Race automatically associated with each country according to the United States census.
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The
United States census asks the person’s race, with six options: White,
Black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Other. In addition
to checking a box, the form also asks the person to write the specific
origin, for example English, German, Italian, Spanish, African American,
Navajo, Chinese, Hawaiian, etc. Each person may check more than one box
or write more than one origin.
The
census has a predefined list of origins associated with each race, and
the census counts the person as having the race associated with the
written origin even if the person doesn’t check the box for that race.
For example:
- If
a person from Spain identifies as White, checks only the White box and
writes the origin as Spanish, the census counts the person as White and Other, because Spanish is automatically associated with Other. - If
a person from the Dominican Republic identifies as Black, checks only
the Black box and writes the origin as Dominican, the census counts the
person as Black and Other, because Dominican is automatically associated with Other. - If
a person from Yemen identifies as Other, checks only the Other box and
writes the origin as Yemeni, the census counts the person as Other and White, because Yemeni is automatically associated with White. - If
a person from Afghanistan identifies as White, checks only the White
box and writes the origin as Afghan, the census counts the person as
White and Asian, because Afghan is automatically associated with Asian.
Due
to the automatic associations, the census counts a much higher portion
of the population as multiracial than those who actually identify as
such.
The map above shows the
countries associated with each race according to the United States
census. There are also other origins not named after a country, such as
Afrikaner, Basque, and a long list of Native American tribes. These are
not marked on the map. There are also a few countries not listed as an
origin at all: Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, São Tomé and Príncipe,
San Marino, Vatican City, and the United States itself. These are marked
gray on the map.