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drei<p>I tweeted below five years ago, when there was a noisy discourse in the Philippines regarding the word Filipinx:</p><p>The Philippines adopted gendered nouns from Spanish (e.g., doktor/doktora, abogado/abogada), but the precolonial versions of our languages had no gender (e.g., manggagamot, manananggol). And since the word Filipina exists today, one can't completely claim that Filipino is a gender-neutral term.</p><p>That said, I don’t think I have the right to object to the term Filipinx, as (1) I’m not part of the Filipino-American diaspora, and (2) I have no personal insight into the struggles of minorities, women, or LGBT people in the U.S. context — much less the gender debates among academics and activists there.</p><p>When I moved to Australia, I didn’t like the word Filo at all. It didn’t mean anything to me, and it sounded pretentious. Filipino is just as easy to pronounce and understand. But I learned that the term has been embraced for many years by Australians with Filipino ancestry.</p><p>The Filipino-Australian community has every right to claim the word, especially if it fosters a sense of identity and inclusivity. I’m now part of this community, and even though I still avoid using the word Filo myself, I respect others’ choice to use it as they please.</p><p>I don’t know the struggles of minorities in the U.S. who are misgendered or discriminated against. And instead of dismissing a term that wasn’t really created for me or my feelings in the first place, I would rather hear them out. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/filo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filo</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/filipino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filipino</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/filipinx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filipinx</span></a></p>
Feuergeist<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EU_Commission</span></a></span> <br>En la Universidad de Buenos Aires <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBA</span></a> en la Facultad de Filosfía y Letras <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FILO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FILO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Puan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puan</span></a> se discute dentro de la carrera de historia, cuándo se inicio la historia reciente. Se quiere crear una nueva materia que estudie ese momento.<br>Algunos proponen la caída del muro, otros creen que son los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001. Dos límites distintos.</p>
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