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<p>What do you mean “officially registered”? There isn’t any official register of people’s ethnic designation in the United States, and I hope there never is, so that this country doesn’t go the bloody way of Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Yugoslavia, or Rwanda. </p>
<p>If you are talking about college applications, it is ENTIRELY optional to list any kind of ethnic self-designation. You can leave that question blank. About 15 percent of the enrolled class at Harvard is listed as “unknown” in Harvard’s counts of student ethnicities. </p>
<p><a href=“ucan-network.org”>ucan-network.org; </p>
<p>(Harvard is required to count by federal law, but students are NOT required to self-report.) If you are not talking about your college application, but about something else, what are you talking about?</p>