{"id":5084989,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/for-many-latinos-racial-identity-is-more-than-just-about-color\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:00","slug":"for-many-latinos-racial-identity-is-more-than-just-about-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/01\/27\/for-many-latinos-racial-identity-is-more-than-just-about-color\/","title":{"rendered":"For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Than Just About Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"&quot;story&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;thumb&quot;\"><!-- main image -->\u00a0\u00a0<!-- hover image --><\/div>\n<div class=\"&quot;thumb&quot;\">\n Photo Credit: Adweek.com<br \/>\nEvery decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15 choices, including &#8220;some other race.&#8221;<br \/>\nMore than 18 million Latinos checked this &#8220;other&#8221; box in the 2010 census, up from 14.9 million in 2000. It was an indicator of the sharp disconnect between how Latinos view themselves and how the government wants to count them. Many Latinos argue that the country\u2019s race categories \u2014 indeed, the government\u2019s very conception of identity \u2014 do not fit them.<br \/>\nThe main reason for the split is that the census categorizes people by race, which typically refers to a set of common physical traits. But Latinos, as a group in this country, tend to identify themselves more by their ethnicity, meaning a shared set of cultural traits, like language or customs.<br \/>\nSo when they encounter the census, they see one question that asks them whether they identify themselves as having Hispanic ethnic origins and many answer it as their main identifier. 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