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[quote=Anonymous]As the parent of mixed kids (Latino/White) this is really interesting to me.  I don't think my kids have been "rejected" by either community (although there was a kid who said he was smarter because he was whiter) but I would think this would come down to how your kid looks.  Mixed kids can look one or the other and/or exotic.  We have a couple of them, and the one who is brown identifies with Latinos and the one who is white does not think of being Latino but rather that some families speak Spanish.  They are at different schools now, and the youngest was fawned over by mostly minority kids when they came to an event at the primarily minority school, but I wonder what boxes they would check - I always check white and of Hispanic origin, while my husband always checks other in protest of all the categories....Mixed kids are a total crapshoot in terms of the way they look, and my two don't even look related.  I think that may be one of the issues we deal with later on.  Has anyone dealt with this in a fairly mixed school?  Two kids where one is brown and one is white?  And I just mean their colors.  "Race" is complicated because there are Latinos especially from Puerto Rico who look African American as well as those from Mexico that look completely indigenous (descendants of Aztecs)..........[/quote]

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