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    1. JadedBobcat701 on

      What? People from Europe weren’t considered white?

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    2. America’s obsession with separating people like this will be its doom. So much energy is spent on racialisation that they are willing to forgo actually improving themselves.

    3. Who cares? Race is not a thing that actually exists. It’s just a leftover of late 19th century scientific racism and has no basis in reality whatsoever.
      This fixation with the concept of ‘race’ never brought anything good to humanity. Only suffering and misery.

    4. AjdarChiili on

      Where can i find the info for other regions? Specifically CA( please god dont be middle east)

    5. sivarzneger123 on

      Turkey, Azerbaijan,Georgia and Armenia are the only west asian countries that will be under white category. Now theres a separate MENA category. For example Kurdish people are categorized as MENA, while Turkish people are still under “White”.

    6. Ok-Factor-3805 on

      I’ve met Lebanese who are whiter than Portuguese people so this category is kinda silly anyway

    7. Big-Helicopter3358 on

      Race section? Therefore they are not considered just an ethnic group…

    8. Quandale-dingle_bro on

      So uruguay who is 80-85% european decent is not counted but turkey is?

    9. The reality is that white Spanish and Portuguese landed in LATAM and they mixed themselves with indigenous and African slaves quite liberally making their descendants no longer categorized as white whereas Britons and Irish landed in Australia and New Zealand and pretty much kept it to themselves, making their descendants keep their whiteness.

    10. With regard to Mexicans, they were classified as White because as the USA got California, they promised to honor the existing land grants. Since laws stated that only Whites could own land, the Mexicans who came along with the new states and had land were recorded in the census as being White.

    11. justseeingpendejadas on

      Who gives af how the US views other country’s ethnicities. They got some nerve lmao

    12. diffidentblockhead on

      Most commenters are misinterpreting this as an identification that individuals will carry.

      The actual purpose is that for example Arab American organizations want to be able to cite numbers of how many Americans have heritage from the region, and asked for the MENA survey checkbox. An individual’s response will only exist in raw US Census data and only totals are publicly reported.

      If MENA doesn’t list Turkey contrary to earlier reports, it is likely because Turkish Americans advised US Census, but I haven’t seen any reports yet.

    13. diffidentblockhead on

      The Latino, Asian, and now MENA categories are listed on US Census forms because the ethnic Americans organizations asked to collect estimates of those groups’ numbers.

      There is not really a White American organization asking for data showing there are lots of White Americans.

      And the Census Race survey is certainly not a determination applied to individuals. On the Census you report your race(s) yourself, and everything is private anyway and only collected for statistics.

    14. All those black Greenlanders are having a LOT of kids, apparently. Denmark, what is going on here? Is there something we need to talk about?

    15. The number of “white” people will suddenly drop by semantic magic and the great replacement creeps will crawl out of their caves.

      Shit like this must be where we’re getting fairy tales from (Grimm style, not Disney).

    16. notenoughspacefor on

      I find this kind of Americanised view of the world so funny where you have to be in some specific box.

      I’m from Portugal, that according to this map is “white”, and I’m quite sure that many of my countrymen would be looked as north-African/Middle Eastern in the US. Probably same goes to southern Spain, Italy, some balkans and Greece.