The many pan-ethnic labels used to describe the group of people who trace their roots to Latin America or Spain—terms like Hispanic, Latino, Latinx or Latine—have left some confused, some angry and many people debating what word to use.
found that 4% of people surveyed preferred"Latinx" as the label of choice to describe their ethnic group.
When Latino politicos use the term it is largely to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use,""There are a lot of folks that actually are saying that the Latinx term should not be used because it cannot be conjugated in Español. But the truth is that, if we really stop to think about it, we were colonized from the moment that the Spaniards came to the Americas and took away Indigenous tongues," said Medina.
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