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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Well-roundedness and character<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:46 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Universities are trending toward de-emphasizing objective metrics for admissions. Otherwise, their campus would be almost entirely Asian. Some schools find this unacceptable, so they look for ways around it.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>### This is a topic of some interest to me, sincy my daughter who was born last week is half-Polish and half-Han…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rafal! Best wishes to you and your bride with that baby. I am very happy for you sir.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>… I am thinking about identifying as African-American …I'll get some tanning cream and give it a try. Rafal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From what I can tell, we are free to choose our race but not to alter our appearance. Of all oddball things for a society to decide is the apex cardinal sin, it turns out to be darkening one’s skin. Some of us have the DNA to prove our recent African ancestry, but I have determined to never use that for any kind of advancement purpose, anything other than an amusing bit of scientific self-knowledge.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I received my results from Ancestry.com and 23&Me (both tests indicated the 3% African) one of my black 4<sup>th</sup> cousins did the hard work of tracing it back. Her cousins (not related to me) were intrigued by seeing a white guy in their cousin’s DNA matches list (but not their own.) Long story short, it had kind of a bitter outcome: we discovered that my 4<sup>th</sup> cousin and I are directly descended from a former slave, but that her black cousins are not (their ancestors immigrated from Africa after slavery was abolished.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To avoid such heartbreak, I recommend not doing those nifty 60 dollar DNA tests from Ancestry.com. Stop thinking about doing a DNA test. Stop that, I say! You are thinking of DNA tests right now, ja? Stop! Don’t think about DNA tests at all, I implore you, don’t think about it at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But if you decide otherwise, feel free to post me offlist and I will show you some cool stuff you can do with interpreting the results, as well as how to do that while maintaining anonymity. That last bit is important because I discovered that one of the DNA majors left the HTML of their results page accessible to those you invite. Details available on request. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now stop thinking about doing that nifty 60 dollar DNA test!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>