Talk:Visible minority

Not all LAtin Americans are not visible minorities, it depend on what country they are from. White Brazilians (50% of their population), Argentines and Uruguayans (both 90% caucasians) are not visible minorities.

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Regarding the above comment: In Canada, under HRDC practice, anyone of Latin American ancestry can legitimately claim to be a member of a visible minority. It is a paradox that someone can be of 100% European ancestry (a Uruguayan, for example) and yet be a visible minority, but that's the how the term is used by the agency that administers employment equity legislation in Canada. Much hinges on how the person perceives his/her own ethnicity and/or racial background. Canadian2006 (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Could you point to reference in HRSDC website regarding this issue? You are essentially suggesting that being a visible minority is a sobjective matter. -- I would like to add the following remark : Contrary to what the article states, "Visible Minority" is also frequently used in France ("Minorités visibles"), especially in newspaper articles, though it is not 100% politically correct.

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Where when why how by whom was the term coined? jnestorius^(talk) 22:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)