It may just be me but I find it insulting that race is on the census form. First off as far as I know there is just one race, the human race. Second even if they went politically correct and said ethnicity, as far as I know white and black are not any ethnic group. Why does our government still support ethnic inequality. The form should correctly list every ethnic group in the world and allow us to choose. I am part canadian indian, french, Lithuanian, dutch and Irish. My children's mom is latin american. I don't think the census form can correctly identify me or them so why insult us with their stupid categories.
chickee2010-03-16T15:18:10Z
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I agree with you, however, in order to track racism in the economy (it does exist and it institutionalized) and prevent it or equalize those in lower socio-economic groups we have to know where they live. Because I am also very mixed race I always check other and write in American.
Why make such a big deal out of it? In every day life, people of different ethnic groups claim to be so proud of their ethnicity, now, all of a sudden they don't want to put it in writing. Besides, if what you like to be referred to is not on the printed list, write what you prefer in the "other" choice. Big deal! Just fill out the census to the best of your ability and send it in. By making a big issue out of it, you only set yourself up for further investigation and unnecessary aggravation.
Because those who bring the "race card" to the table, keep racism alive. I think race is rotting away. It doesn't matter anymore, but for those who see "inequality" use race thus perpetuating the statistics needed for race.
Hispanics are people of Latin American ancetry Central America, South America and parts of the Caribbean. Who speak Romance languages. Anglo American English Language White American & Canadian Black American & Canadian Caribbean American Romance & English Language Afro Caribbean Native American White Latin American Romance languages (Spanish Portuguese etc) 1)Hispanic American (Spanish) Black Hispanic White Hispanic Indian Hispanic Hispanic (Mixed or other) 2)Ibero American (Portuguese) Mestizo (White & Indian) Mulatto (Black & White) Zambo (Black & Indian) Pardo (Black White & Indian) Hispanics are a group of people who are part of Latin Americans who have many races and even mixed people that in history they simply lumped them all into one group to make it easier but they are not a race or ethnicity more of a culture. We could easily call you Anglo American but your history of segregation made clear the racial difference and split cultures making it harder to lump Black and White Americans together like you can in Latin America. Black Americans and White Americans have different cultures Hispanics share a close one.
i have the census form and they finally added a middle easterner category lol i guessed they finally figured arabs are not white so why classify them as white. i also see they have black/african american non hispanic and white nothing says caucasian here lol they also gave mediterranian people their own category wtf