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Latinos and Obama
By Jaime Wright | February 3, 2008
Here’s a link to an interesting blog and commentary on how some Baby Boomer commentary and statistical research based on race and ethnicity may be a bit flawed for the Gen X and younger crowds … esp. in relationship to Latinos and Barack Obama.
I originally heard Hernandez’s commentary on NPR. Although, race and ethnicity can be an interesting dimension in research, we shouldn’t take it to be an absolute defining component of those individuals who fall into that category. Ultimately, in his commentary, Hernandez does fall into another defining category: age. But nonetheless his critique is important as we move forward and should compel us to seek mulitiple factors that may be outside of any one category of definition when discussing a “group.”
In other words, we all belong to more than one “group” and, of course, there’s always that “individuality” thing, too. Although, “individuality” is more useful ideologically than it is when attempting to understand the key determinative factors behind an individual’s point of view.
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