Your post only cites a few of many examples of how foolish this US government obsession with demographic classification is. No matter how you classify this group or that group, there always going to be the proverbial round pegs in square holes. I'd much prefer NO official government classification of Americans, other than citizens and aliens, with aliens subdivided into legal and illegal.
Let's have people decide for themselves which group or groups they identify with, NOT government bean counters. But, you see, without government bean counters, there can be no affirmative action, quotas, or set asides, etc.
"Paging Procrustes...Will Procrustes please report to the Census Bureau...?"
You got it.
Support that agenda 100%.
I think the rules may have changed, but 20 years ago I worked with a guy named Martinez. He was married to an Anglo woman and they had two kids, a boy and a girl.
He told me that when his kids grew up, if both married Anglos, the children of his son would be classified as Hispanic, but the children of his daughter not, simply because of the different in surname. Even though all the kids would be equally 25% “Hispanic.”
Meanwhile, Bernardo O’Higgins and Anthony Quinn are classified as Hispanic, despite names as Irish as you can get.
Consider three brothers in 1900 Sicily. Brother A moves to Buenos Aires, brother B to Sao Paulo, brother C to New York. Under present law, when their descendants, all of pure Italian descent, get together for a family reunion in Las Vegas, those descending from brother A are Hispanic, those from the other two are just “white.”
Does that make any sense at all?
Meanwhile, it is to be simultaneously taken as an Article of Faith that "race" doesn't exist, and that there are no real differences between any two human groups.
Expressing interest in determining whether this is actually the case, much less really challenging it, can destry a person's life and career.
Indeed. Thank you for this beautiful devotion!