Americans from elsewhere
4 min readAug 17, 2021
There is a group of people in the United States with roots in Latin America who are described interchangeably as Latinx, Latino, or Hispanic. The people in this group disagree about which of these pan-ethnic terms best describes them. But most of them (73%) decide to self-describe as American or as people from their country of origin (e.g., Peruvian American), probably because most of them (69%) don’t think their pan-ethnic group shares a common…
