Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Race
Our company recently had us fill out a race survey. Supposedly, it had something to do with a demand by the Feds. According to the survey, you could opt to not respond with a specific race. Anyway, I wonder about the racial segregations. The one which probably should apply to me is:
White (Not Hispanic or Latino) – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa or the Middle East.Now supposedly, my grandparents all came from Poland around the turn of the century. That leaves, I'm guessing, someone from about 500,000 years ago or so to pick from. It does say original peoples. There was an ice age that ended about 8,000 years ago which probably would've kept people out of the Poland area, but I'm not sure. I'm guessing there were probably a few folks there (my great-several-hundred-times-removed grandfather I suppose) but I don't know for sure. I guess I should have declined the survey, since I'm not exactly sure who were the exact original peoples of Europe.
Labels: government, gripes
