Peter Kirsanow, a member of the US Civil Rights Commission, writes here about the proliferation of racial and ethnic groups into which a citizen can place himself. We are now up to 126, he reports.
Not only does it waste taxpayer money for the government to collect and tabulate the data, but there is simply no legitimate reason for knowing any of this.
Perhaps the proliferation is actually good, though. The system might collapse of its own absurdity.
How about having the Census Bureau add “Etruscan,” “Hittite,” and many other choices? Any Carthaginians out there? Huns?
