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Census Q - anyone else notice this?
Anyone else baffled as to why Hispanics are "not considered a race" this year and have their own question. The reason I ask is because they must answer a question regarding their Hispanic background and then answer the next question as to their race, which only really includes white, black and several different Asian races. This seems odd to me. I pointed it out to DH and he thought the same. I don't think we would have thought too much if they weren't so specific on the various Asian backgrounds, and flat out say that they are not counting Hispanics as a race.
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Re: Census Q - anyone else notice this?
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i saw that too!
maybe their trying to separate the term Hispanics into smaller groups?
yup. i'm a native american hispanic. i'm all sorts of brown.
i get it now, that makes sense!
Yes, this. It baffles me how many people confuse race, ethnicity and nationality.
I am seriously in love with this comment.
But, then why are Asians so divided in the next question? Why are Asians divided by Japanese, Fijian, etc???
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Those are nationalities (or in this case national origins). Just like one could be white and American, white and Canadian, etc.
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Actually, it would be the government, right? With the separation of church and state, and the fact that this is a government census
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It was that way in the 2000 census as well. I remember it because I filled out a separate census when I was in college. Hispanic is NOT a race - it is an ethnicity. There are only 3 recognized races: Caucasian, black, and Asian. Everything else is supposed to fall under one of those.
I have a hard time with the race question, because I have no idea which race to choose! My father's family is from Spain, so should I pick "Caucasian"? And my poor kids. Their mother is Hispanic (um, white Hispanic? black Hispanic?), and their father is Caucasian. What should they pick? It's just annoying.
This. I work in an EO office and all of our forms, while worded differently from the census, have a the same format for asking about national origin and race. I think more and more organizations are starting to use a format similar to the census questions to ask about race and national origin.
Ditto.
Besides, the race questions aren't mandatory. All they need is the count, not the demographics.
Riiiight... cause the US government DOESN'T have proofreaders. Come on.
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LOL. That post cracked me up. Yep, a constitutionally-mandated project ten years in the making....and it's taken down by a typo.
sarcasm and not real answers. I'm white and so is my DH but I am of Hispanic ethnicity and DH is German/Czech in ethnicity. Hispanics are NOT a race, their race is WHITE; just like if you were of Arabic ethnicity you would still be white.
Sorry, don't mean to get everyone in a tissy but it just bothers me when people make the race and ethnicity mistake. Flame away if needed.
because Hispanic is an ethnic group - not a race
and mulva - I guffawed - true story.
Sigh. Hispanic is not a race. And there are Jewish ethnicities--Ashkenazi and Sephardic. For example, Ashkenazi Jews have a higher rate of Tay-Sachs disease because they have a common ancestry, not just common religious beliefs.
FWIW, race is not a biological reality. It's a social invetion. There is more genetic diversity among Africans than there is among the entire rest of the human population. Race is an arbitrary way of dividing people based on skin color. You could just as well divide the world by other genes like blood type.