A lot of government / business forms and questionnaires have been altered to make this distinction. Hispanic / Latino is not a race, it's an ethnicity. You can be a white latino (Spanish-ancestry Mexican), a black latino (African-ancestry Dominican), etc.OldCannon wrote:No, there's only one "question 10" on the old forms-
Race (Ethnicity) - Check one or more:
American Indian or Alaskan Native
Hispanic or Latino
Black or African-American
Asian
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White
Now you pick ethnicity (you're either hispanic or not), and then race.
Sociologists (or bureaucrats) have started splitting hairs on race (which generally refers to physical appearance e.g. skin color, eye color, facial structure, etc.) and ethnicity (which relates to nationality, culture, language, ancestry, etc.).
They were trying to gather the same data before, but the new way is more accurate to the definition of the terms.