december utc anyone of any european ancestry whether it be spanish italian british german or whatever is considered white spanish people are also hispanic hispanic is not a race it's an ethnicity there are white hispanics black hispanics american indian hispanics and even asian hispanics in hispanic countries such as cuba people are classified as either white or black a cuban immigrates to the u s and they're race is still the same it doesn't change to hispanic the term hispanic only refers to the country of origin just like you wouldn't consider irish a race you wouldn't consider hispanic a race either