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Interesting that this article uses the "latinx" terminology. Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this termino
by anm89 5y ago
Interesting that this article uses the "latinx" terminology. Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this terminology whereas many people I talk to find it explicitly offensive that a bunch of foreigners think they get to rewrite their language.
It's ironically an incredibly culturally insensitive move wrapped in the veil of self congratulating cultural sensitivity.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this terminology whereas many people I talk to find it explicitly offensive that a bunch of foreigners think they get to rewrite their language. Um, since when is American English (the language in which “Latinx”, as a neologism, has been introduced by that language’s speakers) “their” (Colombians’) language? Or are Colombians upset that English-speaking Americans of Latin American descent are rewriting American English? (That said, Latinx seems to be preferred as a self-label almost exclusively used by people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and used other than that almost exclusively by people to whom it does not apply as a label for others, so it is problematic as a general label linguistic and language ownership issues aside.)