<p>i totally agree.</p>
<p>You are not asked on the college application whether or not you consider yourself to be a minority or not. They are asking whether you consider yourself to be Hispanic, American Indian, etc.
My mother never considered herself to be Hispanic, even though she is fluent in Spanish and grew up in a Spanish speaking home. She buried that part of her heritage because Spanish people were called "SPICS" where she grew up and their was a lot of prejudice. SPIC was a very derrogatory term.
Now it is cool to be Hispanic and it helps with a lot of things, so why not "come out of the closet" now?</p>
<p>Yes, I do feel very connected to my hispanic culture. Nearly everybody on my mom's side of the family speaks Spanish and I have grown up spending significant amounts of time with them. I also have relatives that live in Puerto Rico and my parents lived in Puerto Rico for five years. I think that the only reason that I am hesitant, is that I live in the California wine country where nearly every Hispanic student's parents pick grapes and work in the vineyards, these students are very disadvantaged. Because of that my school is very racially segregated, and I am not really considered Hispanic at school. But I think that I will mark that I am Hispanic on tests and applications because I physically look Hispanic and I do feel very connected to my family's culture.</p>
<p>Also, Pennlegacy, when I have traveled to Mexico nobody questioned that I wasn't Mexican. Some people were surprised to find out I was a tourist.</p>
<p>Hmmm...my great-great grandmother was 100% Cherokee...if I could prove this, could I register?</p>