this happens to me every time i fill out an application.
it all goes swimmingly until i get to the last page. you know, the one where you fill out info that will be used SOLELY for statistical purposes.
RACE AND ETHNICITY.
cool. hispanic or latino? check.
black or african american? check.
wait...it says not hispanic or latino in parenthesis. uhhh ok....i'll just check them both. i can't check both? wtf.
oh, whew, ok. there's an option here for two or more races (not hispanic or latino). DAMNIT. help me to understand exactly.
i can be latino, but i can't be black at the same time. is that how it goes? even though apparently one is an ethnicity while the other is a race? america, i think you are very confused. or i'm very confused. or we both are.
are we still stuck a few decades back where mixed people just didn't happen or weren't discussed so much? this bothers me. you need to update your census info. people are for more complex than the few categories you try to throw them into. at least allow us to check multiple boxes!
i'm proud of all of the bits and pieces i am, and i'd like to show em off.
you're going to be super baffled when i start poppin out blasiarican babies! just sayin.
I was sitting with you twice when you filled job applications & you had this problem, & I actually had never thought about this until I was with you. It definitely is a problem because people are not conformed into a small box, especially a check box, these days. Interracial relationships are definitely more accepted than they used to be & that means that on job applications & any other application, including the freakin' Census, it needs to be made aware of this fact. If people can be of more than one race such as black & white, why aren't they allowed to be of Hispanic/Latino & something such as black, white, etc? It's pretty much just being ignorant & not paying attention to what's going on in the world around us basically, & that needs to change. Maybe if enough people start checking these boxes even though it says not to, these applicant recipiants will start to notice possibly. If not, SOMETHING needs to be done to make this more aware!
ReplyDelete1.) Lol@Ident-A-Kid I had one of those as well!
ReplyDelete2.) I always refuse to fill out the equal opportunity information on job applications. I do not want race to be a part of the hiring decision. It does not fucking matter.