In article <[email protected]>, Jorge Nunez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.h tm > > > > > > > > ===== > > *************************************** > > 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? :) > The federal government's treatment of hate crimes is one way Hispanics are considered White. The FBI reports hate crimes against Hispanics, but not by Hispanics. The FBI thus forces local law enforcment to catagorize most Hispanic offenders as White. As an example, is a Mexican is assaulted for reasons of ethniciy, he is recorded as Hisp. However he becomes White if he does assaults a black for the same reason. ore absurdly, if he does the same against a white, both vic. and perp. are considered white.(The Color of Crime. New Century Foundation, 1999, quoting the stats of US Dept. of Justice, Crime Vic. Survey.) -- solutrian Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.