[Ibby]

My girlfriend is half mexican. On her tests and college apps and everything else, she gets to mark 'hispanic' and probably gets an advantage over me for it (not that she needs it, shes perfect enough already). Why? Because she's an "underprivelledged minority".

Except shes not. Her family has at least as much money as mine does, her dad works at the same place my dad did (and probably at higher pay), her mother doesnt even need to work, they actually own their house... etc.

Affirmative Action should be based on socioeconomic class, not race. Help the poor people, all of them, not just the ones who arent white, and not the relatively well-off people who also arent white, just on that basis.