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What happens if you are 1/2 white and 1/2 Hispanic? Who is in charge determining race?
by ransom1538 9y ago
What happens if you are 1/2 white and 1/2 Hispanic? Who is in charge determining race?
- bitL 9y agoYou specify your "race"/"gender" during application (or refuse to answer). It's up to you how you want to move forward I guess.
- ransom1538 9y agoThen I wonder why poeple just don't lie? EG just put down: disabled autistic transgender native american. Everyone wins. Google gets to check a bunch of boxes and helps you jump to the top of the list. I doubt they would check your parents race and examine your privates.
- danieltillett 9y agoI think you might find many do. What more surprises me is how few do. The end result of all this sort of game playing is not going to be pretty.
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- gaius 9y agonative american That strategy has been shown to work. And people are more angry about the beneficiary being called out about it, than they are that they stole a reserved spot in the first place.
- tmnvix 9y agoI imagine your surname would carry a lot of weight.
- bitL 9y agoI know an Indian guy with a Spanish name. Not sure if he recently decided to be trans as well ;-) I guess YMMV.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoSpanish or Portuguese? There's a lot of Indian people with Portuguese surnames from around Goa, but I'd think that Spanish would be very uncommon, unless it's their first name.
- bitL 9y agoDefinitely Spanish, both first name and surname.
- rdiddly 9y agoWhat about all the Filipinos (Asians) with Spanish names. I've got two guys at my work with the same last name, one from Philippines, one from Cuba.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoPeople have mistaken my Dutch last name for Mexican (I know Mexican is Spanish, but they said Mexican). I think I'm in luck.
- Distant_horizon 9y agoThe US gov considers Hispanic an ethnicity, not a race. So if you don't consider yourself one of the 5 races (white, black, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander) then you'd select other. Racial identity for Hispanics seems to be a complex personal decision.
- throwaway1584 9y agoThe EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [1] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs do not have an 'other' category, but it has a 'Decline to State'. The EEO-1 booklet states that if a person decline to state their race and/or ethnicity the employer is allowed to classify them on their own. [1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.cfm https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...