Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 15 LA: reason in here instead of saying, I'm Spanish American, it isn't such thing as Spanish American. Like I say, either­American, or either Spanish or either Mexican. Which is mixed, but then those thing they say Chicano, I read it in the paper and every time I read it in the paper my stomach kind of turns a little bit because it's not right. FO: When did you first hear this word Chicano? LA: Oh, just recently. FO: Like 20 years ago, or 5 or •... LA: Oh, we used to use it as a slang, Chicano, I'm Chicano, you know, just a matter of slang, but we never have no meaning to it like they do now. They want everybody have a meaning about Chicano group, where if they say Mexicans or American Mexican it would be different. It sound like it's logical, they ask them for their rights I don't blame them, everybody's entitled to ask for what he want. If he get it why that's a different story but the way things are going I don't see. Instead of we fighting one against each other they should incorporate and get all together and then they probably can do something as far as having their rights which they claim they haven't. They can get any better right than, than the other people. Here like the colored people, excuse me, to get into that matter but from what I see, the colored people