Census Race Section

I got a census at home and I believe that my parents just counted me as someone who is in my house even though I am not for a majority of the year. I never got to look at the one that was put in everyones mail box that lives on campus. Thus, in class was the first time I actually got to see that race category on it. Apparently race is now your ethnicity. Whatever your heritage is is now your race according to the census we looked at in class. If its alright to breakdown the Asian category into different Asian countries then why isn't the black category broken down into Kenyan-American or Ghanaian-American like the Asian category instead of just black or African American. If your going to breakdown one you might as well breakdown them all including white into Italian-American, Irish-American and many others. The whole title should be changed to as Jeff said ethnic heritage. Also Justins point as to making a box to check that says Bi-racial or multi-racial would be an excellent idea.