We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by burfog on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:07PM (#21696157)

Oh yes. Hispanic is the correct term when speaking English.

Latinx is a sign of wanting to show off Spanish (to virtue signal) but actually being intolerant of the way the language works. Values collided, and thus Latinx was born. Using the correct term, Hispanic, just wasn't an option.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by gusmd on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:52PM (#21696581)

As a Brazilian Latin American, there's nothing Hispanic about me or my people. Most of us are some mixture of European (primarily Italian or Portuguese), African, indian (as in the native people of South America) descendents. Our official language is Portuguese.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by burfog on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:08AM (#21699992)

So you're Brazilian.

Latinx, Latino, Latina are not normally used for all Latin-based languages. Italians and French don't qualify either, despite being Latin-based. (Quebec???) It's also not race; the Cherokee do not qualify even if of mixed ancestry. Really it is just a synonym for Hispanic.

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