Photo by Valerie Everett/Flickr (Creative Commons) A post last
week headlined "Should the census change how Latinos are
counted?" addressed the U.S. Census Bureau's proposed changes to
how Latinos self-indentify on census forms, which now ask them
for their race, then to check a box as to whether they are of
"Hispanic, Latino or Spanish Origin." The idea would be to count
Latinos as more of an exclusive group regardless of race. It's a
complicated prospect, as Latinos so racially and culturally
diverse, they don't even agree on a pan-ethnic label. The
comments on the post strayed far from the original question of
how to identify Latinos, but they were interesting. Here are a
few of the highlights.* And what do you call yourself when your
grandfather is of Indian (India) descent your grandmother is of
African descent and both of them and you were born in Trinidad
and Tobago? Mark R. Pachankis wrote: Since anyone can put any
race on their census, why bother listing it? Obama has a white
mother, but he only list