Okay this may seem like a stupid question about race...?

Question

Okay lets say you are filling out an application or whatever and they ask you what race you are what do you put if one of your parents is black and the other white... or what ever type of mixed races... Do they have an "other" option?

Answer 1

In some cases one might check 2 boxes, one for Caucasian and one for African American, in other cases one might check the one box that best describes their appearance. I honestly think there should be a milano box and an other box on each form requesting this information. I dont dont understand why so many places want to know this information any way, they aren't supposed to be judgmental based on race. Maybe this is just my opinion but I think as long as you can speak fluent English in the US it shouldn't matter what your ethnic back ground is when applying for a job or trying to attend a college. Who cares what your ethnicity is? You are YOU regardless!!!

Answer 2

They say we all came from the Dark Continent or the fertile crescent at some point; Jesus was black etc etc. So I figure at some point, somewhere, some how, there's a little black in all of us. Simply because of nomadic tribes, conquerors and the conquered etc..there's gotta be a healthy mix of mutts all over the world.

So I put "black" on everything and life is great.
If I could put "lesbian", I'd put that too. Together, they are a killer combo.

I mean, after all, if we're all created equal, and we are all the same except for amounts of melanin, then why is that question EVEN on there? Hmmmm.

Answer 3

I'm half filipino half white.

My situation is worse because according to us census im hispanic becasue of my last name.

But then again im asian, or white. I dont even know.

Honestly as far as im concerned i don't think its any of their business unless they ask me face to face. Ive put down "indian", "black", "eskimo" just to throw it off. If it specificaly says you can select more than 1 ill be nice and do "asian" and "white"

Its just for statistics and bean counters that want to make sure they arn't discriminating against a specific race and wahtever it is your filling out reflexts the demographical crap of whatever population your in. Don't worry about it and answer as best you can. Hell, select 2 even if it says not to. Their fault for not being racialy sensitive if it screws up some machine on the other side of the country.

Answer 4

There should be an other option or the option not to answer. Technically, you qualify for minority status if you are 1/64th of a minority race. Yep that is right. I am 1/64th American Indian. My father's father's father's father's mother was French Canadian and Seminole. All the rest is Northern Europen, but I went to school on minority scholarships and I own my own business which I started with a minority small business loan. So do your geneology research and use it wisely.

Answer 5

purely as American regulation defines who's an American citizen, so too Jewish regulation (Halakha) defines who's a Jew. Decrying Jewish regulation because the litmus try of Jewishness has similarities to decrying American regulation as being waiting to examine who's American. that is to ignore the very starting up of the society. From “The diverse Identities of the middle East,” by Bernard Lewis. “Semite” and “Aryan” belong to an similar vocabulary, and characteristic gone through an similar perversions. both date from the beginnings of cutting-part philology contained in the 18th and 19th centuries, and from the momentous discovery that languages may be labeled into cognate communities or households. In 1781, a German philologist said as August Ludwig Schlozer stated the time period Semitic, from Noah’s son Shem, to designate the kinfolk of languages to which Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong. in addition the time period Aryan, meaning “noble” and used by the historic inhabitants of Persia and India to describe themselves, replaced into followed because the call of a collection of proper languages consisting of Sanskrit, previous Persian, and some others. as far decrease back as 1861 the great German philologist Max Muller noted that complicated the heritage of languages with the heritage of races might want to falsify each and every thing. though, race theorists, extremely those worrying to examine their personal area of expertise and superiority, eagerly seized in this new vocabulary, and misappropriated it to their personal use. The defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and the discovery of the appalling crimes that were committed contained in the call of racism, presented a replace of attitude and, hence, of utilization. yet not thoroughly. ***Few in recent times outdoors the lunatic fringes might want to apply the interest “Aryan” as a racial designation, besides the undeniable fact that an similar taboo does not keep on with to the both tainted and deceptive use of the interest “Semite.” Even otherwise good writers and journals now and again let themselves such pronouncements as that “the Jews and Arabs are both Semites.” If this statement has any meaning in any respect, that is that Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages!

Answer 6

I always see "other" listed as an option.

Checking the boxes for black AND white is another option.

Answer 7

Yes. There is an other space.
Have you ever had a job?
On top of that....that part of the form is optional. You can choose not to fill it out at all.

Answer 8

well i would simple write this, { OF WHAT IMPORTANCE IS MY RACE TO THIS JOB?} I think it's very demeaning and a total waste of time to ask a person about their racial background, we are all one and what race, class that we belong to is of no significant to the type of person we are. the color of our eyes and skin should not be how they measure our worth. we are all human and out of many we are one.

Answer 9

No, they don't. However, no one should require you to answer that question. If they do, I believe that they are in violation of the law. My son is biracial and I always leave that blank on anything that I fill out for him.

Answer 10

Always put "black". You'll have a better chance to get the job if affirmative action is in effect.