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Old January 30, 2020, 08:40 PM   #21
Aguila Blanca
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Originally Posted by labnoti
Legally, I think a person could pick any that they qualify for. Just ask Elizabeth Warren.
That makes for an interesting point. The instructions make it appear that the BATFE is doing a bit of social engineering, specifically with regard to Native Americans. If you read the instructions for the Race question, the entry begins:

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Race - one or more of the following responses must be selected: (1) American Indian or Alaska Native - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment; ...
They don't require that "tribal affiliation or community attachment," or anything even remotely similar, for any other race. Elizabeth Warren, even when she was actively claiming to be a Native American, didn't have any tribal affiliation (and she still doesn't), and she didn't maintain any Native American community attachment (and she still doesn't). Consequently, under the rules, she could be 75% Cherokee and she still should not check the box for "American Indian or Alaskan Native."

It seems that, for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives only, the BATFE is confusing race and ethnicity. It gets confusing. My late wife was from South America. She hated it when the U.S. government insisted that she had to declare herself as Hispanic. Her view -- as a native of a Latin American country -- was that "Hispanic" referred to people from Spain. She had never been to Spain, and she did NOT consider herself to be "Hispanic." It doesn't help when the .gov uses one set of rules for one race, and other rules for all the other races.
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