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In order for this even to constitute lying, colleges would have to define "white". Nobody wants to do that, because it would look exactly like arbitrary 19th-c
by mbg721 5y ago
In order for this even to constitute lying, colleges would have to define "white". Nobody wants to do that, because it would look exactly like arbitrary 19th-century ethno-purism.
- ineedasername 5y agoThere is a federal definition for "white". I'm not sure why you would believe otherwise. Look up what the EEOC says about it. There is also a Federal definition for "Native American", a common choice in this survey, so even if a person was unsure of the definition of white, they could figure out if they were not some of the other options and avoid lying. Either way, lying in this case is at least as much about what the person believes about themselves. If a person is saying they're something, and don't actually consider themselves to be that thing, then it seems to at least be some form of deliberate deception.
- mbg721 5y agoI was surprised that such a definition actually existed. It's "a person having origins in any of the peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". The obvious problem with it is that it pretends children were never produced across its boundaries, but make of it what you will.