If someone is from Portugal and speaks Portuguese, are they Hispanic?

2016-04-07T12:48:07Z

Or are they called something else?

zafir2016-04-07T14:45:45Z

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People from Portugal are called Portuguese, and people from Spain are Spanish.

Hispanic refers to people in the Americas who have a partial Portuguese or Spanish background.

Orla C2016-04-08T00:20:28Z

Hispanic only applies to people from the Americas with Spanish or Portuguese ancestry, not Europeans.

coraann2016-04-07T12:48:41Z

Not necessarily.