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Hispanic and Latino

What do we value the most? What makes us happy? What do we think about family? Do we all speak the same Spanish? Read more to learn what makes Hispanics tick.

Hispanic vs Latino

Hispanic vs Latino

What is the difference amongst Hispanic, Latino and Spanish terminologies? Is there such a difference? Keep reading to find out how the term Hispanic was born, what Latino means and more.

Are Filipinos Hispanic?

Are Filipinos Hispanic

This is what Dr. Barbara S. Gaerlan, Ph.D., Assistant Director at the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies says about the subject...

Hispanic Growth in the U.S.

Hispanic Growth in the U.S.

Why is Hispanic population growing so much in the U.S.? Well...we do behave differently from other ethnic groups of course, and there is no point in denying we are also more prolific when we refer to having children, but is that all?

Spanish Speaking Countries

Spanish Speaking Countries

There are a good number of countries that speak Spanish scattered all over the world in Europe, Africa and many parts of the Americas. It all started with the Spanish colonization in the 1500's...

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Hispanic Facts
in the U.S.

One in seven people in the United States is of Hispanic origin.

Hispanics are a mix of European, African and Native American people.

In 204 B.C. Romans created the term Hispanic to identify inhabitants from the Iberian Peninsula which encompass Spain and Portugal today.

The term Hispanic was adopted in the U.S. in the 1970s by the federal government in its census questionnaires.

The U.S. is the fifth largest Hispanic country in the world.


St. Augustine and Santa Fe were Hispanic cities founded before Plymouth.


Spanish is the fourth most frequently spoken language in the world.


Twenty countries speak Spanish as their first language.


70% of the Hispanic population lives in five states: California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.


Hispanics are the largest minority in the U.S.