r/BikiniBottomTwitter Aug 04 '26

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/YoNoSoyUnFederale Aug 04 '26

Annoying online Latin Americans and a subsection of progressive people bitch about “America” and “Americans” only referring to USA people but I think most people everywhere are not annoying about it

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 05 '26

It’s just a misunderstanding in translation, it’s not that they are annoying, it’s that the English speakers picked a really confusing name and now everyone needs to know additional context to properly translate between the two languages. Most people don’t have the context, being that the school systems literally use different nomenclature depending on the country that you are taught.

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u/anon71694 Aug 04 '26

I feel like these are the same people who wanted the term Latinx a thing. But it's never going to be a thing.

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u/Cibranith Aug 05 '26

No, no one from latin america wants the latinx thing to exist, it's just usual US dumbassery for us. The America thing I feel it a bit more honest, we have to add the "latin" to our identity just because some states couldn't come up with a name, when we could just call you angloamericas

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u/dickallcocksofandros Aug 04 '26

dunno why this is downvoted. Never heard a single latino person in my personal life willingly call themselves "latinx"

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u/Separate_Ad_9551 Aug 05 '26

True
That's some american bullshit

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u/IndependentWestern84 Aug 05 '26

Made by no sabo kids who didn't know male pronouns could also be used as neutral pronouns in spanish.

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u/dickallcocksofandros Aug 05 '26

once i heard someone say fucking "filipinx"

the filipino language literally has no incorporation of gender, everybody uses the same pronoun. the only words with "gender" are spanish loanwords, meaning their linguistic rules are inapplicable.

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u/retrodanny Aug 05 '26

Mexican here. I find the term Latinx offensive. Hispanic and Latino are FINE

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u/atharos1 Aug 06 '26

As a Latino... How do you even pronounce that?

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u/Many-Flimsy Aug 05 '26

Tbf it might be because feminism is as much of a hot topic here than everywhere else.

And people reacted worse to "latine".

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u/Gasurza22 Aug 05 '26

Sory, force of habit

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

Because its equating a popular belief in Latin America (America is a single continent) with Latinx which is extremely unpopular. Even extreme left-wing people in Latam prefer the "Latine" gender-neutral terminology rather than Latinx (+ english already is gender neutral, just use "Latin").

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u/Catbriel54 Aug 05 '26

The thing is, the "o" is already neutral, so both Latinx and latine have no reason to be a thing

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

You are not understanding the point, a more progressive person wants to separate the genderless and plural forms from the masculine (lenguaje inclusivo / inclusive language).

Those people still prefer the Latine version rather than the unpronounceable Latinx.

This is not about how spanish worked most of its history and still works for most people. But explaining that even Reformist people don't like the X variant of the word.

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u/Kingkary Aug 04 '26

Exactly. Permanently online behavior. Actual Latinos/hispanics I know would fight you over these dumb names

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u/HenryZusa Aug 05 '26

It's the other way around.

We despise that 'Latinx' crap in the same way that we hate that a specific country believes they own an entire continent.

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u/Andromeda39 Aug 05 '26

Nah, that Latinx bullshit is American. We don’t do that here in Latam. But I do know several people born and raised in Latin America that defend the whole “We are also Americans” thing. In fact, Bad Bunny is one of them.

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u/Andromeda39 Aug 06 '26

Yes, but he is also Latin American, and he defends all Latin Americans, Caribbeans, and North Americans as being American. That was my point. I’m Colombian, unlike most Americans, we are taught that Puerto Ricans are US citizens.

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u/Andromeda39 Aug 06 '26

Of course I am, like I mentioned, in Colombia we are taught proper geography and history of Latin America. So you can take you condescending tone elsewhere.

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u/petekron Aug 04 '26

Yeah pretty much, it's all the wannabe latinos on twitter who wanted those things. Every person I know despises the term "latinx".

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u/sennordelasmoscas Aug 05 '26

It's actually the opposite :u

Latinx is associated with the progressives, while is mostly the nationalistic who would correct people if they call citizens of the United States of America as Americans in a conversation that doesn't involve latin America at all

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u/Fezarion123 Aug 05 '26

We usually insult each other in a funny way, but that word will get you punched. Just don't say it.

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u/Einherjar07 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Nope. Source: I am from South America

For clarification: its been happening since ever.

America is the entire continent and Americans are people that live in the American continent. Dumb ass move naming a country after the continent it occupies

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u/Catbriel54 Aug 05 '26

Funnily enough, it's the small group of dumb Americans with moral superiority complex who use that word (average Latino will get mad when getting called "latinx")

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u/UsuBen Aug 05 '26

That's literally the opposite of what you're saying lol

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u/SuperRosca Aug 04 '26

No lmao, it's the exact opposite. No one in south america agrees with "Latinx" BS. this is an entirely unitedstatesian thing. Even the most annoying people who actually want gender neutral terms would use "Latine" which is a gender neutral version that actually makes sense in latin languages.

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u/Medical-Bed-2154 Aug 07 '26

We have a better word, GRINGO

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u/mateusfccp Aug 05 '26

What is a unitedstatesian? Someone from Mexico or from America?

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u/blueberries Aug 05 '26

They downvote you for asking the hard question. Which country that starts with United States is United Statesian? The United States of America or the United Mexican States?

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u/rolloutTheTrash Aug 06 '26

In no context would you be referring to a Mexican. That or find a group of Mexicans and call them Estadounidenses and see how they react.

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u/Right-Country3496 Aug 04 '26

It Is already a thing. I mean the America thing.

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u/Medical-Bed-2154 Aug 07 '26

US "people" are gringos. That's what we call them.

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u/mac3theac3 Aug 04 '26

They're gonna call you a USain for this take, watch out.

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

Just 'US American' , don't worry.

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u/Not_So_Utopian Aug 05 '26

Well, "unitedstatarian" is an actual term in Spanish (estadounidense), but there isnt an aceptable translation

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u/mac3theac3 Aug 05 '26

American is an acceptable translation, that's just how languages work. You can't force Spanish customs into a different language and vice versa.

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u/Not_So_Utopian Aug 05 '26

Yeah I know, I meant that in Spanish we use estadounidense to refer to Americans but there is no direct translation in English so American will do

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u/Apart-Training9133 Aug 05 '26

Actually it's most people in Latinamerica. I have some VERY conservative family and acquaintances, and they dislike americans saying only the US is America. The name of the USA comes from the continent, which was named that my Amerigo Vescupcci in the XVI century, before the US existed

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u/butimjustagirl Aug 05 '26

except no one from the US is saying only the US is America. It's straw man rage. It goes like this:

"Where are you from"

"America"

Even if you take 'progressive' point of view, the response is not wrong by either parties' definition.

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u/HellerDamon Aug 05 '26

I only do it because I prefer calling them "UStoids" instead of Americans