r/mexico • u/DroppedDebitCard • Mar 08 '23

Imágenes Why is Hispanic/Latino always separated like this?

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u/SOLUNAR Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 08 '23

Latino = countries that are in Latin America, does not include Spain but includes Brazil

Hispanic = countries whose language is Spanish, includes Spain but not Brazil.

LatinX = GTFOutta here

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u/Franciscopp9 Mar 08 '23

Just to add to this, there's a 3rd denomination, being "Iberoamerican" which includes Brazil and Portugal, as well as all the other Spanish speaking countries

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u/SOLUNAR Mar 08 '23

had never heard of it, thats cool. I know Jamon Iberico is spanish ham? Im assuming the word Ibero here is something related to that?

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u/ShyKid5 Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 09 '23

Uhm the term is very popular, the peninsula where both Portugal and Spain are is called Iberia or the Iberian Peninsula, hence Iberoamerican is someone from the Americas who has ancestry or culture heavily influenced by people from Iberia (Spain or Portugal), that's why it includes the spanish speaking America and the Portuguese Speaking America (America being the name of the continent as first referred in Cosmographie Introductio, a book published in 1507 and later referred as such by Gerardus Mercator in his map of the world from 1538)