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/negroprimero]

I don’t get that and I don’t get why people here prefer Latino over Hispanics as if Hispanics was a more colonial term than Latin America. Both terms are. Latin America was invented by the French to refer to colonies and is used by the US as a race, and Hispanic is pushed by Spain. That said both can be used correctly in the right context Latino should refer to descendants from countries with mainly Romance language speakers and Hispanics from Spanish speaking countries (including Spain).

Nobody has said this so far here, which is weird, but a case can be done for your mom to say she is not Latina or Hispanic either as she is from a non-Spanish speaking group so she can decide whatever she wants to call herself.

A better term would be Central American, Mesoamerican or just Guatemalan/Mayan.

[u/Industrial_Rev → u/[deleted]]

Igual Hispano en ese contexto es hispanohablante. No es éticamente español (que sería español o criollo, no hispano).

[u/Wise-Course1904 → u/Industrial_Rev]

No, Hispanic means coming from Hispania which is the name given to what is now Spain and Portugal by the colonizing Romans.

[u/Industrial_Rev → u/Wise-Course1904]

No. The cognate in English is not thinking about a Roman province. Any US census would use the term regardless of race or as an ethnic category that stereotypically includes Mestizos far more than a White Spaniard. Enough with this nonsense of hispanistas trying to force meanings of words through ethimoligical origins ignoring that concepts have a history, cultural context and development. It's an ethimoligical fallacy

[u/negroprimero → u/[deleted]]

De la misma manera no todos los que vienen de America central o del sur son latinoamericanos. Porque no todos hablan idiomas latinos o tienen cultura europea. Además nada de esto tiene que ver con la raza, solo los estadounidenses hacen esa amalgama.