A new study headed by a University of Wisconsin researcher indicates that while most teenagers don’t label themselves solely by ethnicity, about 30-percent are labeled as such by their peers. Psychologist Brad Brown of says teens have always labeled themselves and their friends to get a grasp on their own identity. He says findings show that only about 15-percent of minority students said race defined what “crowd” they belonged to at school. Roughly 70-percent chose more social categories such as “jock”, “nerd”, “popular”, or “punk”.
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