Ten years ago, for the first time, respondents had options to self-identify as more than one race, nearly 7 million people (roughly 2.4 percent of respondents) did so.
As the country waited to learn the identity of the killer at Virginia Tech, Asian Americans held their breath, waiting to see if they would shoulder the spillover of blame for the acts of an individual.
Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in Asia it is as routine as having one's wisdom teeth pulled. Are these alterations an attempt to look more "white?"