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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can beat that. My grandfather is from Spain. I can legitimately check the Hispanic box. And I do![/quote]

People from Spain are NOT Hispanic.  You have been filling that box falsely.  [/quote]

That's not true. The term 'Hispanic' became common in the US in the 1907s. In 1976 the US government defined Hispanic in such a way that it included people whose grandparents were born in Spain (and Portugal), for the purposes of the cenus. That was the first time that 'Hispanic' was an option for the census. It referred originally to people who traced their ancestry to a Spanish speaking country generally. There's actually a lot of people who don't like the term Hispanic because of its Eurocentrism (and what about Brazilians?), but I don't think there's much question that the term both historically and now includes people whose grandparents are from Spain.

With regards to college, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund explicitly defines 'Hispanic' as including people whose "ancestry" is from Spain. ([url=http://hsf.net/en/resources/faqs/eligibility/]link[/url]). NCLR, which is one of the biggest Latino and Hispanic advocacy organizations, talks about it [url=http://blog.nclr.org/2015/10/15/hispanic-heritage-month-latino-hispanic-both-neither/]here[/url]. They follow the US Census definition, which would include the PP. Incidentally, many organizations, including (I think) the US Census, ask about Hispanic and Latino separately.

You can argue whether all these scholarships and admissions recognition should only be for Latinos, but I don't think it's correct to tell PP that she's been incorrectly checking the Hispanic box.

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