Why do Hispanics/Mexican Americans/Latinos have to be classified as Caucasian/white on government forms we fill out when other races/ethnicities have their own categories?
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The “white/black/other” racial system isn’t the same as ethnicity. Latin American countries also had a racial caste system privileging Europeans (and later, people of European descent) above indigenous populations and imported African slave populations. Today, those racial categories are still strong, but they are also all Latin American, which is a *different* bucket that the US government puts a ton of different ethnic groups into.
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