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Just curious since I see a lot of rants on the internet about how people keeping on have this misconception that Hispanic/Latino is a race or even an ethnicity. I've read some ignorant comments on the internet (particularly from Yahoo! Answers) about how the vast of Hispanic/Latinos are basically "just White/Caucasian/European people who were born and grew up in a Spanish-Speaking country and speaks completely fluent Spanish".

As an American who grew up with a Hispanic/Latino family (from from Chile), I never once thought of myself culturally the same as White Europeans or White people from the US. Hispanic can technically be of any race but culturally, I still think we're different from the Europeans. I suppose what do you call the people in the US who are brown-skinned with a Mexican or Guatemalan background that doesn't speak any Spanish at all if by your logic, Hispanic is strictly just a linguistic group and not an ethnicity or race?