sc94597 on 16 October 2009
| Nightwish224 said: On a side note. I hate people who think people from Spain are Hispanic. Idiots. They're European, and they're Spaniards. |
Actually the original context refers to Spain. Again, Hispanic isn't a race. It is an Ethnic/Linguistic group. Hispania= Iberia = Spain + Portugal + Andorra. You can be White and Hispanic at the same time. You can be black and Hispanic at the same time. You can be Native and Hispanic at the same time. You can be any race or mixture of races and Hispanic at the same time. That is because Hispanic isn't a race.
Edit: Also it is speculated that the Romans got "Hispanius/Hispania" the Greek "Hispania", of whom got it from the Pre-Roman Iberians and Celtiberians "Ezpanna" who may or may not have got the word from Phonecians. So yeah, the word is VERY old.
