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Swara Salih, a 32-year-old Kurdish American, has been reluctantly ticking “white” on federal forms his whole life. But that’s not what he sees when he looks in the mirror. “My entire life I’ve been a brown kid, I’ve had darker skin than my white friends,” Salih told NBC News. “I was very culturally confused in that way as a kid, like, ‘What am I supposed to be?’ I’m not white, I’m not Black, I’m not Latino.
group in the U.S. is Arab Americans, according to data collected by advocacy groups. The new identifier came days before the start of Arab American Heritage Month on April 1. Tariq Ra'ouf, 33, a Palestinian Arab American, described feeling like his identity was being erased when having to tick “white” on job applications. “When I’m filling them out it’s like, ‘This is ridiculous,’ because I’m not white,” Ra'ouf said.
Americans that advocacy organizations estimate live in the U.S. may be an undercount, Ayoub says. “We’re going to have clear data on the number of folks from the region that are in this country, where we live — everything from our spending habits to health issues to education,” Ayoub says of the addition of the identifier. “In this day and age, you really need data to be a strong advocate for your community. And this will allow for us to get a better picture of who our community is.
because I identify ethnically within the category, many
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