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Please specify your ethnic background

Asian - Indian
Asian - Bengali
Asian - Pakistani
Asian - Chinese
Asian - Arab
White - British
White - Irish
White - other
Black - Afro-caribbean
Black - African

Please specify your ethnic background

Asian - Indian
Asian - Bengali
Asian - Pakistani
Asian - Chinese
Asian - Arab
White - British
White - Irish
White - other
Black - Afro-caribbean
Black - African

why you are advocating for the black community? it is not your concern. Tick what is only appropriate to you only.

A white guy could say the same thing.

I'm neither white nor arab so I don't give a shit about them. I take offense to being designated a colour ( which isn't even correct since I'm brown not black) instead of my actual race, a Somali African. Btw why do pakis and hindis get special mdntion but Africa is a just one colour? Why not just allow the person to write down their ethnicity themselves instead of listing some arbitrary ethnicities?

^ my brother, the black man he will not reason and write like you do, it is why i will telling you are arab or maybe even white.

Even though i think whites will be ignorant of the differences within Africans. But for this list a case could be made for the Asians as they splintered into minority groups that have a big presence here since the 60s; so the length of the list and the processing time is justified.
Secondly Somalis for the most part (apart from very insignificant variation) don't have a separate skin tone then other blacks, we both have same shades and tone of skin colour. So this black category is totally fair imo.

Just right iidoori in the "other" section and be done with it.

Even though i think whites will be ignorant of the differences within Africans. But for this list a case could be made for the Asians as they splintered into minority groups that have a big presence here since the 60s; so the length of the list and the processing time is justified.
Secondly Somalis for the most part (apart from very insignificant variation) don't have a separate skin tone then other blacks, we both have same shades and tone of skin colour. So this black category is totally fair imo.

No it's not fair, it's ignorant. Is black a race? No. Is black a country? No. Is black a language or culture? As far as I'm aware there isn't a country called blackia or blackland and I've never heard anyone speak black. Using Skin colour as a means of differentiating between people is as unscientific and arbitrary as using eye colour or nose size.

there is a box that says 'prefer not to disclose'
just tick that.

To the layman (majority of the population) these characteristics (black etc) constitutes a race, they do not need to contact a geneticist (a sociologist is more applicable) when creating the census because it does not have to be scientific but more in line in what people perceive. And the majority of people (white and black) view somalis as black; even educated somalis view their race (not ethnicity) as black (sometimes arab).

Black is neither an ethnicity nor a race like you've already said. I always check other and specify Somali. Black refers to a skin color and people off different ethnicities could be black in color. For example, some indians are dark as fuck. What box would they check?

I agree with Liquid,

We are not Black and neither are we Arabs. We are Africans>>Somalis just like how Berbers are Africans. We are indigenous Africans. Africa is not only home to Black people it is home to brown people like East Africans and Yellow people like Berbers!!!

Even though i think whites will be ignorant of the differences within Africans. But for this list a case could be made for the Asians as they splintered into minority groups that have a big presence here since the 60s; so the length of the list and the processing time is justified.
Secondly Somalis for the most part (apart from very insignificant variation) don't have a separate skin tone then other blacks, we both have same shades and tone of skin colour. So this black category is totally fair imo.

Why you lying for, we don't have the same skin tone as the ordinary blacks unless they have white in them like their grandparents etc. Plus there are dark-skinned Indians too and will they be considered as Black? Nope.

black/African would be more appropriate I mean hello?? isn't the location we're from Africa???

no need to be concerned with things like that justtick anything and move on...hell for the registration of elections I ticked Chinese.

who cares... move along with your form.

Black isnt a race but negroid is, black is interchangeable with negroid (even though unscientific) Indians (even the darkest ones) are not negroid.

Black black Somalian features is white/arab, the black color in the minority of the people is only adaptation for the desert lands we are living in