The word "Hispanic"

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It doesn't define it as a race, it has a separate question on it underneath the race question. Main reason for that is that offering it as a race leads to an undercount of "Hispanics", as most undeniably white Hispanics won't define as such under these terms.

There's one problem with the Census Definition: it asks "is this person of Hispanic origins?" It doesn't ask, how much? That is to say, the question is defined so as to, theoretically, make almost every American a Hispanic in, say twenty generations or so without any further immigration.

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Some Mexican-Americans use "Hispanic" as an insult for a prissy middle class Mexican-American.

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For Hispanic Being a "race" on the census: I was merely going on something (a usually reliable) college lecture told me, so don't trust your teachers, kids. It involved a discussion around censuses (there needs to be a better plural - censae?)

Censi.

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Seen in that light, it makes sense to call it a "race". They're constructions too after all.