The tern "Hispanic," created in 1970 by the U.S. government, groups together people from, or with ancestors from, 21 Central and South American countries that were once former colonies of Spain. Now people from these countries must identify as "Hispanic." This speaks to dynamics underlying
a. a bureaucracy.
b. ethnic renewal.
c. selective forgetting.
d. involuntary ethnicity.
d
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