Semi-minorities trying to claim full status to get advantages

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My daughter’s best friend is 1/4 Mexican, looks Irish, grew up in a White area, as a White child. She says she “always” fills out that she’s Hispanic to try to get an advantage.
 
It is legally her right to do so. The US government defines Hispanic as:

"Americans who identify themselves as being of Spanish-speaking background and trace their origin or descent from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America and other Spanish-speaking countries.”

Unless the US law changes, she meets the legal definition.
 
Country_Gal said:
My daughter’s best friend is 1/4 Mexican, looks Irish, grew up in a White area, as a White child. She says she “always” fills out that she’s Hispanic to try to get an advantage.
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B/c your Hispanic that doesn’t guarantee anything. Trust me I know I’m Hispanic and proud of it
 
If you are part Hispanic, you are still Hispanic. I think you only have to be 1/8 to qualify. She shouldn’t not put white (because she is more white than Hispanic), but she is Hispanic.
 
Interesting. So, are Hispanics really given preferences? This girl really isn’t Mexican in her identity. I even heard her make fun of Mexicans before. Her mother was adopted by a white family as a child and really doesn’t ‘look’ Mexican , but seems very Anglo.

She just claims it to get some perceived preferences.
 
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Interesting. So, are Hispanics really given preferences? This girl really isn’t Mexican in her identity. I** even heard her make fun of Mexicans before**. Her mother was adopted by a white family as a child and really doesn’t ‘look’ Mexican , but seems very Anglo.

She just claims it to get some perceived preferences.
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You have never heard of people from the same ethnic group make fun of other people in the same group before? You mean Irish-Americans, for example, have never made fun of other Irish-Americans?

My former boss had an anglo mother and a Hispanic father. She was blonde hair blue-eyed and grew in the South with a southern accent. She looked like Elly May Clampett.
 
Country_Gal said:
Interesting. So, are Hispanics really given preferences? This girl really isn’t Mexican in her identity. I even heard her make fun of Mexicans before. Her mother was adopted by a white family as a child and really doesn’t ‘look’ Mexican , but seems very Anglo.

She just claims it to get some perceived preferences.
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So what preferences is she getting?
 
agnes_therese said:
So what preferences is she getting?
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I think she is hopeful to get preferences, such as applying to college etc. I don’t know if she actually received any. She told us that she always put Hispanic down to try to get a break.

That is the perception by many that companies and schools are trying to beef up their minority numbers.
 
Its sad that she doesn’t embrace her Mexican heritage, and celebrate this wonderful culture…

I will say a prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe for her.
 
Some of my husband’s cousins are half-Mexican. Because they live mostly near their father’s family, they identify more with his Italian heritage, but they still speak Spanish and are proud of their Mexican heritage on their mom’s side as well. They applied for scholarships, etc. for Hispanic/Latino students to pursue their studies. I don’t see why they shouldn’t have.
 
stephe1987 said:
If you are part Hispanic, you are still Hispanic. I think you only have to be 1/8 to qualify. She shouldn’t not put white (because she is more white than Hispanic), but she is Hispanic.
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You don’t have to be any particular “percent” or “fraction”, read the law.

Perhaps you are thinking of laws related to claiming status in an Indian tribe. Totally different law, totally different race group.
 
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My daughter’s best friend is 1/4 Mexican, looks Irish, grew up in a White area, as a White child. She says she “always” fills out that she’s Hispanic to try to get an advantage.
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But she is Hispanic. It doesn’t matter how she looks. When I was doing my undergrad I was required to take Spanish. My professor was Mexican, grew up in Mexico, and had fair skin and blonde hair. Actually, there are a lot of “Anglo-looking” Mexicans. Are they any less Hispanic?

Just so you know, Hispanics are considered white. That’s why you frequently see ‘White-non Hispanic’ and ‘White-Hispanic’ as choices.

I’m not sure what you’re driving at here but the girl is Hispanic, that is her heritage. If asked that’s what she’ll say. Just like how even though I don’t embrace Irish culture, if someone asks Irish is what I tell them. I’m not even sure why you seem upset about this in the first place.
 
Is this a topsy-turvy world, when a girl who is 3/4 white and brought up as white and still be considered hispanic. Talk about the world upside down.:confused:
 
Country_Gal said:
Interesting. So, are Hispanics really given preferences? This girl really isn’t Mexican in her identity. I even heard her make fun of Mexicans before. Her mother was adopted by a white family as a child and really doesn’t ‘look’ Mexican , but seems very Anglo.

She just claims it to get some perceived preferences.
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What does that prove. My family tells Irish jokes all the time, and we’re from Ireland.
 
Country_Gal said:
My daughter’s best friend is 1/4 Mexican, looks Irish, grew up in a White area, as a White child. She says she “always” fills out that she’s Hispanic to try to get an advantage.
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I know of a man that claims to be “black” even though he has a white mother and was raised by her white family. Then he writes a book dedicated to his father that he only saw a few times in his life.
 
SamH said:
I know of a man that claims to be “black” even though he has a white mother and was raised by her white family. Then he writes a book dedicated to his father that he only saw a few times in his life.
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He got his “black” features from his father. These features, or rather, the experiences from having them, shaped his life. Is that a problem?
 
EIF5A said:
He got his “black” features from his father. These features, or rather, the experiences from having them, shaped his life. Is that a problem?
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A lot of biracial people identify more strongly as non white than white, simply because that’s how they’re treated by everyone else.

I have a white friend married to a black woman. He is constantly told that he has black children, yet she’s never told that her kids are white. They laugh it off, but it does say something.
 
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