Columbia on my mind..

twinkletwinkle
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47:08 +0000

"Hispanics or Latinos are those people who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino categories listed on the Census 2000 questionnaire -‘Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano,’ ‘Puerto Rican’, or ‘Cuban’ -as well as those who indicate that they are ‘other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino.’ Persons who indicated that they are ‘other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino’ include those whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, the Dominican Republic or people identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, and so on.





"Origin can be viewed as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States.

“People who identify their origin as Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino may be of any race.” <<<

This is a quote on a thread titled: Hispanic/Latino defined - aka: AM I HISPANIC?
Which I do invite you to read, FYI. I have no confusion at all. Not only do a qualify as central and south american, but also as hispanic (as of spain). It’s part of my heritage, lineage, nationality and country of birth… to me it’s quite clear.