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"To me, "Hispanic" is a wide spectrum of ethnicities but really more of a linguistic, cultural and national/political specifier" Every form I can remember seei
by perl4ever 7y ago
"To me, "Hispanic" is a wide spectrum of ethnicities but really more of a linguistic, cultural and national/political specifier"
Every form I can remember seeing in the US that asks whether you are Hispanic says that it includes people of any race.
So how do you like this election season?
- asveikau 7y ago> Every form I can remember seeing in the US that asks whether you are Hispanic says that it includes people of any race. Yes, that is the "correct" thing that goes on the form, written by people who have bothered to look into this question. It isn't how people talk in casual speech.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhat kind of "casual speech" are you referring to?
- asveikau 7y agoThe kind you are likely to hear talking to random Americans. A lot of people you are likely to meet, of diverse backgrounds and origins, will talk about it imprecisely, and as if white and hispanic are contrasting terms. I personally do not. Nor do those forms you are talking about. But it something I hear a lot out in the world.