View Single Post

Old 05-16-2008   #13175 (permalink)
ryberg
playa maya guy
 
ryberg's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: wandering between the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1961 and the Plugged Nickel, Chicago, 1965
Posts: 10,851
Quote:
Originally Posted by roni View Post
It is changing even more in the near future

Now, in a separate table for Hispanic/Latino, there will be all the racial categories - so you could be Hispanic-Native American, Hispanic-Black, Hispanic-Asian etc....

So, Hispanic is the ethnicity, under which there can be a variety of races
The other ethnicity is non-Hispanic

What's a Mayan to do who may not consider herself Hispanic, or a Purepechan, for example?
Sounds like this would persist in leaving no place for my children, half American of a basically Anglo/Caucasian background and have Latinos/Hispanic.

Steve
ryberg is offline   Reply With Quote
register to remove these adverts