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1 Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that originally denoted a relationship to the ancient ________ (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula).

2 Still more recently, the term has also (or alternatively) been used to denote the culture and people of countries formerly ruled by Spain, usually with a majority of the population speaking the ________.

3 Genetic studies on the (male) Y chromosome conducted by the ________ in 2008 appear to support the idea that the number of forced conversions have been previously underestimated significantly.

4 From this tribe's name had derived the name of the Roman province of ________, which was a part of Roman province of Hispania, and Lusitania remains Portugal's name in Latin.

5 There are also the now Catholic-professing descendants of marranos and the Hispano crypto-Jews believed to exist in the once Spanish-held ________ and scattered through Latin America.

6 Hispanic and Latino at the ________

7 [14] The ________ - Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs encourages the same self-identification.

8 In addition, due to the high national development of the diverse ________, there is a lot of music in the different languages of the Peninsula (Catalan, Galician and Basque, mainly).

9 For instance, ________ are not considered "Hispanic" by the United States Census Bureau.

10 [10] In other ________ countries, Hispanic and Latino are not commonly used.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years?
  • Richard E. Cavazos, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general?
  • in August 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas became the first Hispanic female general officer in United States Marine Corps history?
  • the genre of Hispanic creative arts known as costumbrismo (example pictured) was influenced by Englishmen Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and Frenchmen Jouy and Louis-SĂ©bastien Mercier?
  • Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center?
  • Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory?
  • David B. Barkley (pictured), who drowned in the Meuse River, France after completing a scouting mission behind enemy lines during World War I, was the U.S. Army's first Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient?
  • Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term "red-brick university"?
  • Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO?
  • Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
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