Why is hispanic the only ethnicity

Is that one race? But how many ethnicities? Indeed, the majority of white Americans are a mix of two of these three British, Irish, German , and many, many are a mix of all three I am an example. Japanese, too, of course mostly Brazil 1. Not sure if there are lots of Indians in the Latin parts of the Caribbean like there are in the Anglo parts. Much handwringing ensued about how that symbolizes self-loathing or a distortion of self-perception or pernicious influences from anglodominant media, yadda yadda….

Famous examples of Italian-Hispanics include this guy. I was just thinking about that. In the US, no to both.

There is occasional commentary that there ought to be a difference between people descended from slaves and people descended from recent immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa because there are significant cultural differences between them, but it is not happening.

To some extent, Afro-Caribbean culture and African-American mainland culture has merged to some extent and there is quite a bit of shared history and experience from slavery, so there may not be as much of a push to emphasize a distinction.

If you decided to start giving minority points to Irish people, you would end up giving them to many, perhaps, most, white people, including ones whose only meaningful connection to Ireland is a family tree that grandma drew up showing one or two Potato Famine refugees. I think Jews hit the requirements - its an ethnicity, not a race, and they still face discrimination. But I think the forms mainly are concerned about things that are visually identifiable.

Great Debates. You… you… you… you left out the Chinese! All of the questions should be about ethnicity rather than about race. Also, there have been and are are significant Irish and Italian populations in Latin America. Racial categories, therefore, vary from country to country and do not accurately reflect how individuals perceive themselves.

Keeping the categories distinct acknowledges both the racial diversity of Latinos as well as the personal choice to not be racialized in a way that may lead to unequal treatment.

Our current U. There are no Latinos in Latin America. You read that right. Because Latino and Hispanic are U. Brazilians are Latino but not Hispanic. Spaniards are Hispanic but not Latino. Why is it important to be clear about our distinctions between race and ethnicity?