Turns out if you define a third of your pale population as “Latinx” instead of white, very few white people remain.
Even the 2020 census had the sense (heh) to finally drop the “Hispanic race” and have it as a separate label, but the “researchers” felt like going out of their way to redefine it as a “race” again. Not sure why race is even treated as a scientific thing to begin with in their census, but such is the Amerikkkan way I guess.
Edit: don’t even want to think about the causes of this “age gap”
Latina/o and latin@ aren’t really that pronounceable either outside of saying the word twice in both forms, and yet they get used a fair bit too. -x is certainly my least favourite way of doing this as well, but acting like it’s some yankee imposition seems a bit dumb
Just to make it clear, I have no issue with the “-x” ending in and of itself and “yankee imposition” implies that anybody in Latin America cares about what the Yankees have to say about Spanish (or in my case, Portuguese) in the first place. I just think that Unitedstadians created their own problem by calling us “Latino” instead of “Latin” or “Latin-American,” (which are both already gender-neutral) and then have to fall back to their own customs by putting the “-x” in there.
It really is a minor beef, but it’s annoying to see them appropriating words and trying (and failing) to speak in Spanish to appear more inclusive. Their language is already gender neutral, they could just call us Latins, Latines, Latinamericans or (IMO my favourite) Americans, but gringo gotta appropriate culture.