OMB defines “Hispanic or Latino” as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.

The word “race”, interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in about 1580, from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza.

“Race” refers to physical differences that groups and cultures consider socially significant, while “ethnicity” refers to shared culture, such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs.

While Hispanic usually refers to people with a Spanish-language background, Latino is typically used to identify people who hail from Latin America.

The phrase Hispanic or Latino excludes people born in Europe whose language is Spanish or Portuguese, and non-Spanish speaking people born in Brazil, Belize, French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and other non-Spanish speaking territories. Chicano – Includes people born in the United States with Mexican ancestry. States.

Chicanos are people of Mexican descent born in the United States. Some Central Americans identify with or (see themselves) as Chicano.

Mexican refers to an inhabitant or a native of Mexico which is a Latin American country. Hispanic refers to a person who speaks Spanish, one of Latin American descent and resides in the USA.

CHICANO/CHICANA Someone who is native of, or descends from, Mexico and who lives in the United States. Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States.

Hispanic is the term used by the US government. Latino: Anyone from a country whose language is a romance language. It includes Haitians, Brazilians, etc. Latino is used for more informal communication.

In the English language, the term Latino is a loan word from American Spanish. (Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin to Latin-American Spanish.) Its origin is generally given as a shortening of latinoamericano, Spanish for ‘Latin American’. The Oxford English Dictionary traces its usage to 1946.

The vast majority of Jamaicans are of African descent, with minorities of Europeans, East Indians, Chinese, Middle Eastern and others or mixed ancestry.

There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today, according to the United Nations….Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean:

Linguists Janet M. Fuller and Jennifer Leeman state that some people reject the use of Latinx to refer to people regardless of gender because they see it as a one-size-fits-all term that erases diversity, preferring to switch between -o/-a/-x when referring to specific individuals.

It’s unclear where and when exactly the term “Latinx” came about, but activists and academics have largely adopted it to be more inclusive of Hispanics and Latinos who don’t fit into the male/female gender binary. The term replaces the “o” in “Latino” or the “a” in “Latina” with an “x” to make it gender-neutral.

Chicano, feminine form Chicana, identifier for people of Mexican descent born in the United States. The term came into popular use by Mexican Americans as a symbol of pride during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s.