<p>^ Do you consider who you’re dating to be part of your ethnicity…?</p>
<p>Anyway, you’re supposed to check what you identify as. “Though, I am definitely brown” seems to imply that you are attached enough to that thought such that you might want to mark that as well as “white”, which is seems you identify with. But that’s just me reading into your statements - ultimately, it’s your decision about what you feel you are.</p>
<p>@shrig - </p>
<p>You could check your ethnicity as India. Racially, you could check caucasian, I suppose, if you truly identify as that - see my OP.</p>
<p>You might want to address it in an essay.</p>
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Which essay should you address race in? And how come you haven’t answered my other question four posts up from this? Not that you have to or anything…</p>
<p>@sic - </p>
<p>You can address it in any of the essays you feel like. The “tell us about the world you come from” article might be appropriate, or the “extra essay” space.</p>
<p>“Which essay should you address race in? And how come you haven’t answered my other question four posts up from this? Not that you have to or anything…”</p>
<p>The answer is quite an easy one. You are Indian, no matter how how much you wish you weren’t. Your answer should be a truthful reflection of your ancestry, and not of how many white girls you’ve humped. Let me switch it around:</p>
<p>“I’m Black. But all my friends are white and I identify as white.”</p>
<p>What difference does it make what you identify as? You are what you are and there is no changing that no matter how whitewashed you become. Just ask Michael Jackson. Enough of this facetious crap. The US Census is meant to count Caucasians as white, not Indian. There are differences between whites and Indians both culturally and genetically.</p>
<p>Most Jews are most closely related to Arabs, which means they aren’t white either. Jews are both an ethnicity and a religion. They’re people that are religiously Jewish but don’t look a Jew. On the other hand, there are ethnic Jews that don’t practice Judaism. </p>
<p>I would just put the closest thing to “Mixed” if I was unclear.</p>
<p>MITChris a question for you : When my son and I attended the MIT info session - the admissions officer stated that most things that are seen as being “optional” should be strongly acted on. As an example she talked about the “Optional Interview” process - it was pretty clear that it would in the strong interest of the student to go for the interview.
So my question is how is the “Optional Race” question handled ? How do you folks treat the applications when the applicant declines to answer their race for whatever reason.
Thanks</p>
<p>I believe Arabs are white. Most Jews of Ashkenazy and Sephardic descent are considered white, too. Since Judaism is a religion and not a race, obviously you can have Jews that are of any race.</p>
<p>^ Being Jewish is far more complicated than that (nevermind that race is complicated to begin with).</p>
<p>“I believe Arabs are white. Most Jews of Ashkenazy and Sephardic descent are considered white, too. Since Judaism is a religion and not a race, obviously you can have Jews that are of any race.”</p>
<p>It hardly matters what you believe because genetically both Jews and Arabs are distinct relative to whites. This is damning because it definitively proves they aren’t white unless one presupposes that “white” involves people who do not wholly exhibit typical white features. There is a clear genetic gradient between whites, Jews and Arabs, with Jews being more similar to each than any other group even across differing nationalities. They also harbor genetic diseases that whites otherwise do not have and are rather Semitic in appearance when averaged across pure Jewish populations. Those people that claim some Jews are blonde are ignorant of the obvious conclusion that blonde Jews aren’t fully Jewish.</p>
<p>Alternatively, Indians are a genetically unique population descending from the Indian subcontinent.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>Not “each”, I meant to say “each other”.</p>
<p>Really??? You mean I am not white? Astounding!!! : 0</p>
<p>[Census</a> to Count Arabs as White, Despite Write-In Campaign - NAM](<a href=“New America Media”>New America Media)</p>
<p>" Census to Count Arabs as White, Despite Write-In Campaign - NAM "
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Your point? The dude is an idiot. Everyone knows Arabs aren’t white. </p>
<p>Caucasian =/= white but all whites are Caucasian.</p>
<p>The census is ■■■■■■■■ and it ruins race data when it purposely takes faulty statistics. </p>
<p>Arabs are never counted with regards to academic studies as whites.</p>
<p>Is mixed race looked down upon?</p>
<p>fight the system. dont report race or better yet let’s all be inuits. </p>
<p>dont be tagged and bagged.</p>
<p>@dad - </p>
<p>the ‘optional’ interview is ‘recommended’ because it helps us, it helps your kid; we don’t require it like we require, say, a transcript, but if it is possible to do it, you should. </p>
<p>i think that with/ethnicity it really is optional.</p>
<p>how is MIT’s strong advocacy of race-based affirmative action in its recent amicus brief consistent with indifference when it comes to reporting race?</p>
<p>If everyone boycotted reporting race it would be virtually impossible to have race-based affirmative action, unless you go old school and discriminate based on names or start requiring photos.</p>
<p>just sayin</p>
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<p>It’s still an aspect of who you are? There is no one single perfect MIT admit. Each student here has his or her own story, background, pursuits, etc. Race is an additional piece of information that you can care to share, or not.</p>
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<p>Yeah, but there aren’t masses of people who are boycotting reporting race, so MIT can afford to be indifferent. And anyway, the success of affirmative action does not depend on the majority race self-identifying. It only depends on the URM’s self-identifying.</p>
<p>@mia305 - </p>
<p>Can you link me to the amicus brief? I haven’t read it. </p>
<p>e: unless you’re talking about the Mich case, in which case I have read it, just not sure I’d describe it as ‘recent.’ </p>
<p>To answer your question directly: </p>
<p>I think you’re creating a conflict where there isn’t one. If people want to share with us that aspect of who they are, they can, and we will take it into account. If they don’t, we don’t. </p>
<p>We’re not going to force people, or require pictures, or Facebookstalk them, or anything else. We simple give people opportunities to tell us about themselves, and we take whatever they give us.</p>
<p>I know affirmative action is something with which you strongly disagree but that isn’t a reason to mischaracterize something.</p>