rawalmond

you guys are great. love the answers i'm getting aside from one of the replies. but i'm looking for a more simplistic, less scientific answer in this situation. for example, someone comes up to my friend, "what race are you?", he obviously can't answer how much percentage he got from his mom and his dad. he could've got 60% of his genetics from his dad, and 40% from his mom. but how would he answer it in a simplistic way? "i'm half white, quarter black, quarter latino"? would that be right? or would it be "i'm a third black, a third latino, and a third white"?

i'm not actually looking for a debate on terminology...

alright so i'm a novice when it comes to science, don't know much about it... at all. probably couldn't even pass grade school quizzes if they were presented to me. so i have no idea how genetics work, but i have a question i'd like to be answered, please. a friend of mine's mother is white, and his father is half black and half latino. another friend of mine is trying to argue that he's 1/3rd black, 1/3rd white, and 1/3rd latino. but that doesn't really seem to add up in my head. i figure he's half white, a quarter black, and a quarter latino. please correct me if i'm wrong, or let me know if i'm right.