Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi...
by goatlover on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:28PM
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Apparently there is ongoing debate within the US census as to whether Hispanic should be treated as an ethnic category. Some Hispanics have objected to being placed in the white racial category as opposed to just being called Hispanic. I'm thinking at some point in the future we'll realize that racial categories don't make much sense.
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Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi...
by rayiner on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:10AM
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“Hispanic” isn’t an ethnic category. There are Hispanics of mostly European descent, Hispanics of mainly African descent, etc. It’s a clumsy umbrella term, but is vaguely workable insofar as it gestures in the general direction of a set of nationalities with related cultures.
“Asian” is even worse since it refers to a group of people who share neither ethnicity nor culture. It’s a label that is workable only because these unrelated groups share some common experiences in America due to immigration patterns. Even there, though, Indian immigrants and Vietnamese refugees have little in common.