The census sent out in 2010 was rather disappointing in its attempt to categorize American population. I happen to agree with Mr. Wade in that case different breakdown the Asian American categories into all of the individual countries of origin possible, then we should do the same for African-Americans, any Latino origin, and even go so far as to list the same thing for Caucasians. Disturbing is the correlation between question 8 and question nine where it appears that the government is not even seeing Hispanic origins as race. Although I think the reverse is more true I am more disturbed by the fact that they are even asking what would your races and not what your ethnic background is. Does does the concept of a constructed set such as race really matter all that much to the government, who should know that race is a socially constructed restrictor. The country you are from has nothing to do with your "race", there are plenty of other ethnic backgrounds mixed in in almost every country in the world.
Geoffrey Simmonds
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