When taking the SAT’s one too many times, I became quite acquainted with the “Personal Information” section. There was of course the required date of birth, social security number (if known), and home address. Common sense was all it took to answer these questions. However, there was one question that I realized most every person in the room would be tediously drawing in at least more than one circle for.

“Identify your race.”

It seems easy to distinguish Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, and Asians. Though with current college students consisting of the largest group of mixed-race people in the United States, it seems increased immigration and interracial marriages have blurred the once easily distinguished line between races.

According to data by the Pew Research Center conducted in 2008-2009, one in seven new marriages is interracial. Today, “mixed race” Americans are stated to be one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups in the United States, as stated by The New York Time’s article “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” and the trend is still increasing.

Coming a long way from the years of segregated drinking fountains, young adults today are rejoicing in their mixed backgrounds.

“I think it’s really important to acknowledge who you are and everything that makes you that,” said Ms. Wood, a 19-year-old University of Maryland student and vice president of the college’s Multiracial and Biracial Student Association. “If someone tries to call me black I say, ‘yes — and white.’ People have the right not to acknowledge everything, but don’t do it because society tells you that you can’t.”