When filling out information, what ethnicity do I put?

Question

When people ask what ethnicity I am, I usually answer bi-racial or mixed. Then if they want me to go into details, I usually tell them what I am mixed with. My question is, when I fill out surveys and forms or whatever asks for my ethnicity/race what do I really put? I mean because I'm not just one ethnicity, or more one than the other. I don't understand why there is not usually an option for mixed, or multi-ethnic, bi-racial, etc... It would make things a whole lot easier.

Answer 1

Go with the one that will get you the most stuff, whether that be a loan or a prize like a scholarship.

Answer 2

Excellent question! After teaching genealogy for several years, it has become apparent to me that few, if any, people are of one race, one national origin or one ethnic group. I have been told that any American that can trace their ancestry on this continent back to the 17th Century has some Native American ancestry. When the ships came over from Europe, very few women were onboard. Consequently, a great many men took wives who were Native Americans.

After the Civil War, the census records had an amazing drift from other races into "white." No doubt, many who could pass for white chose to do so. A hundred years later, their great grand children may have had no idea they were racially mixed.

Actually, I think it is about time that questions about race and ethnicity be eliminated from school and government forms. It is no body's business, and most of us could not possibly know for sure. Besides, of all the things that are important about a person, like character, decency, intelligence, etc., race and ethnicity probably have the least importance.

Answer 3

Biologically there is no such thing as race, hence there is no "reputable" test to determine someone's race. Race is perpetuated in the sinful minds of men as a reason to categorize people. For instance, Darwin's "Origin of the Species" has a racist subtitle that most people who quote Darwin are unaware of. It is "the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Plainly speaking, Darwin was a racist, among many of his time, and tried to say that non-whites were not fully human in evolution, but that whites could help them "evolve" by by creating the right "environment" thus "taming the savages"! How disgusting!!

As a Pastor, people have said to me that Cain's curse was dark skin. This ignores the flood and the 8 people (Noah's family) that survived and who they decended from. Likewise, Darwin's racism had much more effect on the world than we can tell at first glance. Marx based marxism on evolution and many states passed laws against inter"racial" marriages based on the premise that if non-whites were not fully human according to "science" then there can not be a marriage between whites and non-whites any more than whites and animals.
God's Word tells us the Garden of Eden was located in what we now know as the middle east, which technically is Asia. I guess that would make every one Asian! Blaming racism on the Bible is not founded in Scripture, but man made theology.
Finally, we now have DNA. Lo and behold, with DNA we find there is no difference in "races"; that all humans are decendants of one man and one woman. Imagine that!
How does this shake out then? No matter which "race" you put down, you can not prove it is true and you can not prove it is not true because we are the human race. Put down "other."

Answer 4

If it's for a scholarship, put Black or Native American, if you have even a "twelfth" of that heritage.
else
If there's an "other" check that.
else
if there's a "mixed" check that
else
Ask your dad what he would check. We're a patrilineal society.

Me? I'm mixed, but mostly Euromutt Cracker. I check "Filipino" if it's available, followed in preference by "other," "mixed," and "white."

Answer 5

those kinds of questions are usually optional. if urnthinicity isnt listed then just dont put an answer

Answer 6

That varies from one place to a diverse, to boot as from one forms to a diverse. i could prefer to have an ink-stamp to hold around in my handbag purely for such activities. it may study "5/8ths eu American & 3/8ths community American".

Answer 7

Just pick one, it's not really that serious. They usually just want to know for informational purposes.

Or just don't answer altogether. and explain to your doctor (or whoever) your ethnicity.

Answer 8

Good Question. My cousin (same issue) just puts down 'other' and leaves it at that.

Answer 9

Well if your white you would put Caucasion - If you are Black or Hispanic you fill in Black or HIspanic.

I am Italian, French, German and Spanish, I put Caucasion. hope that helps.

Answer 10

Write in "human"