Responding to Marcel’s first discussion question “How does generalizing various Latin American nationalities under the umbrella term ‘Hispanic’ impact how non-Spanish speaking populations view them?”, I believe that this generalization serves only to homogenize various communities that are, in fact, unique from one another. Each of these communities has its own culture, customs, and linguistic history entirely separate from its neighbors, and should be treated as such. On the flip side, however, the term “Hispanic” could also be useful for non-Spanish speaking people; in the same way whites, blacks, Asian-Americans, and many other ethnic and linguistic groups in the United States fall under the umbrella term “American” (not to mention the other disparate communities that speak different varieties of English we have covered in class), many Spanish-speaking groups can be helpfully called Hispanic. Also, just like the term “American,” there does not seem to be anything inherently negative about using the term “Hispanic.”