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I think it can be easy to get caught up in semantics. I am mixed and so is my daughter. (Each different races as she is adopted) and I get so annoyed with ignorant people sometimes.
Both of us were born in America and we are Americans. I personally hate labels and especially HATE the question "what ARE you?" or "where are you from?" I take offense to it and come back with a comment about my heritage but that I am an American woman (or a Texan!) and then say right back...what the heck ARE you and where did YOU come from?
These days sometimes being politically correct or literally correct with labels just adds more to the confused division of the human race. I teach my children (1 bio/1 adopted) that we are blessed to be of mixed cultures and that is what our country is about.
I agree with the posts above in regard to the org. question. If you must label someone- do it by their heritage.
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