About 5 % of the population is of Hispanic origin, regardless of race, primarily from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names.

Saying " Peter speaks Inuit " is a very strange usage that most people who are familiar with the Inuit language would recognise as suspect, comparable to asserting that Hispanics must speak " Hispanic ".

The Center is designed to give English-language programs to primarily Hispanic and Chinese Americans.

Tartessos is believed to be either the seat of an independent kingdom or a community of palacial cities devoted to exporting the mineral resources of the Hispanic mainland to the sea, to meet the Phoenician and Greek traders.

Retrieved September 7, 2012, from link .</ ref > is a term used chiefly in the United States to refer to people of Latin American extraction or descent, though the term has also been incorrectly used as a synonym for Hispanic.

The term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, which replaced the single term Hispanic: " Because regional usage of the terms differs – Hispanic is commonly used in the eastern portion of the United States, whereas Latino is commonly used in the western portion.

While Brazilian Americans are not included with Hispanics and Latinos in the government's census population reports, any Brazilian American can report as being Hispanic or Latino since Hispanic or Latino origin is, like race, a matter of self-identification.

The Hispanic Society of America is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Of the two, only Hispanic can be used in referring to Spain and its history and culture ; a native of Spain residing in the United States is a Hispanic, not a Latino, and one cannot substitute Latino in the phrase the Hispanic influence on native Mexican cultures without garbling the meaning.

* 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.

Celtiberian tradition of Wicca, consisting of Fernando Gonzalez ( source ) in the 80's of the twentieth century from the Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft to which he belongs, is a structured religion through the symbiosis between " traditionalism wizard " ( inciatic and mystery ), the historical reconstructionist ( cultural and archaeological ) and " adaptationism " liturgical ( conditioning ceremonial ) of Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft, paganism, religious worship pre-Christian Celtic and Iberian mainly and those that were previously formed ( shamanism, Neolithic and Paleolithic cults ).

The racial makeup is 51. 32 % white, 20. 32 % African American, 10. 16 % Asian, 5. 53 % Hispanic or Latino, 0. 36 % Native American, 2. 32 % from other races, and 5. 53 % from two or more races.

• A Hispanic driver is stopped in a “ white ” neighbourhood because he “ doesn ’ t belong there ” or “ looks out of place .”

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Manuel Gamio reported in 1930 that the term " chicamo " ( with an " m ") was used as a derogatory term used by Hispanic Texans for recently arrived Mexican immigrants displaced during the Mexican revolution in the beginning of the early 20th century.

U. S. official use of the term " Hispanic " has its origins in the 1970 census.

The Stylebook limits the term " Hispanic " to persons " from-or whose ancestors were from-a Spanish-speaking land or culture.

* AHANA is a term coined ( and trademarked ) by BC students in 1979 to refer to students of African-American, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American descent.

Of students enrolled in the Spring 2012 term, 1, 664 were African-Americans, 1, 655 were Asian, 1, 488 were Hispanic, and 64 were Native American.

He includes Chicame ( the earlier term for Hispanized Chicano or New Mexicans of Spanish / Hispanic and Apache descent ) among them as having definite Apache connections or names which the Spanish associated with the Apache.

In the United States, the term has the additional connotation of impoverished Black and / or Hispanic neighborhoods.

* " Anglo-American ," colloquial term for an English-speaking American ( as opposed to Spanish-speaking or Hispanic Americans )

Cardozo biographer Kaufman, for example, questioned the usage of the term " Hispanic " in the justice's lifetime, stating: " Well, I think he regarded himself as a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula .”

Members of the legal profession informally use the Hispanic term compañero / compañera when referring to each other, albeit without no socio-political connotation.

Chavez was the Democratic Party nominee for U. S. Senator from New Mexico in 1934, a very close election he lost, but became the first person of Hispanic descent to be elected to an entire six year term as a U. S. Senator in 1940.

( Octaviano Larrazolo was the first Hispanic to be elected to the U. S. Senate, but he was only elected to a remainder of an unexpired term.

** Richardson, who is Hispanic, was widely regarded as a leading contender for the vice-presidential slot before he denied interest during a March 7, 2004, appearance on Meet the Press ; When elected governor, he promised the citizens of New Mexico that he would serve his entire term.

The Hispanic culture is the legacy of the Spanish colonial empire, and so the term can refer to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with Spain, regardless of ethnic or geographical differences.

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, which proclaims itself the champion of Hispanic success in higher education, has member institutions in the U. S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

Its policy emphasizes the concept of an Ibero-American community, essentially the renewal of the historically liberal concept of " Hispano-Americanismo " ( or Hispanic as it is often referred to in English ), which has sought to link the Iberian peninsula to the Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America through language, commerce, history and culture.

Powell then said there was " the Hispanic factor ": " If we could gather together all the anxieties for the future which in Britain cluster around race relations ... and then attribute them, translated into Hispanic terms, to the Americans, we would have something of the phobias which haunt the United States and addressed itself to the aftermath of the Falklands campaign ".

Intermarriages that did not cross a racial barrier, which was the case for white / Hispanic white couples, showed statistically similar likelihoods of divorcing as white / white marriages.

A significant portion of the residents of the San Luis Valley are Hispanic with historic populations in Costilla and Conejos counties which were settled by early migrants from New Mexico.

The Spanish words libretista ( playwright, script writer or screen writer ) and libreto ( script or screen play ), which are used in the Hispanic TV and cinema industry, derived their meanings from the original operatic sense.

The estimated population in July 1985 was 49, 000, of which about 80 percent was Hispanic.

Rumors circulated at the time claiming that the reason for the name change back to ‘ Sav-on ’ was due to " Osco " having the same pronunciation as the Spanish word " asco " ( oss-ko ) which means " nausea " or " disgust ", a considerable factor within southern California ’ s heavily Hispanic market.

Attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the district attorney " to bring attention to the unscrupulous means by which government and Anglo settlers had usurped Hispanic land grant properties ", an armed struggle in the courthouse ensued resulting in Tijerina and his group fleeing to the south with two prisoners as hostages.

Castellaneta first tried using a Hispanic voicing, which Simon felt was too clichéd.

43. 2 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, majority of which are Puerto Ricans, who account for 25. 0 % of the population and are the largest ancestral group in the county.

Through the exertions of Hydatius of Emerita, the leading Priscillianists, who had failed to appear before the synod of Hispanic and Aquitanian bishops to which they had been summoned, were excommunicated at Zaragoza in October 380, according to Sulpicius, a conclusion that was emphatically denied in a letter to Damasus, Liber ad Damasum episcopum ( McKenna, note 14 ).

At the time, it was relatively uncommon for Hispanic people to appear on American television, and people suggested that he take accent reduction classes, which he refused.

The self-titled album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 661, 000 copies in its first week of release, became the most successful album debut on the Billboard charts by a Hispanic artist.

Arum has concentrated largely on promoting Hispanic fighters in recent years, citing surveys which show boxing is among the most popular sports within the Hispanic community.