Census done!

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by August

You completely miss GR's point. Many Americans don't particularly want to be categorized by their own government.

A census is hardly categorization, or a negative thing as you imply by your choice of words. Let alone a matter that would require waterboarding. It's a way to better understand the people that are occupying your lands and collect statistics for future generations to reflect upon. This is just another exaggerated gibe at the government. Yes, we all know this song: they're too powerful, it's the end of freedom for us, they're going to control everything we do, it will become a police state before long, they all think we're just a bunch of cattle... tiresome and unoriginal, to say the least.

Originally Posted by Platapus

(golf clap) wow, what a rebel you are.

I am assuming that you posted this because you need some accolades for your heroic act of independence.

Give them both a hand, why don't you.

[August]

Ok.

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by August

Ethnicity: Other - American

Most. Original. Answer. EVER.

[Kresge]

Did you wear your foil hat and draw the curtains while you filled out the form?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Kresge

Did you wear your foil hat and draw the curtains while you filled out the form?

Oh noez, Obama knows my birthday! He's going to come lock up all of us people born in May now!

Good lord. They've been asking your race since 1790. Why is it all of a sudden an issue now?

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Why is it all of a sudden an issue now?

What makes you think it hasn't been an issue in the past?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

Most. Original. Answer. EVER.

Actually Limbaugh came up wtih that...

My wife plans to answer... Race? 'Human'

I was also struck by a general impression of "we really dont care what race you are unless your hispanic".

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Actually Limbaugh came up wtih that...

That doesn't surprise me.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

My wife plans to answer... Race? 'Human'

"Human" would refer to our species, not race.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

I was also struck by a general impression of "we really dont care what race you are unless your hispanic".

Really there weren't that many. Just two per person. Question #8, for example asks: "Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?" The options being:

• No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
• Yes, Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano
• Yes, Puerto Rican
• Yes, Cuban
• Yes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (print origin; for example, Argentinian, Colombian, Dominican, Brazilian, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on)

I got two census papers, for whatever reason.

Question #9 simply asked: "What is Person 1's race?" The default was white, black, American Indian or Alaska Native (then you were supposed to print the tribe name). Nothing asking for Hispanic information. The only two that broke down into furthering categories were Other Asian (print race; for example, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on) and Other Pacific Islander (print race; for example, Fijian, Tongan, and so on).

For each other person, this was the case. I'll get around to posting scans of the extra copy I got tomorrow, just so everybody can see them and keep them for future reference (otherwise, we'll all probably forget what was on them in no time!).

[Aramike]

A census is hardly categorization, or a negative thing as you imply by your choice of words.

Say what?

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

The above link is all demographical information, CATEGORIZED by the census bureau. Said information is specifically used categorically for funding allocations. How a census is not categorization on a MASSIVE scale, much less simply not being categorization, is beyond me.

Furthermore, while personally I have no problem answering the questions in the census, I don't fault anyone who does. The US government is by no means entitled to all of the information the census is asking. Simply put, some people are more private than others. To ridicule them because of it is, equally simply put, ignorant.