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I guess I didn't realize that most government forms actually don't have a Latino/Latina option under ethnicity after the Hispanic question. That is genuinely weird to me.
But it's certainly not the only way government forms are illogical and inflexible.
You're PoC (IMO). Blame the government for forcing you into a different checkbox.
Yeah, government papers (and demographics papers you sign at other types of places) can be a bit confusing sometimes when it comes to this stuff. >_< My family gets so stumped on this category, lol.
I haven't filled a government paper recently, so they might have changed some things (I hope).
This wikipedia page is confusing, too:
According to the 2010 United States Census, 36.7% of Hispanic/Latino Americans identify as "some other race" as these Hispanic/Latinos may feel the U.S. census does not describe their European or American Indian ancestry as they understand it to be.[59
Half of the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States self-identifies as white. Most of the multi-racial population in the Mexican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan communities are of European and Native American ancestry (Mestizo), while most of the multiracial population in the Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban communities are of European and African ancestry (Mulatto).
Preference of use between the terms among Hispanics and Latinos in the United States often depends on where persons reside. Those in the Eastern United States tend to prefer the term Hispanic, whereas those in the West tend to prefer Latino.[13] Both terms refer to ethnicity, as a person of Latino or Hispanic origin can be of any race.[14][42]
Hispanics and Latinos are racially diverse...
(It also goes into the ancestral demographics of Puerto Rico, which has a mix of different ancestries, like European, African, and Indian, and inter-mixed ancestry.)
So for me, it gets confusing on where Latinos and Hispanics fit in this kind of POC discussions. We're made up of so many groups, and self-identify in different ways. I don't want to dismiss one group, when I know that we are so diverse.
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