<p>There are many threads on this board about the Race or Ethnicity issue in college applications. It gets complicated. Bottom line is you are who YOU say you are, not what anybody else says you are. This is NOT a genetics question, it is a cultural identification question above all else. And who can define your culture for you other than you?</p>
<p>If you want to get genetic about it, 100% of the people on earth today are descended from a small band of Africans only 30,000 years ago. Mitochondrial DNA analysis shows this pretty clearly now. So what is each of our races? Depends on the timeline. Originally, we’re all Africans. Then 15,000 or so years later, you could say there are now enough genetic adaptations to say some are no longer African, but more European, or more Asian, etc.</p>