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Would you say Gringx instead of Gringo? Or afficionadx instead of afficionado? Let the Latin language people decide and not delegate to white commissars.

• jhgb 5y ago
  > Let the Latin language people decide and not delegate to white commissars. Latins (later known as Romans) were white, though. So their commissars would be white, too.
  • jefftk 5y ago
    > Latins (later known as Romans) were white It's more complicated than that: https://acoup.blog/2021/07/23/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-iv-the-color-of-purple/ https://acoup.blog/2021/07/23/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
    • jhgb 5y ago
      It's more complicated than that when you get to later antiquity and vastly larger geographic scale, but I'm not quite sure how this matters for the early native tribes in Latium.
  • goatlover 5y ago
    I doubt they identified as a racial category invented centuries later. They probably thought of themselves as Romans, as opposed to Greeks, Persians, Egyptians or Jews. Skin color wasn't a deciding factor. Regionality and culture were what mattered.