Hispanic or Latino

[Guest guest]

I know most would like to identify with their country of origin.

I would then be considered an American (US citizen) I am US born

of a mexican-american father, Spanish and English mother (from West Tampa

a long estabished latino community), a Cuban stepgrandmother (very influencial)

and a Puerto Rican husband with whom I lived in Puerto Rico for many years.

I consider myself a bicultural Latina and American. As far as the

Latino culture, I'm more Puerto Rican than the "biological" mix. That ethnic

mix has influenced who I am as a USA citizen. I refer to myself as a Latina.

American for me has always been a given, as growing up in New York

City in the fifties almost everyone's grand parents were from some place

else. Maybe I'm an American-Latina. Please let me know. Gloria