Heh, I feel the same way towards DEI: I'm from Brazil and this stupid DEI stuff keeps putting me in the "LatinX" bucket.
I freaking hate that. I'm not a freaking latino. That is a dumb denomination created by the US.
Yet I keep getting invited for dumb LatinX events as if that means anything.
I want to be recognized by the stack of excellent work I've done. Not because I happen to be from a part of the world that is poorer than yours or because you decided I need some kind of nomenclature.
I'm a little confused - why do you say that Brazil is not part of Latin America? Is it because Brazil speaks Portugese (a descendant of Latin) instead of Spanish (another descendant of Latin)?
I heard a very humorous and apt anecdote that there are no black people in Africa - maybe the same phenomenon is happening here, where the identity you have in Brazil (just a Brazilian) is different from the identity you are ascribed in the US (namely 'Latino/Latina')
I'm not saying Brazil is not part of Latin America. What I am saying is I don't call myself a latino. Nobody in South America or Central America calls themselves latinos. That's a US made up term.
We all call ourselves by our nationalities.
The anecdote on Africa is probably correct though.
I freaking hate that. I'm not a freaking latino. That is a dumb denomination created by the US.
Yet I keep getting invited for dumb LatinX events as if that means anything.
I want to be recognized by the stack of excellent work I've done. Not because I happen to be from a part of the world that is poorer than yours or because you decided I need some kind of nomenclature.