ODDS OF WINNING DEPEND ON NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED.

PURCHASES DO NOT INCREASE ODDS OF WINNING. But the simple fact that it is a disruptive-enough phenomenon to be on everyone’s lips means that it has already done much of its job. Latinx terminology is, for many, a symbol of struggle for others, a whim of a generation that refuses to have children and prefers to take care of plants and cats.

However, as the figures clearly show, whether you’ve heard the term or not, it does not imply that the person should feel identified with what it represents. The Pew also notes that “Hispanics with college experience are more likely to be aware of Latinx than those without college experience,” and Hispanics who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party are more likely to have heard of Latinx than those who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party (29% vs. The research figures highlight precisely that the age range between 18 and 29 has had the most contact with the new word (42%), compared to people over 65 (7%).

adults who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino have heard of the term Latinx, and just 3% say they use it to describe themselves.įrom being a makeshift terminology to nullify the traditional male-female duality, “Latinx” became a bone of contention between families, between colleagues and, of course, on Twitter.Īccording to the Pew, some of those who refuse to use the neologism argue that it is a deformation of the language by the English tongue and that it attempts against the crusade of Latinos to maintain the roots of their vocabulary, even living in the United States.īut younger generations are advocating a term that would include all the genders embraced by the LGBTQ movement, as well as eliminate once and for all the male dominance of Cervantes’ language. However, and to the surprise of the writer of this article, the Pew Research Center published a new study in which it found that only 23% of U.S. This coincides with the coming of age of a generation that is more aware, more open, and more sensitive to social struggles, one that has been delicately inserting the “Latinx” neologism into all platforms - from WhatsApp conversations to the headlines of major publications. However, both continued to perpetuate linguistic sexism and the exoneration of other genders and identities from the discussion.

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