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It's gonna make the census interesting.

What is your ethnicity?

Hispanic or Latino

Super soldier

Hispanic or Latino super soldier

Not Hispanic or Latino or super soldier

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Why would this be considered anything to do with ethnicity?


Good question, lol. I never understood that field at all. How is it different from race? Shrug


…why would this have anything to do with race either?


Why not? I'd imagine they're still a subdivision of human. Each super soldier probably has different augmentations/mutations to their different genetics, the same way different races do.

Edit: Maybe it's just easier for me to think about it in video game terms, where race/class is very common. Race can be anything from cyborg to cat person, and class would be "soldier" instead of "martial artist" or "cook" or whatever.

In the real world, IMO it'd be weird to think of them as a different species altogether, at least at first. Eventually they may evolve to something better.


Conflating “genetic” to “race” is bizarre. Race in real life is based on a tiny subset of possible genetic differences, mostly focused on appearance. Down syndrome or other noticeable genetic mutations aren’t a race.




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