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A historic number of Latinx voters participated in the 2020 US presidential election, including a record number of young people casting their ballots for the first time. Civic leader María Teresa Kumar takes a look at the issues closest to youth Latinx voters, including health care, climate equity and racial justice, and considers how this growing demographic could shape American politics for decades to come. Stay tuned for a Q&A with TEDx learning specialist Bianca DeJesus on why the US has a unique opportunity to harness its diversity and define the 21st century.
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Andrew Wen
December 2, 2020 at 7:47 pm
wow so im early
Michael Robinson
December 2, 2020 at 7:55 pm
So glad to hear women talking about the importance of women and families. –Bonnie Robinson
e luca irthe
December 2, 2020 at 8:11 pm
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America
December 2, 2020 at 8:23 pm
Please the word Latinx is not accepted by the Real Academia Española ( RAE), the official source of the Spanish language. The term is Latino which includes the masculine and feminine. Until RAE accepts the Latinx term using it is a mistake.
Calyphony
December 4, 2020 at 4:24 pm
And when the accept it, because they will, it will continue to be just a way to show off your political and idiological colors. It has nothing to do with inclusion and those other magic words.
Calyphony
December 4, 2020 at 4:24 pm
And when they accept it, because they will, it will continue to be just a way to show off your political and idiological colors. It has nothing to do with inclusion and those other magic words.
Abraham Lincoln
December 2, 2020 at 9:59 pm
Latinx is such a fake pandering term lmao
Sebastian Sebastian
December 2, 2020 at 10:42 pm
Please for the love of everything latino stop using latinx
†ANGÉ|†
December 2, 2020 at 10:49 pm
I didn’t vote, waste to enter into the false dichotomy of cult of personality and the fallacious claim for “democracy” also what is LatinX?
Oliver Sissonphone
December 2, 2020 at 11:02 pm
Biased. It failed to inform us. Not of TED quality.
C. M.
December 3, 2020 at 1:04 am
STOP using “Latinx”! It is a completely white-washed anglicized term! The whole reason why “Latino(s)” worked, where “chicano” and “hispanic” failed, was because it was so similar to Spanish! There are A LOT of Spanish words that use the “masculine” plural, such as: “tios” (aunts/uncles) or “abuelos” (grandparents). Are those terms “transphobic” or “sexist” now? Do we have to change the entire Spanish language to “tix” and “abuelx”?!
raharu000
December 3, 2020 at 2:01 am
The term Latinx is so politically loaded, it’s strange to use it in a talk about unifying people. I understand it’s probably used here with the intention of being inclusive, but really there is so much political baggage packed into the term, you’re actually excluding anyone who doesn’t identify as far left. I’d reconsider using the term as a default in the future. I imagine anyone who doesn’t lean far left will automatically downvote this video based on the use of Latinx alone.
Ian Oliver
December 3, 2020 at 2:35 am
Wow, TED doesn’t seem biased at all!
SageLiek
December 3, 2020 at 8:13 am
You see politics divides us.
I choose to take a seat of non biased.
Dont lean in any direction just observe each side and know that theyre both needed. Focus on your self and loved ones and personal hobbies. We’re in a pandemic, relax.
Ian Oliver
December 5, 2020 at 4:18 am
@SageLiek “Just focus on yourself while the propaganda machine demonizes you and replaces you.”
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Alexis Oguonseye
December 6, 2020 at 9:05 am
@Ian Oliver Hope YOU get replaced, whitebboy
Ian Oliver
December 6, 2020 at 9:15 am
@Alexis Oguonseye I can’t wait to see what a shithole the US become when the only net-positive tax payers are replaced lmao
Jebediah Kerman
December 3, 2020 at 3:13 am
Cringe. Now TED too with the “LatinX”? I don’t even like the labels Latino or Latina to begin with nor do I believe in a “Latin America”. Those are all concepts by the French which ignore nationalities yet we speak Spanish and the U.S. had the Monroe Doctrine and Mexico has events like the Cry of Dolores, which has anti French sentiment, and Cinco de Mayo. Latino and Latina are also words in SPANISH, so just say LATIN AMERICAN when you’re speaking ENGLISH like in this video. Or do you call Chinese Americans in the U.S., “Zhongguoren” when you speak English? Why is this the only “group” that has gender politics forced into its label? Other gendered language exist like German and Russian, which aren’t related to Latin, and Italian, French, Romanian, etc… and there are Spanish languages like Basque which aren’t even related to Latin. What’s “masculine” and “feminine” in the majority of the Spanish language is completely arbitrary and just a boiler plate thing of the Spanish language which I think is a trade off for the ability to spell every word in Spanish exactly how it sounds while in English you have to memorize how to spell lots of words that don’t sound the way they are spelled. A tree in Spanish is “masculine” yet a computer is “feminine”. It’s so arbitrary. There are also counter examples to the exclusion example they always bring up because there are phrases like “hola mi gente latinA” which includes both males and females in the greeting. Saying things like “latinos y latinas” is no different than saying things like “ladies and gentlemen” or are we now going to start greeting people as “ladies, gentlemen, and Xs”? Seems too fit for this post Covid-19 lockdown world akin to the movies Elysium and Bladerunner.
Jebediah Kerman
December 3, 2020 at 3:47 am
These people don’t even look like the average “Latino”. Like if you go on YouTube and search “Mexico City comic convention” you’ll see what I mean. They don’t even follow the average pairing of “Latinos”, Indian surname Kumar? Why would a Colombian even care about Central Americans in a race-obsessed way who is obsessed with defining a group like “LatinX” or “Latino” constantly? How did you survive the Darién Gap? You most likely came by plane! They’re just tools of some geopolitical 4D chess being played and funded by billionaires. Freudian mother’s womb? Yet you constantly keep bringing up homogeneous groups like the Irish, and they’re not even “mixed”, by mentioning Patrick’s Day.
Jebediah Kerman
December 3, 2020 at 4:05 am
The last “LatinX” segment I saw by a local news channel discussing race explicitly said that “Chile is a majority “white” country” and these people want to see themselves as global citizens yet their whole worldview revolves around a migration vector that goes through Mexico and ends in the U.S. Why not send some of your global citizens to report on how some migrants end up in Chile or how Venezuelans suffer racism from the Native American people, that you love so much, from Peru.
Elisa. Castro.
December 3, 2020 at 3:52 am
And this is why so many LATINOS voted for Trump.
Rob Humphreys
December 3, 2020 at 4:43 am
Just a point of clarification on something mentioned in the intro (1:50). In 1914, “on the eve of WW1,” Woodrow Wilson was president; FDR and his New Deal didn’t come along until the 1930s … on the eve of WW2.
D.Chavez
December 3, 2020 at 4:58 am
Obama pandered for the latino vote twice a only accomplishment more deportations than all other presidents combined. He also built those “cages” dems love to cry over.
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Salim Vip
December 3, 2020 at 12:29 pm
You complain about the use of the new word. But latino latina is also wrong because mexicans central and south americans are NOT latinos they are indians who speak spanish. The real latinos latinas are french italians spaniards and portoguese.
Calyphony
December 4, 2020 at 4:29 pm
It is not a new word. People on Latin America are not indian, they’re latinamerican. Some prefer hispanic. It’s the same.
“The real latinos”? Wow.
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December 3, 2020 at 4:06 pm
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Dee Cool
December 7, 2020 at 4:26 pm
Latinx? Not an accepted term by most Latinos.
Questy
December 7, 2020 at 8:41 pm
Sounds more like a Multicultural apocalypse.