Senior and Cadet Membership Applications Updated - Feb 2014

[usafcap1]

For the Senior app, it looks like just some changes to the "Voluntary Statistical Information".

Old: "Black(Not of Hispanic Origin)"
New: "Afro-American"

Old: "Asian/Pacific Islander"
New: "Asian" and "Pacific Islander" are now two separate check-boxes.

Old: "American Indian/Alaskan Native"
New: "American Indian" and "Alaskan Native" are now two separate check-boxes.

(If "Black" was changed to "Afro-American", shouldn't "White" be changed to "European-American"?)

The Income check-boxes were deleted.

That's the only changes I see.

Afro-American! Really!! Whats wrong with just black? Afro is a hair style NOT a ethnicity or ethnic group. . .

[Panache]

I imagine that "Afro-American" is more politically correct and less likely to offend the Perpetually Outraged (which come is all races and ethnic groups) even if "Black (non-Hispanic)" was more accurate.

[LSThiker]

Ethnically, I do not consider her African. As a descendent of colonists, she is more properly European/Caucasian, since she has French, Dutch, and German ancestry. That would also apply to UH60guy's white friend.

And we are all descendants of colonists that originated in Africa.  Thereby, we are all in a way African.  Out of all of these ethnicity vs. nationality debates, the one thing that always gets me is these terms are made up.  There is no actual scientific basis for them.  They are what we want them to mean.

[Luis R. Ramos]

Who are all, geographically, Americans.  However, although Hawaiians are U.S. citizens, geographically they are not Americans.  They would be Polynesians.
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I grew up around quite a few Puerto Ricans.  Most that I knew would lay claim to the title "American" because of both citizenship and location.

Cyborg,

Thank you very much, your mention of the Hawaiians reinforces my points. Use of the word "American" is not based on geography but on the name of the country. And I left out the entire name of each country just because I knew that none of those country names includes America.

As to Puerto Ricans calling themselves Americanos, at some point the school system may have missed the boat and changed. But that is my point of view. my El-Hi education was in Puerto Rico, from the Puerto Rico Dept of Education. And after finalizing it, I came to the realization, that Americans called themselves Americans not because of geography but because of it being a part of the country name.

But I am 59 years old, and it appears I am mostly alone in this... soon others will start saying "you are ranting like an old man..." 

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

But I am 59 years old, and it appears I am mostly alone in this... soon others will start saying "you are ranting like an old man..." 

Nah.  I'm really not a lot younger than you.  Rant on.