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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where does the ethnicity stop, though? I'm always so confused about this. I'm 1/2 hispanic via my mother who is 100%. I've always just checked "white" for my kids recognizing that they are more white than hispanic. But am I wrong? My DH is not technically white but there's no box for him. 
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Hispanic all the way.

Most Hispanics are either white or white/native, something like 50/50 in last Census if I recall correctly.[/quote]

Noted. I have also done white but may rethink moving forward. For myself, I always check "white" (except on medical intakes) because I assumed that they were asking for recent immigrants or those that were marginalized hispanics, which I am not. 
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You assumed incorrectly. It that was what they were "looking for," that is what they would have asked.[/quote]

Adding: This is a common misconception about diversity statistics. The data collection was never about being disadvantaged or marginalized, it was and is about representation.[/quote]

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