Any time you set up any kind of system that organizes people into groups and where members of a group have disparate privilege or prestige versus non-members, t

Any time you set up any kind of system that organizes people into groups and where members of a group have disparate privilege or prestige versus non-members, then people will try to find all sorts of ways to get into the privileged group whether they “qualify” or not. We’ve had class impostors forever. The OP mentioned a race imposter (we also have a sitting US senator arguably guilty of that) But it’s any group. Class, race, gender, first class, frequent traveler, club member, veteran, first responder, whatever. IMO the solution is egalitarianism, but people hate that too, because they not only want the privilege but also the prestige- the feeling that they are better than you are. Whatever the solution, legitimizing behavior that separates privileged and non-privileged makes things worse, not better.