The Office of Management and Budget combines both origins into one group, but still 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.”

Hispanic and Latin Americans come from diverse social, economic, and geographic backgrounds. They can be very different depending on their family heritage and national origin. However, there are some cultural similarities that tend to bring these diverse backgrounds together.

Today, more than 55 million people—almost one-fifth of the U.S. population—are Hispanic, two-thirds of whom are of Mexican origin. Latinos in the United States are reaching new heights in educational attainment, making significant economic gains, and dramatically changing the political landscape.

“Hispanic” is generally accepted as a narrower term that includes people only from Spanish-speaking Latin America, including those countries/territories of the Caribbean or from Spain itself.

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

Honduras identifies itself as a mestizo nation — of mixed indigenous and European roots — and officially only about 2 percent of the population is of African descent (though the actual number may be as high as 10 percent).

Hispanic includes people with ancestry from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. Chicano is another popular term in the U.S. Perea said it’s a word used to describe people of Mexican origin living in the country. “It’s an interesting term, because it’s a uniquely American term.

Hispanics in the United States includes any person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. Latinos are people of Latin-American descent (Webster’s 3rd Inter- national Dictionary, 2002).

San Antonio, Texas is the largest Hispanic-majority city in the United States, with 807,000 Hispanics making up 61.2% of its population. New York City has the most Hispanic residents, although it is not Hispanic-majority.

Hispanic is the foundation with which people are able to associate and helps them define their roots to discover who they are and who they can become. To be Hispanic means to be brought together through a language and celebrating what makes you and your community unique.

Originally Answered: Why do all job applications make you choose specifically whether you are Hispanic or not? This is for mandated record keeping. If a business is charged with discriminatory hiring practices this systems will either prove or disprove the claim. As you know, you may decline to answer if you so choose.

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.

This requirement is to ensure that companies doing business with the government are not discriminating against veterans or protected veterans and that they’re taking active steps to recruit and hire them. Many companies who aren’t federal contractors are still serious about hiring veterans.

The category “Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin” includes all individuals who identify with one or more nationalities or ethnic groups originating in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America, and other Spanish cultures.