On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:56 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t know that this is a true statement. As I said, Hispanic is an > ethnicity, white is a racial category. It is obviously possible for someone > to be both Hispanic and White. I do not think it is possible for a person > to be in error in identifying themselves as Hispanic but not white. >
Maybe it's enough to say there is a big enough gray area to make the demographics meaningless. Take a grandchild of immigrants from a Latin American country whose parents were brought up speaking English and the (now adult) grandchild can't functionally speak Spanish. Add that the parents did well for themselves and the adult grandchild spent no time in a barrio. Even if s/he is labeled a Hispanic by the census or in some other demographic listing, how relevant is that? Or take a young man with the last name of Gonzalez but his only Hispanic grandparent was his father's father from whom he gets the name. His 7 other grandparents are of German, Irish, Scandinavian and Italian extraction. How relevant is it to label him Hispanic? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
