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Based on his claimed ancestry using that forum name would make no sense. It's a description of someone who's ancestors are from Mexico and his are not.
Why should it be a Census question? The Government should know exactly how many people are American citizens by using birth certificates and how many people became naturalized citizens.
Why ask a redundant question and waste money?
it has been a census question for well over 150 years..........until obozo had it taken off in 2010
this question was for all
are you a citizen?
are you a greencard emigrant?
what year did you emirate?
year and ship arrival?
country of origin?
Based on his claimed ancestry using that forum name would make no sense. It's a description of someone who's ancestors are from Mexico and his are not.
Why not? Mexico is a diverse country. You don’t think a Mexican-American would come up with 30% Native American DNA and 5% sub Saharan DNA? You know Mexico has a sizable Afro-Mexican community. A lot of Mexicans have quite a bit of Amerindian DNA. Do you know how genetic input works? Do you know anything about Mexico or the diverse population groups in the country?
Why not? Mexico is a diverse country. You don’t think a Mexican-American would come up with 30% Native American DNA and 5% sub Saharan DNA? You know Mexico has a sizable Afro-Mexican community. A lot of Mexicans have quite a bit of Amerindian DNA. Do you know how genetic input works? Do you know anything about Mexico or the diverse population groups in the country?
He said nothing about having any Mexican ancestry. What part of that didn't you get?
Most "Hispanic" people are considered white racially. Obvious exceptions would be Dominicans.
There are plenty of non-white or even tri-racial Puerto Ricans as well (Irene Cara, Rosie Perez, Rosario Dawson). There are also black Colombians, black Peruvians, black Guyanese, etc. Many Central Americans have Spanish names and are Spanish-fluent but are 100% native by blood (e.g., Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president).
Why not? Mexico is a diverse country. You don’t think a Mexican-American would come up with 30% Native American DNA and 5% sub Saharan DNA? You know Mexico has a sizable Afro-Mexican community. A lot of Mexicans have quite a bit of Amerindian DNA. Do you know how genetic input works? Do you know anything about Mexico or the diverse population groups in the country?
I would not call Mexico's African population sizeable. At one point the country had 200,000 slaves but now the number of Afro-Mexicans is so small most of the country's citizen's do no know they exist. Their percentage is in the single digits, comparable to our Native American numbers (I mean real natives not whites who think great-grandma was Cherokee cause of her high cheekbones).
Yep. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is one of them. Peruvian of Japanese descent.
I'm not sure that's what the census is getting at when they ask Hispanic/Latino origin. His nationality is Peruvian but his origins/family ancestry/roots are Japanese. Hispanic/Latino is meant to apply to mestizos with blood ancestry from both Spain (or in the case of Brazil, Portugal) and indigenous Americans. Unless he's descended from ethnic Hispanics he would check no for that and then Asian for race.
If I were to move to Japan with an American husband of the same race/ethnicity as me, gain citizenship, then give birth to a child there who also becomes a citizen, the child is Japanese in nationality but not 'of Japanese origin.'
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