actually was watching a video recently i think on tiktok, not to break away from wrestling or anything. but a guy was saying how mexicans or anyone from the americas aren't latin.So no Mexican in there life has ever referred to themselves as a Latino/Latina
prolly won't understand the video unless they got captions translated:
but basically he saying that Latin refers to the people from those places that would speak the latin language, such as Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Rome, like the old Roman Empire days. He told her that she would be considered hispanic cuz the culture comes from spain not roman like latin would be.
just looked on wiki and this popped up:
Latin (lingua Latina, pronounced [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy.