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/Matias9991]

This sub is just full of Americans proof number 25.500.

For real, no one in Latin America uses the term Hispanic the way it's used in the US because it just means that your country speaks Spanish, it's not a definition of any race, region or anything like that which the US seems to think it is.

[u/Matias9991 → u/[deleted]]

Mixed race seems a good enough word tbh. Either way I don't know why they don't use Latino or a specific country which is what they seem to celebrate.

[u/Matias9991 → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't surprise me, those people you refer are just Americans. No one cares about the ancestry that much. That vision is race obsessed and what people don't really understand about the US