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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have wondered about a similar question, b/c I have two Chinese-American daughters, but my DH and I are Caucasian.   I have wondered, when we get to this point, if it would make a difference one way or another as to which "box" they check (say, on college applications) and, if so, which one would be "better."  [/quote]

Your daughters, I assume adopted since you are both White, are Asian.  They are not White simply because you raised them.  You cannot take away their ethnicity and race.  [/quote]

Asian adoptee here. I always put Asian down as race, but will include Korean, Polish, and Italian as my ethnicities b/c I was raised with Polish and Italian heritage as well.

People can put that in their pipes and smoke it.[/quote]

Your ethnicity is your *genetic* heritage, not the culture you are brought up in.  It's good that you embrace your other cultures, but that's not your ethnicity. [/quote]

I'm not the PP, but that's bullsh&t.

IMO, the Asian adoptee can put down whatever the hell she pleases.  The questions on these applications are absurd and really nobody should even be asking them in this day an age.  [/quote]

I'm PP.  I wasn't addressing whether the question on a form was absurd or not.  I was simply stating what ethnicity meant.  The PP I was addressing stated ".. as my ethnicities b/c I was raised with... ".  I could care less what you actually put down on a form.  [/quote]

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