Last weekend, two friends came to here for their work but Sunday is Sunday so that we met and hanging around. The first destination was the Anacostia Museum, its name was from the this place name, the east-southern of DC.
There is not so much object for me but meet friends that I didn't check the information about this museum. This is a place for remembering the Latinx life, their immigrant life in the US, their struggle for a social citizenship, their culture, festivals etc.
The first thing I think is this sentiment as an immigrant, which is very similar to that of Korean, especially when I got to read the writing of one young Latino child. It is about explaing the confusion of identity, saying that 'in school, I need to speak and learn English, but in home, use Spanish and parent and elders worry if I lose the latinx identity', 'I was told that you are not latino in my country but in the US that you are not American'. It seems that most of immigrants suffer and endure the identical problem and the generation gap between the first and the second or more.
And, after this, stopped by the house of Frederic Douglas. His late life, his sencond marrige is interesting, next time allow to write later about this.
* Additional issuse about the term, Latinx. Interesting!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-people-are-using-the-term-latinx_us_57753328e4b0cc0fa136a159
It was the first time to face the word, Latinx at the museum. I thought that dut to the prefix, Latin, this is supposed to be the people relaing Latino and, from the suffix, nx, it could be something of meaning of the multiple, remembering the Russian Language. It's right. But the reason why the people use this word was understood after this article. Good Information!
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