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Originally posted by librasoul22
Also, like it said, people of Hispanic descent may also be "black."
I know many people who are from Spanish speaking countries that check Dominican/Puerto Rican/Cuban/etc. on evaluation forms, but are racially BLACK.
Thats why the concept of race is such BS, imo. It is meaningless.
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I agree, the concept of race is really messed up. It's because society has made the term "race" into something based on someone's skin tone or physical characteristics. Race, based on anthropological factors, is really biological. We all make up the human race. We, humans, share a similiar biological make-up (obviously DNA comes into play and makes us different, but when it comes to distinguishing us from a whale....well you get the picture...). In our society, people are so quick to use race to mean someone's ethnicity.
But from this article, the census is really messed up in so many ways. The thing is, all the boxes should be based on ethnicities such as Hispanic/Latin, African, Asian, etc, etc. EVERYONE has an ethnicity, whether it's Irish or African. The word race shouldn't even be on there. To check a box based on what you look like is pretty messed up b/c like Librasoul said, you can be of hispanic descent and look "black". Sooo you're Cuban but you're of the black race?? What? I mean does that make sense? How can someone really determine anything from that? Basically, they need to figure out if they want to know how many people LOOK black, white, etc OR if they want to know what everyone's cultural background is.