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Re: Inter-racial, Inter-religious, Inter-national relationships
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Sat, 5 May 2001 12:48:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:

I don't call that progress, I call that moving BACKWARDS.  The question simply
shouldn't be there AT ALL.

I agree. We leave it blank (along with a lot of other stuff like how many
bathrooms we have and other marketing research kind of stuff...) on the
census form. This has earned us a followup visit the last two times.

++Lar



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  Re: Inter-racial, Inter-religious, Inter-national relationships
 
(...) Say what one will about the challenges and problems now facing South Africa, but they knew that the very first thing they needed to do with the 1996 census was *eliminate* any category of race or ethnicity on the forms. Granted, they're much (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I don't call that progress, I call that moving BACKWARDS. The question simply shouldn't be there AT ALL. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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