Hispanic vs. Latino
In these times of political correctness and cultural awareness and sensitivity, it is very important to know the right term when discussing a people or their culture. It is very easy to offend without intending to so or to cause emotional pain through ignorance. This is why it has become increasingly important to know the right cultural term for a given population. People with Mexican heritage have interchangeably been referred to by the terms Hispanic or Latino for many years. Lately, it has become necessary to create a single identifying term so that the group feels unified and no one feels at all slighted by a term they deem to be in any way offensive to themselves or their culture. Many cultural critics have argued that the term Hispanic is more offensive that Latino because it the term was created by the government and Latino was the term that the original culture chose to identify themselves with.
The term Hispanic was adopted by the American government in the 1970s to assist in keeping track of population growth during the period of Affirmative Action. The Nixon administration created the term to correspond to anyone who belonged to a culture that predominantly Spanish-speaking. "The key was the language not the country of origin" (Hispanic). Prior to the creation of this term, the government used the labels "persons of Spanish surname" or "persons of Spanish mother tongue" (Beretto). The label was given to those based on the potential ethnicity of their name or if their first language was Spanish. By creating the term Hispanic, the government was trying to create a word that would service a greater population of people and be more accurate, utilizing a person's self-definition rather than observation.
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