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> Hispanic | Latinx, use country of origin My favorite diversity term as it fails to see the irony of trying to prevent colonialism by inserting an English let
by hervature 4y ago
> Hispanic | Latinx, use country of origin
My favorite diversity term as it fails to see the irony of trying to prevent colonialism by inserting an English letter and pronunciation onto another group's language. That is, it is pronounced Latin-Ex and not Latin-Equis whereas latino and latina are actually Spanish words used without issue in Latin America.
- FactoryReboot 4y agoLatinx was invented by white people to alleviate their own guilt. You’re right it’s essentially colonialism. You can’t remove gender from Latino languages… the entire language would need to be created from scratch.
- yucky 4y ago> Latinx was invented by white people to alleviate their own guilt. Doesn't that describe pretty much all of this nonsense though?
- GracefullyBlind 4y agoCame here to comment precisely on this: this is a US-made term, and many Latinos and Latinas do not identify themselves with it.
- basch 4y agoLatin-ex, Luh-TEEN-ex , Lah-TINKS (rhymes with sphinx), La-TIN-ex, La-teen-ish, Latin-ish. As a descriptivist, I dont see the word going away, so I might as well figure out a way I want to say it.