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> However, I increasingly question why I should care about my ancestry and what it says about me. I don’t personally care, but scholarships care, the governmen
by MattGaiser 5y ago
> However, I increasingly question why I should care about my ancestry and what it says about me.
I don’t personally care, but scholarships care, the government cares, boards care, universities care, employers care, etc and I otherwise look white but am really only half, so the few times I have been asked about it, the tests have been quite valuable.
- v0x 5y agoHave you had to provide the results from a DNA test to any of those groups? I've never been asked to "prove" what I've self-reported, even though I do not look anything like what I am checking off as my ethnicity.
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- MattGaiser 5y agoI haven't ever been challenged for proof, but typically provide it if anyone even questions it. Nobody demanded proof, but they questioned it, so I volunteered. One came from a recruiter with a diversity quota who mostly cared that I would be consistent and the other was for a scholarship for people with Jamaican background.