It is argued (and is the opinion of this blogger) that it should be sociably acceptable to identify with a gender that is not the one a person was born with, and one should be able to become that gender if they desire. Can, and should, the same be said for race?
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Interesting question. In Australia there are many Indigenous people that choose not to identify as such. I imagine this is more of an option here than in other places because there are many Aboriginal people with pale skin (such as my daughter) and that it is not obvious to an external party simply by looking, that people are Aboriginal. Australian Aboriginals tend to identify as Aboriginal (not as mixed race, biracial or any other term) solely because if they didn’t, the culture would die out. There are few (if any) “full blood” (not the politically correct term) Aboriginals left in Australia. So it seems that there has been some sort of tacit agreement within the culture that Aboriginals identify solely as Aboriginals not as half-anything or whatever. As such, most official paperwork here asks the question if the person identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The idea being that if the person identifies and their local Indigenous community accepts their identification (which is proved by obtaining a Cerficate of Aboriginality) then the individual is accepted as being Indigenous regardless of any physical appearance etc.