What Kind of White are White People in America. The Census Wants to Know

[Prowler]

I've always found it silly for the government to divide citizens by "race." Even if I suppose it helps certain statistics, I dunno if it still serves whichever original purpose it had.

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

It was less than 80 years ago, Cubed, that's not that long. If there are still people around from that time, it's not "ancient". My own grandmother was just a tiny child when WWII was happening.

"Ancient" is writing being invented to me.

Well, maybe to CyberCubed that's ancient history. CyberCubed seems to think the world has only truly existed since he was born and that anything before the 80s is prehistoric.

[CyberCubed]

I've seen young millennials who think anything before the year 2000 is now "ancient" to them. The 90's is 30 years ago now, not "10 years ago" like it is in my mind.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I've always found it silly for the government to divide citizens by "race." Even if I suppose it helps certain statistics, I dunno if it still serves whichever original purpose it had.

It is for the most part. Only in genealogy research do I find it actually useful when lucky enough for the old records to be available online. And hopefully these someday too long from now.


If they just did all this online and actually allowed DNA tests results to be included as an option and saved as part of the record, that might actually be all the more useful to someone in the future.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I've seen young millennials who think anything before the year 2000 is now "ancient" to them. The 90's is 30 years ago now, not "10 years ago" like it is in my mind.

Not even two full decades have passed since the last year of the 90s, so saying that "he 90s are 30 years ago now" is incorrect.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

It's Cubed, though. His idea of ancient is anything before the invention of 32 bit video games.....

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