{"id":218,"date":"2013-09-16T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2013\/09\/hispanic-latino-or-latin-american.html"},"modified":"2013-09-16T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T22:43:00","slug":"hispanic-latino-or-latin-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2013\/09\/hispanic-latino-or-latin-american.html","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic, Latino or Latin American?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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What is the proper term to describe someone from Central and South America?<\/p>\n

Depending on how the word \u201cHispanic\u201d is interpreted, it is either improperly used or artificial. \u00a0The ancient Latin name for Spain is Hispania. \u00a0Technically and historically speaking something Hispanic or someone Hispanic comes from Hispania, meaning from Spain and not from Central or South America. \u00a0It may be argued therefore that the term Hispanic is improperly used to describe someone who does not hail from Spain. \u00a0Hispanic American would be a more accurate description for those from a Central or South American country colonized by Spain.<\/p>\n

The term Hispanic used to describe Latin Americans may be considered artificial because the US Census began using it in 1970 to describe people hailing from Central America, South America, and Spain. \u00a0This led to even more confusion when Hispanic was denoted as a race (this has ceased today in the census, but many still think of it as a race). \u00a0When the term Hispanic is used, it cannot be used to describe race because Latin Americans are of many races. \u00a0There is no Hispanic or Latin American look; we are a mix of races. \u00a0There are blacks, indians, whites, mestizos and zambos and we all identify as Latin American despite racial differences. \u00a0We are loosely united by culture, language, geography and history, but not by race.<\/p>\n

Some prefer to be called Latino as a shortening of latinoamericano or Latin American. \u00a0Latin Americans on the west coast of the United States are usually identified as Latinos while those on the east coast are called Hispanic. \u00a0This of course is a generalization, yet this seems to be a general trend. \u00a0Latino and Hispanic are used almost interchangeably in the United States today even though the terms aren\u2019t equivalent since Hispanic excludes Brazilians while Latino does not. \u00a0The interchangeability of the terms became evident to me two years ago when the Latin American Bishops in the United States published a letter titled, \u201cLetter of the Hispanic\/Latino Bishops to Immigrants.\u201d \u00a0The bishops did not choose one over the other, they allowed the reader to choose.<\/p>\n

Oftentimes in common parlance in the United States, Latin Americans are incorrectly referred to as \u201cSpanish.\u201d \u00a0I did an experiment once. \u00a0I referred to people born in the United States as English while at a gathering. \u00a0When I was corrected I said, \u201cbut you must be English because you speak English.\u201d \u00a0They got it. \u00a0I speak Spanish, but I am not Spanish. \u00a0I speak Spanish but the food I eat is Peruvian, not Spanish food or Hispanic food. \u00a0 The Mass at my parish is Mass in Spanish, not Spanish Mass since we don\u2019t have flamenco dancers or castanets. \u00a0The congregation is not the \u201cSpanish people.\u201d We are Spanish speaking, but we are not Spanish (unless someone from Madrid or Segovia is present, he or she would be Spanish).<\/p>\n

I find that the clearest and most precise term to describe someone from Central and South America is Latin American. \u00a0These past few months the world has been taken by storm by Francis, the first Latin American Pope. \u00a0Citizens of Central and South American nations refer to their countries as the Latin American nations. \u00a0In Europe, ministry at parishes to those from Central and South America is called Latin American Ministry. \u00a0It is best to call people as they call themselves.<\/p>\n

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