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There are still far too many socio-economic differences between different races for us to omit the race box on the census forms.
I actually think we need more race boxes. There needs to be a South Asian and an East Asian box since these groups are nothing similar to one another. Arabs should also have their own box because for some reason they are currently classified as White. Mexcians should get a memo with their form reminding them of their Indigenous ancestry since 50-60% of them check the white box and not the mixed box.
"African-American" will now be on there. I wonder if that applies to people from South Africa. I also wonder why I don't get a box for "European American". My ancestors were from Germany.
"African-American" will now be on there. I wonder if that applies to people from South Africa. I also wonder why I don't get a box for "European American". My ancestors were from Germany.
I have no "outrage", nor a desire to have that classification "brought back".
I am just curious as to why it was done away with.
Would you like to add something useful to the thread by attempting to answer my question?
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Negro no longer a U.S. census classification.
