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For Chicanos, the term can imply being neither from the United States, nor from Mexico. As a mixture of culture from both countries, being Chicano represents the struggle of fitting into the world of Americans while still maintaining the cultural sense that you learned as a child of Mexicans. Bruce Novoa , a famous Chicano author, once wrote that Chicanos exist in the space created by the hyphen in Mexican-American.

Many Chicanos refer to themselves as la raza (literally, the race). Some use the phrase la raza de bronce; seeing themselves as "brown" or "bronze" because of their aboriginal ancestry (as opposed to whiteWhites is a broad term used to describe people of ethnic European descent, especially those with fair skin. The term Caucasian is sometimes used with much the same meaning in the USA. It is often used in contrast with other racial color terms, such as bla and blackAfrican Americans also known as Afro- Americans or black Americans comprise an ethnic group in the United States of America whose dominant ancestry is from Sub-Saharan West Africa. Many African Americans also claim European, Native American, or Asian ance people). Most refer to themselves as la raza cosmica, which means the universal race.

Before Spanish colonizationColonization sometimes colonisation is the act, by a militarily strong country, of invading and taking over the sovereignty of another area, which then becomes known as a colony''. This often includes the establishment of one or more settlements, also cal, the Aztec empireThe word "Aztec" is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. This article deals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers. The Aztecs were a Mesoame was the dominant native nationA nation is an imagined community of people created by a national ideology, also known as nationalism, to which certain norms and behavior are usually attributed. Added to this is usually the idea that a national (a person of the national ideology) should in the AmericasThe Americas (sometimes referred to as America is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, generally divided into North America and South America. The term also usually includes the Caribbean, the islands, and its predominant language was NahuatlNahuatl is a native language of central Mexico. It was the lingua franca of Mesoamerica for the millennium spanning from the 7th century through the late 16th century of the current era. Also known as Mexican language it was the language spoken by the peo. Huitzolopochtli is the AztecThe word "Aztec" is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. This article deals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers. The Aztecs were a Mesoame god of fire, war, and the sun. Mexi was another name for Huitzilopochtli. There was a split in the Aztec community, and the group who considered themselves the sons of Huitzilopochtli called themselves Mexica, whence the name Mexico is derived. The word Chicana/o may be derived from Xica (Chica), from Mexica (Mechica). Many individuals of Mexican descent view the use of the words Chicana or Chicano as a reclaiming and regeneration of a culture destroyed through colonialism.