Poll for Hispanic/Latino ILXors: do you prefer "Hispanic" vs. "Latino"?

My mom is from Mexico, my dad was white. Growing up, my mom spoke mostly Spanish to my brother and me, and we spoke only English to her. I understand Spanish pretty much perfectly, though non-Mexican Spanish trips me up sometimes. Speaking it is harder than understanding it spoken, reading it is a little harder and slower than that, and writing it is just a problem.

My family lived in Mexico briefly when my brother was about 4 years old and he was very capably bilingual during that time. But now I can speak it far better than he can for some reason.

My dad never learned Spanish and he didn't like being excluded, so he discouraged its being spoken around him. Since my dad died, my brother and I have started using a little Spanglish with my mom, which is cool, but it would feel really weird and embarrassing to speak to her in whole sentences in Spanish.

hispanic/latin@s here - do you speak spanish? did you speak it growing up? if you don't speak it, how do you feel about that?

― marcos, Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:58 AM (5 hours ago)

small amount of spanish, but didn't speak it growing up. frequently told 'you're basically white' and i wish i could speak better so i could rail on haterz in a tongue faster and more badass than english.

Speak, read (fluently) and write it (poorly). My parents were sticklers for Spanish at home, English outside. Turned out ok and it's helped me pick up French and a bit of Italian more easily than if I had gone from English to those languages.

about the origin of the "hispanic" box on the census, plus bonus census PSAs featuring ChiChi Rodriguez, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, y Big Bird!
http://latinousa.org/2015/05/22/the-invention-of-hispanics/

lol my therapist sometimes uses "latin" and it bothers me a little but is a sweet guy so i don't call him out on it. otherwise i hate "latin" ugh