Spanish people --
The term Spanish people, or Spaniards has two distinct meanings: Traditionally, it applies to people native to any part of Spain.
More recently, it has also come to have a legal meaning, referring to people who hold Spanish citizenship.
Within Spain there are a number of nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history.
There are substantial populations outside Spain with ancestors who emigrated from Spain; most notably in Latin America. Nationals abroad : 1,816,835 – 37.6% were born in Spain,62.4% are in the Americas – 34.6% are in Europe – 3% other.
Hundreds of millions of Latin Americans with Spanish ancestry--Spanish Mexican-80,000.000+, Spanish Argentine-15,000,000, Spanish Brazilian-15,000,000, Spanish Cuban-10.050,849, Spanish Amarican-2,389,841, Spanish Australian- 58271,Spanish Colombian-15,000,000. and so forth.
According to several sources (Spanish official polls and others, www.ine.es), about 76% self-identify as Christian Catholics, about 2% with another religious faith, and about 19% identify as atheists. Spain-- 46,030,109 .
Language-Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician and others.
Spain is home to one of the largest communities of Romani people (commonly known by the English exonym "gypsies", Spanish: gitanos). The Spanish Roma, which belong to the Iberian Kale subgroup (calé), are a formerly-nomadic community, which spread across Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe, first reaching Spain in the 15th century.
Spanish Roma, for a number of historical and cultural reasons are not considered a separate or "foreign" population in Spain, but a distinct ethnicity constituting one of the populations native to Spain. Roma play an important role in particularly Andalusian folklore, music, and culture.
The population of Spain is becoming increasingly diverse due to recent immigration. From 2000 to 2010, Spain had among the highest per capita immigration rates in the world and the second highest absolute net migration in the World (after the USA) and immigrants now make up about 10% of the population. Since 2000, Spain has absorbed more than 3 million immigrants, with thousands more arriving each year. Immigrant population now tops over 4.5 million .They come mainly from Europe, Latin America, China, the Philippines, North Africa, and West Africa.
Mestizo ~~~
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent. In some countries it has come to mean a mixture of European and Amerindian, while in others, such as Venezuela, mestizo means being mixed without specifying which admixture. The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies; it was used to describe those who had one European-born parent and one who was a member of an indigenous American population in some countries, while it was used to refer to people of European, African and Indigenous admixture in others like Venezuela. In the Casta system mestizos had fewer rights than European-born persons called "Peninsulares", and "Creoles" who were persons born in the New World of two European-born parents, but more rights than "Indios" and Negros. Also refers to the people of mixed race of native south american and spanish/european. During the colonial period, mestizos quickly became the majority group in much of what is today Latin America, and when the colonies started achieving independence from Spain, the mestizo group often became dominant. In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, the concept of the "mestizo" became central to the formation of a new independent identity that was neither wholly Spanish nor wholly indigenous and the word mestizo acquired its current double meaning of mixed cultural heritage and actual racial descent.
Hispanic~~~
Hispanic(Spanish: hispano, hispánico; Portuguese: hispânico, hispano, Catalan: hispà, hispànic) is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or, in some definitions, to ancient Hispania, which comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar. Today, organizations in the United States use the term to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship either with Spain and Portugal or only with Spain.
The term is more broadly used to refer to the culture, peoples, or nations with a historical link to Spain, especially those countries which were once colonized by Spain, particularly the countries of Latin America which were colonized by Spain. The Hispanic culture is a set of customs, traditions, beliefs and art forms (music, literature, dress, architecture, cuisine or others) which are generally shared by peoples in Hispanic regions, but which can vary considerably from one country or territory to another. The Spanish and Portuguese cultures are the main cultural element shared by Hispanic peoples.
Isabella of Castile, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Francisco Pizarro, Hernán Cortés, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Ávila, Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco Goya, Rosalía de Castro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Sara Montiel, Placido Domingo, Julio Iglesias, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, Rafael Nadal
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