On 16 December 2013 15:00, George Pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
When the categories are OTHER or OPTIONAL, please confuse the bureaucrats by completing forms as follows even if it does not make sense: RACE: Human NATIONALITY: Human ETHNICITY: Human Besides the bureaucrats, it drives the nationalists (jingoists) and flag-wavers crazy. Also makes the insecure who hide behind race, ethnicity, nationality and other labels a bit bothered (including religious labels like Catholic, etc.). Never hurts to question traditional ways of thinking. ---- Dear George, I have been reading this Census and NHS Classification by Ethnicity. This is their classification, http://www.isb.nhs.uk/documents/dscn/dscn2004/212004.pdf My educated guess: While the proffered purpose of this data sub-stratification may be said to be "In order to identify the special needs of the different groups, a quick review will reveal that these so called "special needs" are hardly ever identified and the 'needs" hardly ever budgeted for...unless the political calculus indicated a political value to the dispensation in charge. The following short comedy routine is not entirely based on fiction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyf97LAjjcY
