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Boomer

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4. I'm a (mostly) White Hispanic

Reply to Beringia (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2020, 10:27 AM

Jun 2020

My mother was born in Mexico and spoke Spanish, that makes her Hispanic. Although there was some Indian in her background, the majority of her ancestry was European: Spanish, German, French and Italian.

"White" is about race, but "Hispanic" is about ethnicity. They're not the same concept, although they do have overlap. And all of it a pretty arbitrary and unscientific set of categories that we take far too seriously

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Question about Demographics for a city on Wikipedia [View all] Beringia Jun 2020 OP

Good catch. Your wiki change is still there. SharonClark Jun 2020 #1

My reading of that is that some of the 59.44% Hispanics are White. Jim__ Jun 2020 #2

Here's the definition of Hispanic Clash City Rocker Jun 2020 #3

I'm a (mostly) White Hispanic Boomer Jun 2020 #4

Thanks for the answers Beringia Jun 2020 #5

In the US Census use, Hispanic/non-Hispanic is a separate category from 'race' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #6

Well this Hispanic is not a race Beringia Jun 2020 #7

Not "almost all" Hispanics called themselves as white; about half, and nearly half "some other race" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #8