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Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.
My fav categories are when they ask your race typically: white, black, Asian, Hispanic etc. Lumping insanely large groups together.
Or the one that asks: Hispanic or non-Hispanic.
Typically both are asked. What the hell does the Hispanic specific question answer that the first didn’t
One is asking about skin color, the other is asking about cultural heritage. For example, a person from South America with only European ancestry would be [white, Hispanic], and a Japanese-Brazilian would be [Asian, Hispanic].
The real issue is that they're irrelevant questions that survey-givers have no legitimate reason to want to know.
Thanks for explaining that, it’s funny tho that the only heritages that matter are if you’re a recent immigrant or not….
Yeah I never answer these questions
Male and female are also insanely large groups but I'll never understand why the color of your skin is so important in the land of the free.