I am not saying that they object... I am saying what is the growing preference. Again, I draw a parallel to the Negro -> Black -> African American change in identity over the last 60 years or so. This is a generational change, as well.
I can use my wife as another example, too. She accepts Latina and Hispanic, but prefers "Mexican" as to her origin although she is adamant in saying that she is now an "American" as she worked to get her residency and citizenship.
Actually, it's a work in progress... what we call "social change".
I was using an example of a person the Census and the OMB call "Hispanic". I could use my extended family from Mexico, Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Florida, Georgia, Texas and California as well. Again, this is sort of sample size = 1 and presented anecdotally. But the examples are used to illustrate what I see in my work in programming and management here and as far south as my current project in Bolivia.
That's correct. Mexico, which has accepted if not always welcoming waves of Spaniards, French, Americans, Lebanese, Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups is not as obsessed with dividing people into subsets as we seem to be.
Puerto Rico is not a state, Texas is. In non-binding referenda over many decades, statehood has never achieved a significant majority in Puerto Rico and the Island is in many ways very separate, starting with the elimination of public bilingual education more than a half a century ago, resulting in English proficiency only coming from private school graduates.
That's why half the population does not want statehood.
Both. All FMs with rare exceptions are in Stereo and the term "stereo" is pretty dated in the digital age. "Latino" is just not a good identity when the younger and under 30 generations don't find that term appealing or part of their self identity.
Because a Mexican feels Mexican, not "Hispanic" which is a "white guys in the government" creation. Because the Venezuelan in Katyzuela is still proud of their nation's history and heritage. And so on.
Even in places I worked like Chile and Argentina, I'd often get asked what that "Hispanic" term was all about. I had to explain the fact that it was created to comply with the US anti-discrimination laws to classify a widely varied group for the US Census.
I did not say "rejecting". I said that there is a growing preference for other terms and an increasing rejection of the government terms. Since radio is in the business of trying to appeal to people, it makes sense to use the preferred identity terms.
All larger nations have distinct names for regional origins, some kind and some not so much. When I was in Ecuador, the more cultured person from Quito called the folks from Guayaquil "monos" which meant "monkeys".
Sign in one of the seafood restaurants in Puerto Nuevo, south of Tijuana: "No Perros. No Chilangos". (No dogs or people from Mexico City).
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