Spanish gender-neutral terms generally swap out an e for the o or a, though @ is an older one people used. Believe it or not these issues are contentious elsewhere too.
They do briefly mention this survey. It states that 76% of Latino adults have heard the term. Of the remaining adults 20% have heard of it but dont use it while 3% use it. Later in the survey they say of those who have heard of Latinx 10% think it should be used while 50% prefer Hispanic and 31% prefer latino.
The survey shows that younger people prefer it more than old and more educated people prefer it more than uneducated.
> While working-class immigrant Asian parents are forcing their kids to take test prep and piano lessons thinking that it’ll help their kids get into a better college, the wealthy Asian elite have already cracked the code. Elites like Ahmed know that signaling that one has the “correct” beliefs is what is needed to gain entry to America’s most prestigious colleges.
"Chinese" doesn't really invoke the incredible ethnic diversity of China (Han, Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, Manchu, etc.) so I use the term "Chinx" instead.
> He rattles off a list of things that he claims Asian Americans are doing to assimilate: having stable families, not having kids out of wedlock, attaining education, not committing crime, etc.
Aren't those all habits most Asians brought with them? I.e. they're not changing their behavior to better fit in, they're doing the same things they'd be doing in their home countries.
This did have a bit of uptake in Brazil (non-hispanic latinos), but has died out AFAIK. From everywhere else, it's just been ignored.
Don't push solutions from the outside. It's the "we're here to save you from yourselves" problem all over again. Instead, ask latin people what they want.
If you ask me, I want latin. Not latino, not latina.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 49.2 ms ] threadThe phrase 'latin' is already "ungendered".
Also in Spanish most words are gendered, I believe "cat" is "gato" or "gata". Should that be "gatx" too?
Why settle for gender suffixes, whxn xxx cxn rxplxcx xvxrx vxwxl?
It's easy for english speakers though.
They do briefly mention this survey. It states that 76% of Latino adults have heard the term. Of the remaining adults 20% have heard of it but dont use it while 3% use it. Later in the survey they say of those who have heard of Latinx 10% think it should be used while 50% prefer Hispanic and 31% prefer latino.
The survey shows that younger people prefer it more than old and more educated people prefer it more than uneducated.
Groupthink, herd mentality, conformity > Meritocracy
This should be a fun couple of years, sigh!
How is this any different to the previous several millenia?
https://twitter.com/PlsWatchGundam/status/133142513909597388...
Aren't those all habits most Asians brought with them? I.e. they're not changing their behavior to better fit in, they're doing the same things they'd be doing in their home countries.
Don't push solutions from the outside. It's the "we're here to save you from yourselves" problem all over again. Instead, ask latin people what they want.
If you ask me, I want latin. Not latino, not latina.