Why is so much importance tied to being Hispanic or of Hispanic decent?

Question

Why the census is so obsessed with counting anyone who's Hispanic? For instance, only black gringos can check the "black" box, but a black latino would just check "Hispanic" which is so stupid, because how does that serve as identification? Hispanic isn't a color, it's a ethnicity, not EVEN an ethnicity, but a broad term that covers an assortment of ethnicities. And why are Latinos always lumped together? There are several different "Latin" cultures. I mean, you don't see Americans, Irishman and Australians constantly being lumped together just because we all speak English, a magazine entitled "Gringa", or an Anglo pride parade. And what's so stupid is how so many Americans of Latin American descent still identify themselves as "Latino". I mean it's good to be proud of your heritage but that doesn't mean you segregate yourselves from other Americans and identify yourselves with only certain people just because your ancestors spoke the same language. I mean, my ancestors are West African and I don't need a magazine written in Ga or some magazine featuring only women from West Africa or of West African descent. We’re all different, you know? And how in the blue blazes are latinos considered a minority, they cover almost the entire western hemisphere?

Whoa...sorry. But you missed the jist of my question.

Answer 1

None really unless you're a liberal.

Answer 2

You talk long enough and sometimes you answer your own questions.

You hit it right on the head. They (latinos/hispanic) are smart enough to know there is strength in numbers. One thing the Whites never new and the blacks fail to remember. The asians and what ever you call those guys that wear dresses in the middle east, silently but deadly know about unity.
It is funny how things change, the American Indians use to be treated as dirt. They were treated as savages and everything was taken away from them. Now they have more money and power than most.

Whites are disappearing into the black, asian, hispanic, european population. If I married a black and had a child, he/she would proably be black(since that is a dominate gene) and my generation would disappear into the darkness or blackness as it were.

Answer 3

Since there is so much racial diversity, most atates have decided to use other. However, there is space foer any other information that allows you to make your own characterization. If people of Spanish descent do something like creating their own identity, the USA will go along with them. Complaining and worry about racism is not a solution.

Answer 4

Hispanic is a word that was given to us by President Nixon. We prefer the name Latino
instead of Hispanic, for the word Hispanic is
an anagram for the racial slur "****."

Answer 5

Good Point.

Answer 6

Affirmative Action perks.

Answer 7

Equality, not special treatment..is needed.

Answer 8

I'm white and I see your point. But I don't know? God bless!

Answer 9

who knows

Answer 10

Please do not use the word "Hispanic". Its a word given to us by Nixon to ease the Census process. We prefer "Latino".

Answer 11

Liberal hispanic politicians are pushing it...