8602412493?profile=originalTwo-thirds of Latinos in the U.S. consider their Hispanic background to be part of their race, a newly released Pew Research Center survey has found.

That's the case even though Hispanic is considered an ethnicity by the U.S. Census bureau.

"That finding alone ... speaks to many Hispanics who say that their background is part of their race. That is something that doesn't fit with what Census' five standard backgrounds are," said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at Pew Research Center.

Those backgrounds are white, black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.

The Pew Research Center's report Mutiracial in America, issued Thursday, gives a detailed picture of how Americans who consider themselves multiracial see themselves. People from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds were surveyed for the report. READ MORE AT NBC NEWS

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