The POC thing is an interesting phenomena too. What happened here was two-fold.

On the one hand, you had people who really were of a diaspora, or really had been suppressing their heritage, and were finally positioned to embrace something they'd been mercilessly shamed for. https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1344524539124920321

But the thing is, other people see this happening and it becomes a social thing. So you'd have people embracing who they were but you'd also have these people who were, after years of being white, were suddenly identifying as Latina.

And invariably, no matter what heritage they

were claiming, it was always like... "oh, my great-grandfather on one side moved to Argentina from Germany after the war" and this was enough to tick the box.

But who could really blame them, American culture is full of this stuff--that's what being a hyphenated American is

all about. Italians aren't really Italians, Irish aren't really Irish, Germans not real Germans. They might have been at one point, but not by the time they're happy to identify as such.

It's weird that w/ each Hilaria Baldwin, each Rachel Dolezal, none of this gets brought up.