terminology
The origin of Latin as an ethnic label in the spanish-speaking part of America was to distinguish the european colonizers and their descendents, who spoke latin-derived languages, from the prior inhabitants of Central America, who spoke non-indo-european languages. The term is not useful or appropriate to distinguish mexicans from whiter inhabitants of the USA, since we're both speaking latin-derived languages and both descended at least in part from people who spoke latin-derived languages.
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