Questions we ask reveal where our interests lie. What we don’t ask about, we probably don’t think about; and if the subject is something we don’t think about, we likely don’t regard it as important.
This statement of the self-evident is partly, I think, what underlies the objection of so many Americans at being asked, by the U.S. Census Bureau, to declare their race.
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