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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Most argentine immigrants identify as white alone, whereas Brazilians largely refuse to adopt the American racial identifiers wholesale (though some small number identify as black, making an easier transition given that that is also a category in Brazilian’s colorist society) and usually loathe the terms Hispanic and Latino.
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Yeah. And Brazilians are "Latino" but not "Hispanic".
The creation of the "Hispanic/Latino" ethnic category was a clumsy attempt to fit people from Latin American countries into the U.S. racial hierarchy without altering it. Latin American countries had fairly substantial differences in the way they defined "white", so this was a band-aid to reconcile those differences here in the U.S. To date the U.S. census has not reported any other ethnic category despite this being one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the face of the planet.