Word: want
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After four years of congressional hearings, Census advisory committee meetings and public comments, the federal government decided in 1997 to allow people to check as many racial categories as they want on the 2000 Census...
...There's been an increase in the number of people who want to resist the one-drop rule," Appiah says, pointing to people like golf star Tiger Woods, who says he shouldn't be defined by only one race...
...People don't want to have to identify with one side of their family...to the exclusion of the other," he says...
Many students interviewed say that perhaps the toughest problem they face is choosing which part of their identity they want to emphasize...
...want to be like, 'We think of you as Stephanie,'" she says. "That's who I want to be and who I'm proud of being...