Latina and Hispanic?

BTW..... I am and have been REALLY attracted to Latina providers.

I booked with a very nice Latina provider and she almost seemed AA;
who BTW..... I am also very attracted to. LOL  

Is their a difference?

Your thoughts if any?

Latina would apply to a woman of Latin American heritage.

Hispanic would apply more to a woman of Spanish heritage. It is more Eurocentric.

While Spanish may be a shared language, cultural and geographic origins are different.

There are other differences and preferences as well.  

Then again, I identify as an American, even though my geographic and cultural roots are Scandinavian. Or is that Swedish?  

Refer to her as SHE refers to herself.

Pardon my ignorance, what's AA?

I also think the OP was asking about some being darker skinned than others, which is true.  For example, girls from the Dominican Republic can be quite dark skinned, while those from Colombia can be very European looking.

There's a big difference.  Latina refers to geography and Hispanic refers to language.  Both of which are commonly misused as ways to describe race instead of ethnicity.

Some people of the Dominican ethnicity for example do have darker skin

African American, most likely.

The term 'Hispanic' usually refers to people from Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether they're white, black, or American-Indian. Like a Mexican would be as much of a Hispanic as an Argentine.  

"Latinas" may also include Brazilians who speak Portuguese.  

Spanish from Spain are technically not Hispanics but European, same as Portuguese from Portugal.

Both references however are purely American. They may mean totally different things abroad.  
I don't think the term Hispanic is commonly used in England, where those from South/Central America are referred to as South Americans or by their respective countries. It actually creates very common confusion in relation to Mexicans who are North Americans. Many Brits naturally do not realize that.  

The term Latino in Europe may carry much wider meaning but usually refers to other Europeans, like Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, and even French and Romanians

I've always been taught each of the terms are one in the same. DONE, easy right?

With the slave/spice trades being what they were; Hispanic/Latino people, dark and light can be found all over the globe; it comes down genetics as opposed to geography.  

For example: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are both of Cuban descent and are very fair skinned gentleman.

My family is of Cuban and Panamanian descent and we vary from Vanilla to Caramel and Cocoa. If you look at a map of most Hispanic/Latino countries you'll notice that of enough the surrounding countries are of African and Hispanic heritage. I.e. the islands closest to Cuba are Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas.

Hope this helps! Long story short Hispanic/Latina== HOTTI

This maybe true for you but defiantly not true for Brazilians who may get pretty resentful if you refer to them as "Hispanics" but not so as Latinas.

Absolutely, Brazil like the Dominican Republic refuses to acknowledge and accept their African heritage. The word Latin allows them to feel more so connected with white or European Hispanics.

During the course of slavery nearly 4.5 million Africans were brought to Brazil. Brazil also was the last country in the western world to abolish slavery in 1888. At that time, Africans attributed to over nearly 50% of Brazils population. So to remedy what Brazilian government believed to be a "problem", the Brazil government in 1945 began prohibiting the immigration of Black people and issued a decree favoring the entrance of European immigrants in the country: “In the admission of immigrants, the need to preserve and develop, in the ethnic composition of the population, the more convenient features of their European ancestry shall be considered.” This is also around the time when many Nazis escaped Germany and Poland and hid in Brazil and continued their "studies on genetic manipulation".

 
They also PAID European immigrants, provided them with homes, Land, and Jobs to sweeten the pot in attempts to "whiten" the population. Then they began systematically, moving them into the Favellas (ghettos, low income housing) and denying Black Brazilians to education and employment.

It only makes sense that individuals who have worked so hard to become white, would have a problem with being associated with their Black heritage.

So they ditched the dark skin and kept the shapely derrières, BOOM. History lesson for free.

 
Also, all of these facts I've stated can be found online and in documentaries on Youtube and Netflix

Hispanic and Latina do not have the same meaning and are not synonyms. All communication will (further) break down if we just keep using words in any we want. New words are created and definitions do evolve, but some words are still precise enough (Latina, Hispanic) to have specific and non-identical meanings

....i've personally never used Hispanic in ref to myself (or Latino(a)s of Caribbean descent anyways.  
I'm part Haitian though (other part is Afro-Puerto Rican) .... so generally just describe myself as Caribbean  

This is a good article imo: http://mic.com/articles/111648/9-things-latinos-are-tired-of-explaining-to-everyone-else

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2tdjzla8

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Most latins are a mix of black/white/indigenous.  Dominicans tend to be darker because their mix has greater % black ancestry.