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9/22/2004 · The terms Hispanic and Latino refer to an ethnicity.The U.S. Census Bureau defines being Hispanic as an ethnicity, rather than a race and thus people of this group may be of any race. In a 2015 national survey of selfidentified Hispanics, 56% said that being Hispanic is part of both their racial and ethnic background, while smaller numbers considered it part of their ethnic background ...Terminology. The term Hispanic derives from Latin Hispanicus, the adjectival derivation of Latin (and Greek) Hispania (that is, the Iberian peninsula), ultimately probably of Celtiberian origin. In English the word is attested from the 16th century (and in the late 19th century in American English). The words Spain, Spanish, and Spaniard are of the same etymology as Hispanus, ultimately.
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