"Steve" wrote in message
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On Sep 15, 7:59 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message

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If, as you say, hispanics share a culture, then....

That is how the OMB defines it, and, thus the Census Bureau.

This is actually quite funny. Tardo has a great fondness for arguments
from authority, since they only require him to cite
"authorities" (dictionaries, census bureaus, etc.) as opposed to
saying anything more substantive. Now, though, he's trying to justify
inconsistency itself by appeal to authorities. I guess if
inconsistency is good enough for your precious authorities, it must be
good enough for us, huh Tardo? lol


What is inconsistent? The term "Hispanic" used to mean someone from what was
the Roman province of Hispania. Since that was a little used term, when the
Census was ordered to break out what we now know as Hispanics before the
1980 Census, there was no term that fit the mandate. Latino includes
Brazilians, Portuguese, French, Italians, etc. So the OMB and Census came up
with a word that covered persons of the "Hispanic culture" which really is
just anyone who speaks as their principal language or comes from a heritage
where it was the principal language of Spanish. Of course, even this is a
defective term in the sense that many Hispanics' heritage tongue is Náhuatl,
Quechua, Aymará, etc.

But, it had been impossible to separately enumerate this group before (most
were under "white" racially) the term worked.