Are Brazilians Hispanic? Many Say ‘Yes,’ Report Says

NBC’s plain-language companion to the Brazilian puzzle: many Brazilians in the United States say yes, they are Hispanic, and the government’s forms say no. The piece walks through how back-coding works, which groups get quietly recoded (Brazilians, along with people from Portugal, the Philippines, and other non-Spanish-speaking places), and why a definition written in 1997 still decides who counts. Set beside our Some Other Race coverage, it completes a pair of portraits: forms overriding families, in two different directions. For any reader who wants the mechanics without the jargon, this is the explainer to share.

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