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The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugal). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian, and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

By contrast, "Asian" doesn't mean "from Asia" in the census definition. So Ebrahim Raisi would be considered "White", as would Rudyard Kipling, though both are/were native Asians, in the literal meaning of "native" and "Asia".

Similarly "White" and "Black" don't actually refer to colours. Barack Obama could claim to be both "White" and "Black", even though he was born in Hawaii, and so is a native Pacific islander, in the literal sense of the words "native" "Pacific" and "islander".

The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugal). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian, and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugal). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian, and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

By contrast, "Asian" doesn't mean "from Asia" in the census definition. So Ebrahim Raisi would be considered "White", as would Rudyard Kipling, though both are/were native Asians, in the literal meaning of "native" and "Asia".

Similarly "White" and "Black" don't actually refer to colours. Barack Obama could claim to be both "White" and "Black", even though he was born in Hawaii, and so is a native Pacific islander, in the literal sense of the words "native" "Pacific" and "islander".

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The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and PortugaulPortugal). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian, and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugaul). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugal). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian, and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.

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James K
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The "Hispanic/non-Hispanic" is orthogonal to the White-Black-Asian-Native Amerian racial categorisation that the US census uses.

A Hispanic person is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish/Portuguese culture (except perhaps Spain and Portugaul). You only have to look at these regions to see that there are people who can and do identify as Black, white, Asian and Native American who are "Hispanic".

So Alberto Fujimori, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Evo Morales, Joaquim Barbosa would all be "Hispanic" in the US census categorisation.