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just found out about a country in Africa called Equatorial Guinea and it's official language is Spanish, does this make them Hispanic?
The concept of Hispanic is an American invention, it's unknown in Europe and the rest of the world.
It also doesn't mean much because it mixes the language and the ethnicity, for that Europeans use hispanophone.
So what do you call a Spanish (white Spanish from Spain) emigrant to the US ? he can't be Hispanic, he's a hispanophone.
They can't be Hispanic Africans ! they'd be African americans ,it's not a language issue.
We do not define people by languages but by their ethnicities first.
They can't be Hispanic Africans ! they'd be African americans ,it's not a language issue.
We do not define people by languages but by their ethnicities first.
Then a person who did not speak Spanish but who emigrated from Spain to the U.S.A. would be considered a Hispanic(although culturally the U.S.A has a general differentially specific definition of Hispanic due to the close proximity of Mexico and its mestizo population).
As for Equatorial Guinea, if language is their only true similarity then I would have to join in the side that claims that the people are Africans first with only circumstantial ties to Hispanics.
In America the term hispanic is messed up, do not use it as a reference! It's used to try to make a race out of the mexicans but then it doesnt work because they're not a race in the first place, then its used politically but then there are rich white looking hispanics in politics and poor indigenous ones sneaking into the country illegally etc.
Use the rest of the world idea of what hispanic is (hispanic = person whose mother tongue is spanish)
Then a person who did not speak Spanish but who emigrated from Spain to the U.S.A. would be considered a Hispanic(although culturally the U.S.A has a general differentially specific definition of Hispanic due to the close proximity of Mexico and its mestizo population).
As for Equatorial Guinea, if language is their only true similarity then I would have to join in the side that claims that the people are Africans first with only circumstantial ties to Hispanics.
No, because Spaniards are Europeans and can't be Hispanic, Hispanic is a concept related to the language, not to the ethnicity
Equatorial Guinean are not Hispanics, they are Africans and cannot be Hispanics.
Hispanics concept applies only to Latin and South America.
In my book.... anybody that speaks Spanish fluently is automatically Hispanic
BTW,
Spain is only 10 miles from Africa.
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It doesn't matter , Europe is 7.3 miles from Africa to be exact but the distance doesn't matter.
Spanish speakers in Spain are not Hispanics but Europeans.
The culture matters :
Germany and Poland share the same border but have different language, culture, music and food.
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