The beginning of the article briefly talks about how the game of “What are you?” was played at the University of Maryland with about fifty students. The students from this discussion were formerly part of the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association and they talked about how they are all proud to be a mixture of races. Today in our generation, there are a lot of people come from mixed backgrounds and this is affecting how people feel when it comes to filling out forms because they feel obligated to choose “other.” According to data, Multiracial Americans are the most rapidly growing demographic groups. “I think it’s really important to acknowledge who you are and everything that makes you that,” said Ms. Wood, the 19-year-old vice president of the group. She feels like the reason people refuse to acknowledge, or make known mixed race individuals is because of how society makes of it. There are those few groups of people who do feel like multiracial population will help benefit the United States because this can help diminish the amount prejudice people that are in our society. On the other hand, there are those people who will always be against this because in their opinion, the more people want to be accepted for their mixed backgrounds, the more they feel that society will be divided. Sociologists also say that interracial people are basically cover ups for the differences that are seen around us. For example, “among interracial couples, white-Asian pairings tend to be better educated and have higher incomes, according to Reynolds Farley, a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.” There are fewer black and white mixed people than any other races because of economic and societal differences. The face of America is rapidly changing with this diversity of people coming together to have interracial marriages. This goes to show that the United States has come a long way in making the society a better place because decades ago, this would not be occurring.
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