<div class="quote_poster">Quoting thedude9990:</div><div class="quote_post"> because colleges have to take a certain number of each ethnicity</div> Is that true?
<div class="quote_poster">thedude9990 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">im egyptian quick question since this seems like the right place, on surveys and college stuff it asks what are you and blah blah, anyways my 8th grade guiandce counsler told me to put causassion, (i always put other) my question is because colleges have to take a certain number of each ethnicity, do u think i;d have a easier chance if i put other or african american (egypts in africa)</div> Why would your counselor tell you to put caucasion if your Egyptian? Anyway, usually (well at least the collegese I applied to) had African-American/Negro as a choice. They options were connected. I don't know any Egyptians who are referred to as Negroes, so go figure.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why would your counselor tell you to put caucasion if your Egyptian? Anyway, usually (well at least the collegese I applied to) had African-American/Negro as a choice. They options were connected. I don't know any Egyptians who are referred to as Negroes, so go figure.</div> yes idk why she just told me too. anyways either way i dont think id be lieing, cause egypt in africa so technically i am african american, other cause egypts not there i dont put caucassion even though im told too
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Is that true?</div> I'm not sure it is, but I don't think it could be true if there are colleges like FAMU that are prodiminately black. Anyway I'm a mixed. Dad is black, moms is half white/half Indonessian, word to Barack Obama. But besides my hair I don't really look white or Indonessian.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why would your counselor tell you to put caucasion if your Egyptian? Anyway, usually (well at least the collegese I applied to) had African-American/Negro as a choice. They options were connected. I don't know any Egyptians who are referred to as Negroes, so go figure.</div> Arabs are considered Caucasian. It's bullshit.
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Is that true?</div> Yeah, we talked about it today in school, i cant think of the Court Case it was talked about, but once im not lazy ill go find out.
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Arabs are considered Caucasian. It's bullshit.</div> wtf? are you serious?
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">wtf? are you serious?</div> well there's only 4 races - White, black, asian, and latin. sooo....if not "white" where would they fit?
<div class="quote_poster">A.F. Venom Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The "other" bubble is often availible.</div> I saw you're half-black, you check the "black" or "other" out of curiosity? question 2: i've heard that if you're even a quarter black you are considered "black". Isn't this kind of a semi-racist notion?
I've always thought that's the most pointless question there is. Race is such an ambiguous term these days. If you want to talk about skin colour, describe your complexion. If you want to talk about heritage, state your country of origin.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Is that true?</div> In the year 1978(Im pretty sure this is the Court Case, but i might be wrong) in the Court Case of the University of California Regents versus Bakke a person of a certain race was declined from a school primarily because of their race.This is called Affirmative Action, where a private school can balance the racial demographic and not accept a certain race of people simply because of their race. Say a school has a majority of asian students, then if some asians applied that had the exact same gpa, extracurriculars, and so on as an african american, latino, or other race, then they would accept the other race to balance that racial demographic. We learned about it in class today.
That's different though. Affirmative action is questionable enough as it is, but thedude implied that there's a certain quota that all universities have to fill when it comes to coloured people, which is completely different.
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I saw you're half-black, you check the "black" or "other" out of curiosity? question 2: i've heard that if you're even a quarter black you are considered "black". Isn't this kind of a semi-racist notion?</div> Some times they have mixed-ethnicity or something like that...but if they don't I'll pick black over "other".
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">That's different though. Affirmative action is questionable enough as it is, but thedude implied that there's a certain quota that all universities have to fill when it comes to coloured people, which is completely different.</div> Yeah, ok, i had just heard about it this morning, so i thought it was the same. It is questionable, personallly i think that they should take the people with the best gpa and extracurriculars and so on, not just enough to make the racial demographic equal.
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">well there's only 4 races - White, black, asian, and latin. sooo....if not "white" where would they fit?</div> Other?? or middle-eastern??
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Other?? or middle-eastern??</div> see that's racist to you guys, why do you guys have to be the "others"? the whole thing is kind of silly. for example, if you are from Spain, are you white or Latin? You're from Western Europe, so you're white, right? But you speak the same language (almost) as Latin Americans and have the same ethnicity.... I'm white and I consider people from Spain to be the same "race" as me, but people from Mexico not the same. weird.
How the hell is Middle Eastern racist? Sand ******, Camel Jockey, Carpet rider, towel head. That's racist, not Middle eastern. (btw, I am Middle Eastern) OR Arabian.
I find the whole concept of "race" idiotic. When you talk about humans, there is only one race, the human race. It would be better to talk about what country or part of the world you originate from (counting a few hundred years back). So a white "american" is of european descent, a black "afro-american" is of african descent. Obviously, there are differences in appearance between people living on the same continent as well. North africans do not look the same as central africans, and the word "asian" doesn't say anything about a persons looks.
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Other?? or middle-eastern??</div> aren't you paki or afganistanian, either way thats not middle eastern
