Originally Posted by
Agrippa
Well, considering that is "like a drop in the sea", it is fairly unimportant.
In the end, it is more about phenotypical qualities anyway.
Such genetic tests just help you to inform yourself about your or a people's ancestry.
It is like proving that you have aristocratic ancestors - but if you are short, fat, have a piggish face and are too dumb for everything, having aristocratic ancestry doesn't really improve things for you and for others, other than on paper.
Same here. The presence of this or that genetic profile, if it is not phenotype-related, is interesting if looking at things from a higher and bigger perspective. For the individual evaluation, it is pretty much uninteresting, unless it points to important phenotypical aspects - positive or negative.
In my opinion, it would make sense to use racial rules even for a ruling mulatto class, because they could breed themselves up from an Eugenic and racial point of view.
Even for totally mixed people racial categories can make sense, if they help to improve the adaptive and general qualities of a population.
After all, it should be about results, rather the prejudices.
And without the rules in South Africa, the white population would have been long gone into a status of mixed ones here and there, but no real Europid population - and even the state and culture would have looked very different, rather worse I guess...