>Again. Hispanic is a word created by government. They decided
>what to call people without talking to those people.
>
>Latino is a term the people themselves coined for themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/18/opinion/l-latino-hispanic-quechua-no-american-take-your-pick-718992.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_(demonym)

Swipe:
"
In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race" and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe", "Anglo-Saxon America" and "Slavic Europe". The term Latin America was supported by the French Empire of Napoleon III during the French invasion of Mexico, as a way to include France among countries with influence in America and to exclude Anglophone countries, and played a role in his campaign to imply cultural kinship of the region with France. The idea was taken up by Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France.
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>Stop right there.

smh. no reason to stop *discussing*