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What are you talking about?
I am Hispanic and I do not identify primarily with people from the Iberian peninsula. What the term means to me is that I speak Spanish. That's all it is.
You have very little understanding of what the term means or how is it used in Central, South, and the Insular America's.
Here is some reading for you:
The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States
Genetic makeup of Hispanic/Latino Americans influenced by Native American, European and African-American ancestries
The Difference Between Hispanic and Latino - Courageous Conversation
Speaking Spanish does not make someone Hispanic. If that were the case then all of my Armenian friends born in Soviet Armenia who came to L.A. and learned to speak Spanish fluently as good as any native speaker make them Hispanic? No. And my African American in-laws from Louisiana and Mississippi who also moved to L.A. and learned to speak Spanish fluently are Hispanic because they speak Spanish? No. Speaking Spanish dies not make someone Hispanic any more than speaking English make somebody Anglo. So is Denzel Washington, Lucy Liu, Oprah Winfrey, Jacky Chan Anglo because they speak English? No.
I am Mexican and lived there many years. Never did we identify ourselves or use the terms Latin/Hispanic to refer to us or identify as such. My cousins from Central America who lived and grew up there also never used them either to refer to themselves as such. Our parents, uncles on either side also never used those terms. Neither did our grand-parents never ever used that terminology. The only time it was ever rarely used was to refer to those people from Italy, France, Romania, etc., and those individuals who immigrated or ancestors immigrated from there.
The difference between Hispanic and Latin are that Latins refer to all the umbrella of Europeans of Latin descent, Hispanics are the Latins specifically of the region from Hispania (Spain and Portugal).