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How do you know when to say Mexican? Do you base it on the color of someone's skin? On the fact that they speak Spanish? Or do you know that their heritage is actually Mexican?
Time and time again I hear people make comments using the word Mexican in the wrong context. For example, 'I don't speak Mexican' or 'I don't listen to Mexican music'. Is it a sign of ethnocentricism or just plain ignorance?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the term Latino be used instead of Mexican?
Viva Mexico! But that is not the only country in the world where Spanish is spoken. In fact there are more than a dozen countries in which Spanish is spoken that have no geographic relation or cultural semblance to Mexico.
Places such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Spain, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala have thier own distinct cultures, histories and...
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