Can an adopted child check Hispanic box even though born in a non-Hispanic country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she was an African American adopted in to a Caucasian family would she choose Caucasian?

Hispanic is not a race question. It is ethnicity and/or heritage. You can be white or black and Hispanic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lezbian couple, one black one hispanic.
Adopted a white girl.

What do you check.

black hispanic (you can check both).

Black is a race. It is inherited genetically. Am adopted child is the same race as their birth parents. Hispanic is a culture. It is learned. A child generally learns culture from their adoptive parents although there may be exceptions (e.g. older child adoption)

Not according to the census: "The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically." https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html

[Anonymous]

So Dolezal is/was black?

[Anonymous]

I am sure the colleges read stores about people checking the box for Native American or ??? based on a 23 and Me result.

[Anonymous]

system is broken

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So Dolezal is/was black?

I think the measure is can you publicly state it without being viewed as a fool. In the previous example, a white kid adopted by a family with one black parent can absolutely say that they are black, that they were raised by a black mother with black grandparents and cousins and that that is their culture. If the people asking the question want to update it to refer to biology or genetics, they are free to, but they are making a choice to keep the question open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sure the colleges read stores about people checking the box for Native American or ??? based on a 23 and Me result.

The question is do the colleges care beyond being able to report that their student body is sufficiently diverse?

[Anonymous]

Always check as many non white and Asian as possible

[Anonymous]

I am going to be the voice of dissent. I'd say no. I wouldn't have checked the box for your bio kid either. 1 grandparent from Argentina? Is your nuclear family culturally hispanic? GTFO.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think a grand parent being born and raised somewhere means you belong to that culture yourself. I that case I would be polish, which i am early not. There is not such thing as Hispanic blood. This notion is so backward. Plus we are talking about Argentina. This is all very silly. I would check white for both kids if that what their 7/8th are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am going to be the voice of dissent. I'd say no. I wouldn't have checked the box for your bio kid either. 1 grandparent from Argentina? Is your nuclear family culturally hispanic? GTFO.

This exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am going to be the voice of dissent. I'd say no. I wouldn't have checked the box for your bio kid either. 1 grandparent from Argentina? Is your nuclear family culturally hispanic? GTFO.

OP here. The college board National Hispanic Recognition Program defines Hispanic as having at least one grandparent with Hispanic heritage, so this absolutely qualifies. Also my son's college counselor indicated it did as well.

[Anonymous]

What if one grandparent is from Spain? It's ridiculous how people are gaming college admissions. The AO must know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do colleges check this sort of thing? How would colleges know whether a kid who checks hispanic actually is?

Private colleges do check.

[Anonymous]

Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. There are Hispanics of white, black, Asian, and indigenous descent. If the college says that they consider someone with one Hispanic grandparent Hispanic, then your kid can check the box. Adoption is irrelevant.