<prompt> Human: Hey, Im not sure if this is the right subreddit, but here it goes. So, my mother is a blond hair blue eyed Anglo Saxon born in America. My dad is a tanmiddle easterner with brown eyes, who has 100 Egyptian ancestry and was born in America, but he has dual American and Egyptian citizenship. Im a white male with brown hair and blue eyes, who was born in Maryland. Can I write African American for scholarships, as I have dual African and English ancestry? It would help a lot with money stuffs.  <response>: My understand was always that African-American actually means people with ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa, not anywhere in Africa. Its really intended for a historically disadvantaged minority group.You might be able to get away with it and get some scholarships this way, but youre not in the category of students such scholarships are intended for. I seem to remember a firestorm of controversy a couple years ago with a white South African won such a scholarship. Not sure you want your name attached to news stories like that. 