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What new jargon do you want to replace "Race"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8864887" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>The US census has a very unusual way of grouping race, and ethnicity is even more unusual. If I remember it is Asian, White, Black, Alaskan, Native American, and Pacific Islander. And I think ethnicity is divided into hispanic and non-hispanic. The reason this grouping is strange is it pretty much doesn't match at all how people in the US talk about racial and ethnic identity. Obviously people might distinguish being hispanic or latino, but non-hispanic isn't exactly a category people think of. And hispanic, I believe doesn't include people from countries that speak Portuguese (it is possible I am wrong on that). Where I live, most of my neighbors are from places like Guatemala, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, etc. So it is a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, but also a wide cultural and geographic range. When people say ethnicity in the US, it would refer to things like Italian, Polish, Mexican, etc. I think race has a much looser use and can mean either ethnicity or a division between white, black and asian (and I would say I saw more of the latter use on the west coast than the east coast, where ethnicity is more significant than race). Again it isn't really relevant to the topic at hand, but my point is just people in the US know the census is divided into odd categories that don't necessarily reflect how people in daily life think and talk about ethnicity and race.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8864887, member: 85555"] The US census has a very unusual way of grouping race, and ethnicity is even more unusual. If I remember it is Asian, White, Black, Alaskan, Native American, and Pacific Islander. And I think ethnicity is divided into hispanic and non-hispanic. The reason this grouping is strange is it pretty much doesn't match at all how people in the US talk about racial and ethnic identity. Obviously people might distinguish being hispanic or latino, but non-hispanic isn't exactly a category people think of. And hispanic, I believe doesn't include people from countries that speak Portuguese (it is possible I am wrong on that). Where I live, most of my neighbors are from places like Guatemala, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, etc. So it is a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, but also a wide cultural and geographic range. When people say ethnicity in the US, it would refer to things like Italian, Polish, Mexican, etc. I think race has a much looser use and can mean either ethnicity or a division between white, black and asian (and I would say I saw more of the latter use on the west coast than the east coast, where ethnicity is more significant than race). Again it isn't really relevant to the topic at hand, but my point is just people in the US know the census is divided into odd categories that don't necessarily reflect how people in daily life think and talk about ethnicity and race. [/QUOTE]
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