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They also have American Indian or Alsaka Native


Yup, but still it doesn't cover many millions of US citizens. e.g Sikh, Middle Eastern, African Africans etc (not that there can ever be a list that covers such a diverse country).


Black African Africans at least would be covered by the “Black or African American” option.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Atf_form...


Yup, and then there's roughly the 300 million Arabs who live in North Africa who aren't covered by any of these.


That's why I said Black at least. Anyway, non-Black Arabs would fall under "white" - at least that's the intention of the creators of the form.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1079181478/us-census-middle-e...


Right, but I assure you most of them do not consider themselves "white" by any stretch of the imagination. The term "white" has deviated so much from Caucasian/fair-skinned and became a mostly political term in the US that most Arabs specially 1st and 2nd generation would never identify with.




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