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maybe instead of arguing about what non-gendered term we should call this group of people we should instead admit that 'latino' is a projection onto a wide variety of people that have different cultural backgrounds but roughly share a language and sometimes a skin tone.



Or maybe we should tell people who started latinx garbage and started the arguing to fuck off and

> we should instead admit that 'latino' is a projection onto a wide variety of people that have different cultural backgrounds but roughly share a language and sometimes a skin tone.

instead of inventing more names to divide people by, just... not ?


I guess I should go back to referring to all people from SE Asia as Chinese since my American friends are just too lazy and dismissive to bother with people's actual nationality and prefer broad and vague terms for the other.


You could just call them asians as is widely accepted since forever.

There is nothing wrong with using more generic term if you don't know exact nationality of the person.




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