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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never heard my Mexican friends say they are "Spanish" (I went to school that was like 50% Hispanic). My DH from South America is Latino but largely Italian and never says he is Spanish.

Perhaps they claim Spanish because they are trying to sound European, which is more acceptable to bigots, who are super vocal with the hate.[/quote]

OP here. That's interesting. These kids were all from Central American backgrounds. Maybe Referring to oneself as Spanish is more a Central American phenomena instead of Mexican? [/quote]

For a so called teacher you sound pretty ignorant. South american is not the same as central american. Also I am a DC native (latina) and lived here the past 30 yrs. There is a very low number of mexicans in this area unless you teach in manassas va. Black people have always called me spanish but I never heard another hispanic refer to themselves as spanish when they were something else. In predominant black schools hispanic kids are called spanish but when latinos refer to other latinos they call each other the country they or their parents are from.[/quote]

I think it depends on the age group.  My kids attend a predominantly Hispanic elementary school, and their Hispanic friends do say Spanish instead of Hispanic.  They also use their parents' country of origin.  Maybe as they get older they stop using Spanish and switch to Latino because I've heard my middle schooler's friend say Latina/Latino not Spanish.  I don't think I've heard any of them refer to themselves as Hispanic.[/quote]

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