New hispanic question?

[giovani]

At a gun show last weekend,overheard a person filling out a federal form ask about a new question "are you hispanic".
Anyone know or even guess why,especially when they ask your race on another part of the form?

 

[whoismunky]

I picked up a Mosin recently and I'm sure somebody will recall better than me - but I'm pretty sure there was a question that had two options: "Hispanic or Latino origin" and "Not of Hispanic or Latino origin."

Followed by asking for your race in a separate question, where I noted "White" (not 'Caucasian') was the very last option. xD

I looked up a copy of 4470 and didn't see the first question, but I swear I remember being surprised by it. Ooooh bureaucracy

 

[Classic Liberal]

What do you expect? It's generated by idiots in government!

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

Yes it's on there. There are a couple threads floating around on here discussing it somewhere

 

[AD Marc]

"Hispanic" is an ethnicity, not a race, which is why it is a separate question. Hispanics can be white, black or anything in between.

 

[mbaza3]

The question is separated on many other forms as well.

Check it out.

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[VikingWarlord]

The question is separated on many other forms as well.

Check it out.

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My company has it available as a patient demographic field in our software. Seems a little weird, but it gets used by almost every client we have.

 

[churchmouse]

They are getting the next big "Voter" block figures together. Speeches already in the writing phase.

 

[malern28us]

Maybe Obama is looking for another subset to pander to before the election. He might even send an email to help Romney out!

 

[badwolf.usmc]

"Hispanic" is an ethnicity, not a race, which is why it is a separate question. Hispanics can be white, black or anything in between.

Correct. In the past census, many either self-identified as white or other and these questions were put into place to eliminate that issue. The "recent population explosion" of Hispanics is due, in small part, this reclassification.

 

[harrisonpainter]

Only question that should matter: Are you an American Citizen (Y) (N)

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Only question that should matter: Are you an American Citizen (Y) (N)

What if you are a non-citizen buying guns as non-citizens can do?

Right, we've covered this. Hispanics can be of all different races.

The confusion is that most Americans confuse "Hispanic" with "mestizo".

 

[giovani]

You would think hispanic would mean tracing your heritage to spanish ancestors.
Am i wrong?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

.gov gives Hispanic its broad definition--culture, peoples, nations.

 

[85t5mcss]

High School enrollment forms had it this year as well.

 

[churchmouse]

Maybe Obama is looking for another subset to pander to before the election. He might even send an email to help Romney out!

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[Horse]

This is correct.


Technically I am Hispanic, White as I have primary Spanish ancestry.

I'm doing my best to skew the gun buying stats to Hispanic

 

[indianaarsenal]

Nope, just finished another 4473 call in where "hispanic or latino" was marked in 10a and "white" in 10b.. I am 3 for 3 going to review but a proceed was outcome. looks like a "legal" way to profile. all of this started on July 1st 2012.

 

[malern28us]

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I know but the thought of Obama being Americas pimp is just so wrong and accurate at the same time....

 

[No2rdame]

The government requires it for hospital reporting as well. I'm still not entirely sure why it is significant to have the ethnicity separated from race. Really, what's the point? Yes, as someone pointed out they are two different things but still, it seems like splitting hairs to me.