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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by slibhb on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:37PM (#26714905)
In the little box you check off to select your ethnicity, Jews are in fact expected to check off white.

edit - You can write in "Jewish" but there's no "Jewish" box. This is why I turned against affirmative action (or taking account of ethnicity in any way). Jews are disproportionately rich and successful but they are "white" for the purposes of admissions. Meanwhile Asians, also disproportionately rich and successful, are "Asian". Why? Who makes these rules? Should anyone be making rules like that?

You could improve the situation by only providing ethnicity options that help the application (i.e. remove "Asian" and "white" and just stick to "black," "latino," "pacific islander," etc). This is definitely better but it's still bad in my opinion.

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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by prepend on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:41PM (#26714960)
Unless they are Hispanic. Jews, like all members of religions, are expected to check off the ethnicity and race that they identify with.
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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by alksjdalkj on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:52PM (#26715097)
You know there are non-white Jews, right?
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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by slibhb on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:02PM (#26715208)
Yes. But the vast majority of American Jews are "white".

There's no consensus over whether Jewishness is an ethnicity or a religion either.

These are all reasons to stop asking these kinds of questions of people.

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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by BlueTemplar on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:48PM (#26715032)
Latinos are white, why would you separate them ?
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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by slibhb on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:50PM (#26715055)
In my perfect world we wouldn't separate anyone.

My point was that it would be an improvement to only include ethnicity options that help the application, so Hispanic/Latino would be included.

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Re:WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion by BlueTemplar on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:07PM (#26715272)
Ethnicity options should NOT help applications (unless you are supposed to work in a very traditional community I guess?)
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