In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says... > > > > Intellectual argument of the Issues at hand: > www.onelist.com/subscribe/issues > Para asuntos Hispanos, en Castellano: www.onelist.com/subscribe/boriken > > > From: spike <[email protected]> > > Further to the question of whether the U.S. > Government counts Hispanics as White or not: > time constraints have thus fsr prevented me from > tracking this all the way back to original > sources, but this site at least provides some > links to start with for anyone who chooses to do > so. > > http://sites.netscape.net/campeador/euroamerican/papers/classification.htm > > > > ===== > *************************************** > It took forty thousand years for > [Mankind] to develop a thumb; it'll > probably take him ANOTHER forty > thousand to get it out of his ass. > -- Dennis Miller > *************************************** > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > << Attached file: 14505.htm (662 bytes) >> > Ad Astra is not affiliated with any political or religious organization, and > will summarily unsubscribe any individual promulgating theories of social > engineering based solely on age, gender, nationality, race, belief system, > sexual preference, or any other arbitrary criterion. > **************************************** > Please send all personal flames directly to the author of this > message, NOT to the list!!!!! > Organizations like the Census Bureau do not assign a race to the ethnic group "Hispanics/Latino". As you are well aware, Hispanics come in all colors, just like "Americans" for that matter. Most US residents have been exposed to one particular "race" of Hispanics, and there's where the stereotype begins. They have seen either Indian or mestizo Mexicans (not all Mexicans, of course) because that's the class that tends to come to the US as low-wage workers. I personally would categorize that class as "American Indian", if I may push the definition a bit, or as "other". The issue for Census purposes is what those people consider themselves to be, since they are the ones who respond to such a question. On the other hand, what race a, say W.A.S.P, would perceive them to be is entirely another matter. Technically speaking, a Spaniard (from Spain) is not a Hispanic so he/she must probably will classify himself/herself as white. Hispanics are the people of Latin America and the Caribbean who claim to originally have had ancestry from the people of Spain. As a result, not even Brazilians are Hispanics! Do you think the average "Joe six-pack" knows or even cares to understand all this? :)