2020年3月7日 星期六

Latino, Latina, Latinx, seesawed, underclass, underdog, integration policy, disadvantaged


White House Moves to Calm Trade Fears as China Retaliates

  • As markets seesawed and industries fretted, American officials held out the possibility that tariffs outlined this week might never go into effect.
  • But White House officials reiterated that China must stop the “unfair” trading practices President Trump believes have disadvantaged American companies and workers.


Compared to other countries, Turkey has done an excellent job of meeting the basic needs of refugees. But without a better integration policy, they will become a permanent, stateless underclass


Turks' solidarity with refugees remains strong. Yet there are signs of trouble
ECONOMIST.COM


Waves of Young Syrian Men Bring Hope, and a Test, to Europe

By BEN HUBBARD

The exodus deprives Syria of a demographic crucial to reconstruction while threatening to create a new underclass in Europe.




Deborah Meier writes in the Bridging Differences blog in Education Week: “We've settled on anything that keeps the more ambitious poor black and Latino kids—especially boys—in line and obedient while producing some small improvement in standardized test scores. Such schooling reinforces, rather than challenges, an old claim—with long roots in history. What's good for the well-off is different from what's good for the underclass.”

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States


underclass
n.
The lowest societal stratum, usually composed of the disadvantaged: "Divorced women and their children are becoming a new underclass" (Barbara Fisher Williamson).


underdog
n.
  1. One that is expected to lose a contest or struggle, as in sports or politics.
  2. One that is at a disadvantage.

latinx

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See also: Latinx

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Gender-neutral x replaces the gendered endings/elements a and o.

Noun[edit]

latinx
  1. (uncommon, chiefly US) gender-neutral form of latino or latina. quotations ▼

See also


Latino[La・ti・no]

発音記号[lətíːnou][名][形]((米))ラテンアメリカ系(男子)住民(の). ⇒HISPANIC,

Latina[La・ti・na]

  • 発音記号[lətíːnə]
[名]((米))ラテンアメリカ系女性住民.



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