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[quote=Anonymous]Depends on how you approach your ethics.

I had several close Hispanic friends in college. They were proud to call themselves Latinos (and white too). They were from well-off families in Mexico and Central America. They often had parents who had already gone to college in the US back in the dark days of overt racism. That was their heritage. But they had a very different life experience, culturally and socially, than the poorer members of their societies, who are also Hispanics. And, of course, different from the African American experience in the US.

Truth be told, I don't know what extent the term Hispanic has any influence on college admissions. I'm guessing the admissions officers can easily pick up the difference between a well off Hispanic student and someone who's a first generation child of immigrants (parents' occupations, where/if they went to college etc) that it may ultimately be a moot point when it comes to affirmative action.

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So, is it somehow "unfair" or "crap" for him to check the "Hispanic" box on forms? I personally think that college preferences/aid should be mainly based on SES rather than race. But the system we have is the system we have. Does it mean that he has to deny half his heritage in order to meet some self-imposed standard of fairness?[/quote][/quote]

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