I am white with black stripes!. like a zebra
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do i put caucassion or african americanWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I generally make a box and write next to it the truth!. "All of the above"!. That's the truth for all of us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Beginning with the 2000 Census and going forward, you can be enumerated as both Caucasian and African American!. "In October 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced the revised standards for federal data on race and ethnicity!. The minimum categories for race are now: American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Black or African American; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and White!. Instead of allowing a multiracial category as was originally suggested in public and congressional hearings, the OMB adopted the Interagency Committee's recommendation to allow respondents to select one or more races when they self-identify!. With the OMB's approval, the Census 2000 questionnaires also include a sixth racial category: Some Other Race!. There are also two minimum categories for ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino and Not Hispanic or Latino!. Hispanics and Latinos may be of any race!. The new categories were used by the Census Bureau for the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal in spring 1998, and will be used on the Census 2000 questionnaire!. The new standards are effective immediately for new and revised data collections by federal agencies, and all federal agencies must implement the new standards by January 1, 2003!. How Does the Census 2000 Question on Race Differ from the 1990 Question!? The most profound change to the question on race for Census 2000 is that respondents are allowed to identify one or more races to indicate their racial identity!. There are 15 check box response categories and 3 write-in areas on the Census 2000 questionnaire, compared with 16 check box response categories and 2 write-in areas in 1990!. The three separate identifiers for the American Indian and Alaska Native populations (American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut) used earlier have been combined into one category - - American Indian or Alaska Native - - with instructions for respondents who check the box to print the name of their enrolled or principal tribe!. The Asian and Pacific Islander category has been split into two categories Asian, and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander!. There are six specified Asian and three detailed Pacific Islander categories shown on the Census 2000 questionnaires, as well as Other Asian and Other Pacific Islander which have write-in areas for respondents to provide other race responses!. Finally, the category Some Other Race, which is intended to capture responses such as Mulatto, Creole, and Mestizo, also has a write-in area!. All of the responses collected in Census 2000 can be collapsed into the minimum race categories identified in the 1997 revisions to the standards on race and ethnicity issued by the Office of Management and Budget, plus the category Some Other Race!. Other changes include terminology and formatting changes, such as spelling out "American" instead of "Amer!." for the American Indian or Alaska Native category; and adding "Native" to the Hawaiian response category!. In the layout of the Census 2000 questionnaire, the Asian response categories were alphabetized and grouped together, as were the Pacific Islander categories after the Native Hawaiian category!. American Indians and Alaska Natives can report one or more tribes!. In addition, the question on Hispanic origin is sequenced immediately before the question on race!. How Will the Data on Race from Census 2000 be Tabulated!? In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued preliminary guidelines on how data for respondents who report two or more races are to be tabulated!. These guidelines stipulated that data producers should provide the number of respondents who marked (or selected) only one category, separately for each of the five racial categories, as well as the detailed distribution of respondents who reported two or more races, so long as data quality standards and confidentiality requirements are met!. For Census 2000, 63 possible combinations of the six basic racial categories exist, including six categories for those who report exactly one race, and 57 categories for those who report two or more races!. These categories will be the basic presentation for the PL 94-171 Redistricting File!."Www@QuestionHome@Com A zebra went to heaven and was met at the pearly gates by St!.Peter!. St!.Peter asked him if he had any questions before he went in!. The zebra said yes "I have always wondered whether I am black with white stripes or white with black stripes!?" St!. Peter then said well I really cannot answer that one for you!. You'll have to ask God that!. The zebra asked God the same question!. "Am I black with white stripes or white with black stripes!?" God replied, "You are what you are!." The zebra returned to St!.Peter and said he was more confused than ever!. St!. Peter asked him what God had said!. The zebra replied, "He said you are what you are!." St!. Peter said, "You are white with black stripes!." The zebra asked, "How can you tell!?" St!. Peter replied, "If you were black with white stripes he would have said, yo is what yo is!." *Ask your friends (or God), you should be able to figure it outWww@QuestionHome@Com It depends on where the census is being taken!. Every country has slightly different categories and definitions!. If it's a U!.S!. census there's a category for "2 or more races"!. In some other countries you might be mulatto, creole, or categorized by a majority or certain percentage, or some other term entirely!.Www@QuestionHome@Com In the USA, we all have a few "stripes"** in our ancestry, whether black, brown, yellow, or red!. Why not just put American!?!? Or biracial!?!? I have a red stripe myself (a really skinny one, but yet I have some Cherokee ancestry)!. LOL **--that's why the US is called a "melting pot" because our citizens come from such diverse backgrounds, ancestries, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think you would put African American!. You should put whatever you feel like you should though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com put African Caucasian Www@QuestionHome@Com go back to that old saying!.!. ONE DROP!Www@QuestionHome@Com |