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ad-lapidem t1_j9rj7xo wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in In the US, the gap between Black and White Homeownership is widening with each generation [OC] by Apartment_List

"Hispanic" is an ancestry/ethnicity under US government definitions, not a racial one. This does make things very complicated for data collection.

https://www.census.gov/topics/population/hispanic-origin/about/comparing-race-and-hispanic-origin.html

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MinutPop t1_j9symez wrote

The US gov has a strange definition of race.. White could mean anyone who is not African or Asian.. I wonder what that chart would look like if you consider all the groups within this “white” collection, for example: Germanic, Slavic, Roman, Norse, Berber, Arab & Turkic

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ad-lapidem t1_j9thjnz wrote

All racial categories are social/political, not scientific, as the Census itself is careful to observe. Labels and self identification change over time as well.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/25/the-changing-categories-the-u-s-has-used-to-measure-race/

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MinutPop t1_j9tlngw wrote

So why clump together everything that is not asian or african? And have separate categories for those? 🤷‍♂️

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ad-lapidem t1_j9tq5jz wrote

You're asking why an arbitrary definition is arbitrary in a certain way and not another? Ask the OMB.

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