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Latino and Hispanic, Hispanic and Latino.
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The two words are often used interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.
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The difference lies in the words themselves.
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Latino refers to geography. People were from, or descendants of Latin America.
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That's this area here on the globe.
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It includes most countries in Central and South America as well as some in the Caribbean, 20 countries total and some territories like Puerto Rico.
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The term Latin America was first used by Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao in 1856.
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It was used to describe countries in America whose predominant languages stem from Latin.
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So, like Spanish, Portuguese, French.
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That's why beliefs in Central America and Giuliana and Suriname in South America are not part of Latin America.
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English is the official language of Belize and Guyana. Dutch and Sranan Tongo are spoken in Suriname.
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We've recently adopted Latinx as a gender neutral alternative to Latino and Latina.
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In the most literal sense, Hispanic also refers to language. People who are from are descendants of Spanish-speaking countries. That includes places like Spain in Europe and some countries and territories in the Caribbean.
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It excludes countries like Brazil and others in Latin America, where the predominant language isn't Spanish.
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According to the set of Ethos Institute, more than 400 million people worldwide are from Spanish-speaking countries, and nearly 10% of those reside in the United States.
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That's a lot.
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And that's probably why the US government introduced the term in the 1970 census during Richard Nixon's presidency.
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So back to the beginning. The two terms shouldn't be used interchangeably because they're not the same thing.
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You can be Hispanic if you're from Spain, but that doesn't make you Latinx because you're not from the Latin American country.
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You're Latinx if you're from Brazil, but you're not Hispanic.
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But you can be both.
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I'm both.
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My family is from Mexico, both the Latin and Hispanic country.
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Now you know.