Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans

Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans
Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos asiáticos
Total population
598,146[1][2]
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, Portuglish, Asian Languages, Indigenous languages of the Americas
Religion
Christianity, predominantly Roman Catholicism
Minority Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Jainism
Related ethnic groups
Asian Latin Americans, Punjabi Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans

Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Asian Hispanics or Asian Latinos, are Americans of Asian ancestry and ancestry from Latin America. It also refers to Asians from Latin America that speak the Spanish or Portuguese natively and immigrated to the United States. 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 Latin 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.

  1. ^ Sharon R. Ennis; Merays Rios-Vargas; Nora G. Albert (May 2011). "The Hispanic Population: 2010" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. United States Department of Commerce. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  2. ^ Karen R. Hume; Nicholas A. Jones; Roberto R. Ramirez (March 2011). "Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Department of Commerce. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011. Table 8. The Asian Population and Largest Multiple-Race Combinations by Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States:2010. Asian Alone or in Combination/Hispanic or Latino/598,146/100.0/(X)