{"id":1664,"date":"2021-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/what-do-immigrants-prefer-to-be-called\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:00:26","slug":"what-do-immigrants-prefer-to-be-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/en\/what-do-immigrants-prefer-to-be-called\/","title":{"rendered":"What do immigrants prefer to be called?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>According to a Gallup poll, more than half prefer to identify as Hispanic, while more than a third prefer the term Latino.<\/h2>\n<strong>MIAMI\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 A majority of Hispanic Americans say they don\u2019t care what word others use to describe their racial group, though if they had to choose for themselves, they would opt for \u201cHispanic,\u201d according to a recent Gallup poll.\n\nWhen asked what they preferred to be called by others, 57% said they didn\u2019t care, nearly one in four (23%) said they preferred \u201cHispanic,\u201d and 15% said \u201cLatino.\u201d A few, 4%, responded that they liked to be described as \u201cLatinx,\u201d a gender-neutral term generally used by younger people to refer to their Latin American background.\n\nThe Gallup poll was conducted between June 1 and July 5 via telephone interviews with 302 Hispanics aged 18 and older. 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