I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
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I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.
Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.
I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.
The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.
I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
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