For all my life I've always identified as "Mexican" or "Hispanic" and I've never thought about what those labels meant. I've never thought about my race or ethnicity. I've never really been happy with "mexican" because whenever I'm asked that wonderful question every POC gets asked "what are you"🙄. They then proceed to guess and say " I thought you were Mexican", this is we're the problem comes in. I don't like the fact "Mexican" is used to label people as an entire race. It's like saying someone's race is American. Don't get me wrong I'm proud to be Mexican but just the fact that it's thrown around carelessly. There's more to it but I'm not able to word it well.
Now for the difference between race and ethnicity I'm not entirely sure of nor do I know the definitions. I know that there are many different definitions to those words but how do I know which ones to trust? Same thing goes for Hispanic and Latino. To my knowledge Hispanic means being of Spanish descent or being Spanish. Obviously I know that most of Mexico's population is Mestizo and would most likely have Spanish in them. So does that still apply to the people of Mexico's who are mestizo? See I asked my mom what race we were to see what she said, all she said was "pues somos hispanos/well we're Hispanic" and that had me thinking do, the people of Mexico not know "who they are" and just identify as Mexican or Hispanic?
Lastly there's the label Mexican Americans use "Chicano". I'm from the south and I've never heard of that word until like 3 years ago. I don't really know what it means or if "I qualify for it?"haha, but I'm interested.
So in conclusion, I basically don't know anything 😂. But if anyone who knows about this stuff and is Mexican American or Chicano, It would mean a lot of you would help a girlie out! :) I'm really interested and I justn don't sit well with the label "Mexican" to identify me as my race.
---11/28/16
I really need to re write this bc it's so sloppy and I don't make sense😩
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