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What happens when Anglophone ideologues create a new ethnic label that can& #39;t be pronounced in the language of the culture it purports to represent? https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/">https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/...
That such foolishness is entertained among the presumably elite echelons of society is due to what I call imperial privilege: the horizons of American culture and thought are so endless, an imperial inhabitant need never seriously reckon with a truly different worldview.
The Romans didn& #39;t seem to understand much about the Gauls they conquered. Nor did the English, Spanish, and French imperialists more recently. That& #39;s the very definition of an imperial culture: your tribe seems to you the reference frame for the entire universe.
What& #39;s ironic about the Latinx thing is that the same movement that pushes it is presumably in this self-abnegating, hyper-tolerant mode of diversity maximization, while subconsciously in an attitude of absolute imperial arrogance as to who defines the boxes.
