silly me, thinking that for a case to be used by the government shouldn't include language specific to the case in the way that the government itself uses it, especially in a race-related crime which the government has laws for.
why you'd think the government should have no place to using its own categories which are very relevant parts of a criminal case matter.
and silly government, using terms that actually make sense when it tries to catalog its people.
I don't know. To me, it seems kind of silly to use "Spanish-speaking" to differentiate between races. I've met lots of "Hispanics" (in quotes because I'm not sure if you'd consider them Hispanic) that don't know any Spanish, while also meeting blacks, Native Americans, and Asians who do know Spanish.
nah, they're hispanic. just means from a spanish speaking (again, spain optional) country there. basic rule there works like any other language: first generation = doesn't speak a lick of english, second generation = speaks both, third = speaks english, barely if any spanish. that's the usual trend that happens but they're still hispanic. though obviously they can't really have a 'hispanic baby' or something. >___>;
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