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Finished the census.
My kids all insisted on being reported thus:
Ethnicity:
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano
Race:
White (Mixed European) &
Native American (Huasteca Nahua / Chichimeca).
There was a long conversation about the last one.
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My kids all insisted on being reported thus:
Ethnicity:
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano
Race:
White (Mixed European) &
Native American (Huasteca Nahua / Chichimeca).
There was a long conversation about the last one.
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My wife's family says that its indigenous roots came from those communities, so my children have accepted that as part of their racial identity (though culturally / ethnically they have little connection to present-day indigenous groups in San Luis Potosí & the Huasteca).
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I, on the other hand, put "Chicano" and "White (Mixed European)."
I have no idea where my limited (8%) indigenous ancestry comes from, and I have no intention of ever claiming indigeneity as part of my personal identity.
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I have no idea where my limited (8%) indigenous ancestry comes from, and I have no intention of ever claiming indigeneity as part of my personal identity.
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But definitely note:
YOU CAN CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE RACE.
If you're Mexican American and you know for sure that your people are Spanish and X native group, for example, you can select them both on the Census.
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YOU CAN CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE RACE.
If you're Mexican American and you know for sure that your people are Spanish and X native group, for example, you can select them both on the Census.
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Addendum.
You could select "OTHER" and write whatever you want, but note that the Native American option lists, uh, example indigenous Mexican groups (specifically "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec"
).
You could select "OTHER" and write whatever you want, but note that the Native American option lists, uh, example indigenous Mexican groups (specifically "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec"
).
Addendum 2.
To clarify, on the "race" screen, for the "Native American" box, you can list *whatever* tribe / nation / group you want.
They just happened to list examples, among them "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec."
You could write "Purépecha" or "Otomí" or "Zapotec," etc.
To clarify, on the "race" screen, for the "Native American" box, you can list *whatever* tribe / nation / group you want.
They just happened to list examples, among them "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec."
You could write "Purépecha" or "Otomí" or "Zapotec," etc.
