What am I?

[Sweetpri]

I'm East Indian and normally I just check the "Asian" box, but I've seen a bunch of applications where instead of Asian the choice is Asian-American.  Should I consider myself Asian-American?
This might be a stupid question, but is the "American" part for the US or North America in general?  I'm a Canadian citizen so I'd feel weird calling myself Asian-American.  Should I just check the "other" box on those?
Thank you!

[Sweetpri]

I'm talking about when there's not both - I usually do check Asian, just not sure when my only choice is Asian American

[iSalute]

I would do asian american. Asian i believe refers to peoples born in asia. You seem to have been born and raised in America (North America), but do whatever you feel most comfortable with.

[FossilJ]

I would put "African American" and then make up a wild story.

[queencruella]

I'm talking about when there's not both - I usually do check Asian, just not sure when my only choice is Asian American

Is there an "Other" box? I think of Asian as people of Asian descent, while Asian-Americans are people who were born in the US, but I may be totally off here.

[«ě»]

Hmm, if Asians are considered overrepresented in law school, wouldn't it make more sense to decline to share racial information if this will lower your chances of admission?

[ari.ben.canaan]

They always tell you it's all just for the stats, but of course we know it has to do with affirmative action-type stuff, recruiting more students from underrepresented groups, etc. And that, in turn, only applies to American citizens. So if you are not an American citizen, I believe you can't be considered a minority anyway under the US DOE guidelines.

But still, I would just choose whatever I feel like choosing. What can they do?

[LawSchoolCutie]

When I saw the title of this thread I immediately thought about zoolander staring into the gutter water. Very funny