I would first start off like, ok what am I? whats my mom? whats my dad? orignially we grow up thinking we're half of our mother's background and half of our father's. But sometimes thats not the case because with me i have a mother whose Jamaican and Indian, and then my father is African American and Costan Rican. And to be honest I claim these backgrounds because Im respecting my parents and kind of accepting who they are and allowing that to be apart of me. In reality I know nothing about these cultures, my father knows how to speak spanish but never spoke it to me so i dont know how to speak spanish and then I dont know about the foods, their culture, holidays etc. so I dont feel right saying im spanish and then its the same thing with the Jamiacan part of me and the Indian. In a way i can only talk for my African American side so if I filled out the form i would say im African American.