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The use of "race" for ethnicity is indeed a uniquely American thing; most of the countries I've mentioned use "ethnicity" or "nationality".
by azernik 6y ago
The use of "race" for ethnicity is indeed a uniquely American thing; most of the countries I've mentioned use "ethnicity" or "nationality".
- kelnos 6y agoIt's even weirder: in the US, ethnicity is a separate official category from race that has two buckets: either "hispanic or latino" or "not hispanic or latino". Which... what?
- notfromhere 6y agoThe US tracks ethnicity and race separately, and tracks Hispanic origin as the main driver of population growth is Hispanic migration
- azernik 6y agoUS got its initial Latino population from conquering bits of Mexico; and while in the US Latinos were a separate ethnic group from Anglos, the internal "racial" divisions in Mexican society between criollos and mestizos were important enough to collect data on. (And criollos considered themselves "white" and were unlikely to mark themselves as "Hispanic" if it were presented as a separate option.) US ethnic relations are weird.