{"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&#8217;t care what word others use to describe their racial group, though if they had to choose themselves, they would opt for &#8220;Hispanic,&#8221; according to a recent Gallup poll.\n\nWhen asked what they preferred to be called by others, 57% said they didn&#8217;t care, nearly one in four (23%) said they preferred &#8220;Hispanic&#8221; and 15% said &#8220;Latino.&#8221; A few, 4%, responded that they liked to be described as &#8220;Latinx,&#8221; a gender-neutral term that is generally used among younger people to refer to their Latin American background.\n\nThe Gallup poll was conducted between June 1 and July 5 in telephone interviews with 302 Hispanics 18 and older. 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