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**eljugadordepoquer** · 04-18-2011, 08:41 PM

I don't see why that would be perceived as bad though. The purpose of the Census is to collect an accurate account of demographics. So a Hispanic person can check off their country of origin (Mexican, Brazilian, etc) or that they are of African descent, European descent, biracial, triracial, Latino, etc....but they are still Hispanic regardless of racial background. So that's why there's specifically a Non-Hispanic White box. A cultural difference still exists between White Americans and White Hispanics.

Well there are cultural differences between white americans and white hispanics that's true but I think white americans are culturally different to Spaniards,Italians,portugueses,greeks,russians,mol davians,Syrians,etc and still their descendants are counted as white americans in the census so...
and I think a white hispanic who's been born and raised in USA is much more culturally closer to white americans than a Swedish immigrant is to white americans

04-18-2011, 08:41 PM	#12
eljugadordepoquer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	I don't see why that would be perceived as bad though. The purpose of the Census is to collect an accurate account of demographics. So a Hispanic person can check off their country of origin (Mexican, Brazilian, etc) or that they are of African descent, European descent, biracial, triracial, Latino, etc....but they are still Hispanic regardless of racial background. So that's why there's specifically a Non-Hispanic White box. A cultural difference still exists between White Americans and White Hispanics. Well there are cultural differences between white americans and white hispanics that's true but I think white americans are culturally different to Spaniards,Italians,portugueses,greeks,russians,mol davians,Syrians,etc and still their descendants are counted as white americans in the census so... and I think a white hispanic who's been born and raised in USA is much more culturally closer to white americans than a Swedish immigrant is to white americans
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