[Verginius Rufus]

It's interesting to see that they have Filipinos as a distinct group, although they are Asian...and the Philippine Islands are islands in the Pacific, so they should be considered Pacific Islanders too. I had heard of this being done to track racial percentages in the University of California student body, but I don't know how widely this is done (treating Filipinos as separate from other Asians).

[FITZ]

It's interesting to see that they have Filipinos as a distinct group

Why on earth do they have them in their own group and yet lump together all the "non-hispanic whites" which would include Swedes, Irish, Greeks, Italians, Russians, English, Portugese, Germans, etc?

[Steve_Seattle]

Maybe Filipinas are classified separately from other Asians because many are conservative, Catholic Christians, and liberals would definitely not want to give preferential treatment to people like THAT.