Tuesday, March 16, 2010

US Census 2010

I got the Census form in the mail today. It is the first time I have ever seen one. I also do not know anyone who has ever filled one out before - which proves the Government isn't doing a good job counting people.
The form was very stupid and had too many race options. Instead of having:
Caucasian, African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian it had these options:
White, Black (or African American or Negro), Native American (or Alaska Native), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Guamanian, Chamorro and Pacific Islander. It did not have Hispanic as a race and could have included the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese as "Asians."
I take offense at being called "White" instead of "Caucasian" especially when they don't call Asians as "Yellow" or African Americans as simply "Black." They also don't have Polish, British, German, Dutch, Russian, etc while they separate Asians.
I also see no need for them to ask for my phone number (which I left blank.)I see no problem with them asking my name, birth date, age and race, but they don't need my phone number - they already have my address since they sent me the form and that is enough.
It seems that you can tell just who the Federal Government "cares" about by the answers they allow you to choose from. In the future you would think the Census would be more "politically correct" and look as though they cared about everyone equally rather than simply the African Americans and the Asians.

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