Grokmaster (12-06-2021)
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About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It
Young Hispanic women among the most likely to use the term
By Luis Noe-Bustamante, Lauren Mora and Mark Hugo Lopez
"Pan-ethnic labels describing the U.S. population of people tracing their roots to Latin America and Spain have been introduced over the decades, rising and falling in popularity. Today, the two dominant labels in use are Hispanic and Latino, with origins in the 1970s and 1990s respectively.
A chart showing most Latino adults have not heard of the term Latinx; few use it
More recently, a new, gender-neutral, pan-ethnic label, Latinx, has emerged as an alternative that is used by some news and entertainment outlets, corporations, local governments and universities to describe the nation’s Hispanic population.
However, for the population it is meant to describe, 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.
The emergence of Latinx coincides with a global movement to introduce gender-neutral nouns and pronouns into many languages whose grammar has traditionally used male or female constructions. In the United States, the first uses of Latinx appeared more than a decade ago. It was added to a widely used English dictionary in 2018, reflecting its greater use.
Yet the use of Latinx is not common practice, and the term’s emergence has generated debate about its appropriateness in a gendered language like Spanish. Some critics point to its origins among U.S. English speakers, saying it ignores the Spanish language and its gendered form.1 Still, there are examples of the term’s use in Spanish in the U.S. and abroad.2 Meanwhile, others see Latinx as a gender- and LGBTQ-inclusive term, reflecting a broader movement within the U.S. around gender identity..."
Pew Research Center
Grokmaster (12-06-2021)
they are leaving out the more common term "wetbacks"....
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
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Grokmaster (12-06-2021)
¿De que mierda de los maricones es este?
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My Latina esposa (Esposa Latina in Spanish) has never heard of this mierda, Latinx.
Nor have I til I saw the article.
Grokmaster (12-06-2021)
Stupid. The vast majority of the folks you would call "wetbacks" are descendants of less southern tribes of Native Americans and never had to cross any rivers to get where they live. There was a whole bunch of brown folks here before the Vikings came that aren't from below the southern border of the United States.
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You didn't read the entire thread, did you Jacky?
"The emergence of Latinx coincides with a ***global movement*** to introduce gender-neutral nouns and pronouns into many languages whose grammar has traditionally used male or female constructions. In the United States, the first uses of Latinx appeared more than a decade ago. It was added to a widely used English dictionary in 2018, reflecting its greater use."
An oddity about Spanish grammar.
The positive command (imperative) for "give it to me'..."damelo" has the direct and indirect object after the verb.
The negative command for "do not give it to me... "No me lo des" has the direct and indirect object before the verb.
Don't even ask about the complexity of reflex verbs and the subjunctive tense.
See, you far left loons learned something today.
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The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
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