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Latino is a term that is totally misused, especially in the US. The first Latino were the ROMAN and later the word came to signify a person whose language is a romance language, namely Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian and Catalan. Somehow the word Latino evolved into meaning "latino american".

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