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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

latine originates in south america and does the same thing that latinx does; but doesn't carry the divisiveness of latinx because of that origin. (ie latinx is usually fine with americans who are latino; but latinos who aren't american, or are newly american, sometimes don't like it because it feels like cultural appropriation to anglicize a clearly spanish word that identifies them).

also: latino and latina does not include people who don't identify as either and is also cumbersome in english when you want to use inclusive language; latine gets rid of all of that.

and i'm also old and decrepit; i still keep defaulting to latino too.

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Why not use “Latin”? Idgaf, I’ll call people whatever they want to be called, it just never made sense to me to add a gender-neutral term when one already exists…

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I didn't know latine had its roots in the language. As an Asian American, cultural appropriation bothers me and I want to be respectful to the language/culture/people. Thanks for the explanation, I'm a bit smarter today thanks to you.