My point is that the word Latin is rarely (if ever) used in Spanish to refer to a group of peoples, and that the English pluralization brought on through Latin-American is an identifier not everyone wants to use.
Unfortunately, a lot of people from Latin America/Spanish-speaking countries grow up in extremely misogynistic and conservative cultures, so anything that even dares to challenge their ideas of gender or inclusivity usually gets met with extreme venom.
Yeah, I get bent out of shape when this particular topic comes up, because it’s usually not Spanish-speakers who want to tell me how I can and can’t use my language.
I commented before you edited your original comment, so that’s on me. Apologies for snapping.
I mean... latino can mean a male person of... Spanish-Like-Origins. Or it can mean the entire body of Spanish-Origined-Like People.
Spanish-speaker from Puerto Rico, here.
What’s so hard about letting people use a word that they feel helps them better identify with the language they speak?
You might not care, but more than enough people do care about how they’re labelled and self-labelled that the inclusion of the word into the lexicon is fairly important.
I grew up in Puerto Rico. I know many other people from Spanish-speaking countries, friends and family, and the word is being used more and more globally and within academic circles as a way to be more inclusive.
No, it is most demonstrably not gender neutral. This is like elementary-school Spanish.
Good for you. The rest of the world, including people who speak Spanish, know the word latino is gendered as male, the word latina is gendered as female, and that latin in Spanish is very rarely ever used to refer to us as a people. There’s also a wide, wide variety of “people that speak Spanish,” who don’t identify…
Language changes start small and then work their way up into modern lexicon over hundreds of years.
Not everyone who uses the term is Latin-American, you dunce.
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I’m not missing the point, I just don’t see it as a very legitimate complaint outside of “I don’t like how others are playing, and find it unfair.”
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