Why do Americans refer to latinas as spanish

[Jalether]

This is a uniquely American thing, everyone else around the world refer to people from latin countries as latina
They may group them as latin Europeans, latin American etc unless they are from spain (those are the only
identified by their correct term, spanish or spaniard)

The first time I heard an American refer to a dominican as spanish, I was confused as hell

So you refer to them as spanish just because some of them speak spanish

coli please explain why it makes sense to call a colombian, spanish

 

[Take It In Blood]

We don't know the difference to be honest

Nor really care


Just want em to bend that ass over


We got bills to pay

 

[Edub]

Latina Spanish

 

[Reality]

This isn't something that all Americans do to be honest

Just a certain subset

The biggest subset refers to them as Mexican

Both sound crazy ignorant though

 

[Tom Foolery]

Dumb as hell.

 

[TEH]

Because they’re the descendants of Spaniards and Native Americans and because they speak Spanish …

 

[AlphaOne]

Read somewhere 55% of US has a 6 grade or lower reading level basically this a country full of adults that are stupid as fukk

 

[Deus]

Because they speak Spanish?

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• Deus
• Jun 11, 2020

 

[Jean Jacket]

It's an east coast thing.

Down south any brown person that eats empanadas is a mexican.

 

[Mowgli]

They're a mixed race group that speaks Spanish. No one calls them biracials so they're named after their nation of origin

 

[boskey]

Cuz they speak spanish. What else do all the latino countries have in common? Serious question...

 

[Jean Jacket]

Spain is lazy cac with lisp.

Latina is a neurotic hispanic woman that talks too fast.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Same as black people being called “African” all over the world.

“Latino” people have a large prevalence of Spanish blood. Otherwise they wouldn’t be called “Latin”

it’s ignorance, but also based in reality

 

[Jean Jacket]

They're a mixed race group that speaks Spanish. No one calls them biracials so they're named after their nation of origin

Do you would call a Mexican Spanish...and then call a Rican Spanish in the same conversation?

 

[Armchair Militant]

Ignorance