are people from spain better refered to as spaniards or spanish people?
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Both... they're not Hispanics or Latinos... So it's both.\n\nI CANT BELIEVE WHAT THAT TOTS GIRL JUST SAID! WHEN THE HELL IS A MEXICAN A SPANISH PERSON!?!?!?!??!!!??!?!?! THATS LIKE ME CALLING AN AMERICAN A BRITISH PERSON!\n\nA Mexican is a Latino/Hispanic... a Spaniard or Spanish person is a person from Spain
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I live in Spain and find it difficult to accept the Tourists that come here and try pronouncing Spanish correctly, its so annoying, I am English but lived here for over 4 years and have a good knowledge of the Spanish language, I'm not perfectly fluent yet, but I am fairly good,  I do at least know how to pronounce Spanish correctly.  So I know what you mean.
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hispanophone\n\n1. (adj) Spanish-speaking. 2. (n) person who speaks Spanish
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Speakers of different dialects of Spanish have different names for the language they speak.  People from Spain and Argentina call the langauge "castellano" and people from Mexico call it "español" for example.  I don't think they really do it to avoid confusion; I think that's just what they call it.\n\nThese days when a person from Argentina says that they speak "castellano", it has a flavor that they think they speak more like Spain than other places in the Americas.  In fact, throughout my interactions with Spanish speakers from different places in the Americas, I have noticed that many people express a desire for their language to be like the language of Spain.  For example, before I went to a Spanish-speaking country to study Spanish, I would sometimes ask Spanish speakers where they thought I should go.  With very few exceptions, people would tell me that I should go to their home country, and one of the reasons they would give me was, "Porque allí hablamos exactamente como hablan en España."  I wasn't a well-educated linguist at the time, but even then I could tell that they did not sound like the people in Spain!  But they WANTED to think that they did.  I find it very telling that some people in the Americas would want to be like Spain, since there are so many more of them.\n\nAccording to the study that I've done on the linguistics of the conquest of Mexico, the conquistadores who first arrived there said that the place they came from was "Castilla".  It might be that "castellano" was originally, then, an identifier for the language of people in Castilla.  However, I suspect that these days it has been reanalyzed as a name for the language that people in Spain really use, and how much a person or culture wants to identify with Spain might have a lot to do with whether or not they call their language "castellano".\n\nMy advice to you?  If you've been using "español", you can probably stick with that.  Your choice is one of which dialect of Spanish you want to identify yourself with.  I, for example, having lived in Mexico, often use the vocabulary of Mexican Spanish when I speak Spanish, so I would say "español".  (Also, my original teachers were from Mexico and Venezuela, so that was the word that they used.)  If you desire to identify yourself with another dialect, such as Chilean Spanish or Argentinian Spanish, you might want to go with "castellano".  I don't think they are often used in the same dialect.\n\nI actually believe that Spanish teachers do their students a disservice when they gloss over the differences between the dialects of Spanish, which are pretty major.
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between what?  Castellano vs Espanol (The Spain variety vs everything else)?  All Hispanic countries in general?  Over time?  You need to specify
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Spanish - a huge percentage of the world's population speaks Spanish.  Then French.
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anglo comes from the term anglo saxon, referring to ppl who came from england/uk. i don't know about hispanic ppl using it, but we  native ppl use it as a way not to say "whites,"  "white people" or any use of the term "white," to describe "white" ppl. the word caucasian came so much later than the word anglo, so i think  anglo is used more often. i use the term "non-ndn ppl" more often than anglo...i'd rather not describe ppl according to their "color," sometimes though it's hard not too. when i'm with family, we just talk in our native language, and that cuts it all out.
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Just be polite. I deal with alot of Hispanic people, and I speak English. I am slowly learing spanish. I think I'm doing very well, but I've had alot of Hispanics make fun of the way I speak Spanish. It's degrading! I'm sure they wouldn't like it if I made fun of their English! So...just be nice!
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Spanish is easier than French or English.
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Hispanic is a race just like Caucasians or African American.We do not like getting grouped with Americans cuz were Hispanic.
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Span·ish (spăn'ĭsh) \nadj.\nOf or relating to Spain or its people or culture.\nOf or relating to the Spanish language.\nn.\nThe Romance language of the largest part of Spain and most of Central and South America.\n(used with a pl. verb) The people of Spain.
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Well to tell you the truth I really disagree with both terms. I don't agree with them because they both neglect our indigenous background. Both terms are Eurocentric and where implemented by the U.S. So if you really think about it we have been label as either Latin Euro or Spanish but many of us are Mestizos and we must take into consideration the indigenous blood in us. I guess the moral of the story is that individuals should not be labeled to the convenience of others. Instead take into consideration your self identity and what really encompasses who you are and remember that individuals should also know why you are Hispanic, Latino, or Chicano.
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Spanish speaking people in general (not necessarily people from Spain) are biast against ¨gringos¨ (white people) and see them as a representation of George Bush and the american government.   No one has problems with your skin color or ethnic background, but generally foreigners are associated with whatever their steriotype might be.  For example, white guys are the USA incarnate and its imperialistic government that invades Iraq.  On a more individual basis, most are more than willing to talk with you and hear what you have to say.  Most just loathe the power the United States wields as world police and think they are being picked on some how. It`s like your classic goth-teenager in highschool.  The whole world is different than them and is against them. (shutup!)\n    Its hard to classify an entire people as racist or not.  They are a huge mix of people just like you`d find in any other place.  Huge contributing factors: the news and education level.  Eveyone believes what they see on the TV (everywhere).
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Linguists recognise no technical difference between a language and a dialect.  There is a saying that a language is a dialect with an army.\n\nCzech/Slovak, Dutch/Flemish, Valencian/Catalan/Castilian Spanish, Rikmal/Bokmal (Norway) are more choices people make according to their feeling of cultural/national identity than real language choices.  They're all largely mutually intelligible.\n\nThe answer is that if a fair number of people regard their native language as Valencian rather than Catalan or Spanish, then it has as much right (from a linguist's point of view) to be called a language as does Flemish.  After all, there is as much (possibly more) difference between the local dialects of (say) rural Georgia and New York or those of Yorkshire and an Orkney Islander (who would all claim quite rightly to be speaking English) as between speakers of Catalan and Valencian.
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This is actually a pretty touchy topic.\nMexican is what everyone else has mentioned...for Mexican nationals.  This does not include Mexican-American folks because they are actually American as in U.S.A.\nHispanic was the term used by the "white" man as in inclusive word for all central and south Americans...including Brazil.  Hispanic for "hispano" which was a word in the spanish language.  Hispano meaning from Spanish as in Spain descent.\nLatino was the word to sort of rebel from the Hispanic word because it was more pertaining to the central and south Americans.  Latino because those parts of the world many considered to be Latin America and their spanish is considerably different from the castilian spanish from Spain.\nIn order to answer your question, to whom are you referring?  If you know where the people or person is from, use their nationality term (peruvian, venezuelan, etc).  If you don't, use Hispanic or latino, they are used interchangably and most folks are used to both terms.  But I think most would prefer Latino.
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If you plan on coming to the U.S.Spanish is your best bet. There are a lot more Spanish speakers in the U.S.than French speakers. Spanish is used more for everyday speaking in certain parts of the country,like the Southwest U.S. French is used more for leisure,like for people traveling to Canada or to France. Spanish is also a lot easier to spell. You pronounce every letter that is spoken in Spanish  but in French you only speak about half of the letters as they mix together.
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all previous are correct\nbut spaniards say "pah-\n-thi(as in thing)\n-n\n-thi\n-ah