Within this week’s reading on So Far From God by Ana Castillo I felt it was appropriate to look up articles on identity specifically of how Chicano’s identify themselves. The article I found is called Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, American? A Dilemma of Identity, this article begins with mentioning when Hispanic Heritage month “or Latino Heritage Month if you identify as Latino”. As the article continues it describes how and why people identify themselves a certain way and the main reason being because it has to do with experiences you have come across in life. The authors continue to mention that not many people associate themselves with the term Hispanic because “they say Hispanic is too focused on Spain and Western Europe  origins, denying other significant Western elements of these groups. In contrast, Latino is the favored term among those who want to emphasize the greater diversity associated with Latin America, including its indigenous populations”. The took this to the streets of LA and began to ask people how they identify  themselves. This article is important because it gives us an idea of us looking within ourselves to see how we identify and what made us identify this way.

http://egpnews.com/2014/09/hispanic-latino-chicano-american-a-dilemma-of-identity/