My son’s friend is the same. Italian but from Argentina. He looks totally white, blond hair, etc. They also check Hispanic. |
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Argentinians are the worst Total cheats, frauds and charlatans |
That’s because at least 1/3 white people lie in their college applications about their race. |
+1 Being white and MC-UMC is a major disadvantage. |
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The PP’s family lived in Argentina for 2 generations. They were born there, spoke the language, the food and culture became mixed with their Italian heritage. How are they not Hispanic? I mean, if you are going to consider race and ethnicity, surely this counts. |
So by that logic the descendants of the Nazis that escaped to Argentina could check that box as well. |
No one likes Argentinians -not other South Americans - North Americans think you guys are fakes - The global community thinks you are basket cases - British think you are soft No country has a bigger gap between self perceived standing and reality |
In Argentina you would be white. In 1920s US, you would be not. Technically, you're not Hispanic at all. But you know that. |
And yet they stand at the top in the world’s most popular sport. Cope and seethe. |
My friend's family has lived in the UK for 2 generations. They were born there, speak the language, and the food and culture became so mixed with their Sikh heritage that they changed religions, dislike curry, and go to Ascot every year. How are they not British? I mean, if are going to consider this definition to define race and ethnicity, surely this counts. My friends' kids, who went to British IB school in the Middle East, who have their own ponies, and always fly first class, will also, due to their American mother, have a better shot at getting into HYP than your kids, by virtue of how they look. I have another friend whose family has been in the US for ten generations. Much like my fault. This is their language, their history, and their culture. But their high school doesn't have the resources to get them into a good college, their family doesn't have the background to know how to navigate admissions, and they will probably end up taking out loans to go to some predatory for-profit school that will teach them nothing. |
That part bothers me less than their white kids going on about how they're not colonizers. Your family is from South America and you're white? Um... I think the "colonizer" narrative is simplistic and overblown, but sadly college campuses are a hotbed right now of righteousness by skin color. It's toxic and terrible. |
But the only thing you share is a language. Your family has benefited from colonization, slavery, feudal plantations, and a racist class system in your home country for however long they were there, be it 20 years or 400. Why should you get priority admission over your landscaper from El Salvador's kids? They're indigenous to the Americas. Their family has suffered centuries of oppression and displacement--up to the present day. You're not the same. I'm all for overturning the simplistic definitions of race and culture we use, definitions that are gamed by the UMC just as everything else is. I would like to see emphasis be placed on first generation, and not on divisive arguments about race that create monolithic definitions based on skin tone that have no relation to history or heredity. |
I got my Ph.D. in my mid-twenties and lectured at JHU last year. JHU has Bloomberg's money for financial aid, and has eliminated legacy preferences. But 16% White students and 16% Black students? Compare that to Caltech at 41% and 7% respectively; it doesn't make sense. https://apply.jhu.edu/life-at-hopkins/diversity-inclusion-at-hopkins/ https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics JHU will have a reputation for workaholic Asian-American pre-med majors and diversity-admissions. That is not the road to prestige. Baltimore already has a bad reputation for crime and race relations. Good White upper-middle-class donut-hole students will stop applying to JHU. |