crisis of identity

Last week, I took a consumer behavior survey to help a classmate out on a class project. The topic of the survey was interracial dating. This probably seems pretty straightforward to most people, but to poor ethnically confused me, I was truly frustrated by the seemingly "black and white" answer choices on the survey. Being part Asian, I'm a little racially confuddled. I'm the self-proclaimed "chi-talian", for Pete's sake! I'm not sure what I am, or what that means as far as interracial relationships are concerned. Am I in an interracial relationship right now? I'm not sure. Am I in an interracial relationship with myself when I'm maturbating? I don't know!!!! AAAAH, my brain hurts!!!!!!!!

In a world where more and more interracial children are becoming adults, maybe we need to redefine the categories of race, or throw them out altogether. Racial boundaries become blurrier every day. I know my fellow MBA candidates mean well, but I think they are really missing the boat here with how they defined race in their survey. I answered the multiple choice questions as best I could, but they didn't reveal a tenth of the real story. So if you want to explore issues of race and cultural identity, a 10 question multiple choice survey will give you an impossibly skewed view of the issues many of us "halfie" kids grapple with on a daily basis. Think about it. In the meantime, this "chi-talian" is off to enjoy the happiest day of the year - Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day!