[Natalie20088]

I am half Mexican, but where I grew up in the midwest until age 7, I had always assumed everyone was either ‘black’ or ‘white’ (I was pretty confused the first time I saw an Indian person). Basically I put everyone who wasn’t black in the white category, including myself. Since then I became aware that there are more categories than these and that, although I considered them to overlap, not everyone does. Since everyone has their own idea what race categories there are, it makes filling out forms difficult, especially when I am actually half ‘white’, and most/many Mexicans are mixed Native American and Spanish anyway. It is interesting that both my mom’s parents had ‘Mexican’ as their race on their birth certificates, and my mom had ‘white’ on hers.

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Name : Natalie20088, Gender : F, Race : Multiple, Age : 23, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

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