Latino (demonym)

Latino (masculine) and Latina (feminine) as a noun refer to people living in the United States and have cultural ties to Latin America. As an adjective, the terms refer to things as having ties with Latin America. The term Hispanic usually includes Spaniards whereas Latino as a noun often does not. Latino/Latina may include Brazilians,^[1][2] Spaniards and sometimes even some European romanophones such as Portuguese (a usage sometimes found in bilingual subgroups within the U.S., borrowing from how the word is defined in Spanish),^[3][4][5][6] but Hispanic does not include any of those other than Spaniards.

Usage of the term is mostly limited to the United States. Latin American countries usually refer to themselves by national origin, rarely as Latino because the whole continent does not have a cohesive national identity like in the United States. Because of this, many Latin American scholars, journalists, and Indigenous-rights organizations have objected to the mass-media use of the word to refer to all people of Latin American background.