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If the purpose of a population census is to gain the most accurate and specific insight into the demographics of a particular area, then wouldn’t limiting the options presented in a survey, forcing people to fit themselves into one of maybe six boxes, only leave room for inaccuracies?įor example, a town like Dearborn, Michigan is listed as being 90.5% white, however, nearly 40% of its population is comprised of Arab-Americans who immigrated from Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen. The census is an area where these “colored” boxes have presented the most serious issue. It feels like I’m lying anytime I fill in that narrow little “white” box, not because I want to, but because these tests and censuses force me, a person of color, to be invisible and hide behind this little white box. I speak Arabic, walk around with dark skin, coarse black hair, and embrace my Egyptian culture through and through, and yet somehow, every time I am required to specify my ethnicity on a standardized test or a census, I am forced to forget my roots and grudgingly check the box that says “white” because it seems like the only option I can chose when the alternatives include: Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, American-Indian, or Hispanic. Not Enough Boxes by Summer Abdelbarry, age 16 When you’re done, you can find 11 more winning essays in this column. Have a look at the issues these teenagers raise as well as the inventive ideas they have for addressing them.
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They join 11 winners and 32 honorable mentions as our favorite essays of the 10,509 we received this year. These are some of the burning questions the 27 runners-up in our Sixth Annual Student Editorial Contest take on below. Can you be good without God? Is CBD too dangerous to be so widely available? How should schools teach about slavery? Is “tiger parenting” actually good for children? Does “voluntourism” do more harm than good? And … should pineapple pizza get more respect?