Originally Posted by
Suzanne
To be fair to Elizabeth Warren, counsellors encourage applicants to tick as many boxes as possible. If you can claim multiple ethnicities, you add to the school's diversity ratings - even if you're blonde and blue-eyed - So you're more likely to be accepted and funded. It would make no difference if Ms. Warren now took a DNA test, all these years later. If she believed, 20 or so years ago, that she had Native American heritage, she was making an honest application, even if a test today showed no Native American DNA. If today's test reveals Native American DNA, it still wouldn't make her a Native American. Culturally, she's a white US American.