1) The first people whose opinion I'd want on this would be native americans who choose to comment. That being said...
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3) Every white person in the southeast and OK say they have some "Cherokee blood". Maybe they do, maybe they don't but I'd say that whole discussion belongs to the Cherokee.
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4) The only area I feel competent to comment on is the DNA testing...it's stupid and dangerous.
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Commercial/consumer DNA tests can be interesting, a novelty. When used to eval disease risk they are IMO risky, done without medical counseling, out of context, fear-producing, but...
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When I see fucking ads with dude saying "I thought i was italian but turns out I need to wear Lederhosen!" or "I didn't appreciate my heritage from minority group X until i got tested" i want to puke.
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Nazis would have loved this shit. They were all about blood determining identity. And this goes against everything Americans supposedly stand for, a land where you can start again...
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(unless your ancestors have been here for millennia of course, in which case it's a place for strangers to come and colonize and exploit...which shouldn't actually be parenthetical...)
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But the whole idea of your DNA determining your identity is dangerous, nauseating, and should be something we actually fight against rather than glorify.
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So, Elizabeth Warren's claims about her ancestry are really between her and native communities, but the whole idea of blood-identity hat she is perpetuating is disgusting and dangerous.
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