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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check whatever box is accurate. There clearly are a broad range of people who can accurately call themselves Latino, and regardless of skin tone or wealth, have every right to be proud of their background and nothing to apologize for.

Also, I take your point on diversity: colleges that are curating a diverse environment can do so without regard to past oppression.

On the question of affirmative action: Are you saying there is no such thing for Latinos?  For the Jair Bolsonaro hypothetical, assume he became a naturalized US citizen.  Should his children benefit from affirmative action? [/quote]
I'm not sure I understand what you are referring to by "affirmative action" is.  There are no check-boxes or officially stated policies.

Colleges do not divulge whether they may favor a particular applicant in part due to ethnicity.  Their reason could be diversity rather than "affirmative action." If you have no problem with a college's "diversity" goal and with the rich Latino accurately checking yes in response to the question, then it's not clear who you are intending to complain to/about.  The colleges, for favoring Latinos of all income levels (to the extent that some do this)?  The govt, for collecting this info from the colleges and thereby encouraging the colleges to favor Latinos in admissions?[/quote]

Not complaining about how people fill out the boxes ... It's a policy question.

Step past the 'we don't know how they do it' defense and ask yourself: If you were in charge of a college admissions process, how would you do it and why?

I think the 'kids of naturalized Jair Bolsonaro' hypothetical could be instructive if you didn't run from it.  Would you as an admissions director favor them b/c Latino background if they're of 100% European descent? If so, why?  To the extent the answer is something like: "Some Brazilian American culture might enrich the learning environment here," I think that makes sense.  To the extent the answer is "Well we used to have a more explicit affirmative action policy here until a series of SCOTUS decisions required us achieve our goals in less explicit ways," you may not be achieving the goals of affirmative action, which is to counteract historical and present day oppression. 
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