What does Latino mean

Latinos are Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking people from Latin America who migrated to the United States or Canada. The U.S. Vietnam War Memorial is a statue of three U.S. soldiers, a white man, a black man and a Latino. Americans called Hispanics "Spaniards", but unlike Spaniards, they were actually a mixed race of Europeans and local Indians, and were therefore considered people of color by Americans during the era of racial discrimination. Although both Italians and Spaniards were considered white at the time. Due to the large number of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants into the United States, they have become the second largest minority in the United States after blacks. Latinos have generally settled in the American South, so while French is traditionally taught as a secondary foreign language in U.S. schools, in the Southern states, secondary foreign language instruction is taught in Spanish, which is more useful in their environment and easier to find teachers among Latinos.

Spaniards, unlike southern European peoples such as the Portuguese and the English, had different habits, they could easily intermarry with the local population, and there was very little notion of segregation because they were originally under Arab rule, and Jews were the least discriminated against in Spain as well as in Europe. So in Latin America under Spanish rule, they quickly integrated and intermarried with the local Indians to form a new Indo-European nation, a nation that even had black blood in it. Macau also has many times more mixed Chinese-Portuguese blood than Hong Kong has mixed Chinese-British blood.