*It was off topic because it tried to read the OP’s mind/i. Why not just ask first why they asked in order to confirm your cynicism, or else take the question at face value. Especially since the OP had just said in the post right before that they felt the question was answered and the matter was settled. The OP obviously worried, needlessly I think but still they did, that putting down that he is white but then saying one parent was born in Japan might be confusing. It helped this thread in not one way I can think of to infer motives other than being clear about ethnicity, since colleges continue to ask about it. Besides your “thought” makes no sense as far as I can tell. If the motive were to try and appear to have “unusual” heritage, why would they ask to clarify that he is 100% white instead of just putting down the ambiguous answer? It would have been perfectly accurate. But by adding those comments based on inferences rather than facts, it did indeed take the thread wandering off to Panama, Mexico, and who knows where the next stop would have been.
I think you can also see, even if it wasn’t your intention, that by even suggesting to the OP that might have been her motive you could have indeed insulted her. And she would have been well within her rights to have inferred the insult.
Closing thread since OP was happy several posts ago with the answer, but let’s try and answer simple questions simply until there is real evidence there is more to it. After what happened to an OP who asked the VERY simple question about which midnight the Jan. 1 deadline meant, and getting skewered about time management and other negative comments, my antenna is really up about this. If the question only seems simple but possibly really isn’t? Don’t assume, clarify.*