"American Spanish, dating to the 1970s, or from Italian. The term ""caffè Americano"" specifically is Italian for ""American coffee"". There is a popular, but unconfirmed, belief that the name has its origins in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy would dilute espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed. Earlier, in his 1928 novel "","" Somerset Maugham has his protagonist order and drink something called an ""americano"" in Naples during World War I, but there is not enough information to indicate whether it is the same drink. The drink consists of a single"
"""americana"" in Spanish refers to a person from ""América"" in a similar way that ""europeo"" or ""europea"" refers to a person from ""Europa"". The terms ""sudamericano/a"", ""centroamericano/a"", ""antillano/a"" and ""norteamericano/a"" can be used to more specifically refer to the location where a person may live. Citizens of the United States of America are normally referred to by the term ""estadounidense"" (rough literal translation: ""United Statesian"") instead of ""americano"" or ""americana"" which is discouraged, and the country's name itself is officially translated as ""Estados Unidos de América"" (United States of America), commonly abbreviated as ""Estados Unidos"" (EEUU). Also, the term ""norteamericano"""
"Indian Americans Indian Americans or Indo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India. According to 2016 American Community Survey data, Indian Americans are the third-largest Asian group in the United States alone or in combination with other races after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with the indigenous peoples of the Americas commonly referred to as American Indians (or Native Americans or Amerindians). In the Americas, historically, the term ""Indian"" has been most commonly used to refer to the"
"Race and ethnicity in the United States The United States of America has a racially and ethnically diverse population. The United States Census officially recognizes six racial categories: White or European American, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races; a category called ""some other race"" is also used in the census and other surveys, but is not official. The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as ""Hispanic or Latino"" and ""Not Hispanic or Latino"", which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as an"
"""americanos"" or ' and in colloquial uses """", but the latter word usually has a disparaging meaning depending on the context in which it is used. The only officially and commonly used alternative for referring to the people of the United States in English is to refer to them as citizens of that country. Another alternative is US-American, also spelled US American. Several single-word English alternatives for American have been suggested over time, including Usonian (popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright) and the nonce term United-Statesian. Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding"
"Hispanic and Latino Americans Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (, ) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The United States has the largest population of Latinos and Hispanics outside of Latin America. More generally, it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, whether of full or partial ancestry. For the 2010 United States Census, people counted as ""Hispanic"" or ""Latino"" were those who identified as one of the specific Hispanic or Latino categories listed on the census questionnaire (""Mexican"", ""Puerto"
"(North American) may refer to a citizen of the United States. This term is primarily used to refer to citizens of the United States, and less commonly to those of other North American countries. In Portuguese, """" is a single continent composed of ""América do Sul"" (South America), ""América Central"" (Central America) and ""América do Norte"" (North America). It can be ambiguous, as ""América"" can be used to refer to the United States of America, but is avoided in print and formal environments. In French the word ""américain"" may be used for things relating to the Americas; however, similar to"
"the continents. For the country there is the term '. Thus, a citizen of the United States is an ', whereas an ' is an inhabitant of the Americas. In Hungarian the term amerikai (American) refers to a person or a thing from the United States. The name ""America"" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller from ""Americus Vespucius"", the Latinized version of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), the Italian explorer who mapped South America's east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century. Later, Vespucci's published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller's 1507 map, which is the first"
"Spanish Americans Spanish Americans (, hispanoestadounidenses, españoles americanos or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain. Spanish Americans are the longest-established European-American group with a continuous presence in Florida since 1565 and are the eighth-largest (choosing the term ""Spaniard"") Hispanic group in the United States of America. Many Americans of Latin American descent have Spanish ancestral roots due to five centuries of Spanish colonial settlement and large-scale immigration after independence. The term ""Spanish-American"" is used only to refer to Americans whose ancestry originates directly from Spain, and therefore excludes ethnically Spanish Americans who immigrated to the"
"Diario de América Diario de América (America's Daily) is a Spanish-language opinion journal about politics, economics, culture and social issues, published in the United States. Its contents are updated daily with opinion pieces by columnists from Latin America, Europe and the United States. It was founded as ""El Iberoamericano"" on Columbus Day, 2004, and in its relatively short lifetime it has become a vehicle of opinion in several Spanish-speaking countries and among the U.S. Hispanic community. ""Diario de América""'s ""Declaration of Purpose"" cites as its main objective ""the dissemination of opinions whose essential purpose is the defense of the cause"
"African Americans African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. The term typically refers to descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States. As a compound adjective, the term is usually hyphenated as African-American. Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States (after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans). Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States. On"
"person who has an ancestral connection to Latin America. According to the 2010–2015 American Community Survey, the racial composition of the United States in 2015 was: Hispanic are shown like part of the races. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census of population, 1940 to 2010. Data are shown for the White, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and Some other race alone populations. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines ""Hispanic or Latino"" as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, South or Central American, or"
"Asian Americans Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations, which have ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia, or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. This includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as ""Asian"" or reported entries such as ""Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Bangladeshi, Pakistan, and Other Asian"". Asian Americans with other ancestry comprise 5.6% of the U.S. population, while people who are Asian alone, and those combined with at least one other race, make up 6.9%. Although migrants from Asia"
"European Americans European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry. This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in America and as well as people who are descended from more recent European arrivals. Euro-Americans are the largest panethnic group in the United States, both historically and at present. The Spaniards are thought to be the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the contiguous United States, with Martín de Argüelles ( 1566) in St. Augustine, then a part of Spanish Florida. Virginia Dare ( August 18, 1587) on"
"Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans are Hispanic and Latino Americans having Asian ancestry and for those Hispanics who consider 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. Hispanicity, which is independent of race, is the only ethnic category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially unified by the U.S. 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 or Latino"
"arms of the medieval Crown of Castile. Hispanic America Hispanic America (Spanish: ""Hispanoamérica"", or ""América hispana""), also known as Spanish America (Spanish: ""América española""), is the region comprising the Spanish-speaking nations in the Americas. These countries have significant commonalities with each other and with Spain, its former . In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language, sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara, or Mayan), or English (in Puerto Rico). Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Hispanic America is sometimes grouped together with Brazil under the term ""Ibero-America"", meaning those"
"Argentine Americans Argentine Americans () are Americans whose full or partial origin is in Argentina. Prior to the 1970s, the Argentines that emigrated to the United States were classified in the category of ""Other Hispanics"", therefore, Argentine immigration statistics do not exist until that time. Early Argentines who settled in the United States arrived primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, looking for greater economic possibilities. The majority of them held academic degrees, and many were medical doctors and scientists. However, immigrants in the late 1970s arrived fleeing the political persecution of the Dirty War. They numbered 44,803 people. This new"
"Afro-Latin Americans Afro-Latin American or Black Latin American, refers to Latin Americans of significant African ancestry. The term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to have emanated from this community. The term Afro-Latin American refers specifically to people of African ancestry and not to European ancestry, such as Sub-Alpine European white. The term is not widely used in Latin America outside academic circles. Normally Afro-Latin Americans are called black (Spanish: ""negro""; Portuguese: ""negro"" or ""preto""; French: ""nègre"" or ""noir""). More commonly, when referring to cultural aspects of African origin within specific countries of Latin"
"Spanish-speaking culture into the country. A lot of the Americans who are descended from Mexico, Puerto Rico or other places from Latin America have Spanish ancestry from Spain, but it is mixed with a different race; for example, Mexican-Americans who are identified as mestizo, which is mixed Native American and European ancestry, while others, like Puerto Ricans in the United States, are identified as Mulatto, which is mixed African and European ancestry. However, some Spanish Americans are descendants of colonial settlers in the southwestern states, especially New Mexico, before they became part of the United States. Spanish-Americans in the United"
"Hispanic America Hispanic America (Spanish: ""Hispanoamérica"", or ""América hispana""), also known as Spanish America (Spanish: ""América española""), is the region comprising the Spanish-speaking nations in the Americas. These countries have significant commonalities with each other and with Spain, its former . In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language, sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara, or Mayan), or English (in Puerto Rico). Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Hispanic America is sometimes grouped together with Brazil under the term ""Ibero-America"", meaning those countries in the Americas with cultural roots"
"white Hispanic and Latino Americans (who resemble Scandinavians and other Northern Europeans), and also light-skinned mulatto and mestizo Hispanic and Latino Americans (often deemed as white persons in U.S. Hispanic and Latino populations if achieving the middle class or higher social status), especially some of the actors on the telenovelas. The official racial status of Mexican Americans has varied throughout American history. From 1850 to 1920, the U.S. Census form did not distinguish between whites and Mexican Americans. In 1930, the U.S. Census form asked for ""color or race,"" and census enumerators were instructed to write ""W"" for white and"
"Latino Latino () is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to ""Hispanic"" which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language. ""Latino"" as a category used in the United States may be understood as a shorthand for the Spanish word ""latinoamericano"" (Latin American in English) or the Portuguese phrase ""latino americano"", thus excluding speakers of Spanish or Portuguese from Europe. Both ""Hispanic"" and ""Latino"" are generally used to denote people living in the United States, so much so that ""Outside the"
"Latin America or a person of Latin American origin living in the U.S. ""Hispanic"" refers literally to Spain, but, in effect, to those of Spanish-speaking descent; therefore, the two terms are misnomers inasmuch as they apply only by extension to Chicanos, who may identify primarily as Amerindian or simply Mexican, and who may speak Amerindian languages (and English) as well as Spanish. The term was first brought up in the 1970s but it was not until the 1990s that the term was used on the U.S. Census. Since then it has widely been use by politicians and the media. The"
"the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish, Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. As the only specifically designated category of ethnicity in the United States (other than non-Hispanic/Latino), Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, or Colombian origin. The predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country. Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United"
"Black Hispanic and Latino Americans In the United States, a Black Hispanic or Afro-Hispanic (), is an American citizen or resident who is officially classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government agencies as a black person or racially black of Hispanic descent."" Hispanicity, which is independent of race, is the only ""ethnic"" category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially collated by the U.S. Census Bureau. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including ""Black"", is between those who report Hispanic"
"Americana (music) Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences. Americana, as defined by the Americana Music Association (AMA), is ""contemporary music that incorporates elements of various mostly acoustic American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, gospel and bluegrass resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon"
"in formal writing, but, save in Panama, prefer nicknames in colloquial speech."" To avoid ""American"" one can use constructed terms in their languages derived from ""United States"" or even ""North America"". In Canada, its southern neighbor is often referred to as ""the United States"", ""the U.S.A."", or (informally) ""the States"", while U.S. citizens are generally referred to as ""Americans"". Most Canadians resent being referred to as ""Americans"". In Spanish, ""América"" is a single continent composed of the subcontinents of ""América del Sur"" and ""América del Norte"", the land bridge of ""América Central"", and the islands of the ""Antillas"". ""Americano"" or"
"experience is specific to their unique ethnic identity, while the other is the broader multicultural amalgam that is Americana. Latin America includes most of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, including Mexico, Central America, South America and (in some cases) the Caribbean. U.S. nationals with origins in Latin America are often referred to as Hispanic or Latino Americans, or by their specific country of origin, e.g., Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans. Hyphenated American In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name"
"Non-Hispanic whites Non-Hispanic whites or whites not of Hispanic or Latino origin (commonly referred to as Anglo-Americans), are European Americans who are not of Hispanic or Latino origin/ethnicity, as defined by the United States Census Bureau. Hispanics and Latinos can be of any race, as the United States Census Bureau regards the Hispanic ethnicity as independent of race. Non-Hispanic White Americans are a subcategory of White Americans, the other being White Hispanic and Latino Americans. Americans of European ancestry represent ethnic groups that combined account for more than half of the share of the Non-Hispanic white population are the Germans,"
"is the preferred form in academia. Use of the three terms is common in schools, government, and media. The term ' is used almost exclusively for the continents, and the U.S. is called ' (""United States"") or ' (""United States of America""), often abbreviated "". The Getting Through Customs website advises business travelers not to use ""in America"" as a U.S. reference when conducting business in Brazil. ""American"" in the 1994 ""Associated Press Stylebook"" was defined as, ""An acceptable description for a resident of the United States. It also may be applied to any resident or citizen of nations in"
"indicate something pertains to the Americas, but this term is primarily used in English to indicate something pertaining to the United States. Some non-ambiguous alternatives exist, such as the adjective ""Pan-American"", or ""New Worlder"" as a demonym for a resident of the closely related New World. Use of ""America"" in the hemispherical sense is sometimes retained, or can occur when translated from other languages. For example, the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) in Paris maintains a single continental association for ""America"", represented by one of the five Olympic rings. American linguist H.L. Mencken said, "" The Latin-Americans use Norteamericano"
"Latin America are both Latino. This definition is consistent with the 21st-century usage by the U.S. Census Bureau and OMB, as the two agencies use both terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably. A later definition of Latino is as a condensed form of the term """"Latino-Americano"""", the Spanish word for Latin-American, or someone who comes from Latin America. Under this definition a Mexican American or Puerto Rican, for example, is both a Hispanic and a Latino. A Brazilian American is also a Latino by this definition, which includes those of Portuguese-speaking origin from Latin America. However, an immigrant from Spain would"
"the American continents is ', from ' plus ' (""continent""). Thus, a ' is an American in the continent sense, and a """" is an American in the U.S. sense. Conversely, in Czech, there is no possibility for disambiguation. ""Američan"" (m.) and ""američanka"" (f.) can refer to persons from the United States or from the continents of the Americas, and there is no specific word capable of distinguishing the two meanings. For this reason, the latter meaning is very rarely used, and word ""američan(ka)"" is used almost exclusively to refer to persons from the United States. The usage is exactly"