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Why do some people adopt an ethnicity that does not appear to be their own? : Comments
By Brendan O'Reilly, published 26/6/2015Overall, recognition of self-identity is a matter that is taken very seriously by some people, and non-acceptance can result in an emotionally charged reaction.
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Posted by onthebeach, Saturday, 27 June 2015 10:59:20 AM
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100% correct onthebeach.
Posted by Cody, Saturday, 27 June 2015 11:17:51 AM
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1. Power
2. Money
3. To get street cred and bragging rights as a moral bullsh1tter.
- Similarly in the Eighties it was hip for the would-be feminist columnists and gurus to claim they were raped, had aborted 'a child', had a sorry past all the fault of their father, etc. Heaps of feminist street cred as a claimed victim and the creative storytelling that went with it.
4. Weak willed, poor self image and self-loathing. For example, Robert, 'Robert's Date' from Everyone Loves Raymond,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CCly6U0EAg