Ethnicity and Opportunity
By jamieg4451
@jamieg4451 (77)
United States
November 11, 2008 8:41am CST
If you are half white, and half some other ethnicity, do you consider yourself white? Or that other ethnicity? My daughter is half filipina, half white, so I always put "pacific islander" on her forms... Because of affirmative action I think it might further her opportunities... Do you think it will help?
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@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
11 Nov 08
I think you are probably right. I think that regardless of ethnicity a person can overcome disadvantages by hard work...affirmative action is not right, but it is what we have to live with.
@jamieg4451 (77)
• United States
11 Nov 08
everytime I check that box, I feel like maybe I am cheating... like I am stealing or something stupid, but then I think, well I'd be pretty annoyed though too, if I found out that some other "islander" got into the college she applied for with far less grades and it was because i checked the "white" box... even talking about it makes me feel bad though... clearly I am not racist, but bringing it up makes me feel like I am, or that I might be percieved that way....
