What is the difference between South American and latin individuals?

[Anonymous]

What is the difference between south American and latin individuals?

Why do people assume I am from South America?

[Lliam]

Latin merely refers to people who speak a Latin language like Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. There are no "Latin" people.

Hispanic refers to people who speak Spanish or have Spanish ancestry.

Even if you have a Latin accent, I have no idea why people would assume that you are from South America. Why not Mexico or Central America?

[Billlewis]

Both terms encompass roughly the same geographical areas, but the term 'Latin' is also used to describe the people of Hispanic descent.

[NewgodOmega]

One is bad from a developer country one is bad from a not so developed country

[In_Trance]

One is South American and the other is Latin