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These kinds of census labels aren't keeping in touch with the times... the largest growing population in these groups are those who are parts of several of these groups, and they don't even count. Of course, these numbers have a purpose - money allocation. It is hard when you see the good and bad with census numbers, but the best thing one can do is to remember that while people do tend to claim ownership of their race/ethnicity as being integral to they are (you can't ignore it) that each person is still a person. Labels tend to be negative, I think, just because people tend to make generalizations from them and those generalizations tend to become adopted even by those within the group, which is a huge danger. It is a complicated issue, because we also see these trends and they have stats to uphold them, not talking about them pretends they don't exist. Perhaps it is a necessary evil. I really don't know.
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Innominate.
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