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Yup, but still it doesn't cover many millions of US citizens. e.g Sikh, Middle Eastern, African Africans etc (not that there can ever be a list that covers such
by sn_master 4y ago
Yup, but still it doesn't cover many millions of US citizens. e.g Sikh, Middle Eastern, African Africans etc (not that there can ever be a list that covers such a diverse country).
- kgwgk 4y agoBlack African Africans at least would be covered by the “Black or African American” option. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Atf_form_4473-firearms_transaction_record_5300_9revised_0.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Atf_form...
- sn_master 4y agoYup, and then there's roughly the 300 million Arabs who live in North Africa who aren't covered by any of these.
- kgwgk 4y agoThat's why I said Black at least. Anyway, non-Black Arabs would fall under "white" - at least that's the intention of the creators of the form. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1079181478/us-census-middle-eastern-white-north-african-mena https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1079181478/us-census-middle-e...
- sn_master 4y agoRight, but I assure you most of them do not consider themselves "white" by any stretch of the imagination. The term "white" has deviated so much from Caucasian/fair-skinned and became a mostly political term in the US that most Arabs specially 1st and 2nd generation would never identify with.