Do you think people from Latin American should stop...

[Mingle]

Hispanic is a broad term which refers to Spanish speaking population in general.

I know that it does nowadays, I live in the US. I'm just stating the origin of the term and it's literal meaning.

Because of the reason I gave, I don't think it's appropriate to use Hispanic either, 'Hispanophone' is more accurate.

[Annie999]

This wasn't always the case. Latin Americans reclaimed the word American in the 20th century.

Here is a Mexican political cartoon from the late 19th century:



You can see they used the word americano instead of estadounidense above.

Btw, the term 'Usonian' was invented in the late 19th century to refer to US Americans but it never became popular, it's an acronym of 'United States of North America'.

Mexico is not a good example for that as they have always been very US centered as well. The further you go south the more alien the word Americano is related to USA. The norm here is to call them estadounidenses and its always been like that.