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The term "Hispanic" generally refers to Spanish speaking people while "Latino" or the more gender-neutral term "Latinx" refers to people from Central or South America.

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Most people we refer to as Latinx, though, dislike that term. They prefer sticking to Latino, at least that's what I understand. Probably like pronouns, we should be asking those about whom we are using the term what they prefer. Just a side note, not a criticism.

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Reid, I have never used the term "Latinx" but to tell the truth, I am just as ignorant about the term "Latino." I call myself white because I'm never sure how to spell caucasian. Seriously.

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Well, and Caucasian is a term invented by eugenicists in an attempt to distinguish those of Western European descent from other light-skinned people who were nonetheless "beneath" the Western Europeans in the racial hierarchy. It's an especially amusing term when you consider that the Caucasus region is in a part of the world from which immigrants to the U.S. would no doubt have been considered lower caste and not, in the eugenicists view, Caucasian.

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Racists and eugenicists are very bad at geography.

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Thank you, Reid. Another "thing" I didn't knowЁЯдФ

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Thank you for that, Reid, I agree! I think it's always better to ask than to make arbitrary assumptions.

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Jennifer 100%. Always better to call people what they want to be called.

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Thank you, Jennifer. My old age is showing. I forgot about the term "Hispanic."

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No worries, Lynell. Last spring, when I was optimisticly planning lessons for the school year that sort of "wasn't" I came across an article in Teaching Tolerance (now Learning for Justice) that talked about the differences in the terms. Up until then I didn't know...

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Thanks, Jennifer. Hope you thrive in the coming months.

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May we all thrive in the months and years to come!

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