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i dislike the abuse of the term 'multicultural' to mean 'multiracial', because to me ethnicity and place of origin are not the same thing as culture. i wouldn't even apply the term 'multicultural' to a person, actually. mulatto i'd find offensive simply because it has associated itself with a time when it was a value judgement (similarly 'octoroon' and that spectrum of words). 'mutt' is offensive because of its association with dogs. never heard 'hapa' or 'mix-up', 'mixed-race' and 'multiethnic' both seem like clean, connotation-free, descriptive words to me. 'you may check more than one' is, of course, a beautiful, engineer's solution.