<p>TheDead said:Vtran, it’s simple: if you think the benefits of AA are unjustified and that URM’s, even middle-class and wealthy ones, don’t face day-to-day burdens that their White and Asian peers do, then (assuming it could be done) you would have every incentive to sign up to change to becoming a URM.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t do that because I don’t want to lie my way into college. I don’t thing just being a URM makes u bear some extra burdens.</p>
<p>TheDad said:Someone downthread tried to parry with something along the lines of ethnic pride. And that’s part of the point: who you are as an individual and how you perform is partially a function of who you are in broader context.</p>
<p>I’m not particular on ethnic pride. I’m a person, period. I am who I am and my race doesn’t particularly afftect that. If you have ethnic pride… go you.<br>
Did u indicate that being a certain ethnicity affects how you function? Like being black makes u less educated or something?</p>
<p>TheDad said:Of the recent posts, I recommend a close reading of Sybbie’s post again along with Pennhopeful’s and Stanmaster’s. I know of black students who have transferred to schools outside their neighborhood’s so that they don’t get the day to day ridicule from their peers in the neighborhood about “acting white.” If you think that is inconsequeTheDad said:ntial, you haven’t lived much.</p>
<p>so you say that nearly all URM’s face similar conditions? I don’t buy that. Perhaps I haven’t lived much but I think that to mold the majority of URM’s into that catagory (that if u are smart or academic u are ostracized from your community) is wrong. and even if it isn’t, what if that happens to a white person? What if his family or community in general is uneducation and thinks people are high and mighty who try to get an education (a la’Pap’ and Huck in Huckleberry Finn).</p>