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Hispanics
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The term Hispanic () refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an ethnic or meta-ethnic term.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Hispanics
- Ethnic group.regions
- Hispanic AmericaUnited StatesSpainHispanic Africa
- Ethnic group.languages
- Predominantly Spanish
- Ethnic group.religions
- 66% Roman Catholic 21% Protestantism 11% Including irreligion, Judaism and other abrahamic religion
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Definitions in Portugal, Spain, the rest of Europe
- Definitions in the United States
- Culture
- Music
- Literature
- Sports
- Religion
- Christianity
- Islam
- Judaism
- See also
- Notes
- References
The term Hispanic () refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an ethnic or meta-ethnic term.
The term commonly applies to Spaniards and Spanish-speaking (Hispanophone) populations and countries in Hispanic America (the continent) and Hispanic Africa (Equatorial Guinea and the disputed territory of Western Sahara), which were formerly part of the Spanish Empire due to colonization mainly between the 16th and 20th centuries. The cultures of Hispanophone countries outside Spain have been influenced as well by the local pre-Hispanic cultures or other foreign influences.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hispanics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.