Can DNA tests tell us who we are? Only if we're racists. - The Washington Post - 0 views
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What I regret is the ease with which I accepted the racist implications underlying the test: a desire to understand who I am through DNA.
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In using DNA ancestry tests, we reduce the culture and lived experience that have long defined ethnicity to a biological, racial signifier that is neither especially relevant nor particularly accurate.
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By joining in, I inadvertently bought into the dangerous notion that who we are lies fundamentally in our blood.
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