05-16-2008
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#13175 (permalink)
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playa maya guy
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: wandering between the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1961 and the Plugged Nickel, Chicago, 1965
Posts: 10,851
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Originally Posted by roni
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?
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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
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