ethnicity employed to categorize people for various administrative purposes, including census statistics and anti-discrimination laws. The term is defined differently in specific contexts, when defined clearly at all. Most often, it means any person, of any ethnic or racial background(s), of any nationality and of any religion, who has at least one ancestor from the people of the Spanish-speaking world. Such a categorization is not exclusive of other ethnicities (one may identify as both European American and Hispanic, as both African American and Hispanic, etc.) In other contexts, it has been used more geographically than ethnically, labeling any person of (or descended from a person of) Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry (thus including numerous Indigenous peoples of the Americas who might otherwise be classified as Native American, if not for the association with Latin American political geography). Lusitanics are thus not Hispanic for most ethnic categorization purposes in the United States, under either definition. However, there are debatably some exceptions. For instance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has no official position as to whether or not Lusitanic qualifies as Hispanic, and the State of Florida, for its purposes, classifies Portuguese as Hispanic. The broader term Latino more often encompasses both Hispanic and Lusitanic. Lusitanic Americans Although Portuguese American is more common, the terms Lusitanic American, Lusitanian American (all sometimes hyphenated, especially when used adjectivally), and Luso-American (always hyphenated) are most often used in English to refer to Portuguese-descended people in the United States, and the terms are comparable to African American, Irish American, and similar categorizations. Like all such "hyphenated American" labels, they can be used more broadly to refer to all the Americas generally, and this encompassing sense is more common outside the US. As with the others, more specific national variants exist, e.g. Portuguese Canadian or Luso-Canadian, and Portuguese Brazilian or Luso-Brazilian. In Brazilian Portuguese, the cognate terms are used with the broad meaning. A (feminine: ), with a capital L, is anyone in the Americas with a Portuguese ethnic background. The adjective (lower case) refers to Portuguese culture in the Western Hemisphere. With regard to Portuguese culture more broadly: , or for short, defines anyone of Portuguese descent or origin, while is the corresponding cultural adjective; these are equivalent to English Lusitanic. A Lusophone () is any speaker of the Portuguese language (more literally in Portuguese a ), native or otherwise;