double surnames

["Erlinda Castanon-Long" <longsjourney@...>]

I want to thank everyone for the input on double surnames and y versus 
de... I had forgotten that I use a double surname too!  I felt I 
didn't want to give up my Hispanic maiden name so just hyphenated it 
with my married name.  That makes me Castanon-Long, I guess in Latin 
America that would make me Castanon y Long ... I found at the family 
reunion that most of my female cousins from my generation did the 
same.  Many of us did not marry Hispanic but would have kept our 
maiden name regardless. Just like someone said, it's a matter of 
family pride..

One more question.. which is 'politically' correct to designate our 
nationality of origin if we or our ancestors were from Mexico... 
Hispanic, Latino, Mexican-American or American-Mexican?  I find I 
really upset some people when I call myself Hispanic. I'm told that 
excludes my Indio blood... People ask me what my nationality is 
because I'm just brown enough to not be Anglo but have light green 
eyes, my sister get's the same thing and she has blue eyes and 
freckles. I still laugh when told I don't look like a Mexican... what 
does a Mexican look like!!!!

Linda in Everett