Suzanne Gamboa is a national reporter for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com
For the first time, Hispanic or Latino is listed as one race/ethnicity category and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent will have their own checkbox under new race and ethnicity standards adopted by the Biden administration. Up to now, Hispanics had a two-part question for their identity: They were asked whether they were Hispanic or Latino and then asked to pick a race of white, Black, American Indian or some other race.
A third selected two or more racial groups and 20% chose white as their race, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. The two new categories will have subcategories; the ones listed for Hispanic or Latino are 'Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan etc.' For the Middle Eastern or North African category, the subcategories listed as “Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Israeli etc.
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