latino vs hispanic?

From the dictionary:

His‧pan‧ic

1. Spanish.

2. Latin American: the United States and its Hispanic neighbors.

3. Also, Hispano. Also called Hispanic American. an American citizen or resident of Spanish or Latin-American descent.

Span‧ish

1. of or pertaining to Spain, its people, or their language.

2. the Spanish people collectively.

3. a Romance language, the language of Spain, standard also in most of Latin America except Brazil. Abbreviation: Sp, Sp.

La‧ti‧no

a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent.

There is no such thing as a Latino, first Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese all derive from a dead language called Latin which was spoken by the Roman empire 2 century's ago and these are called language's of romance Latin is not a place or a people, so when a person says I'm a Latino there very wrong, an example if a person is born in Mexico he or she is Mexican or from either of these country's like people from Spain they are Spaniards, people from Italy are Italians, people from France are French, and people from Portugal are Portuguese not Latinos, an example if born in the USA or naturalized American you are a Mexican American, or if your roots go back say Italy you are a Italian American and so an so please don't label your self's as something your not be proud of your roots and fore fathers. There's no such thing as a Latino.

I've been told that Hispanic is the correct term and Latino is considered an insult ( more as a slang)

some forms (scholarship,employment,etc) ask " white? hispanic? or black?")

In my opinion, they are both ok, but I prefer Hispanic.

latino and hispanic r almost the same.

latino is more south american and hispanic is more central america. puerto rico dominicans etc.

spain is european and r called spaniards. not hispanics not latinos.

reason hispanic came too is because most central americans r a mix of spaniards native americans, whites etc.

i think that u are correct to. latinos r from latin america, hispanic from spain, and mexicans from mexico!

i think you are correct. and mexicans from mexico. spanish from spain, latino from latin america. hhhmmmm hard to keep it all straight and 'politically correct' :) we all just human i think.

It's funny.Latin used to mean Italian

You're stupid