Just in case you read a post of mine and find a "descriptor" in lower case, its because I have no RESPECT for either the person or group involved.
It is not nor is it ever a racial slur, in my case. It is however done to marginalize or express my disgust with them.
And that's a UN decision!
The term Mexican , just like the terms US citizen or American has no racial implications. Mexicans, as a clustered geopolitically or geographic group, are racially classified as a subset of European Caucasoids by anthropologists.
The US has adopted that standard. Hence the use of the category, White other than Hispanic , on US government documents ascertaining race, national origin or ethnicity.
Use of the term Mexican, as a racial classifier, has only recently entered the US lexicon, introduced by those bent to divide. The factional misnomer of race associated with the word raza, when crossing over to English, was tolerated by the ignorance of its users, permitted by the freedom when interpreting regional language idioms and purposely bastardized to promote the political aims of cultural separatists in their new, host country.
Yes, unintended mistakes do occur and unique personalizations are encountered, but members of this forum need to take care. Spoken or published words can never be taken back. They can only be defended or rationalized.