As an American of Italian (hence TRULY Latin heritage), I resent the Spanish speaking Siberian immigrants stealing the term “Latino”. MY ancestors were “Latino”. Their ancestors came from Asia or Siberia 10,000 years ago, and were eventually conquered by Europeans who spoke SPANISH or Portuguese, Romance languages. Nothing about them is Latin except the derivation of their language. They are more correctly called Siberian Americans. But hey, history is just the way that the white man keeps minorities oppressed.
Mestizo (Brazilian Portuguese: mestiço, French: métis) is a Spanish term that was used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in Latin America. The term continues to be used today in the Americas.It is also used in some parts of Asia-Pacific to refer to people of mixed European and other indigenous ancestry.
The term is mostly used specifically of those people of the particular racial mixture of European and American Indian who inhabit and comprise much of the population of Latin America.