maybe we should all say we are part black, hispanic , white....prove I am not...sort of a reverse Alinsky overload the system thing...
are you applying for State Government jobs in Pennsylvania?
A little birdie has told me that Fast Eddie Rendell has put the full-court press on the bureaucracy to hire more Hispanics so the Dems can court that vote in the next cycle.
MAYBE THEY WANT TO SEE YOUR GREEN CARD.
As “Cheap_Hessian” put it: “We are no longer individuals”. With the passing of so-called “civil rights legislation” back in the 60’s, we’ve progressively become a society where we identify ourselves with a group, instead of what God made us, individuals, so that we can be afforded special rights based on our group identity.
How do we return to being a nation of individuals that have a common culture and goals? I can think of one place where people of all colors meet and with those ideas in mind....
Because the old Brown has become the new Black.
They want to know if you know the difference.
Back in 1984 when I took the NTE National Teachers Exam, I marked Pacific Islander...
I was born in New Zealand...
Dont know if I got extra points but I passed the exam
LOL
It’s basically an “invented” minority category. Hispanics can be White, Mestizo, Native American, or Black.
Hispanic is an ethnicity, like Irish, not a race, like Black. By definition it just means originating in a Spanish-speaking country or having ancestors as such. However, if you’re from Spain, I don’t think the US considers you Hispanic, it seems to have come to only mean Latin American.
Most people we consider Hispanic are some version of Mestizo, i.e., mixed White (Spanish) and Native American ancestry. So their race is technically “White” and/or “Native American.” A girl that works in my office is 100% White but was born in Puerto Rico, so is considered “Hispanic” by the US Census Bureau, but also White, and it annoys me that she “uses” both classifications to her advantage when it’s convenient.
It’s an ethnicity, not a race, which makes me wonder why nobody asks me if I’m Italian (I am on my father’s side). Why Hispanic? Why not Italian, or Irish, or even Cambodian or something?
I’m wondering the same thing and what the correct answer is.
Three of my four grandparents were born in Puerto Rico, immigrating to NY in the 1920s. One was born in NY of Italian-born parents. Legally all grandparents were natural-born American citizens. My last name is Spanish, but I am not a native Spanish (or Italian) speaker.
Culturally, I am familiar from family with Spanish and Italian traditions, foods and customs, but I also celebrate other cultural holidays through working 3 decades for a culturally Irish American employer and marrying an Irish/English/Polish mixed breed.
My kids have English/Irish last names. Racially, we are all white. One of my kids checks hispanic because my last name is Spanish, but sad to say, she couldn’t find Puerto Rico (or Spain or Italy) on a map.
I’ll sometimes check Hispanic if it is a separate question from race where I check white. But many times it is one or the other, which confuses me. Not really sure what the underlying point of the Hispanic ethnicity check box is when there is no distinction between the two dozen Hispanic cultures.
How about “None of the above”?
Ask yourself, why that makes a difference...why are they still obsessed with your skin in this constitutional republic?
Interesting thread overhere.
Do either of you ever check the “Other” box — for Sa’ami ancestry?
Sa’amis, however, only have minority status in Scandinavian countries, right? Surely they have no status here in America??
For “Race”, I usually specify “Other” and write in some variant of “Race for the Cure”, “10K”, or “Three-Legged”. My wife specifies “Scandia-American”.
People in Spain say they are white. If you’re ancestors came from Spain, you’re white. The rest is confusing.