I've never understood who the US census forms mean by latino, because we're Mexican?
I believe the "latino" is a politically-loaded term to indicate "latin america", where "hispanic" indicates "spain" -- it differentiates whether you're new world or old world. "Mexican," in this case, would be your nationality, not your ethnicity, just like my nationality is US but my ethnicity is Scots-Irish.
So the problem with the US census forms is that not all white people are Anglo or Scandinavian and I'm not discriminated against in either America or Mexico.
And that's really the crux, isn't it: is one discriminated against based, on having an appearance != the majority of your nation? -- and how to put it so it's not that awkward!
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Date: 15 May 2010 03:52 pm (UTC)I believe the "latino" is a politically-loaded term to indicate "latin america", where "hispanic" indicates "spain" -- it differentiates whether you're new world or old world. "Mexican," in this case, would be your nationality, not your ethnicity, just like my nationality is US but my ethnicity is Scots-Irish.
So the problem with the US census forms is that not all white people are Anglo or Scandinavian and I'm not discriminated against in either America or Mexico.
And that's really the crux, isn't it: is one discriminated against based, on having an appearance != the majority of your nation? -- and how to put it so it's not that awkward!