<p>I second LakeWashington :)</p>
<p>Hello everyone, I've been reading some of the posts and I feel like I'm in a compromising situation. My parents were born in Jamaica but I was born in America. Is it wrong for me to consider myself an African American? Some think that AA should be for direct descendents of slaves in America. I can't help that my ancestors were slaves from Jamaica, that’s just where they happened to end up. If I've been working hard my whole life I don't think this should be denied to me, it’s not as if black people from Jamaica don't suffer the same prejudices that black people from America do.</p>
<p>Outandbad,</p>
<p>Arguements like yours have been aired before by academics and they [your opinions] are no doubt sincere. However, many earnest white Americans who oppose Affirmative Action for URMs essentially have the same complaint as you ["I have no personal connection to slavery or Jim Crow in America"]. I am unconvinced by their or your agruments; Affirmative Action should provide redress to the victims of pervasive historic discrimination, de jure and de facto, in the United States.</p>
<p>Of course the Tibetan raised by Tibetan monks would not be deemed "underrepresented" - as everyone knows the Ivys are loaded with them</p>
<p>Just another asian</p>
<p>bump ten characters</p>
<p>Bumpppppppppp</p>
<p>Is it possible to both be an American national and have a green card?</p>
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<p>No..........</p>
<p>Then does anyone else think that posts 16 and 18 are contradictory?</p>
<p>I’m part Filipino, does that count as urm?</p>
<p>Ack! 7 year old thread come back to life!</p>
<p>From the CA:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013AppFY_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013AppFY_download.pdf</a></p>
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