Originally posted by BDSM_Tourguide
Anyone needing any proof that Hispanic men and women are as racially diverse as Caucasians need look no further than Brazil.
Sorry to get technical on you TG, but Brazilian people, while also called Latin-American, are not Hispanics. The language of the majority in the land of Samba is Portuguese, not Spanish.

Latino, or Latin-American or Ibero-American is anyone, regardless of actual race, who hails from one of Spain's or Portugal's old colonies in the American continent.

Hispanic is a person whose mother tongue is Spanish, regardless of nationality.

American, well that is a tough one. It could mean anyone who lives in the American Continent, North, Central or South America, whether he is from Canada, Mexico, Surinam or Uruguay, as well as the citizens of what in Canada we refer to as "The Great Republic to the South"

In fact the people living in the lands limited by Canada, Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans may be the only people in the world who live in a country named after a continent.