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Current Employer has emailed me directly twice asking for my ethnicity

I work as a cloud architect and have been at my current job since January. Whenever I apply to a job I always select “refuse to disclose”. I received an email from some lady in HR requesting I advise of my ethnicity. I was going to ignore it but, not 24 full hours later she sent me a follow up. I understand that this could potentially be for their own metrics/reporting but, I don’t care. I don’t feel comfortable disclosing , especially when it came in form an email . It’d be another thing if it came from an HR system or something but not an email typed directly from whatever HR director … What’s the professional way of saying “I did not advise of my ethnicity when I initially applied and would like to maintain that status” ? Are there any sources I could reference should she reply back…


I work as a cloud architect and have been at my current job since January.

Whenever I apply to a job I always select “refuse to disclose”. I received an email from some lady in HR requesting I advise of my ethnicity. I was going to ignore it but, not 24 full hours later she sent me a follow up.

I understand that this could potentially be for their own metrics/reporting but, I don’t care. I don’t feel comfortable disclosing , especially when it came in form an email . It’d be another thing if it came from an HR system or something but not an email typed directly from whatever HR director …

What’s the professional way of saying “I did not advise of my ethnicity when I initially applied and would like to maintain that status” ? Are there any sources I could reference should she reply back trying to strong arm an answer out of me?

For the curious, I’m a non-white biracial individual with an uncommon but not terribly ethnic name.

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