Spanish Americans
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The term Spanish Americans can be defined in at least two different ways.
The first definition is citizens of the United States of Spanish descent (Spanish of Spain, not Latin Americans).
The second definition is inhabitants of Spanish America, which is a term for the parts of Latin America where Spanish is spoken as the and/or an official language. Another term for this area is Hispanic America.
A disproportionate number of Spanish Americans in the first sense of the term, mentioned above, as well as Mexican Americans, and possibly some other types of Hispanic Americans, live in the American Southwest.
Anyway, is not Hispanic, because speaking still Spanish, is European.
This subject could give much controversy, because when comparing them with South Americans they do not feel identified with the Hispanic or Latin label (being used to talk about to South America). The USA (it could say that he is the unique one) that mix several countries, different cultures and different languages under a same term.
A Spaniard is a Spanish in Japan, India, Mexico, France, Argentina.... but a Spaniard is a Latin o Hispanic in the USA.
