GreenPlease wrote:
Personally I find it very interesting that Irish (my lineage), Italian, Polish (also my lineage), etc. all get lumped in as generically "white" even though in the early 1900s many of those ethnicities were confined to ghettos in cities like New York, Chicago, etc. Any injustices those groups may have faced in the past, any cultural pride they might have, and any stereotypes they might face now just get washed away because they are generically considered "white". This even extends to the census: I was very tempted to write in "Irish/Polish" rather than checking the box for "white". Maybe next time around I will.
So the same as blacks and hispanics?