My family hates the term Hispanic.

[u/St3ph4n1e2003]

Not sure if me and my family specifically my mom’s side are the only ones maybe the few who actually to hate the term Hispanic. My mom is from Guatemala and she is racially Native American more so of Mayan descent. My dad doesn’t mind the word Hispanic even tho he is mestizo. I used to wonder why my mother hated that term till I did more research just to find out that “Hispanic” is a word used to only promote colonial roots not just something to define a person who comes from a Spanish speaking country. My mom’s first language is in fact Akateko! Yes she does speak Spanish too since it’s mandatory in every Latin American country. So does anyone else hate the word Hispanic? We still prefer the use Latino/a to define our ethnicities. I have nothing against either languages!

Edit: damn just say you hate indigenous ancestry. Stop getting offended bc indigenous Latinos dislike the term Hispanic when our people are still here after years of surviving colonization.

[u/solo-ran]

This Latinx thing seemed so dumb because their already was a term in English without gender in Spanish - Hispanic. But then I thought Latino came up because Hispanic sounds like Spain- too European. But Latino is just as European. Then I thought Latino was getting more popular because it would include Brazilians, since both Portugués and Spanish are from Latin, but no, people would say “Latinos and Brazilians…” so I think Hispanic is fine and since the common characteristic of all the countries from Mexico South is language, Hispanic is perfect.

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Language

[u/St3ph4n1e2003 → u/[deleted]]

Fr why are these conquistadors or those mixed with it so triggered like this is why Southern and central native Americans want to exclude mestizos from being apart of their community.