
Racial Classifications with David Bernstein
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Hispanics, Not Letinos
For the calegory that became what we now know as hispanic or latino, they basically just recruited three young employees from the governfrom random agencies. No one is writing opeds or holding any colord demonstrations about this. So they eventually decided that the category should be called hispanic, not letino. And that has implications, because f if you say it's lotino, that may include, for example, brazilians and so on. But once it is spanish, then it only applies to people who have sp Spanish speaking ancestry. People from spain become his bac to become a member of a minority group. Another controversy rant service random hapest
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