After being bullied in a literature and linguistics doctoral program in the late 1960s, I always wanted to be a White AngloSaxon Protestant. Back then, "someone from my background" just didn't fit into that culture.
Yes, at that time, I even had the fantasy of legally changing my highly ethnic Roman Catholic name "Mary Jane Genova" to "Arial Cabot" and attempting to pass for WASP. I would transfer to another doctoral program - a better one. And maybe with my new identity I would have a better chance of being admitted to a much more prestigious institution of higher learning.
But I didn't. I assessed that grafting on a new cultural identity wouldn't take. No one would fall for it. And I would look foolish.
Maybe I was wrong. There are those who have succeeded with such an initiative. There had been, for example, Rachel Dolezal and Halaria Baldwin. At least, for a long time.
Most recently, reports the Daily Mail, is the example of Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan. Born white in Georgia, she had passed herself off as Latina for years.
That minority identity might have helped her career as a lawyer. For example, she had been President of the National Lawyers Guild. Also her personal branding had been as a prominent human rights lawyer.
In this digital age when it is easy to retrieve data, disclosure of what might be called "fake identities" seems inevitable. It's no longer smart to try such a caper.
Stick with what's in the DNA.
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