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Al Pacino is an Italian American actor. To answer the question, he would be Latino, but not Hispanic, a Hispanic can be Latino, but not all Latinos are Hispanic. Hispanic means someone who has been raised into the Hispanic culture, which is the culture Latin Americans inherited from Spain. However, the term Latino is broader and includes all people descending from the Roman Empire's culture, that is Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Now, from all these countries, the people they conquered and colonized inherited their culture, and therefore became Latinos themselves. Most of the colonies of the above countries were established in Latin America, to include Hispanic countries, such as Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, et cetera, and Portuguese countries such as Brazil and Angola.

Finally, when you refer to a Latino, he could be of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Romanian, but when you refer to a Hispanic person, he or she, is descendant from Spain, not any other Latino country, just Spain.

Note: Brazilians are Latinos, but they are not Hispanic, they are Portuguese.

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