DX Ace,

You are referring to : Statistical Policy Directive No. 15,
Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and
Administrative Reporting.

- - - Hispanic or Latino. A person of Cuban, Mexican,
Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or
other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
The term, "Spanish origin," can be used in addition
to "Hispanic or Latino."

HISPANIC - It All Comes Down To - Who You Are [.]
Hispanic -expanded to- Latino and Chicano Hispano
Peoples of the Culture and Heritage resulting from
the Spanish Diaspora in the Americas.

Who Is Hispanic ?
http://www.isteve.com/who_is.htm
Who is Hispanic ? - The official but vague
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
definition is: "All persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish
culture or origin, regardless of race."
http://www.fsu.edu/~elcentro/DidUknow.html
http://www.hispanic-research.com/home/faq.htm

OTHER DEFINITIONS - LEGALLY VALID
A competing definition is "someone who grew up in a Spanish speaking
household or was born in a Spanish-speaking country." This favors
recent immigrants over longer-resident, English-speaking Hispanic
families. It also discourages families from teaching their kids
English. Further, it would exclude plenty of obvious candidates. For
example, the late musical prodigy Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela),
a hero to Mexican-Americans, was raised speaking only English (he
learned the Spanish lyrics to "La Bamba" phonetically). Finally, it
includes Spaniards and Teutonic Paraguayans named Klaus who don't like
to talk about what their fathers were doing 1933-1945.

THE ULTIMATE LOOPHOLE - "SELF-IDENTIFICATION"
The Ultimate Loophole. According to the EEOC, you can belong to any
protected minority with which you "identify." {Self-Identification}
Since most people identify with their self-interests, anybody can
plausibly claim to sincerely identify with anything.
Note - Often any and all of the following elements
can cause and and Individual to "Self-Identify" with
being a Hispanic :
* Name
* Language
* Culture and Religion {Up Bringing}
* Heritage {Family, Ancestors and Appearance}

DOD - Department of Defense Directive 1350.2 defines Hispanic as "A
person having
origins in any of the original peoples of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba,
Central or South
America, or of other Spanish cultures, regardless of race." (9A) In
the 2000 Census, it
was left up to the individual to identify if they were
Spanish/Hispanic/Latino. If the
answer was yes, then the individual had to decide if they were Mexican,
Puerto Rican,
Cuban, or Other. If the Other category was chosen, the individual could
write-in a
response. There are two central themes in determining who is Hispanic;
a common
language and lineage that can be traced back to Spain or Latin America.
http://www.soc.mil/usacapoc/eo/hhm02.pdf

Hispanic = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic
http://www.fsu.edu/~elcentro/DidUknow.html
http://www.lasculturas.com/aa/aa051701a.htm


hispanic - it all comes down to who you are ~ RHF