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I agree with your point, but there's also a further nuance, as people can, and often do really stretch the definition as long as it fits their agenda. https://

by gspetr 7y ago

I agree with your point, but there's also a further nuance, as people can, and often do really stretch the definition as long as it fits their agenda. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-white-hispanic_n_3588744 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-white-hispanic_n_3588744 "CNN is trying its hand at anthropology. In a case that highlights continuing confusion over how to define Latino ethnicity, the television news network has set off a controversy over its continued use of the term “white Hispanic” to describe George Zimmerman, the man whose killing of unarmed, black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin set off a national debate about the persistence and nature of racism."

dragonwriter 7y ago
“White Hispanic” (White “race” and Hispanic “ethnicity”) may be controversial and may be an example of someone stretching to fit an agenda, but if so it's the US government and not CNN, as it is the former which has and invented the two axis race plus ethnicity model in which there are a number of big racial groups with subdivisions, but the only ethnicities available are “Not Hispanic/Latino” and “Hispanic/Latino”. Anyone who has ever dealt with government forms collecting race/ethnicity data, including the census, has seen this. HuffPost characterizing this as CNN “trying its hand at anthropology” rather than CNN applying the standard government model is evidence of HuffPost distorting facts to suit an agenda, and not even in a way which stands up to casual scrutiny.