Two-thirds of American Indians say they are white? Perhaps being white is cooler than I thought. There are large numbers of Americans from groups we don't think of as white who identify their race as white on the General Social Survey.
Percent of certain ethnic groups who say they are white:
Arabic 75.0%
Mexicans 69.8
American Indians 68.4
Puerto Ricans 57.1
Other Spanish 56.4
Japanese 19.4
Filipinos 18.9
India 18.4
Chinese 8.0
West Indians 6.0
So most Arabs and Hispanics think they're white. I tell my Hispanic-dominated classes that it is ridiculous that the U.S. government often lumps them in with whites in its statistics, but maybe many think that is appropriate. And two-thirds of American Indians are white? Huh? These must be mixed people who choose white as race and AI as their ethnicity.
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This is a bizarre study. 19% of Japanese people think of themselves as white? How did they determine they were Japanese in the first place?
ReplyDeleteThe GSS is a representative sample of people in America. They are respondents two questions: "What is your race?" and "What country does your family come from?" The choices for race were "white," "black," or "other."
ReplyDeleteSome people may interpret the race question as a question about skin color. I noticed that some Eastern Indians said they were black.