Hispanic/Latin American Page/Links

• Hispanic/Latin American Page/Links

Introduction

(From Wikipedia):

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Spanish: hispanos [isˈpanos], latinos) are an ethnolinguisticgroup of Americans with genealogical origins in the countries of Latin America and Spain.^[5][6][7] More generally it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino whether fully or partially.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} Hispanics form an ethnicity sharing a language (Spanish) and cultural heritage, rather than a race. American Hispanics are predominantly of Mexican, and to a lesser extent,Neomexicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, and Colombianancestry.^{[13][16][17][18][19]}

Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States after Asian Americans.^[20] As of 2012, Hispanics constitute 17% of the United States population, or 53 million people.^[21]This figure includes 38 million Hispanophone Americans, making the US home to the largest community of Spanish speakers outside of Mexico, having surpassed Argentina, Colombia, and Spain within the last decade.^[22] Latinos overall are the second largest ethnic group in the United States, after non-Hispanic Whites (a group composed of dozens of sub-groups, like Hispanics and Latinos).^[23]

Hispanics have been in the territory of present-day United States continuously^{[24][25][26][27]} since the sixteenth-century founding of Saint Augustine, Florida, by the Spanish. After Native Americans, Hispanics are the oldest ethnic group to inhabit what is today the United States.^{[28][29][30][31]} Spain colonized large areas of the Southwest and West Coast, including present-day California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, all of which were also under the Republic of Mexico after its independence in the 19th century...More here...

Latin Americans (Spanish: latinoamericano, Portuguese: latino-americano) are the citizens of the Latin American countries and dependencies. Latin American countries are multi-ethnic, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as anethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins.^[32] Aside from the indigenous Amerindian (aka Native American) population, all Latin Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country: many have a predominance of European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; and others are primarily Mulatto.^[33] Various Black, Asian, andZambo (mixed Black and Amerindian) minorities are also identified in most countries.^[33] White Latin Americans are the largest single group.^[32] Together with the people of part-European ancestry they combine for approximately 80% of the population,^[34] or even more.^[32]

Latin Americans and their descendants can be found almost everywhere in the world, particularly in densely populated urban areas. The most important migratory destiny for Latin Americans are the United States,Western Europe, Canada and Australia....More here...

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• U.S. Department of State People Profiles
• Latin American Countries

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• International World History Project
• World History From The Pre-Sumerian Period To The Present
• A Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music
•   HISPANIC AMERICANS

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• MexConnect

All About MexConnect | Mexico's top English magazine

 MexConnect is an  electronic magazine devoted to providing quality information about Mexico, and promoting Mexico to the world. The magazine is supported by a searchable and cross-indexed database of over 4,000 articles and 350 photo galleries of over 3500 photographs. It is a registered electronic periodical ISSN 1028-9089.
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• Latin Union/

For a Latin plural

The peoples of Latin languages, though with very different backgrounds, share a linguistic heritage and the same system of historical references, legal and cultural. It is therefore natural that this family, though dispersed and very diverse, has endowed an institution dedicated to promoting and disseminating a common heritage and identities of the Latin world. This action is even more needed today when the preservation of cultural diversity is one of the major concerns of the contemporary world.

The Latin Union fully aware of their responsibilities, to meet current targets set by the 1954 Agreement . Thus, their action tends mainly to give a visible expression and substance to the solidarity that must unite the Latino family members together and trade with other states.

In that spirit, prepares the Latin Union, through a permanent dialogue with Member States and intergovernmental bodies, essentially regional programs based on the principles of complementarity and subsidiarity, designed to train specialists, to encourage the creation and promotion of languages ​​and industries cultural rights. By its action, the Latin Union pursues the enhancement of the common heritage of their people in the service of a vision full of confidence in the role that it should take to the Latino community in the world today...read more..

A video about the Latin Union (Interview with Daniel Prado, Director of The Latin Union): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQ3ELmWkDg

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