Berkeley School District

Interesante... el formulario que he de rellenar para acceder al sistema educativo en Berkeley me realiza, entre otras, las siguientes preguntas:

- What is your ethnicity?

1. Hispanic / Latino
2. Non-Hispanic / Latino

Es decir, Estados Unidos se divide étnicamente entre "Hispanos" y "No Hispanos". Curioso, no?

- What is your race?

1. White
2. Black or African American
3. Filipino
4. Native American
5. Asian
6. Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
7. Alaskan Native
8. Other

Y en el Censo de Estados Unidos (que se realiza cada diez años y donde estamos contabilizados para los próximos diez años Guillermo y yo) literalmente decía...

Please answer BOTH Question 8 about Hispanic origin (y aquí destacaba SPAIN como origen hispánico) and Question 9 about race. For this census, Hispanic origins are not races.

Races:

1. White,
2. Black, African American or Negro,
3. American Indian or Alaska Native,
4. Asian Indian,
5. Japanese
6. Korean
7. Native Hawaiian
8. Chinese
9. Guamanian or Chamorro
10. Filipino
11. Vietnamese
12. Samoan
13. Other Asian ( Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on)
14. Other Pacific Islander (Fijian, Tongan, and son on)
15. Some other race.

Indagando un poco... "The term 'ethnic' popularly connotes 'race' in Britain, only less precisely, and with a lighter value load. In North America, by contrast, 'race' most commonly means color, and 'ethnics' are the descendents of relatively recent immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. 'Ethnic' is not a noun in Britain. In effect there are no 'ethnics'; there are only 'ethnic relations" (Wallman 1977).