Cute, but people with different white backgrounds are not really multi-"racial." Basques and Asheknazi even do not really qualify. I reject racial boundaries on the simple basis that I look more like Ainu than I do like Italians but I don't really give a shit how Japan stabs its natives in the back. Unfortunately we live in a world where being non-"white" meant various degrees of difficulty from suck to hazardous to your health. So I would support doing away with official government counts altogether.
The modern-day United States is not required to be a White Man's country, we are in theory supposed to be civilized enough to recognize that practicing Muslims and Hindus and black men are both able contributors and the last category has been such for the entirety of our history.
I would note I say this as a middle-class WASP raised by two professors and hence subject to all the limitations that perspective really offers.
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Date: 8/1/10 00:48 (UTC)The modern-day United States is not required to be a White Man's country, we are in theory supposed to be civilized enough to recognize that practicing Muslims and Hindus and black men are both able contributors and the last category has been such for the entirety of our history.
I would note I say this as a middle-class WASP raised by two professors and hence subject to all the limitations that perspective really offers.