I cannot overstate how ignorant this is. Latinos are not any one thing. They are a pan ethnicity that includes elements of multiple ethnic groups including white people, the Taino, Maya, Quechua, Dieguenos, and Afro-Latinos, among many others.
Oh yes. Mayans and other central American native people... in a list with peope living in the Caribbean....very well known "Latinos".
This only makes sense if you ascribe "latino" to the native people before the arrival of the Spanish.
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The etymology of Latino could have been your friend here.
Latino - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
From American Spanish origin, Latino (1946) means a male Latin-American inhabitant of the U.S.; adjective use dates from 1974, derived from Latinoamericano "Latin...
