Why do job applications in the U.S. always separate “Hispanic or Latino” from everyone else in the ethnic background section?

Question

Why do job applications in the U.S. always separate “Hispanic or Latino” from everyone else in the ethnic background section?

In: Culture

Answer 1

So my SO (who has been to Spain) told me that Spaniards were as white as me and her are (we’re both of English ancestry) and when I saw pictures I was blown away. I leaned the difference between Spanish and Latin that day.