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    Cepeda: Latinos should get over fixation on ethnic labels

    Cepeda: Latinos should get over fixation on ethnic labels
    Posted: August 6, 2011 - 12:04am

    The melting pot that fuses the unique characteristics of newcomers into a diverse America seems to be cooling — at least when it comes to Latinos.

    Or should I say Hispanics? Chicanos?

    I bring this up because of a full-bore Latino identity crisis typified by obsessive conversations about labels. Across the country, Latinos are immersing themselves in debates about who they are, who they want to be, what they’ll call themselves and, most importantly, what they want others to call them.

    Insert snore here.

    Really, there are so many important issues that Hispanics are up against right now — lack of jobs, inadequate education levels, the obesity epidemic — you’d think there would be little time to spend on a discussion that should be simple: Identify as Americans first and consider your ethnic subgroup a less important data point.

    But no. To some, the word “Americanâ€
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    Despite that since 2000 the majority of Latino population growth has come from births and not immigration, both Hispanics and non-Hispanics alike insist on equating Latinos with immigrants.
    I consider anchor babies as part of the illegal immigration problem. And I don't equate them with immigrants, I equate them with illegal immigrants. Again, conveniently omitted.
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    They really dont like what i call or lable them.

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