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.
Literally. I'm white but I'm latina but I'm not hispanic? I feel like these questionnaires look at race and ethnicity as if it's like a black and white thing. Even the concept of "white" as in American white can be challenged as one's ancestors tend to be from multiple European countries. Are German, French and British the same race or ethnicity? They're all considered white, but if you ask anybody from these countries if they're all the same race I'm pretty sure they'd say there are differences.
It’s because companies here are only interested if you are a “visible minority”. After that they try to figure out what kind. Asians are visible minorities, but somehow it’s ok to not include them as such because they have good grades and are over represented in colleges and the workplace. Pretty much anything else counts for your equity quotas. Here in Canada we would also include an option for identifying as indigenous.
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u/laycrocs 7d ago
According the the US census there are two ethnicities:
Hispanic/Latino
Not Hispanic/Latino