---
title: "Is speaking Spanish necessary to be Hispanic? Most Hispanics say no"
date: "2016-02-19"
authors:
  - name: "Mark Hugo Lopez"
    job_title: "Director, Race and Ethnicity Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/mark-hugo-lopez/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2016/02/19/is-speaking-spanish-necessary-to-be-hispanic-most-hispanics-say-no/"
datasets:
  - name: "2015 National Survey of Latinos"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/2015-national-survey-of-latinos/"
---

# Is speaking Spanish necessary to be Hispanic? Most Hispanics say no