Just completed my census

3-16-10 | edcoil

[edcoil]

Seven questions, name, age, race, total number of people living here and then you have to list the names of those living there, relationship and race.

no signature required.

The government always divides by race.

[ssaftler]

I felt the same way in regards to the genealogy aspect.

Which is why I put year and month of birth, similar to the 1900 census. What was good enough then is good enough now.

[buffyt]

There is only ONE race, the Human Race. There are ethnic groups, but only one HUMAN race. To make up other races is to insist that some are different than others, better or worse than others. They made up races to justify slavery.

[buffyt]

i wonder if they would get the message in Congress if we all filled it out that way LOL

[buffyt]

Man, that sounds like the SS, Gestapo, Nazis etc

[buffyt]

Great point, we are German, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, French, English, cherokee, etc.

[edcoil]

Ya, right.

[SoldierDad]

Don’t have a house phone number - not giving out cell numbers. In fact, I’m disinclined to answer any question but number of people in the home (though, I think I’ll write in American for ethnicity just to screw with them).

[Palladin]

A person I know, a bachelor, is going to put himself down as #1 person, and his 11 cats as the other ones. They all have people names.

He says they are all Samoan.

I wonder how many people make a complete fiction of it.

[Dallas59]

Didn’t put our phone # down either. They don’t need to call me.

[SoldierDad]

Well, since I don’t have a house number, I guess that’s one question I don’t have to worry about falsifying.

[Star Traveler]

Genealogists and Anthropologists are going to look back in history (from some time in the future) and conclude that the family unit had already changed dramatically by the year 2010 — and use this guy (and others like him) as proof that the traditional family unit had long gone by the wayside... LOL ....

[Star Traveler]

Well... considering that we’ve had the Census for a couple of hundred years, it looks like we beat Hitler to the Gestapo tactics then... :-)

[GATOR NAVY]

I filled in the number of people and nothing else in that section. Left 2, 3 and 4 unanswered. As for the info on the individuals, for each one indicated nothing (no name, sex, or age) but did mark the race box as Some Other Race and wrote in “American”

Yours sounds pretty close to mine. I did answer 2 since it was related to the actual enumeration. 3-6 blank. 7 I gave age but no birth dates. Race box just like you "Other-American".

[crusty old prospector]

They wanted my phone number...I was soooooooooooo tempted to give them a number....;-)

I gave them their own 866 number. I wonder if they will even know.

[blondee123]

Man, that sounds like the SS, Gestapo, Nazis etc

It is, GET USED TO IT!

[fwdude]

Absolutely atrocious.

Food for my shredder.

[devere]

My race is human.

Census is as of April 1.