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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don’t understand what you want my kids to do, do you want them to lie about their race/Heritage because they aren’t brown enough for you? We speak Spanish at home is that enough?[/quote]

Legit question ... I have a two-part response:

First: For your own family and kids, I'd say fill out the forms accurately and let the chips fall as they do.  Some forms have categories for "non-caucusian hispanic descent" and I guess that involves a judgment call about caucasian or not (your question about "brown enough") ... But the system is the system. I see no reason to deviate based on this discussion.

Second: On the larger policy question, I'm curious: If you were designing the system, would you provide an affirmative action advantage to families like yours, and if so, why (or why not)?  From my POV, I could see a broad range of edifying responses to this, and lots of interesting questions in response (e.g. If yes for you, what about the Irish, etc)

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I was the PP and my kids would be hispanics Caucasian.  Argentines. White as can be. Family in South American for hundreds of years.

Second question is interesting because MY family is Irish in America for 75 years and my immigrant grandparents faced a lot of discrimination in Boston when they arrived.

I don’t know how to quantify that [/quote]

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