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Generally speaking Latinos are people whose native language is one of the languages derived from Latin. This would include Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese Romanian, and a number of others. The term was invented in the Napoleonic era by the French as a claim of relationship to the Mexicans to justify the French military activity there that established a member of the Hapsburg family as the Emperor of Mexico.

More common modern usage considered that Latinos are people who originate from a Latin American country. Latinos are not to get confused with Hispanics. Hispanics are people who speak Spanish. Latinos are Latin Americans.

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