Hispanic refers to ETHNICITY, meaning ethic background. RACE refers to the color of your skin (even though there are plenty of variations of that within races). Hence, someone who is HISPANIC is of some sort of SPANISH descent, but not from Spain. That encompasses many people from countries other than just Mexico. Someone can be Hispanic and also be black, or white, or Asian. Their ETHNICITY says they have some sort of Spanish descent, but what that Spanish was mixed with determines the race. While it is true the Hispanic population might be predominately of Mexican descent, it isn't 100% nor is there a need to delineate, as there is no need to delineate "White" from Irish, German, Portuguese or what have you (including SPANISH btw). Not saying it should be or shouldn't be, thank your government for having to pigeonhole everyone!
Angela |
El Mirage, AZ |
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