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Your Census map was wrong

Hispanic is not a racial category since 2000. The 1990-2000 census considered Hispanic to be a race with the subcategories white Hispanic and non-white Hispanic. Currently, for the 2000-2010 Census "Hispanic or Latino" and "not Hispanic or Latino" are labeled as "ethnicities" which are counted separate from race. In the 2000 Census, they were asked on a different quetion from race. Also, your map did not recognize the "American Indian and Alaskan Native" race which the 2000 US Census defines to include the indigenous peoples of North, South and Central America.--^DarkTea 18:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. However, for most purposes, people tend not to make the distinction between white Hispanics and non-white Hispanics -- and in fact, most Hispanics are mestizos, and I have often wondered why the Census does not add a Mestizo racial category -- so "Hispanic" is seen as a "race". Also, perhaps I was a little confusing about what I meant on the map. There are no solidly American Indian countries in existence whose inhabitants are automatically considered "American Indian". So, a person writing "Guatemalan", for example, won't automatically be considered "American Indian", even though somebody writing in "Haitian" will be considered "Black" and a "Russian" will be considered "White". Hence the addendum I added about ethnic groups within nations, such as Maya and Quechua. But a "Guatemalan" will automatically be considered "Hispanic". -- BGMan 20:00, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Cuba

Hello BG. Please leave 'Fidel Castro' in the infobox until his resignation takes effect (February 24, 2008). Until then, he's still President of Cuba. GoodDay (talk) 17:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

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links in English Language

Hi, the links you re-added to English language fail WP:EL. I've reverted your change again but incorrectly marked the change as vandalism, which was unintentional. Please accept my apologies for this, I appreciate you were not engaged in vandalism. --HighKing (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 2009

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January 2010

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Unreferenced BLPs

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/f/ in Georgian?

Hi. Do you have a source for your addition to the Georgian language page where you said that ფ is pronounced as /f/ when it corresponds to an /f/ sound in loan words from Greek and other languages? It was (and is) my understanding that when foreign words containing /f/ are incorporated into Georgian, the sound is spelled as ფ, and the ფ is pronounced normally (as /pʰ/). For example, პროფესია (profession, occupation) is pronounced /p'rɔpʰɛsia/ (not /p'rɔfɛsia/). As far as I am aware, /f/ is not a separate phoneme in Georgian; rather, it occurs only as an alternative pronunciation of ვ before unvoiced consonants. Admittedly, I only know a very small amount of Georgian, so I am not in a position to put myself forth as any sort of authority on this. Richwales (talk · contribs) 02:31, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My impression is that it's mainly confined to the educated classes, but spreading; the closest correspondence I can find is Finnish. That's why I put it in parentheses (like f in the Phonology section of the Finnish article), since it can't quite be considered native, or at least not yet. BGManofID (talk) 04:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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