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CMV: US census terminology should be changed.

Americans of European descent get called “white.” They don’t get called “European” Bc they don’t want to be associated with Europe.

But yet, Americans of Asian descent get called “Asian” even if they don’t know anything about Asia and have been Americanized.

Same thing with Americans of African descent and Hispanic descent. Americans of African descent sometimes get called “African American” instead of “black American” even if they know nothing of Africa. Americans of hispanic descent get called “hispanic” even if they know nothing about hispanic culture and have been Americanized.

Everyone is automatically associated with a different location but Americans of European descent because they get called “white” and not “European.”

The USA government should either 1)Replace the word “white” with “European” 2)Call hispanics “mestizos” or “native” and call Asians an alternative word that has nothing to do with Asia. For black Americans, they do get called black, but whenever people are having a formal conversation or it’s educational like in a textbook, they say African American. They should always get called black American 

I know that Hispanic is not a race and I don’t consider it a race. I’m a mestizo Hispanic (I was born in Mexico.) And there can white hispanics, black Hispanics, Asian Hispanics, etc. But when people think of a Hispanic, they either think of a mestizo or Native. People made it into a race and that’s why I said that Hispanics should get called “mestizo” or “native” depending on their race.

One more thing, native (short for Native American,) is a race and people should be able to call them that even if there’s no cultural connections.

Also, north Africans and Middle Easterners should get a separate category Bc they’re legally “white” but people don’t see them as such. An example are Arabs.
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> Everyone is automatically associated with a different location but Americans of European descent because they get called “white” and not “European.”
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> The USA government should either 1)Replace the word “white” with “European” 2)Call hispanics “mestizos” or “native” and call Asians an alternative word that has nothing to do with Asia. For black Americans, they do get called black, but whenever people are having a formal conversation or it’s educational like in a textbook, they say African American. They should always get called black American 

Shouldn't a census use whatever language is typically used (in similar, polite discourse), rather than try to make something up just for use in the census? A census is all about asking questions as unambiguously as possible, so that it is easily understood by everyone, using terminology that people are already familiar with.