I'm Hispanic, NOT Caucasian

One thing that has bothered me and gets worse as time goes on is this: When I'm filling out paperwork and it asks for race, there is nothing there for me.

Going to my background: I'm first and foremost American of Mexican descent. I believe it was my great grandfather who came to the States from Mexico. and I honestly have no clue where from.

It basically boils down to this: I'm not Caucasian.

My only options for race, I'm none of these

Trying to read up on it and as far as I can tell the US Census Bureau was too lazy (I'm sorry, too confusing) to figure out an acceptable way to group people Hispanic descent so they tack on the ethnicity question.  There are basically too many sub categories of Hispanics/Latinos to make this a determination.

But if this is the case, why are they able to generalize African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders?  There are just as many sub categories with them as well.

Once again, I'm left out

I suppose I could start selecting the "Other" category and start doing it that route but that still means my race/background isn't properly represented.

I did read that the census bureau is going to discuss it again next year, in 2020.  Here's hoping that they will officially add the Latino group as a race and not just an ethnicity.

Here is a link to one of the articles I read. I felt it broke the reasons down well in terms of why it's Hispanic is an Ethnicity and not a race.  And for the record, I'm completely opposed to the Latinx. Part of my Hispanic heritage is the use of gender identifiers.  Or are we supposed to start putting an X in place of those o/a at the end of words (tortillx, mamacitx)?  It's absurd and people just need to get over themselves.

Anyway, I'm done with my ranting session.  Night peeps!