Comments on: Hispanic or Latino? http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino Foreign Language Stuff Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Zach http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-48 Zach Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:10:49 +0000 http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-48 Whoops! So sorry about that, it's all fixed. Thanks for your input! Whoops! So sorry about that, it’s all fixed.

Thanks for your input!

]]> By: Bilingual Blogger http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-45 Bilingual Blogger Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:30:48 +0000 http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-45 Zach, Sorry...but another "oops." Can you fix the links to my blog in your post? The URL should be "spanish-podcast.com" not "spanish-podcast.org" Thanks! P.S. You can delete this comment as well. :) Zach,
Sorry…but another “oops.” Can you fix the links to my blog in your post? The URL should be “spanish-podcast.com” not “spanish-podcast.org”

Thanks!

P.S. You can delete this comment as well. :)

]]> By: Bilingual Blogger http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-43 Bilingual Blogger Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:25:09 +0000 http://www.linglot.com/2008/02/hispanic-or-latino#comment-43 Hi Zach! Thanks for the reciprocal post. I'm still kind of conflicted about this. I hear people use both terms in the U.S. and while some people don't care, others don't like either term. But with the amazing diversity of ethnicities and nationalities that exists in the U.S., I think we do need one term that can describe a wide swath of people. After all we use the term "Asian" to describe anyone from China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the Phillipines, etc. and "Southeast Asian" to describe people from countries like India and Pakistan and with those terms we're referring to billions of people. It seems that the U.S. government has opted for the term "hispanic" while the U.S. media uses both "hispanic" and "latino." You probably noticed that the article that my post linked to was written by a reporter from Nicaragua who said in her article that she was fine with being called both "hispanic" and "latino." It is interesting to me though the baggage that both terms have in Spain. Saludos. Hi Zach!
Thanks for the reciprocal post. I’m still kind of conflicted about this. I hear people use both terms in the U.S. and while some people don’t care, others don’t like either term. But with the amazing diversity of ethnicities and nationalities that exists in the U.S., I think we do need one term that can describe a wide swath of people. After all we use the term “Asian” to describe anyone from China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the Phillipines, etc. and “Southeast Asian” to describe people from countries like India and Pakistan and with those terms we’re referring to billions of people.

It seems that the U.S. government has opted for the term “hispanic” while the U.S. media uses both “hispanic” and “latino.” You probably noticed that the article that my post linked to was written by a reporter from Nicaragua who said in her article that she was fine with being called both “hispanic” and “latino.”

It is interesting to me though the baggage that both terms have in Spain.

Saludos.

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