Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>documents. I have US citizens writing "Japanese-American" or "white,
>>non-hispanic" into the nationality section of their applications to
>>Yamasa because some of them are so damn confused about the clear
>>difference between ethnicity and nationality.
> 
> I had a なつかしい moment a few weeks ago when signing up Sprog 1.5 for
> first grade at the American school. Not a single question about blood type
> or ages of the parents, but half a page dedicated to sussing out my kid's
> race. FWIW, they told me to mark down "Asian."

Good grief.


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