now the life losers have created a new term, "racial shifting".
when you identify as a minority but can't prove it through familial or genealogical details but your "emotions are real enough" you are now a racial shifter. When these racial shifters link their melancholy to "assimilating into whiteness" you can then reclaim your minority status by rejecting your whiteness.
as such "The number of people who say they are Native American on the Census rose from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.7 million in 2020"
half a nation of freaks, fentanyl addicts, and depression-pill poppers