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They need to add "trans" (racial)

Whats the point? Good question. Record keeping, classification, information, discrimination, I imagine some things along those lines. My wife gets to check Native American, although her DNA shows her origin in Asian Siberia before crossing the land bridge into Alaska, according to 23 and Me her people have been hanging in the Great Lakes basin for approx. 10,000 years so when Trump says lets make America great again it causes her some pain.

My own 23 and Me says I am a Neanderthal, originating in the Neander Valley of present day Germany 40,000 years ago. I had a high confidence rating on that, like 98 percentile I'm a Neanderthal almost 500 genetic markers for that. Neanderthals were thought to be a evolutionary dead end, but the DNA markers are still there.

I got a form from Bronson asking me to rate an emergency room visit and they had the race classifications on the form to check. I checked "other" and wrote in Neanderthal. i don't like being classified in a box-like manner.

So some government types probably want to be able to answer the question how many Middle Easterners in our country and there isn't a box to check so they have no data per se.

Need solid metrics to make a case, anecdotal examples don't do it these days.

Y'all are just numbers. Bobseger was right.

Quote:I got a form from Bronson asking me to rate an emergency room visit and they had the race classifications on the form to check. I checked "other" and wrote in Neanderthal. i don't like being classified in a box-like manner.

Nice :) !!!

That makes you an outlier.

(10-02-2016 01:10 PM)Moomba Wrote:  That makes you an outlier.

Got that one right!

(10-02-2016 07:04 PM)Dirty Ernie Wrote:  

(10-02-2016 01:10 PM)Moomba Wrote:  That makes you an outlier.

Got that one right!

Well, THAT doesn't make you one. :)

(10-01-2016 11:27 AM)gobaseline Wrote:  

In some industries like the one I work in, we have to note ethnicity and other demographic information for every prospect/applicant. The data is necessary to identify discrimination. If one company denies service to one particular category or another, it would ordinarily indicate that some unwarranted discrimination is occurring.
Most MENA applicants do not identify as "Asian" and this would address that lack.