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My name is Mariam and through this blog I'm discovering things about the world, and about myself. Through all my blogs you'll see craziness, political insight, celebrity mania, musical interest, total drama queen-ness,all about boys, and ever changing views on everything. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it. You're about read the pages of my epic diary. Welcome to my world, and feel free to come back ;)

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Which box do you check?

This is a subject that comes up so many times in life. Whenever you fill out a survey or take a state test for school your supposed to fill in the box. The box under "ethnicity" or "race". I personally don't think there's anything wrong with having those boxes on tests, because it helps them learn different things about different races to help them learn better. My whole life i've clicked the black box. Because i'm not Asian, hispanic/pacific islander, white, or other. It seemed simple before, other reminded me of an alien or something. Like green.

But then there are people who are jewish and their race is literally jewish. You can only be jewish from having a jewish mother. Direct blood line. So their community of people are a race all on their own. There's no box for that.

Than there was this girl who's parents were egyptian. In choir she said she checked the white box. Ok no she's not crazy, she's not really dark like the Egyptians we all have in our minds. She seems to me like kind of arabian vibe. But she considers herself white. Does that really make the results fair? If she's under white? Anyways one solution is for everyone to just check other, but another solution is for the boxes to just go away as it is. Because there's really no correct way to group people. The truth is on tests some people try and some people don't. So the ones who try do good, and the ones who don't do bad. It has nothing to do with race. Am I right? yesss sir. I'm right :)

song of the day: Walking on sunshine - Aly and Aj

quote of the day:you should know that nothing lasts forever. cherish whatever you have now, cause you might just lose it when you least expect it.

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