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In the little box you check off to select your ethnicity, Jews are in fact expected to check off white. edit - You can write in "Jewish" but there's no "Jewish
by slibhb 6y ago
In the little box you check off to select your ethnicity, Jews are in fact expected to check off white.
edit - You can write in "Jewish" but there's no "Jewish" box. This is why I turned against affirmative action (or taking account of ethnicity in any way). Jews are disproportionately rich and successful but they are "white" for the purposes of admissions. Meanwhile Asians, also disproportionately rich and successful, are "Asian". Why? Who makes these rules? Should anyone be making rules like that?
You could improve the situation by only providing ethnicity options that help the application (i.e. remove "Asian" and "white" and just stick to "black," "latino," "pacific islander," etc). This is definitely better but it's still bad in my opinion.
- prepend 6y agoUnless they are Hispanic. Jews, like all members of religions, are expected to check off the ethnicity and race that they identify with.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoLatinos are white, why would you separate them ?
- slibhb 6y agoIn my perfect world we wouldn't separate anyone. My point was that it would be an improvement to only include ethnicity options that help the application, so Hispanic/Latino would be included.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoEthnicity options should NOT help applications (unless you are supposed to work in a very traditional community I guess?)
- alksjdalkj 6y agoYou know there are non-white Jews, right?
- slibhb 6y agoYes. But the vast majority of American Jews are "white". There's no consensus over whether Jewishness is an ethnicity or a religion either. These are all reasons to stop asking these kinds of questions of people.