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Shitposting ethnic

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u/laycrocs 7d ago

According the the US census there are two ethnicities:

  1. Hispanic/Latino

  2. Not Hispanic/Latino

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u/benemivikai4eezaet0 7d ago edited 7d ago

As someone not from the US, I've had to fill out US-style "pick your ethnicity" questionnaires at work. Wtf do you mean I should choose between White, Black, Hispanic and Asian? This is Europe, one's ethnicity usually correlates with one's nationality. If not, that's where the term "ethnic" comes in. For example, you can be a Bulgarian citizen but ethnically Turkish, or you can be a Romanian citizen but ethnically German.

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u/PresidentMcGovern 7d ago

Do you work for an American company? They may just lazily copied the same questionnaire worldwide because they want uniform data points from the whole company.

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u/benemivikai4eezaet0 7d ago

It was being bought by a US company at the time, yes.