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Pas-de-Calais

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1. Retired Fed here

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2024, 09:33 PM

Mar 28

Back in ‘97 I was involved in many meetings on the changes described in the article.

Wasn’t difficult to change or implement. Time consumed was to ensure we got everything correct. And we did-back then.

They’ll get it correct this time too

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US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 28 OP

Retired Fed here Pas-de-Calais Mar 28 #1

Race/ethnicity is rather straightforward, but wait until they fiddle with "gender" FakeNoose Mar 28 #2

Republicans like overcounting whites in the US Census IronLionZion Mar 29 #3

How about "mutt"? I never get counted. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 29 #4

I find race labeling deplorable Puppyjive Mar 29 #5

Odd that it says "Far East" is "widely regarded as pejorative", but they want to use "Middle East" muriel_volestrangler Mar 29 #6

They need to add a box for Irish-German-Polish-Hungarian American maxsolomon Mar 29 #7

What about us Irish-Welch-Germans? madville Mar 30 #8

I get a box maxsolomon Apr 1 #10

I think American should be ethnically categorized by the music they listen to Bucky Mar 30 #9

I remember having a huge debate róisín_dubh Apr 3 #11