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i find it interesting that these days many articles emphasise (lack of) diversity within a given topic and then introduce some biases themselves that will inevi
by mxxc 5y ago
i find it interesting that these days many articles emphasise (lack of) diversity within a given topic and then introduce some biases themselves that will inevitably skew their results, e.g. in this case focusing the bulk of the work on english reviews in order to do text mining, instead of maybe spending some more time figuring out whether the rankings, most read, ratings, etc. apply to everyone else.
also, i hope garcia marquez is rolling in his grave at the thought of being referred to as "latinx".
- Freak_NL 5y agoIf you're going to nitpick you might want to address the lack of capitalization and diacritical marks in his name (García Márquez) in your comment. Most people appreciate it being written correctly (although the dead probably don't feel too strongly about such worldly concerns).
- mxxc 5y agoin most recorded history people have been writing things the way they wanted to, which is why we encounter a lot of different spellings of the same names, and in several languages occasionally we'd get this or that corruption. it could be that i don't have a lot of education and you are patronising me for that, or it could be that i am highly educated and i can't be bothered to use the shift key. could be many things ;)
- truth_ 5y agoYou yourself are a victim of west-centrism. A lot of Buddhist abbots from India went to Thailand, Tibet (now in China), Sri Lanka, Cambodia, etc. and due to very wide differences in languages, they would have a new name or a weird version of the Indian name. They didn't mind. We are talking about renowned scholars going to some countries on the invitation of the monarch there. The reverse also happened. A famous scholar, Lama Tarnath, was known as "Anandagarbha" in Sanskrit. His Tibetan name waa Kun-dga'-snying-po. Indians just translated his name to Sanskrit. He didn't mind. In some cultures, not putting the accent marks in names amounts to disrespect, but in some ancient cultures, only the meaning of the name was important. Not how you say them.
- barry-cotter 5y agoIt’s not just the dead who object to Latinx. > only 23% of U.S. adults who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino have heard of the term Latinx, and just 3% say they use it to describe themselves, according to a nationally representative, bilingual survey of U.S. Hispanic adults conducted in December 2019 by Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/ https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
- pjc50 5y agoThey go out of their way to qualify that remark: > There are also works by Laura Esquivel and Gabriel García Márquez, who would likely be read as Latinx from the perspective of U.S. racial logics, and Kahlil Gibran, who would likely be read as Middle Eastern or North African from the same perspective. "read as .. from the perspective of .." is different from "identifies as"
- mxxc 5y agotomato tomato. "identifying as" is also a modern mostly anglo-saxon concept. the world is much more complex than individual egos.
- pjc50 5y agoWhat is "Civis Romanus Sum" if not Cicero identifying as a Roman? The particular language may be modern, but the concept of having an identity and existing in relation to a community or nation isn't. On the other hand, the exact contours of what counts as what race or ethnicity are very time and place specific.
- mxxc 5y agothe literal meaning of that sentence is "i am a roman citizen", i.e. today's transposition would be "i am a norwegian national". nothing to do with the colour of his skin or latinx or whatever. edit: worth noting that this is cicero speaking about legal status and citizenship within the empire, not caesar talking about foreign tribes calling them names, which is precisely what anyone calling garcia marquez (a latin american author) latinx (north american terminology) is doing.