Society has, in recent years become increasingly culturally complex. Technology on multiple fronts is a major contributing factor to this intermingling, as different types of people now have access to one another with the swipe on a screen. Yet for centuries, cultures have been evolving, all leading up to this: a society in which people are more mixed than ever before, yet in today's heated political climate, forces still manage to divide us.

As someone who grew up half Puerto Rican and half Jewish, my background is anything but simple. The halves of my family cultures are vastly different, but I have come to appreciate and celebrate them. It all comes down to which box you check on forms about your ethnicity-and sometimes, there is no straight answer. Growing up, I would fill out forms for school and check off "white" and "hispanic." When the forms were returned to me, I would sometimes only see a check next to "white" or only next to "hispanic." I became a pawn that they used; I was whatever they needed that year for their statistic, even though it wasn't accurate. My multiethnic narrative had been covered up.