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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You're assuming that Hispanics won't be considered "white."   Hispanic is an ethnicity (like Irish or German or European) not a racial category. Plenty of other ethnic Catholic minority groups (Irish and Italian, for example) were not considered white in the 19th century and are considered white now.[b]  I expect that Hispanics will be much the same.[/b] [/quote[/b]]

Really,  do you really think the Evo Morales, Zoe Sandanas and Jimmy Smitts of the world can check white. Hispanics don't all look like Salma Hayek. I understand that's all you may see, because that's the look portrayed in the movies. But collectively, the majority of hispanics are majority black or brown. Hispanic is not a race. It is a label the US government created in the fifties to identify a new influx of people from Spanish speaking Cuba and Puerto Rico.   [/quote]

Good point, 14:59. I get so sick of people  lumping race and ethnicity together. While we are at it, could we quit focusing on race so much? It is a flawed social construct with no basis in biology.

16:59 I am not sure what appearance has to do with whether someone chooses to "check white." I am Italian and blond and blue-eyed like my northern Italian grandmother. My cousin takes after the Sicilian side of the family. In the summer, no one would ever assume that she could "check white" on any form.
As a matter of principle, I never check those silly boxes anymore. What if everyone stopped checking the boxes?[/quote]

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