AD“Younger people, college-educated Hispanics and notably young Hispanic women were the ones most likely to say that they used the term ‘Latinx’ themselves to describe their identity,” Lopez said. ADOverall, “Hispanic” is preferred by a 61 percent majority of people of Latin American descent, followed by “Latino,” which is preferred by 29 percent, Pew found. And it speaks to the relative newness of ‘Latinx’ as a pan-ethnic term for this population compared to, say, ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Latino,’ ” Lopez said. In an open-ended question in the Pew survey that asked respondents what the term means to them, 12 percent said ‘Latinx’ is a term they disagree with or dislike, some describing it as an “Anglicism” of the Spanish language. Like the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” before it, “Latinx” may just be the latest in the evolving process of language.

Source: Washington Post August 17, 2020 20:43 UTC