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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear teacher who refers to students as "Hispanic," let me explain to you why you should refer to us as Latino/a. I'm about to do some emotional labor here, which I'm 99% sure you're going to ignore because you think your familiarity with us gives you some kind of authority.

Hispanic and Latino are often conflated. They are not the same. Hispanic refers to the language and Latino refers to the culture. If you have indigenous students in your classes (and if you have any from central America, you almost certainly do), these are Latinos, not Hispanics. Some of them may even speak Spanish, as is common in Guatemala, but that's the language of the colonizers. Brazilians are Latinos, not Hispanics. I can go on. This is just like how we don't call all Alaska Natives "Inuit" anymore.

Aside from mislabeling people with a moniker that refers to a particular language, "Hispanic" also refers to the colonizing culture. Many Latinos find it offensive for this reason.

I'm not going to get into Latinx. I don't understand it.[/quote]

I get you.  I use the word “Latino” but my Latino students never do.  They [b]refer to themselves as Hispanic[/b].  You would need to give them this lecture.[/quote]

As does my sil from Mexico City. She laughed at me when I used the word Latina. [/quote]

DP and I think it's confusing because whenever you fill out demographic forms, they ask if you are "Hispanic" or "White, non-Hispanic", or other races. [/quote]

It’s really weird to see a bunch of white ladies discuss whether a Latina is right about the word she uses to refer to herself. You people probably would have argued about whether you could still use the N word. [/quote]

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