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Why do polls often ask if a person is white non Hispanic, or Hispanic, but they never seem to ask about if a Black person is Black non Hispanic? Like, I know a woman who is from the Dominic Republic and is also Black. So what box would she check? Hispanic since her first language is Spanish, or Black because her skin color is Black. And what is the point of these polling questions to begin with? What is the real agenda behind it where they don't want Hispanics to declare that they are White?
This has to do quite a bit with how people identify themselves and the Census. Hispanic or Latino is viewed as an Ethnicity not as a race for Census purposes. The race of someone who identifies as Hispanic is also asked in the Census.
Using the 2010 Census as an example, 8.7% of the country identified as both Hispanic and White, and 0.4% of the country identified as both Hispanic and Black. In other words a little over 50% of those who stated they were Hispanic were also counted in the white category, meanwhile less than 3% of those who stated they were Hispanic were also counted as black.
If you are a pollster trying to get a representative sample of the electorate you are going to want the racial data to match the area you are polling. If you are polling in Texas or New Mexico you are going to look to poll far more Hispanics and fewer Non-Hispanic whites than you would if you were polling Iowa or Ohio.
Black Hispanics are pretty rare outside of NYC and Florida.
What is perhaps even rarer is a Danish-Mexican. I am 25% Mexican on Mom's side. Along with the 25% Danish on Dad's side, those 2 ethnicities make-up the highest percentage of my various ethnic make-ups.
US culture tends to have a difficult time grasping that everyone “black” isn’t “African-American.” And because the two are often used interchangeably, others sometimes will not identify with the “black” label.
I am saying this again (for what seems to me to be the hundredth time) that ALL questions related to race, skin color, ethnicity, etc. should be eliminated in the U.S. With so many children being born as a result "mixed" marriages/relationships, it is just, imo, impossible for many (if not most) people to answer 100% accurately. My husband has two nieces who are half Euro-white and half a combination of black, Latino, Filipino, and Japanese ancestry, so how can she answer any of those questions other than to say "Mixed"? And this (people with a greatly mixed heritage) is going to be even more common in the not-too-distant future and probably the norm rather than the exception in three more generations at most, imo.
(And, btw, I think this will be a GOOD thing because I am just disgusted by all this "racial" divisiveness in the U.S. today.)
I have seen "black, hispanic" and "black, non-hispanic" before. I don't know about recently, though. The next time I take one of those polls, I will look.
Why do polls often ask if a person is white non Hispanic, or Hispanic, but they never seem to ask about if a Black person is Black non Hispanic? Like, I know a woman who is from the Dominic Republic and is also Black. So what box would she check? Hispanic since her first language is Spanish, or Black because her skin color is Black. And what is the point of these polling questions to begin with? What is the real agenda behind it where they don't want Hispanics to declare that they are White?
Because democrats pander to Black Americans and Hispanic Americans equally.
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US culture tends to have a difficult time grasping that everyone “black” isn’t “African-American.” And because the two are often used interchangeably, others sometimes will not identify with the “black” label.
Speak for yourself.
I use the term Black American.
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