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Originally Posted by nitido357
I don't know. The terms Latino and Hispanic are not something that came up from a movement like the evolution of the words negro, black and african-american. Both terms have been around for a while and taught at most schools in Latino American countries.
Now, maybe they grew up here and no one told them about the difference between a descriptor of a language and a descriptor of a group of people in many nationalities that share more than just the language.
Or perhaps they were going for what poorly foreign history educated Unitedstatians would understand...who knows
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Or perhaps she, herself, is Latina and chooses to say what she feels. But, who knows.