kwanzaa
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My suggestions are:
1. Use facial recognition software in the evaluation of an applicant's race. Skin tone, facial features, shape of face/head determine how other people, such as strangers, perceive one's race. This should be weighed in addition to how a person self-identifies, where they grew up, and who their family members were. Admissions could, if they wanted to, use this to ensure that a class is racially diverse in a visual way, all skin tones. It also prevents certain people from being mis-categorized in either direction.
2. Hispanic is currently defined as an ethnicity rather than a race. Should there be a distinction?
3. Take majority/minority into consideration. Regardless of race, was the applicant part of a racial majority or minority where they grew up? How much so? For example, being a racial minority in a city with a large population of the same race is very different than being the only one of that race in an all white school elsewhere. This would also identify white kids who grew up in a school essentially all black or Hispanic, who would have experienced being a minority in that setting.
Feel free to discuss!
1. Use facial recognition software in the evaluation of an applicant's race. Skin tone, facial features, shape of face/head determine how other people, such as strangers, perceive one's race. This should be weighed in addition to how a person self-identifies, where they grew up, and who their family members were. Admissions could, if they wanted to, use this to ensure that a class is racially diverse in a visual way, all skin tones. It also prevents certain people from being mis-categorized in either direction.
2. Hispanic is currently defined as an ethnicity rather than a race. Should there be a distinction?
3. Take majority/minority into consideration. Regardless of race, was the applicant part of a racial majority or minority where they grew up? How much so? For example, being a racial minority in a city with a large population of the same race is very different than being the only one of that race in an all white school elsewhere. This would also identify white kids who grew up in a school essentially all black or Hispanic, who would have experienced being a minority in that setting.
Feel free to discuss!
