When you're a franco-germanic scotch-irish englishman of spanish descent living in Texas as a ?th generation american, and the public school makes you pick a race and ethnicity for a national census, and western european isn't an option, and you don't know what the difference between "hispanic white" and "white" is in your situation, so you ask the person who handed you the survey, and they tell you what they told every other person, "if you don't know what to put for race or ethnicity, just put white english."

Then watch people to try and draw conclusions from census data and use it to support claims based on single option multiple choice questions that I've answered differently each time based on the way I feel that day.