Hispanic:How do you feel about the “Hispanic/Latino” option being taken off the 2010 US census?
Well, I lied. Hispanic is still an option, but it now stated as an ethnicity, not a race.
In addition to the race question (Black, White, Asian, Pacific Islander etc being options), a question will now be asked about whether you are Hispanic or not?
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I think it’s a good thing that it’s not being listed as a race.
Being from a Spanish-speaking country does not make you no longer white if you’re white, no longer black if you’re black, etc.
To me, a white person from Mexico is equally as white as someone from Sweden, and a black person from Cuba is just as black as an African American, being “Hispanic” doesn’t change their racial origin.
im hispanic cause my parents speak spanish and Latino cause they were born in Latin America..
I think it is only being removed from “Race” but will be an option for “ethnicity”.
My understanding is that people will choose a race, then choose either “Hispanic or Latino” or “Not Hispanic or Latino.” This would be to eliminate the confusion stemming from people of various races who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino.
The Census Bureau defines “Hispanic or Latino” as “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.”
It never has been listed as a race…And every form I complete has the hispanic orgin separate from the races..
I think it should be taken off. It’s not even an ethnicity. The cultures of spanish-speaking countries are very different, the only commonality is that we speak spanish. There is so much more to a culture than a shared language. It’s like saying England and Jamaica have the same ethnicity because they speak English.
The real Hispanic are the Spaniards, their country used to be called “El Imperio Hispano”. People in Peru or Colombia aren’t calling themselves hispanic. It’s only here in the U.S. where that word is used. We are indigenous, mestizos, whites, blacks, mulattos, triracials, some chinese and japanese. Those are the races of latin americans.
It should be only races on the census. Those government created options are just confusing people.
I agree with Cynical…Hispanic isn’t even an ethnicity either. Hispanic is just a label for people who happen to come from Spanish speaking countries, and it ignores the vast differences between the people of our nations. To say that Hispanic is an ethnicity would be like saying Anglo was an ethnicity, and everyone from an English-speaking nation is the same culture, which is false.