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This is an important point, especially with respect to the Hispanic population. It's often referred to as a race, when it's more like a cultural category - indi

This is an important point, especially with respect to the Hispanic population. It's often referred to as a race, when it's more like a cultural category - individual Hispanic people often identify as white, indigenous, or black though racial identity tends to be more fluid due to greater historic rates of intermarriage. I come from a Hispanic family, my grandparents more or less exclusively speak Spanish. My parents who were born a couple years after my grandparents immigrated would only be recognized as Hispanic if they made that part of their identity known. If I were asked to identify myself racially I'd say white, not Hispanic. I see myself as Cuban-Americans not as a racial identity buy as an ancestry - the same way people are Irish-American or German-American. 65% of Hispanics in the US identify as white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#...

Balgair 6y ago
I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'. Rates of intermarriage between groups seem to be on the rise [0] though Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling. More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'. Hispanics are predominantly White by the standards by which race has any meaning at all (though also several other races are represented), Hispanic is an ethnic rather than racial category. > Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling. It's not going to show up in data on race because it's not a race. > More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd. The people marching in parades with Confederate flags haven't awoken to anything. And each of America's periodic awakening on this issue has been accompanied by exactly that kind of reaction and a hardening of White supremacist ideology. It may be a shrinking minority each time, but it's also increasingly committed, or at least renewing it's commitment each time.

Balgair 6y ago

I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'. Rates of intermarriage between groups seem to be on the rise [0] though Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling. More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...

dragonwriter 6y ago
> I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'. Hispanics are predominantly White by the standards by which race has any meaning at all (though also several other races are represented), Hispanic is an ethnic rather than racial category. > Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling. It's not going to show up in data on race because it's not a race. > More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd. The people marching in parades with Confederate flags haven't awoken to anything. And each of America's periodic awakening on this issue has been accompanied by exactly that kind of reaction and a hardening of White supremacist ideology. It may be a shrinking minority each time, but it's also increasingly committed, or at least renewing it's commitment each time.