Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans

Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans
Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos asiáticos
Total population
598,146
as of the 2010 United States Census including multiracial persons
0.2% of the total US population (2010)
4.1% of all Asian Americans (2010)
1.2% of all Latino Americans (2010)
Regions with significant populations
West Coast, Southwestern United States, Northeastern United States, Florida
Languages
American English, American Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese, Asian Languages, Indigenous languages of the Americas, Portuglish
Religion
Christianity, predominantly Roman Catholicism
Minority Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam
Related ethnic groups
Asian Latin Americans, Punjabi Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans

Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry that speak the Spanish or Portuguese language natively and/or are from Spain or Latin America, respectively. This includes Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify themselves (or were officially classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government agencies) as Asian Americans.

Hispanidad, which is independent of race, is the only ethnic category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially unified by the US Census Bureau. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including "Asian American", is between those who report Hispanic and Latino ethnic backgrounds and all others who do not. In the case of Asian Americans, these two groups are respectively termed Asian Hispanic and Latinos and non-Hispanic or Latino Asian Americans, the former being those who say Asian ancestry from Spain or Iberian-speaking America and the latter consisting of an ethnically diverse collection of all others who are classified as Asian Americans that do not report Spanish or Latin American ethnic backgrounds.

Population

In the 2000 US Census, 119,829 Hispanic and Latino Americans identified as being of Asian race alone. In 2006, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated them at 154,694, while its Population Estimates, which are official, put them at 277,704. In the 2010 Census, there were 598,146 Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, including those who are multiracial in origin.

Filipino Americans, often have Spanish surnames from the Alphabetical Catalog of Surnames, due to an 1849 decree.

Notable people

See also


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