How thick is blood when it comes to ethnicity?

MSgt Ronald Stacy You can claim to be anything you feel like you are. Isn't this country great, or what? If you think you are Black today, Hispanic tomorrow and Caucasian the next day, that's OK. If you think you are male today, but female tomorrow, that's OK, too.

Took my GRE and scored reasonably well, but based on the mailings I'm getting from eilite MBA programs, I bet being Hispanic had something to do with it. I have no intention of going to Stanford, Harvard or Yale, but it is interesting to see them waste their money on me. So the MSgt has a point as being a minority has its advantages.

Actually, only one ethnic group is required to provide proof of their ethnic claims - Native American. You can CLAIM you are Native, but without tribal affiliation and the TRIBE'S membership card, you can't get credit for the "membership."

As soon as ethnic affiliation was modified in the Coast Guard to where you can self-identify, I changed from being Caucasian (none of my ancestors are from the Caucasus region), to White, Hispanic (ancestors from Portugal), Black (Out of Africa and Lucy), and Jewish (Jewish ancestors). Outside of crappy genealogical research, there is zero proof outside of physical appearance, and we all know that can be misleading.