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Originally Posted by Capsicum
What was the original goal of having a Hispanic classification (which would be based on culture over race) to begin with, from a government standpoint?
And how did conflating this cultural category with the racial one come about historically?
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I am pretty sure the misnomer has it's origins in the US, and likely the US government picked it up and normalized, as a way to categorize people who were originally from countries in Spanish/Portuguese speaking America.