The Kenyan-Namibian Coin Toss

Answering this quick set of hypothetical questions doesn't require you to accept the concept of "race".  However you define the groups of people known as Kenyans and Namibians, just imagine yourself in the following situation, as described, and choose your answers:


If you were about equally Kenyan and Namibian, according to ancestral genetic testing, plus you were equally culturally and emotionally steeped in both your Kenyan and Namibian families and communities (from birth to adulthood)

Q#1: What would your reaction be if some Kenyans and Namibians pressured you to only ID as Namibian, since it only takes "one drop" of Namibian ancestry, in their opinion, for you to automatically be considered Namibian? 

Q#2: How would you ID yourself?

Q#3: Why did you choose to ID that way?



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