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retaining your template across all relevant pages. Regarding Malcom X, the controversies surrounding nomeclature of
African American related topics are better understood. Therefore most people won't take Malcom X to be representative of all African-Americans; but Mexican American/Chicano are less well understood terms and people are more sensitive to what they read. My actions were characteristic of a menso, and again I apologize. Since my point appears to be validated and I've come to understand that you value your identity as much as I do, there is no use in fighting over the template, but rather making sure we clear misinformation in the actual pages so that any ambiguity does not perpetuate stereotypes (in either direction). Mexican-Americans are obviously intertwined with the Chicano movement, and I simply have not been affected by to a great extent for various reasons, giving me an "different" point of view on what Mexican-American means. I'll be glad to help out with the project when time permits. A good friend (who incidentally doesn't consider himself Chicano) often likes to remind his friends and I that, "Hablando se entiende la gente." --
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Honestly, the best way to do that would be to make a template that only has
Chicano on it, that contains a lot of information relevant to Mexican-Americans (which is, ironically, what you achieved by seperating the templates). By including both terms, and explaining the fact that Chicano does not equal Mexican-American, we can leave it open to people's own sense of identity. Not all Chicanos identify with Aztlán and some Mexican-Americans identify with Tijerina's land grant struggle and the Raza Unida Party. Separation of these concepts on a historical, linguistic, legal, and cultural level is practically impossible. --
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African-American, even if they no longer use that term. Can you imagine attempting to study the history of African-Americans without using the term Black or Negro? The only difference between that stituation and this one is that there is a more well-known group of Mexican-Americans that doesn't identify with Chicano, versus a smaller group that doesn't identify with "Black". --
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In the future I'll refrain from making major changes without consulting you and other wikipedians. What I mean is
Chicanos are not the only Mexican-Americans. While I think the template is fine *if* it is used exclusively in the Chicano, MEChA, Chicanismo, etc..., I would argue that it doesn't belong
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African-Americans, and include information about Malcom X, you aren't saying that all African-Americans are muslims, or that have a sense of pride for what Malcom X stood for. For the last time, we are not saying that Chicano=Mexican-American.
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I think you missed his point completely. "Black" and "African-American" carry different connotations for different people (ex: Talk to a First-Generation African immigrant to the United States vs. a descendant of slaves in the U.S.). The terms are not redundant or offensive. Negro has offensive
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