Eggshell White
Last night Bobby Jindal (R-LA) won the gubernatorial race in that state. In AP's coverage of the event, there's an interesting line:
Say what? This is why I personally hate racial classifications. There's no science behind it. It's a political tool for lumping people into categories. As far as any U.S. governmental agency, including the Census Bureau, is concerned, White/Caucasian includes those from the Middle East, India, and anything in between. Same is true for NALP. Statistically speaking, I'm not diverse. Though I don't want to ascribe beliefs to anyone, but I'd imagine SALSA would beg to differ. Maybe we can say Jindal is the first "Other" governor of Louisiana.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction
Say what? This is why I personally hate racial classifications. There's no science behind it. It's a political tool for lumping people into categories. As far as any U.S. governmental agency, including the Census Bureau, is concerned, White/Caucasian includes those from the Middle East, India, and anything in between. Same is true for NALP. Statistically speaking, I'm not diverse. Though I don't want to ascribe beliefs to anyone, but I'd imagine SALSA would beg to differ. Maybe we can say Jindal is the first "Other" governor of Louisiana.
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 1:01 AM
9 Comments:
Armen, are you actually saying that Indians are not white? Though the U.S. census has many problems when it comes to Indians they got it right: we're Asian. This description also fits in with how historically, Indians were viewed as as "non-white" in the U.S. for citizenship (and land ownership) purposes.
From the 2000 census:
Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. It includes "Asian Indian," "Chinese," "Filipino," "Korean," "Japanese," "Vietnamese," and "Other Asian."
For those of you who don't know much about Jindal, you'll be seeing a lot more of him on the national scene over the next 10 years. He's brilliant, extremely ambitious, and very charismatic (and very conservative). The chances of him running for president within the next decade are high...and he'd have a decent shot of winning.
For those of you who don't know much about Jindal, you'll be seeing a lot more of him on the national scene over the next 10 years. He's brilliant, extremely ambitious, and very charismatic (and very conservative). The chances of him running for president within the next decade are high...and he'd have a decent shot of winning.
Maybe he will become the nation's youngest President and the first nonwhite to hold that post since ever.
Maybe he will become the nation's youngest President and the first nonwhite to hold that post since ever.
Maybe this site will stop double-posting.
6:19--"Asian" is a geographic category, not an ethnicity. To say that people from Pakistan and Japan are in the same racial category--well, you might as well go back to the "Oriental" or "Occidental."
This debate is pointless. Asians and Indians (dot) don't receive any affirmative action benefits. If you didn't have the grades for Harvard, you still wouldn't have gotten in.
oh, 1:05, i hope you learn some things at boalt hall . . .
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