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The term Hispanic (or, hispàno) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

It commonly applies to countries once colonized by the Spanish Empire in the Americas (see Spanish colonization of the Americas) and Asia, particularly the countries of Latin America and the Philippines.

It could be argued that the term should apply to all Spanish-speaking cultures or countries, as the historical roots of the word specifically pertain to the Iberian region.

It is difficult to label a nation or culture with one term, such as Hispanic, as the ethnicities, customs, traditions, and art forms (music, literature, dress, culture, cuisine, and others) vary greatly by country and region.

The Spanish language and Spanish culture are the main traditions.

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans, are Americans who are descendants of the peoples of Spain, Portugal, or the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries 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 Rican," or "Cuban") as well as those who indicated that they were "other Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino." The national origins classified as Hispanic or Latino by the United States Census Bureau are the following: Spanish, Argentine, Cuban, Colombian, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican, Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Bolivian, Chilean, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, and Venezuelan.

Other U.S. government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term, including Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking groups.

The Census Bureau uses the terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area.

Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

American Experience is a television program airing on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations in the United States.

The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history.

AL DÍA News Media is a media company based in Philadelphia, that challenges mainstream media stereotypes of the Latino experience in the United States.