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I myself have to mark a checkbox saying "Hispanic OR Latino". I'm Latino, but NOT Hispanic. But I can also check "white". One is a skin color, another is ancest
by outworlder 4y ago
I myself have to mark a checkbox saying "Hispanic OR Latino". I'm Latino, but NOT Hispanic. But I can also check "white". One is a skin color, another is ancestry, and yet another is geographical location...
- killjoywashere 4y agoMy (least?) favorite anecdote on this was when we were running stats demographics and found there was one more African American than Black. Turns out it’s a rich white kid who was born in South Africa. He’s not wrong…
- glandium 4y agoElon Musk and Charlize Theron are African Americans too.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe fun part is that 60% of world population have to share a single classification whereas a couple of small islands in the pacific somehow get a label for themselves