&gt; American culture is such a bummer when it comes to how it shoves people into categories. We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about race, and NOT MENTION IT.<p>This is something that had wondered about the USA race culture... the fact that you mention &quot;there are x Latin-like population&quot; or &quot;Y black population&quot; or &quot;Z white population&quot;, the mere separation means that people are thinking in terms of races...