“The US takes pleasure in being seen as a social melting pot. In a rustic like this, utilizing the time period ‘blended race’ in a pejorative sense clearly will not go down nicely with the inhabitants. … In the US, race is a matter of identification and self-definition: whereas Vice President Kamala Harris, the kid of an immigrant from India and an immigrant from Jamaica, defines herself merely as American, within the 2010 census 9 million US residents outlined themselves as multiracial.”