{"id":5058944,"date":"2023-08-17T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malatinonews.com\/?p=5058944"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T12:37:45","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-hispanic-or-latino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/maln\/2023\/08\/17\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-hispanic-or-latino\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean To Be Hispanic or Latino?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BOSTON\u2014Earlier this year, the Biden administration sparked a national and reflective conversation after it proposed to rephrase Hispanic as a race on the U.S. Census<\/a>. Latinos have been split over their support for the controversial change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2020 U.S. Census, over 43 percent of Hispanics either marked the \u201csome other race\u201d box or simply did not respond to the form\u2019s question on race. For decades, many Latinos have struggled to answer questions about race when Hispanic or Latino wasn\u2019t an option. A longstanding sense of confusion and exclusion had led to inaccurate data on the state\u2019s diverse populations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the form first asks for a participant\u2019s ethnicity\u2014if they identify as Hispanic\u2014and then separately asks them to select a race, which does not include a Hispanic\/Latino option. This follow-up question has long-confused many Hispanic\/Latinos across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interagency group that works with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget has proposed to combine those two questions to be \u201cWhat is your race or ethnicity?\u201d The Hispanic\/Latino category would also include a sub-question for respondents to check off their country of origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House\u2019s Office of Management and Budget accepted public comment on the proposal this spring and looks to make a decision next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what <\/em><\/strong>does<\/em><\/strong> it mean to be Hispanic\/Latino?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boston University student reporters Annika Chaves and Esmeralda Moran set out to create a multimedia project by asking Latinos in Boston that very question \u2014 one that is personal for the two reporters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Moran<\/strong>, who is from the Dominican Republic, it\u2019s the comfort she gets from her maternal grandmother\u2019s cooking and their special moments watching telenovelas. For Chaves<\/strong>, who hails from Colombia, it\u2019s being part of a larger immigrant community who left their home for the U.S. so she could get a better life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Puerto Rico to Bolivia, being Latino means something unique for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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