Census

I am sitting here trying to brainstorm a better way to phrase to U.S. Census, and I am at a loss. I think the best thing they could do to maintain efficiency is as the question: What country(s) are your ancestors’ descants from? Then, the government has to name every single country and add a small checkbox next to it. I do not think it is fair to separate Hispanics from every other group, also many ethnicities were omitted from the checkboxes-Americans can be from nearly any place on the globe, it is rude to leave any country out. Also, someone who is 25% Asian and 75% white may look 100% Asian and identify themselves most closely with their Asian heritage, so they may not check the box “white” on the census but rather where their Asian ancestry is from. I know this solution is very tedious and time consuming, but, unless the government is willing to ask about ones race or ethnicity by writing an open ended question, I think this may be the only solution.