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Meaning of Hispanic
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'''Hispanic''' is an ethnicity. Hispanics are descendants of both [[Native American]] and [[European]] ancestry. Hispanics primarily reside in the [[Americas]], and most speak [[Spanish]], [[English]], [[Portuguese]], or their native languages.
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'''Hispanic''' is an ethnicity. It refers to the Roman people of the Iberian peninsula (today Spain, but the term can refer to the spanish speaking populations of the Americas and Europe. The term Hispanic has also come to refer to the descendants of both [[Native American]] and [[European]] ancestry. Ethnicity transcends nationality. Portuguese speaking people of the Iberian peninsula and the Americas are Lusitan. Lusitania, or today Portugal, was conquered by the Roman Empire. The same goes for the Gauls of France, the Elvetii of Switzerland,Bretons of Britain, and the Germanics of Germany.
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