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A tangent question I have, and have asked here before without any satisfactory answer: How does it even work? I can proof I'm poor with for example tax returns
by CorrectHorseBat 3y ago
A tangent question I have, and have asked here before without any satisfactory answer:
How does it even work? I can proof I'm poor with for example tax returns, but how does someone proof they are of a certain "race"?
- bombcar 3y agoYou don’t. And arguing that someone is not the race they claim is extremely taboo.
- CorrectHorseBat 3y agoSo why doesn't everyone fill in whatever gives them the highest chance of getting into college?
- bombcar 3y agoBecause by and large most people are basically honest. Same reason everyone doesn’t just walk out of restaurants without paying. But there have been high profile cases where it has come to light later and people have endured some social shame.
- CorrectHorseBat 3y agoThat's not what I meant, let me rephrase my question: How does someone know what they should fill in? Is it fine to fill in African American if one of your grandparents was black? Or only if your skin is dark enough?
- bombcar 3y agoHard to say. General consensus seems to be “appearance” but others go by the one drop rule.