Hispanic comes from hispano, a term used 100s of years ago to describe the "white" Spanish-speaking people who lived in New Spain before it became part of the US. Hispanics are not and were never Mexican. After the US got the land, white people got confused and started calling everyone Hispanic whether they were hispano, tejano,, mexicano, indígeno,, Central American. Puerto Rican or Cuban. After trying to force us to accept Hispanic as our "category", many of us today still prefer to self-identify based on country. Miky is lighter-skinned, not white. He's also Puerto Rican, not Hispanic. But. I retract all this if he believes otherwise. It's his call to self-identify anyway.