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Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka. [43]The etymology of the term Chicano is the subject of some debate by historians. [44] Some believe Chicano is a Spanish language derivative of an older Nahuatl word Mexitli ("Meh-shee-tlee").
For some people, Hispanic is a word they chose to identify with, but for others Latino, Latina, Latinx and even Chicano or Chicana hold deeper personal significance.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
[2] [9] The term has sometimes been used to encompass all related identifiers of Latino/a, Latin@, Latinx, Chicano/a, Chican@, Latin American, or Hispanic, [3] and to replace what have been called colonizing and assimilationist terms, like Latino/a, Mexican American, Mestizo, and Hispanic. [10]
Latinx is a term for a group identity used to describe individuals in the United States who have Latin American roots. [7] [8] Other names for this social category include Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latin@ (combining the letters "a" and "o" into the character @).
The term Latinx (and similar neologism Xicanx) have gained some usage. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The adoption of the X would be "[r]eflecting new consciousness inspired by more recent work by LGBTQI and feminist movements, some Spanish-speaking activists are increasingly using a yet more inclusive "x" to replace the "a" and "o", in a complete break with ...
About a third (36%) of Latinos aware of "Latinx" view its widespread use as "a bad thing," while 12% see it is "a good thing." 38% of Hispanics view the growing use of "Latinx" as neither good nor ...
A very common stereotype of Hispanic/Latino males is that of the criminal, gang member or "cholo". It is connected to the idea of Hispanic/Latinos being lower class and living in dangerous neighborhoods that breed the attitude of "cholo". Cholo and chola are terms often used in the United States to denote members of the Chicano gang subculture.