Timeline for Why does a UK university need to know my sexual orientation and religion?
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | A E | @CapeCode: yes, I'm sure that's true (multiple issues). I thought about some of them as I was writing that comment but didn't feel I had the space to get into it. Still, it's better that they monitor their recruitment process for potential bias - even if that monitoring is imperfect - than that they ignore the issue of bias altogether, which is what happens if you don't collect this data. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Cape Code | @AE there are multiple issues with the concept of 'Latin American descent' but this is not the place to discuss it. Just keep in mind that when racial categories are normal in an Anglo-Saxon/American setting, they are uncommon and surprising to newcomers. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 20:08 | comment | added | A E | @CapeCode: 'Hispanic' usually means someone of Latin American descent, so it would be relevant if the person was descended from a Latin American family (which someone Spanish might or might not be). The best box to tick depends on what the choices are. You usually get the option of 'other'. Worth emphasising here that the point of these questions is normally to avoid racial bias in recruitment - I wouldn't call that 'racialism'. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | Cape Code | @AE so what is relevant? Does this person classifies as 'Hispanic'? Apparently not, but why? The whole thing is just absurd to anyone who is not used to American racialism. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 19:06 | comment | added | A E | @CapeCode: I'd think that being from Spain and speaking Spanish were irrelevant to the question of ethnicity. Surely Spain contains people of many different ethnicities. | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 16:58 | comment | added | Cape Code | Useful answer. Note that using 'race' or 'ethnicity' as demographic categories is location dependent. Although it can be shocking when one comes from a non-Anglo-Saxon country to fill a form with a 'race' or 'ethnicity' category, it is common in these countries for a variety of reasons having to do with politics and history. It can be very puzzling (say, you are from Spain and speak Spanish, and you study in the US it's hard to figure out which category to check). | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 13:45 | history | answered | DCTLib | CC BY-SA 3.0 |