New EEOC categories

[Landau, James]

>From my headquarters:

"Recently the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) revised the
ethnicity and race categories for employers. In order to comply with the
new EEOC regulations and submission of Northrop Grumman Corporation's
2007 EEO-1 survey we invite all IT sector employees to self-identify."

The new ethnicity/race categories are:
HISPANIC OR LATINO: a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or
Central American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

WHITE (not Hispanic or Latino): a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. 
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN (not of Hispanic or Latino): a person having
origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. 
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER (not Hispanic or Latino): a
person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam,
Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. 
ASIAN (not Hispanic or Latino): a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian
Subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan,
Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and
Vietnam. 
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKAN NATIVE: a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of North America and South America (including Central
America), and who maintain a tribal affiliation or community attachment.

TWO OR MORE RACES (not Hispanic or Latino): a person who identify with
more than one of the above five races i.e. White, Black or African
American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Asian and American
Indian or Alaskan Native.

Notes on the above:  "Philippine Islands" is a physical rather than
political region; neither the Dominican Republic nor Puerto Rico are
considered worth mentioning as Hispanic; Brazil apparently is NOT
Hispanic; are the Khoisans (e.g. Bushmen, Hottentots) of southern
Africa, whose skins are brown, to be included in the "black racial
groups of Africa"?; there is a missing comma in the last line.

    - James A. Landau  ("white-bred")

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