Latino Greek Letter Organizations

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Originally Posted by 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.

Again, your lack of reading has you missing the original point made and you seem to missing the fact that I, among several other posters, have clearly stated that in our PERSONAL experiences "Spanish" was used to describe/identify Latinos before we entered college, and upon entering college Latino became the more commonly heard/used term. Which is why in my response to Serenity (at least I think it was her), I stated the decade in which the organization was founded (the 1980s) "Spanish" was a common descriptor for latinos, particularly in the North East. No one made the claim that latino was a "new" term established circa the turn of the century, but that we didn't witness it's usage until then. If your experiences are/were different, great, those are your personal experiences, yet it still does not negate what everyone else has said.

Originally Posted by nitido357

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...

Locals is the key word in the paragraph. You are currently in Texas (according the location you filled out in GC) and what it is in Texas is not always what it is in Boston, NYC, or Jersey City, etc. You are trying to extrapolate what you know from Texas, to the entire US/other regions of the country. There are undoubtedly similarities, as there are undoubtedly differences.