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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, every little thing to get an edge.

I know of a college student of Italian descent who claimed Latino/Hispanic on his applications and I'm positive that gave him an edge.  He was a solid C student all through HS with ONE suspension for fighting and a few D grades thrown in who is now at UVA.  His last name doesn't sound Italian at all, think Johnson, but he has his mother's Italian genes of darker skin and dark hair.  He very easily passes the physical test of a Latino at a quick glance.

Why shouldn't someone with actual Latino genes get to declare it???[/quote]

Italians are not "actual Latinos." The term Latino is used in the US to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America--not people who descend from relatives in countries with "Latin-" or Romance languages. If you let language groups define Latino, then the French would be Latinos.

There are some myths out there that anyone with Italian heritage is "Latino" because the Italian language is rooted in Latin,  but they are not Latino in the sense that US colleges, schools, local and state and federal governments mean "Latino."

And you know that but want to pretend that dark hair and skin are a "physical test of a Latino." There is no such physical test and again I'm pretty sure your cynical self knows that. There are blonde, blue-eyed Latinos. What you're really saying is that students should lie.[/quote]

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