Spanish Culture Vs Mexican Language Essay

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” These were the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson and I find it pretty inspiring when trying to figure out what I am or in what category is society putting me in. There has always been a confusion of what is the correct term to refer to oneself, Hispanic or Latino?
The word Hispanic has been around for a very long time and it’s a name applied to people of country heritage that speak the Spanish language. The US government began using this term to refer to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race in the 1970’s. Then the term continued to be used and I have never felt offended by the term even though I know that it’s an easy term to generalize a whole lot of people.
On the other hand you have the term Latino or Latina which definition is a person who speaks a romance language (i.e. Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese) or their cultural
For example I was a person that liked to watch their news in Univision but then afterwards I began noticing that there was a slight change in the facts and I noticed this by watching the same news in NBC or ABC. The facts were altered I believe to rile up the Latino community with some of the things that the government changes that are happening. I believe that the new generation of Latinos are more informed and are not easily fooled by the media, we have more information outlets at the tip of our hands. We are constantly on social media and we are able to get second by second notifications of what is happening in our country and in other countries by direct