What should an egyptian fill in? Are you going to criticize someone who is Egyptian-American using the African-American label despite their skin being lighter and their religion being Muslim? Africa is a big continent with a lot of different cultures, religions, etc. It's OUR fault we

(White Americans) have forced the people of the world into 5-7 categories to choose from when it's not at all how the world works. I get that America is trying to use data for equity and equality, but we can't make the data collection so skewed toward American identities and then freak out when

another culture's identities do not fit our little cookie cutter check boxes. That's ridiculous.

You obviously have some idea what he should have done instead.

And as I keep saying, he did that to try to accurately reflect his identity on a form with limited options, and to clarify he wrote in that he is Ugandan. But you are accusing him of lying to get into a school that would know his connections to Africa exactly