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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by ransom1538 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:22PM (#16498076)
What happens if you are 1/2 white and 1/2 Hispanic? Who is in charge determining race?
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by Distant_horizon on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:02PM (#16498331)
The US gov considers Hispanic an ethnicity, not a race. So if you don't consider yourself one of the 5 races (white, black, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander) then you'd select other.

Racial identity for Hispanics seems to be a complex personal decision.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by throwaway1584 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:53PM (#16499140)
The EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [1] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs do not have an 'other' category, but it has a 'Decline to State'. The EEO-1 booklet states that if a person decline to state their race and/or ethnicity the employer is allowed to classify them on their own.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by bitL on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:28PM (#16498110)
You specify your "race"/"gender" during application (or refuse to answer). It's up to you how you want to move forward I guess.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by ransom1538 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:33PM (#16498139)
Then I wonder why poeple just don't lie? EG just put down: disabled autistic transgender native american. Everyone wins. Google gets to check a bunch of boxes and helps you jump to the top of the list. I doubt they would check your parents race and examine your privates.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by danieltillett on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:38PM (#16498170)
I think you might find many do. What more surprises me is how few do.

The end result of all this sort of game playing is not going to be pretty.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by gaius on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:46AM (#16508373)
native american

That strategy has been shown to work. And people are more angry about the beneficiary being called out about it, than they are that they stole a reserved spot in the first place.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by tmnvix on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:33PM (#16498138)
I imagine your surname would carry a lot of weight.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by bitL on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:43PM (#16498195)
I know an Indian guy with a Spanish name. Not sure if he recently decided to be trans as well ;-) I guess YMMV.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by toomanybeersies on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:33PM (#16498492)
Spanish or Portuguese?

There's a lot of Indian people with Portuguese surnames from around Goa, but I'd think that Spanish would be very uncommon, unless it's their first name.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by bitL on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:10PM (#16498660)
Definitely Spanish, both first name and surname.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by rdiddly on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:14PM (#16498956)
What about all the Filipinos (Asians) with Spanish names. I've got two guys at my work with the same last name, one from Philippines, one from Cuba.
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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by toomanybeersies on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:32PM (#16498489)
People have mistaken my Dutch last name for Mexican (I know Mexican is Spanish, but they said Mexican). I think I'm in luck.
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