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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are still reading, here is a criterion: years ago at my college, everyone who checked particular boxes and was admitted was put on a list for invitations to particular affinity groups. For example, a friend of mine checked white and Native American because of distant Native ancestry. When she arrived on campus she was approached by the very small Native American community and asked if she wanted to join their affinity group/club. She was not interested because it really wasn't part of her identity. If your child would probably have [b]nothing to do with the Hispanic club or whatever it might be called, then it's probably not her identity.[/b][/quote]

That's probably a good litmus test.  I'm the white PP with the half Arab son.   He would very much like to join Arabic language or middle eastern groups.   On the other hand, I grew up with a girl whose dad is Mexican American, and he grew up in a Texas community right on the border where nobody spoke English.  He married a white woman from North Carolina, and my friend doesn't feel any connection to Latino culture at all.  She doesn't check hispanic on anything, and never has.   Even though she have a Spanish last name. [/quote]

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