Hispanics
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Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania back in Roman times, which is to say roughly the Iberian Peninsula, comprising nowadays Andorra, Portugal, Spain and the disputed territory of Gibraltar. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of (usually) mixed race with a Spanish surname. As such, the term in contemporary North American culture has lost its association with Spain, and has become a general ethnic denotation associated primarily with most of Latin America. In these terms the North American culture is incorrect since the term Hispanic originated from the Roman Empire referring to Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) and its Hispanic inhabitants, at that time. It was in the last five centuries that it assumed an universal definition of something pertaining to Spain, the Spanish language or the Spanish culture. When all the Kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula except for Portugal united under a single crown (a process finished in the 16th century), the term was associated with the new country created, Spain ("Spain" is actually a derivation of "Hispania"). Therefore, Portuguese and Brazilians are not Hispanic, in the contemporary definition of the word. Portuguese are Iberian though, and Brazilians Iberoamericans. Erroneously, currently many federal and/or state agencies include peoples of Portugal and Brazil in classifying Hispanics. Although some from Spain may not wish to classify themselves as Hispanics under the contemporary North American term, others do, and many seek to have federal and/or state agencies define Hispanics and their decendents under its original definition stemming from the Roman Empire. The term has also been used to denote the culture and people of Spanish colonization of the Americas countries formerly ruled by the Spanish and Empire, usually with a majority Hispanophone population. Collectively known as Hispanic America, this region includes Mexico, the majority of the Central and South American countries, and the Spanish-speaking island-nations of the Caribbean. "Hispanic" is also used by people in the United States who are of Hispanic American origin (Hispanic and Latino Americans). Cultural elements (Spanish names, the Spanish language, Spanish customs, etc.) and people known as Hispanic can also be found in other areas that were formerly part of the Spanish Empire, such as in Equatorial Guinea in Africa. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Matching Results for Hispanics:HispanicsHispanics. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump to: navigation, search ... This page was last modified on 10 April 2010, at 14:54. Text is available under the ... Hispanic Hispanic (comparative more Hispanic, superlative most Hispanic) ... Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence. ... White Legend The term purports to counterbalance the defamatory anti-Hispanic Black Legend (Spanish Leyenda Negra) ... historical facts favorable to Hispanics as exaggerated praise and ... antidisco Maybe suburban Sunbelt teens--the shock troops of the antidisco movement--couldn't relate ... they balked at rubbing shoulders with urban blacks or Hispanics in crowded clubs. ... speededness 1991, Gary D Keller, James R Deneen, Rafael J Magallán, Assessment and access: Hispanics in higher education. In the more recent version, an effort ... Black Legend The anti-Hispanic Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda Negra) is the ... The term was later extended to include all Hispanics and their countries of origin, in particular the Spanish ... Jocelyn Jocelyn is currently popular among U.S. Hispanics, and in the Philippines, by folk etymology explained as a feminine diminutive form of José (Joseph) ... Permanent link en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanics&redirect=no Printable version From Wiktionary under the
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