my arab gf keeps referring to latinxs as “Spaniards” and insists that they are the same people

>>213066872 (OP)
She's not wrong. There's millions of criollos and castizos that are essentially expat Spaniards. Most of us aren't castizos or criollos though

Nafris in France always say they conquered (not colonized, they say it's different) Iberians and Italians which makes them half-bloods, and that there is a "mediterranean" phenotype/culture

>>213066986
yeah she even calls the short Mayan pudgeballs “Spaniards”

>>213066872 (OP)
That’s just Americanization probably
Calling Hispanics “Spanish” is pretty common among the lower class

>>213067075
she’s an exchange student thoughbeit

>>213067124
I don’t care shut the fuck up

>>213067043
>>213067124
your arab girlfirend is just retarded if she thinks that. The natives have been Hispanicized but they are NOT Hispanics. The equivalent is like calling the Algerians or Moroccans Franks because they speak french lol
>>213067075
Hispanic is just the ethnic term for Spaniards

>>213066872 (OP)
Don't most Americans basically think Spain is in Latin America or don't even think about Spain at all?