Is it unethical to get an ethnicity DNA test to see if I qualify for affirmative action?

[yurbud]

Poll question: Is it unethical to get an ethnicity DNA test to see if I qualify for affirmative action?

This probably sounds like some kind of satire effort, but I actually got one from National Geographic already (but it only traced direct male lineage), which said I wasn't Germanic Central European 20,000 years ago or something like that. I already knew that part.

There are other ones that give percentage of different racial groups and can break it down to subgroups too.

http://www.genetree.com/ancestral/index.php

http://www.healthanddna.com/genealogy.html

http://www.dnatribes.com/sampleresults.html

http://www.dnaancestryproject.com

There have been a couple of odd stories about this, like one about a black guy who found out he wasn't:
http://www.alternet.org/story/16917/

And this New York Times story on people using it the way I'm thinking:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/us/12genes.html?ex=1302494400&en=94e1fa50f8081d8e&ei=5090

I would also prefer to have a more interesting ethnic portfolio to pass on to my kids.

[Colobo]

1. Mmm... what a weird question

I think you should ask yourself: "What do I consider myself to be?", followed by "How does society classifies me as?".

After answering those two questions, you should know if you qualify for AA or not.

[yurbud]

2. well, white and white, but my white homies haven't exactly bent over backwards to give me a leg up

maybe I'd have better luck with a different ethnicity.