why is being hispanic a ethnicity and black a race?

onlylno

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One is largely a cultural thing tied to a common language.

:yeshrug:


The other has more pronounced physical distinctions.

Ethnicity and race aren't mutually exclusive btw.

There are white hispanics, black hispanics, native american Hispanics (Mexico/Peru), etc.
 

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Dap fishing game weak right now, least add "Dominican" or c00n in the thread title to get that Plat thread
Nah I may be tweaking. But black people, or AA are a mix of cultures, most of us have European blood, and none of us are a majority African, . It doesn't make since from a common sense stand point. Shouldn't aa be different from Africans?
 

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Nah I may be tweaking. But black people, or AA are a mix of cultures, most of us have European blood, and none of us are a majority African, . It doesn't make since from a common sense stand point. Shouldn't aa be different from Africans?
American is our ethnicity, black is our race
 

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Historically there are three races, Caucasian Negro and asiatic. That is a grouping based on color of the skin.

Latinos are grouped together based on culture, specifically language. If you look at the Americas, you will see all of the languages of the colonizer a and he colonized, outside of the USA, are Romantic languages, Latin in nature.

Their race is a mix of all three races :yeshrug:
 

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Hispanic is someone from a country that speaks Spanish that is not South of USA (I.e. SPAIN)

Latino is anyone from a Spanish speaking country SOUTH OF USA
 
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