[nitido357]

carambola!!!! E-Z folks...pump your brakes a little.

I have read the entire thread. I did not address the whole "Mu Sigma Upsilon called themselves spanish" thing because that was not my concern or something that I cared much for.

I am aware that "I'm Spanish, and spanish is this or that"and all of the mish-mash in between.

I just did not agree with the Madam/Señorita/Señora/Dama/Doña that said "before college ...1999-2000..." because I was a dude that lived in the NE during that time and before that and traveled a bit in the area and didn't really experience that at all.

Perhaps that was due to the people I associated with, or the folks at the train stop or whatever...who cares. Point I was making is simple, Hispanic/Latino was not a new thing brought about the Y, more PC generation; like some responses in this thread had stated.

Folks, for the sake of being counted, census bureau folks have come up with about 25 different combinations of Hispanic with something to account for us exercising our right to self-determine our ethnicity. Trust, I recently had to write some newsprint on the rise of Hispanics in the US and localize that. So good for us, the system had to change for us!!!!

Now to the gent that said this ""Latino" or "Hispanic" are nomenclatures that are very frequently inaccurately applied - an example is people from Mexico or the Phillipnes."

I don't claim to have an Advanced Degree on this, but last time I checked with the locals of Mexican Birth and Mexican-Americans...they do use the terms Latino and Hispanic..and granted, they are not the Elitist folks from DF, these are folks from Sonora, Guerrero, Aguas Calientes, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, etc.....so what do you mean by Inaccurate? Not saying you are wrong, just want to hear your reasoning...