Title: Hispanic or Latino? It's Complicated | HowStuffWorks
Headings: Hispanic or Latino? It’s Complicated
Hispanic or Latino? It’s Complicated
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Content: And when asked how they would describe themselves, 54 percent said they'd use an "origin term" like Mexican or Dominican, 23 percent said simply "American," and only 20 percent used an umbrella term like Hispanic or Latino. More recently, the term Latinx has been tossed into the mix. It was born of the LGBTQ movement and a desire among some Latinos to create a more inclusive term outside of the gender binary Latino or Latina. Romero worries that it's impossible to rid the Spanish language of gendered words and that Latinx is confusing to native Spanish speakers. But María R. Scharrón-del Río, a counseling professor at Brooklyn College, disagrees, seeing the new word as a way of reaching out to people who haven't always been embraced by Latino immigrant communities. "By using Latinx, nobody is telling you how to identify. It's up to you if you want to be Latinx, Latino, or something else," she told NBC News. " It's really a way to be inclusive. For people who are traditionally marginalized, that millisecond of politeness and recognition towards someone who is gender queer, tells them that you see them, that you are an ally." Now That's Interesting
Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity, not a racial group.