2024 census: global race/ethnicity question

[vcarl]

The "region" question began as a race/ethnicity question, but I realized we brought a US-centric perspective (see here, e.g. "African-American", "Alaskan native" etc, without the same level of detail in other regions/cultures). In trying to correct that, I moved to a UN-defined map of regions of the world, and it didn't register for me that I was losing the original intent of the question in doing so.

Next year, I'll do additional research on how we can best ask this question in a globally-inclusive manner. I have a pretty good sense of this for US race/ethnicity, but this is such individuated subject by region/country/culture that I want to invest a lot more energy in doing it well. I don't even feel comfortable speculating about how we might frame it in other national/cultural contexts.

This is an area I'll probably hire a consultant for input on. There's absolutely a lot of work that has been done, would like to stand on their shoulders vs do a poor imitation