More reject terms like Hispanic

Immigrants are becoming more interested in calling themselves something that describes the country they are from. After all, Germans and Italians don't say "European" when they tell their nationality.    - - Donna Poisl

by Gheni Platenburg

After years of being stereotyped as an unwelcome, illegal immigrant and being treated like an outcast, Brownsville native Francisco Cordova decided to have his blood tested to determine his true ancestral roots.

When he received the results in 2000, they reconfirmed what he already knew.

He was Mexica, a group of people indigenous to Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, namely the Aztecs.
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