Will choosing Hispanic as a 'race' on the census do a better job of identifying Latinos? We asked.

When Monica Sanchez fills out official forms that inquire about race, she sometimes feels annoyed by the options.

When Monica Sanchez fills out official forms that inquire about race, she sometimes feels annoyed by the options.

“I’m like: No, I’m not white. I’m not Black or Asian. That is basically the only options I’ve seen, including on medical documents, so I usually just choose ‘other,'" the Seattle-based speech language pathologist told NBC News.

For Sanchez, who is of Mexican American heritage, the choices on government forms make Latinos seem like an afterthought. “Choosing ‘some other race’ or ‘other’ feels like we are a P.S., like we’re not worth an actual category of our own — it’s like we are not being recognized as a human, as part of the human race,” Sanchez said.

“It’s a little thing, but it is huge to me," she said. "It’s offensive.”

For the first time in decades, the government is changing its categories for race and ethnicity data. Under new standards adopted by the Biden administration, “Hispanic or Latino” will be listed as one racial/ethnic category, and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent will have their own checkbox on forms such as the census. While some advocacy groups and scholars applaud this change, others are concerned that it will dilute the data on racial differences among Latinos.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-views-on-making-hispanic-a-race-category-rcna147172

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