Where are your parents from?

Many people in America tend to classify others based how they look, their race, its seems as if those people are going to just explode if they don't know what ethnicity you are. This tends to happen to blacks or people of mixed ethnicity's, a person that is "light skinned" or considered "caramel" might be asked two or three times a day what race they are. In some cases people tend to reject the undefined, a child that is white and black may not feel comfortable with white counterparts or black counterparts, they, in some cases feel lost and don't know what to describe themselves as. The problem is, why should one have to know what race/ethnicity/background a person is/has just to be friends with them, that shouldn't matter, but it does matter in this society. That is what I am trying to decrease, racial profiling.