It seems like a risky decision to make, as if those laws ever return your entire family tree could be punished for that box you checked.
Conversely all the discrimination against white people is formal (companies say they want to hire more non white people for diversity, government programs for minority owned businesses, etc).
So from a game theory perspective, the best possible position is one where you are informally perceived as white (so you don't face any of the unwritten biases) but are formally listed as a marginalized group (so you benefit from formal policies intended to help those groups).
Not surprising people who can, would use a DNA test as an excuse to put themselves in that group.
The part you're forgetting is that is incredibly simple to prove you have racial diversity, you can just provide your DNA test results. But if you're formally listed as diverse, it is impossible to then prove you aren't.
Isn't it seen as lying purely because of her ... genetics?
Citation needed. South and East Asia have arguably been economic powerhouses for most of humanity. What we generally identify as white or western civilization has dominated economically during the past few hundred years, and arguably during the Roman Empire.
> It may come as some surprise to learn that, based on studies by the renowned economic historian, Professor Angus Maddison, the Asian economy accounted for nearly 60 percent of the global GDP before the Industrial Revolution which began in the late 18th century
From: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/press/koen_2015/data/...
"Most cases of human history" was too broad. I was referencing since the age of exploration. The European colonization of the Americas, Africa, and some parts of Asia was the economic dominance I was referring to. My point is that it's actually fairly recent and aside from a maybe a few hundred more years of riding that wave, there's no reason to think white people will continue to be a dominant group.
Ignoring justifiable attempts to increase diversity on campus, Asians find that being Asian American immediately docs points off as compared to White students. Of course I want to find the bit of white in me via DNA tests, so my child can get into a great school with, say, 2200 SATs (standard) vs the 2300 they would require as Asians.
Completely unfair. I would vastly prefer to walk into any college campus in the United States and be vastly outnumbered by Asians who earned the privilege to be there than to see them be more representative of the population as a whole by changing the standards for different groups.