What I think a Hispanic accent would be:
Hispanic refers to people whose origin are Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Hispanic/Latino, regardless of race.
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 2002, Ethnic and Hispanic Statistics Branch, Population
Division.
1) Hispanic is a broad encompassing term (used today in ways much like 'Asian' is used
sort of). So when I read the comment I took it to mean Spanish, Puerto Rican, Latino etc. Which... AREN'T all the same sounding completely but there is some similarity. I umm... mean that in the sense of Australia say is a big place but I could tell someone was from there (or from N. Zealand) probably. Just like I may be able to tell if a person was of Hispanic descent and was born or grew up in N. America say.
2) I also think that fact the original poster used the word
Hispanic was a
well intentioned attempt to use a term which s/he felt would not offend people who would be grouped under that term - e.g. by the Census Bureau, community etc. I don't think it was remotely an "I hate Hispanic voices" comment which... would be offensive [obviously!]. Just a preference over which accents are preferred. For all sorts of reasons different people grow to like different accents over others. Variety is good.
These are really my opinions, I'm not saying it just 'cause A Random DphiE said Brit accents were good.
