Culture essay question. Feels like a trap

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question was added after John Roberts said specifically this is how race could be brought up in an application.

But yes, colleges still are only looking for URM. Not Asian etc.

So if you’re white or Asian, etc, write about the pool or the gym or the neighborhood skate park.

But if you’re in a racial group they want, this is where you add it

If they don't want white and Asian students why do they accept so many?

They don't want white or Asian students.. because there are already so many of them!
Meaning it is just more competitive amongst your peers if you are white or Asian, and less if you're not. Not that schools don't want white or Asian students at all.

Really unpopular opinion but colleges love Asian students and they’re highly overrepresented and nag as if they’re martyrs because they have to go to ucla or brown instead of Harvard- their parents’ dream

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of ideas here - pick a micro community or micro culture to focus on:

Truth is good “community” essays that I’ve seen are about the strawberry farmers a student knew at her local farmers market in rural New Jersey; or about the different people the student rode the city bus to school with every day. Communities and culture shouldn’t just be about race/ethnicity esp if from an ove-represented group…

Really the key is to choose a “micro-community” or “micro-culture” that shows what’s important to you/your values.

Again. Assume we understand that. The question is: for what populations is focusing on ethnic culture a plus. This is why the Roberts court said this question was okay and a box was not. A culture fundamental to who a kid is. Assume a kid has several. In which case does the ethnic one work for them and not against them.

These applications are done to gain admission to college, not for your own self reflection for its own sake

It is not a trick question with hidden acceptable answers, they are looking for good essays as those who wrote them will enhance their chances. Your immaturity and inability to process and accept this essay suggests you should focus on your lack of intelligence before school. poetic that the essay prompt filters in many ways :)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:they keep saying they'll add a MENA box and they never do

it is not there bc it isnt a race and could be more than one of the others for which boxes are provided. so no, no one has said "they" would add it

US Census is adding it next census.

the US Census is adding the "race": MENA?

I will just assume this is a joke. My mind blows everytime I try to process a response

[Anonymous]

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1237218459/census-race-categories-ethnicity-middle-east-north-africa

take your time processing a response. or just understand it's race and ethnicity - and not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they keep saying they'll add a MENA box and they never do

it is not there bc it isnt a race and could be more than one of the others for which boxes are provided. so no, no one has said "they" would add it

US Census is adding it next census.

the US Census is adding the "race": MENA?

I will just assume this is a joke. My mind blows everytime I try to process a response

Why follow race and not ethnicity. Middle eastern people being white doesn’t seem very accurate at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

Privilege still trumps race. So this essay is the last remaining lever.

And racism is alive and well. I’m a little bitter that asian kids can’t be fully themselves in this process. Racism is shitty

Lol. Honestly, you sound horrible, a terrible addition to a classroom or office. Hope your kids develop fully despite this. What do you want to see changed in the newly changed precedent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No.

Privilege still trumps race. So this essay is the last remaining lever.

And racism is alive and well. I’m a little bitter that asian kids can’t be fully themselves in this process. Racism is shitty

Lol. Honestly, you sound horrible, a terrible addition to a classroom or office. Hope your kids develop fully despite this. What do you want to see changed in the newly changed precedent?

in the new changed precedent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they keep saying they'll add a MENA box and they never do

it is not there bc it isnt a race and could be more than one of the others for which boxes are provided. so no, no one has said "they" would add it

US Census is adding it next census.

the US Census is adding the "race": MENA?

I will just assume this is a joke. My mind blows everytime I try to process a response

Why follow race and not ethnicity. Middle eastern people being white doesn’t seem very accurate at all.

First of all, both "MENA" and "Middle Eastern people" comprise multiple races, multiple ethnicities, multiple cultures. multiple countries and multiple continents.

Second, do you mean arabs dont seem white? Maybe they dont seem so to you but genetically they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1237218459/census-race-categories-ethnicity-middle-east-north-africa

take your time processing a response. or just understand it's race and ethnicity - and not that hard.

But this is a list of specific countries if you read the full question which makes a lot more sense, not a nondescript blob spanning multiple continents. So it is being added it seems but not in the way your post made it seem hence my confusion

[Anonymous]

MENA has always been very specific countries. Sorry if you didn’t know that before. Your blob thinking was inaccurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This question was added after John Roberts said specifically this is how race could be brought up in an application.

But yes, colleges still are only looking for URM. Not Asian etc.

So if you’re white or Asian, etc, write about the pool or the gym or the neighborhood skate park.

But if you’re in a racial group they want, this is where you add it

But if I am white and influenced greatly by, say, any South American culture, can I write about it without specifying my own race/ethnicity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:they keep saying they'll add a MENA box and they never do

it is not there bc it isnt a race and could be more than one of the others for which boxes are provided. so no, no one has said "they" would add it

US Census is adding it next census.

the US Census is adding the "race": MENA?

I will just assume this is a joke. My mind blows everytime I try to process a response

Why follow race and not ethnicity. Middle eastern people being white doesn’t seem very accurate at all.

First of all, both "MENA" and "Middle Eastern people" comprise multiple races, multiple ethnicities, multiple cultures. multiple countries and multiple continents.

Second, do you mean arabs dont seem white? Maybe they dont seem so to you but genetically they are.

You think race has much at all to do with genetics? Interesting. No, culturally, socially, and in every instance outside of race, Middle Eastern and North African People are not considered white at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question was added after John Roberts said specifically this is how race could be brought up in an application.

But yes, colleges still are only looking for URM. Not Asian etc.

So if you’re white or Asian, etc, write about the pool or the gym or the neighborhood skate park.

But if you’re in a racial group they want, this is where you add it

But if I am white and influenced greatly by, say, any South American culture, can I write about it without specifying my own race/ethnicity?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

DC is answering an essay question about identity by discussing being raised by a single parent. That's the starting point that the essay is really about grit. I have no idea if that's the right sort of topic....guess we'll find out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question was added after John Roberts said specifically this is how race could be brought up in an application.

But yes, colleges still are only looking for URM. Not Asian etc.

So if you’re white or Asian, etc, write about the pool or the gym or the neighborhood skate park.

But if you’re in a racial group they want, this is where you add it

If they don't want white and Asian students why do they accept so many?

They don't want white or Asian students.. because there are already so many of them!
Meaning it is just more competitive amongst your peers if you are white or Asian, and less if you're not. Not that schools don't want white or Asian students at all.

Really unpopular opinion but colleges love Asian students and they’re highly overrepresented and nag as if they’re martyrs because they have to go to ucla or brown instead of Harvard- their parents’ dream

As an Asian who got rejected from all three schools you mentioned, you're completely right.