin Union

List of U.S. cities with Hispanic majority populations

Mexican American

Mestizo

Moors

Mulatto

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