What these people have done is taken the term America Latina (a term chosen by the French- Amerique Latine) cut it in a half and made the word "Latino/a".
They are twisting history and fooling themselves but it's also our fault for their arrogance because we aren't very aggressive in demanding that they stop usurping our rightfully language and culture. In the absence of a combined effort from all the real Latins these skunks will continue to trash our good name.
And things seems to be getting more complicated as I recently discovered that there exist an organization called " Unione Latina or Latin Union" as some of you know already which groups together any "Latin" speaking nation seven of them in Africa in one large family. The fact is that we are not a family with them and have little or nothing in commun.
Yet from a few European Latin Nations they have made now 35.
http://www.unesco.org/delegates/italy/un_lat.htmhttp://www.unilat.org/SG/index.es.aspI sincerely believe that it takes more than speaking a language derived from the Latin to be a Latino/a. It's always been a matter of Language, race/ethnicity, Roman Christian Religion, the continuation of Roman Laws and European Civilization based on these conditions.
I believe that Marcial wanted to know the meaning of the term Hispanic. Well the confusion still continues but the reality has never changed. Being Hispanic is the equivalent to being Spaniard or Spanish. The Romans called the Iberian area "Hispania" and certainly it doesn't have anything to do with the modern "[censored]" who besides all the damage they've done have also downgraded the greatness of Spain and its people by using that term for themselves.
Here is my thread about latins and hispanics:
http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=2256.msg14678#newI got alot of this info from a thread on StørmFrønt about the latins and there is also a michael savage article about latins I am looking for.