Framingham: Majority-Minority City?

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by massnative71

And is that something new? I never recall the word Latino being any kind of an option.

since at least 2000 the American Community Survey and the US Census ask for "Hispanic or Latino Origin" its not new.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by scorpio516

In 1970, we decided that Hispanic is different. Where you grew up is different than where your family is from ONLY if you speak Spanish.
so you end up with 12 different categories of people:
White Hispanic
Black Hispanic
Native American Hispanic
Asian Hispanic
Native Hawaiian Hispanic
Other Hispanic
AND
White Non-Hispanic, Black Non-Hispanic, etc.



The entire federal government define Hispanic/Latino as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of "race". (see post 11)

Anyone from Spain, south of the US border in the western hemisphere, the Philippines, and the Federated States of Micronesia are Hispanic/Latino in the census, OPM, DOT, DOE, anything Federal.

Filipinos are classified as Asians by the Census.

[Boston Shudra]

So it isn’t too helpful, but of the 13,757 Latinos if F-ham: 5,245 are from Central America, 3,531 are from South America, 2,410 from Puerto Rico, and 1,371 from the DR.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by Boston Shudra

So it isn’t too helpful, but of the 13,757 Latinos if F-ham: 5,245 are from Central America, 3,531 are from South America, 2,410 from Puerto Rico, and 1,371 from the DR.

That can't be all the Brazilians.

[Lampert]

Originally Posted by MrDee12345

I think the important word here is "or". Basically it's asking if someone is Hispanic OR Latino OR Spanish origin. So someone could be one of those, or they could be all three. Either way, they could check the box.

Yeah and nowhere in the census there is ever any other classification. So it's irrelevant from this perspective what difference there is between Latino and Hispanic.
If you are talking from a "scientific" perspective you can make a strong argument that Italians, Portuguese, Maltese, probably even Greeks could all be classified as Latino but it's irrelevant from the Census perspective.

[scorpio516]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Filipinos are classified as Asians by the Census.

Of course they are. But they are also Hispanic. Asian and Hispanic are different categories.

Most Filipinos don't classify themselves as Hispanic, but according to the official definition, they are.