Latinos or Hispanics

[nq:1]I call Spanish-speaking people in America Hispanics. Am I right in this, or wrong? (Hi, Donna!) I'm pretty sure Beaners is out, but is calling them Latinos considered rude?[/nq]
Au contraire. Some academics and pressure-groups think that 'Hispanic' is demeaning and 'Latino' is empowering. I posted a link to a professor's long (attempted) explanation of why this is so a few months ago.

[nq:2]I call Spanish-speaking people in America Hispanics. Am I right ... Beaners is out, but is calling them Latinos considered rude?[/nq]
[nq:1]Au contraire. Some academics and pressure-groups think that 'Hispanic' is demeaning and 'Latino' is empowering. I posted a link to a professor's long (attempted) explanation of why this is so a few months ago.[/nq]
I remember too well when there

[nq:1]I call Spanish-speaking people in America Hispanics. Am I right in this, or wrong? (Hi, Donna!) I'm pretty sure Beaners is out, but is calling them Latinos considered rude?[/nq]
If you were still living in the US, both would be good enough. Now you're in the wide world, you want to call them Latin Americans to be understood.

Charles Riggs filted:
[nq:1]I call Spanish-speaking people in America Hispanics. Am I right in this, or wrong? (Hi, Donna!) I'm pretty sure Beaners is out, but is calling them Latinos considered rude?[/nq]
There's even less agreement on this, e'en among those to whom the terms are supposed to apply, than there is on Black/Negro/African-American...about all I can say to help you is that the

[nq:1]What's a poor Anglo to do? Well, the right-wing crowd has it easy; they just call them werbacks.[/nq]
I don't think so. (Oh, okay. I know what word you mean.)
[nq:1]..And the apathetic just ignore it all.[/nq]
Sure. "Ignoring" comes with being apathetic. (But who cares, right?)

Anyway: The terms "Latinos" and "Hispanics" are mainly governmentese catch-alls. The actual pe

[nq:1](5) "Wetback" should only be used if you were in DeMolay, in the company of at least a dozen others likewise, drunk on beer, and wearing cowboy boots..r[/nq]
For anyone who wonders:
http://www.demolay.org/home/index.shtml
I think the Masons founded DeMolay. Not sure.
Maria Conlon

Haitians aren't Latino/Hispanic.
"Citizenship" doesn't quite work as a term to use when speaking of such matters because the children born in the US of Latino parents are American citizens: they would be Mexican-Americans, Columbian-Americans, etc. Furthermore, all Puerto Ricans are American citizens (so you wouldn't say *"Puerto-Rican Americans"). Then there will inevitably be Latinos whose p

[nq:1]Maria Conlon wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Anyway: The terms "Latinos" and "Hispanics" are mainly governmentese catch-alls. ... break everyone down into ethnic origins, even in broad terms.[/nq]
[nq:1]Haitians aren't Latino/Hispanic.[/nq]
Yes. West African, I think. I was thinking of the name of the nation (and spelled "Haitians" wrong, by the way, despite the fact that I know a few). Then th

[nq:1]I call Spanish-speaking people in America Hispanics. Am I right in this, or wrong? (Hi, Donna!) I'm pretty sure Beaners is out, but is calling them Latinos considered rude?[/nq]
I'll stick with "beaners," but that's just me.
I live in Buena Park, Southern California, at the heart of the immigration problem. The Mexican students at the high school used to wear these shirts proclaiming

[nq:1]I remember too well when there were groups in the states bordering Mexico insisting on "Chicano/Chicana" as empowering, while others were just as loudly calling those terms demeaning and insulting. What's a poor Anglo to do?[/nq]
Indeed.
[nq:1]Well, the right-wing crowd has it easy; they just call them werbacks. And the apathetic just ignore it all.[/nq]
But not academia. Here's