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I never understood what the problem with Latin American is. It's gender neutral and accurately describes a person's origin. I consider myself Latin American, and I don't know any other Brazilians who would object to being called that, unless they have some very online chip on their shoulder.
Well, it's not really about us. It's about USians, and in the US the community brand that won out is 'Latino'. But yeah, if you want to make that gender neutral I can't see what's wrong with Latin People or Folk, as opposed to Latinx Folk or People.
Latin American as a term was tied to the language of academia and diplomacy. It started as a French geopolitical delusion, continued onwards as a sticking point in hispanic literature, and only came to really include Brazil in the early 1900s due to American geopolitical reality. Since then it described foreign peoples, not a community within the United States. I'd wager that's why it didn't catch: a black person in the US can fill a form referring to themselves as African American - but the mexican person won't find any forms with Latin American as a matter of historical circumstance.
That makes sense!