“Hispanic”

Several people have commented on the “Hispanic” category of the test registration. Apparently I have offended some people. I admit, I am not so familiar with Hispanic culture, although most of my neighbors are Puerto Ricans. When I was building the site, I did have to think about the “race” category a lot. I thought about not having it at all, but it is, after all, interesting to see if there is any correlation. Incidentally, a friend of mine gave me a copy of The Economist (July 28, 2001) which had an article titled “Sex, Race, and Brain-scanning”. According to the article, there is a scientific proof that one is better at recognizing the faces of one’s own race.

With any race, as with CKJ’s, depending on a situation, you are damned if you make distinctions, and you are damned if you do not. One could altogether ignore anything to do with race, but that is unreasonable too. It’s like the big white elephant in a room that no one talks about. In any case, I’d like to better educate myself with Hispanic culture. Questions to the readers: what are some ways that you can subdivide the “Hispanic” category?