Everyone talks about it, but do we really understand ethnicity?

Question

In a society of immigrants, where government and corporations, so avidly pursue survey after survey, to collect data about ethnicty, do we really understand the meaning of such common terms as Anglo, Hispanic, Caucasian, and why these terms are mostly used incorrectly (either as all-inclusive or mutually-exclusive)?

Answer 1

no we don't understand it. it is used to socially divide people into pre-arranged "boxes". it promotes stereotypes, and since ethnicity is defined as relating to groups through common traits or customs, anyone who has grown up in the USA should get to check the American box!! we are constantly divided by our physical characteristics, instead of celebrating our society as a whole. most "african americans" i know have never been to africa, nor have their parents or grandparents, they know nothing of any customs other than US customs, yet they are not allowed to be just plain old american - it seems to be reserved for whites only. no one says they are irish american, at least that i've known

Answer 2

I know what you mean. One of the words that is used incorrectly pertaining to ethnicity the most is the word "Hispanic." Many people do not know this, the word Hispanic simply means that you have ancestry the comes form a spanish speaking latin american country. A Hispanic person can be of any race, so you could be black, white, asian and be considered Hispanic. The media makes a lot of misconception of this. For example, back when the 2000 census was released, many saw headlines stating, "Hispanics have outnumbered Blacks." There are probably a little over a million blacks who are hispanic that hail from the Dominican Republic, not to mention Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Veneuzuela, Cuba, and othe Latin Countries. Also, DNA research has shown that a large majority of Puerto Ricans, who are considered to be hispanic, have African Ancestry in them. Finally, there was a large population of blacks that lived in Mexico that assimilated into the current Mexican population back in the 17-1800's, so some Mexican-Americans have African ancestry. Therefore, is it correct to say that Hispanics have outnumbered blacks? There is definitely a gray area here.
Caucasian is another questionable label. If you look at some of the census figures, you'll notice a large chunk of the Hispanic population is considered White, even though this a small percentage of their "true white" counterparts. The reason being is although the majority of Hispanics are Mexican-American, these people are considered "legally white", although Mexican-Americans are usually mestizo, mixed with Amerindian (American Indian; Native American) and Spaniard (Native of Spain) The White Hispanic also can be from El Salvador, Argentina, or any other Latin American Country.
The last major ethnic label that can be confusing is Asian-American. When one thinks of an Asian American, one thinks of people of East Asia (Japanese, Chinese, Vietamese, etc) but asian can include East Indians ( the people of India), Pakistanis, and others.
The United States is the only country in the world that uses labels of race and ethnicity. In any other country, the citizens indentifiy themselves with soley that country, even though they are of different ethnicities. For example, black people from Colombia will say ther are Colombian, not Afro-Colombian. Instead of splitting up people with different ethnic labels in this country, we need to do away with these labels because under one umbrella, we are all American.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

If every one understood every one would of heard about it, there would be conversation on the areas of the thing we call ethnicity and the thing we call race.
Leading to the understanding of race, there is only one.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

nope we don't have any idea where is America, ethnicity is a new word MORE, you see no have answers, is a total new word for some ones, you need use language like kinder garden
STILL NO ANSWERS, SORRY YOU LANGUAGE IS TO HIGH

Answer 7

You can be a martian-american for all I care, as long as you're in our country legally, it's all good.

Answer 8

NO COMPRENDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPANISH!!!!!!!!