It depends... on the grade of ignorance of the person making the claim....    an educated person knows that a true Latin is a white european whose ethnicity is from one of the romance language countries: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, etc...    an idiot will claim that any mestizo from latin america is a latin...    The same applies with the term Hispanic:  a Hispanic is a white european from Spain, not simply a mestizo who speaks spanish...    Even they use Spanish to denote mestizos who speak spanish, when it's the name given to a Spain national... they even use Spaniard to refer to whites from Spain thus reserving Spanish for mestizos who speak the spanish language :rolleyes:    And of course the media doesn't help much with using the proper terms... :rolleyes:      It's like one time I was discussing with an idiotic negro from the UK... He claimed that English was the proper term to white english people and British was to refer to blacks, pakis, and other non-white scum that were born in the UK...  Last time I checked a British was a white european from the British Islands therefore being British implied ALSO being English... but this guy insisted that a British and a English were two different things... :rolleyes: