Race has functioned as something necessary to the construction of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity—American has been defined as "white".

在创造我们民族身份的过程中，种族对于美国人性格和品质的塑造起了至关重要的作用——美国人被定义为“白人”。

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Compared with blacks, proportionally more men in other groups marry outside their race: for example, 38% of Asian American men and Hispanic men married white women in 2008.

和黑人相比，其他种族群的男性和外种族人结婚的比例要大得多：例如，亚裔美国男性和拉丁裔男性2008年与白人结婚的比率是38%。

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Today, look out across any U.S. race track and you'll likely see an ocean of white -- and increasingly Latin American -- jockeys at the helm.

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Striegel-Moore says one of the African-American women she studied who suffered from an eating disorder felt she had shamed her race by having a white woman's disease, but concern over appearance, the professor says, is only one contributing factor.

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