Some days I feel like a Latino. Some days I feel Chicano. Some days I feel like a Mexicano. Most days I feel like a Zacatecano, because that’s where my parents are from and that’s what my heritage is. I’m never really a Hispanic, because that’s just not a term that I use. I rarely think of myself as an American, because that’s just so self-evident that it reeks of desperation to identify myself as such.
Gustavo Arellano, editor of O.C. Weekly and the author of the column “Ask a Mexican,” discussing sometimes confusing and fluid identities.
From “What is Latino? Defining America’s Ambiguous Ethnicity“ [Huff Post]
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