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The concept of being "multi-racial" is as interesting as it is mind boggling to me. Who in America ISN'T multi-racial? The color of my skin may be white, but I am technically a German-Norweigan-French-American. Because the skin color associated with these three different countries just so happens to be the same, I am labeled by it alone--white. I used to get confused and sidetracked back in elementary school during standardized tests when you had to mark your "race." The options went something like this: white, african-american, asian, native american, etc... Well, white is a color, african-american alludes to immigration and asia is a continent--three very different things! What exactly did they want to know about the kid taking the test?! Was it skin color or country of origin or continent of origin? Why didn't they want to know that the native american was brown? Why didn't they want to know that the white kid was from scotland? Why didn't they want the asian to specify that they were now asian-american?

While I still have plenty of questions, I agree with anthropology's stance that race is a cultural and social construct with little if any genetic basis and I think the sooner we get over it, the better off we will be.