<p>Typo.<br>
2010. Got your PM; thank you.</p>
<p>As 2010 pointed out, you can fill it our or not. You can agree w/ it or not.<br>
Hispanics [as an ethnicity] and Negroes [as a race] are under-represented at the Academy. Asians–regardless of ethnicity or nationality–are not.</p>
<p>Your student acquaintance gets in trouble because, in fact, he was being a wise guy. That’s okay, wise guys lend a little bit of levity to the circumstances.<br>
but, once again, confusion exists as to nationality, race, and ethnicity questions.
There is no such classification of race known as “African-American.” [Africa is a continent.] That is how we have developed the term here in the US, but the class does not exist as a race. There are, for example, Negro Haitians who have nothing to do with Africa.</p>
<p>Your student friend, might have responded to a question of nationality as: South African-American. His race, however, would remain Caucasian. Ethnically speaking, he may have been Afrikaner, i.e. a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of a common ancestry, cultural, religous, or biological traits.</p>
<p>Two students, most of their circumstances and scores being equal, one hispanic or black, the other white . . .</p>