"I think society has gotten to the point where they do accept multiracial people," she says.
"Down the road...there will be a significant number of mixed-race people in this country," says Joshua W. Brown '01. "People will pay more attention to them as a group."
The terms used to describe mixed-race people are themselves problematic, writes Simon L. Sternin '00 in an e-mail message.
"It has been pretty scientifically proven that there is no such thing as a 'race,' and most people, whether they know it or not, are a mixture of genes from all over the world," Sternin writes.
Sternin thinks that a better term would be "mixed ethnicity."
To avoid using a particular terminology, The Crimson asked the students interviewed for this article to define their own racial background. But like the estimated 5 million Americans who in the mid-1990s identified themselves with more than one race, these students would all say they are multiracial.
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