Kyle Stern Post 6

After class on Thursday, I sat down and looked at the 2010 Census, just trying to wrap my mind around the idea of how we have created this classification system. I mean for instance, ethnicity is not simply one or everything else. Ethnicities can be broken down to even more ethnicities. For example, members of the Jewish ethnicity can break down to additional ethnicities based on the origin whether it is Western Europe, Eastern Europe or Middle East. That is a fairly simple example though, as we recognized in class Asian's are able to be broken down into many differing ethnicities, which can then be broken down even further. After looking at this sheet of paper for probably more minutes than it was worth, I decided that the census needs to have questions 8 and 9 done away with, or revamped to either being a I am _________ for both ethnicity or race or a very large section of check boxes, which ever the government will be easier to handle, I am all for ease.