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The Pros And Cons Of Being Hispanic

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Foremost, the politics and etiquette surrounding the terms Hispanic and Latino/a, using them interchangeably, confuses many people – including myself before this class. This engenders the questions: who is Hispanic and who is Latino/a? Let us investigate the term Hispanic, which became “official” in the 1980 census and allowed one of Spanish or Spanish speaking descendent to identify as “Spanish/Hispanic” (Rodriguez 1992). Before the 1980 census, there was a common notion that such individuals had been born outside the US or were immigrant children (Rodriguez 1992). The 1980 census also allowed one to identify themselves based on ancestry and culture rather than by race, such as Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, or other. The most surprising aspect
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