‘Latino, Si--Hispanic, No’
Del Olmo objects to the use of the word Hispanic, and I am just as annoyed by the word he prefers: Latino.
Writing in an English-language newspaper, he quite properly refers to Mejicanos as Mexicans and Cubanos as Cubans, so why should Latins become Latinos?
HUGH A. BURR
San Diego
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