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-as of [17 MARCH 2024]–
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“NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH”
(“SEPTEMBER 15” – “OCTOBER 15”)
(ending on “AIDS DAY”)
(what a downer!)
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(Spanish: hispanos; [isˈpanos])
*aka ‘latino americans’*
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-‘hispanic americans’ are people in the United States who are descendants of the Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America and ‘Spain’-
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(it is the largest population of ‘Latino Americans’ and ‘Hispanics’ outside of ‘Latin America’)
(more generally, it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, whether of full or partial ancestry)
(for the 2010 United States Census, people counted as “Hispanic” or “Latino” were those who identified as one of the specific Hispanic or Latino categories listed on the census questionnaire (“Mexican,” “Puerto Rican,” or “Cuban”) as well as those who indicated that they were “other Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino”)
(the national origins classified as ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Latino’ by the ‘United States Census Bureau’ are the following: ‘Spanish’, ‘Argentine’, ‘Cuban’, ‘Colombian’, ‘Puerto Rican’, ‘Dominican’, ‘Mexican’, ‘Costa Rican’, ‘Guatemalan’, ‘Honduran’, ‘Nicaraguan’, ‘Panamanian’, ‘Salvadoran’, ‘Bolivian’, ‘Chilean’, ‘Ecuadorian’, ‘Paraguayan’, ‘Peruvian’, ‘Uruguayan’, and ‘Venezuelan’)
(other U.S. government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term, including Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking groups)
(the ‘Census Bureau’ uses the terms ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Latino’ interchangeably)
(“origin” can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before their arrival in the ‘United States’)
(people who identify as ‘Spanish’, ‘Hispanic’, or ‘Latino’ may be of any ‘race’)
(as the only specifically designated category of ethnicity in the United States (other than non-Hispanic/Latino), Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages)
(most ‘Hispanic Americans’ are of ‘Mexican’, ‘Puerto Rican’, ‘Cuban’, ‘Salvadoran’, ‘Dominican’, ‘Guatemalan’, or ‘Colombian’ origin)
(the predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country)
(‘Hispanic Americans’ are the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after ‘Asian Americans’)
(‘Hispanic/Latinos’ overall are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, after ‘non-Hispanic Whites’ (a group which, like ‘Hispanics’ and ‘Latinos’, is composed of dozens of sub-groups of differing national origin))
(‘hispanics’ have lived within what is now the United States continuously since the founding of ‘St. Augustine’ by the ‘Spanish’ in 1565)
(after ‘Native Americans’, ‘Hispanics’ are the oldest ethnic group to inhabit much of what is today the ‘United States’)
(many have ‘Native American’ ancestry)
(‘Spain’ colonized large areas of what is today the ‘American Southwest’ and ‘West Coast’, as well as ‘Florida’)
(its holdings included present-day ‘California’, ‘New Mexico’, ‘Nevada’, ‘Arizona’, and ‘Texas’, all of which were part of the ‘Republic of Mexico’ from its independence in 1821 until the end of the ‘Mexican–American War’ in 1848)
(conversely, Hispanic immigrants to the ‘New York City’ metropolitan area derive from a broad spectrum of ‘Latin American’ states)
(a study published in 2015 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, based on ’23andMe’ data from 8,663 self-described Latinos, estimated that Latinos in the United States carried a mean of 65.1% European ancestry, 18.0% Native American ancestry, and 6.2% African ancestry)
(the study found that self-described ‘latinos’ from the Southwest, especially those along the Mexican border, had the highest mean levels of Native American ancestry, while self-described Latinos from the South, Midwest, and Atlantic Coast had the highest mean levels of ‘african’ ancestry)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“AMERICAN DEMOGRAFIX”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥