<p>While I have a good idea of who constitutes as a URM and who constitutes as an ORM, I know that some populations in different races have fared rather differently in the United States. For example, some groups of Hispanics do better than others, and some groups of Asians do better than others.</p>
<p>In your opinion, which of the following groups would qualify as URMs and which would qualify as ORMs?</p>
<p>Blacks
African Americans (descendants of slaves brought directly to USA)
Blacks of Caribbean origin/descendants of Caribbean immigrants or immigrants themselves (Jamaicans, Haitians, etc.)
African immigrants/children of immigrants from Africa (Nigerians, Ghanaians, etc.)</p>
<p>American Indians
Alaska Natives
American Indians</p>
<p>Asian/Pacific Islander Americans
Cambodians
Chamorro/Guamanians
Chinese
Filipinos
Japanese
Koreans
Laotians/Hmong
Polynesians (ex: Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Tongans)
South Asians (ex: Indians, Pakistanis)
Vietnamese</p>
<p>Hispanic Americans
Central Americans (ex: Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans)
Cubans
Mexicans
Puerto Ricans
South Americans (ex: Colombians, Ecuadorians, Peruvians)
Spanish Americans (pure Spanish ancestry)</p>
<p>Yes, pure Spanish ancestry is Caucasian in the racial spectrum but Spanish ancestry also pits one as a Hispanic in the ethnic spectrum and Hispanics are considered URMs. So being of Spanish ancestry makes you a URM.</p>
<p>"Hispanic" is not a racial category - hispanic people can be white, black, asian, native, or a mix. So people whose families have lived in latin america for generations, but can trace their ancestors back to spain, africa, china, or anyplace else, are just as much hispanic as those whose families were native to the area, or who cannot trace their ancestry at all.</p>
<p>I'm wondering along with him (or her), do african immigrants count as URMs? Or is that one of the groups that isn't weighed as much as, say, descendants of slaves?</p>