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>Latine and LatinX both originate in (different geographical parts of) the spanish-first-language

I doubt it. Having lived in Latin America, Latin American social norms are influenced by Catholicism and their societies are more conservative & traditionalist than the US and Europe.

The vast majority of people in Latin American countries (outside of Costa Rica & Chile) struggle with academic achievement (including literacy levels), adequate n utrition, enviornmental pollution.

To claim that they would put neo-marxist language changes before actual human needs (literacy, nutrition, environment) is a paltry claim and demonstrates a lack of experience with such societies.



> The vast majority of people in Latin American countries (outside of Costa Rica & Chile) struggle with academic achievement (including literacy levels), adequate n utrition, enviornmental pollution.

Do they?

• Literacy rate:

    The average for 2020 based on 7 countries was 93.91 percent.The highest value was in Colombia: 95.64 percent and the lowest value was in El Salvador: 89.98 percent.
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/literacy_rate/Lati...

• Food security:

    During 2019, 7.4% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean lived with hunger

    In 2019, almost a third of the population, 191 million people, were affected by moderate or severe food insecurity. Of these, 57.7 million, approximately 10% of the region's population, was severely food insecure
https://www.fao.org/americas/publicaciones-audio-video/panor...

• Tertiary education:

    Between 2000 and 2018, higher education gross enrollment rates in the region more than doubled (increasing from 21 percent to 52 percent), making LAC the region with the third-highest average higher education enrollment rate in the world after North America with 86 percent, and Europe and Central Asia with 70 percent.
https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/738931611934489480-0090...

• Environmental pollution

You're probably right about this one, but it's not worse than most of the rest of the world, including very rich countries such as the UK and Germany.

https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/738931611934489480-0090...

> they would put neo-marxist language changes

This is just nonsensical gibberish. I'll call it neo-misesist language.


I was wondering... Have you lived in Latin America?

I've lived in Mexico, and visited Panama and Colombia.

I met very few educated citizens of those countries. The educated ones I did meet I felt were my equals, in terms of education. It was fantastic. The problem is that they're few and far between.

This article is from 2005, but may highlight the problem:

"Despite having three times the population of Argentina, Mexico produces about 2,000 fewer titles each year.

There are roughly 500 bookstores in Mexico, which translates into one for every 200,000 Mexicans, compared to a ratio of one to 35,000 in the US and one to 12,000 in Spain, according to the Mexican Booksellers Association.

A recent UNESCO study revealed that Mexicans read on average just over two books per year, while Swedes finish that many every month.""

https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0216/p01s04-woam.html


The last link (pollution) got pasted wrong. This is the reference I wanted to use: https://ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution#share-expos...


You’ve commented a number of times on this post, and every time you relate equity language to communism/Marxism.

I’m struggling to follow your reasoning. What does communism have to do with anything?


It might be a simple association. The war against language as an instrument to control people has been part of every communist regime.




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