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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I went to the HR person at the TV station I workd for. The litmus there is "Tribal affiliation or community recognition."
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DeltAlum, do you know how that would be handled if the person in question was a small percentage, say, Hispanic or African American?
I vaguely recall learning in a history class that in the post Civil-War south if a person were known to be 1/8th African American their status would be considered to be African American as opposed to Caucasian even if they looked completely Caucasian.
Obviously, that pigeonholing of people no longer exists. But would it be possible that today some enterprising high school senior raised as a Caucasian in a majority Caucasian community does some geneological family research and discovers that he or she is 1/8th or so African American and so checks that box on the college application?
With colleges getting more and more competitive these days, I wonder if people do that and if they do, is it "right"?