TAMPA, FLORIDA — In yet another instance of nonsense, a Caucasian man from Florida came out as Filipino after insisting he's 'transracial'. <br /> <br />WTSP reports that the term used to refer to the adoption of a child that's of a different race than the adoptive parents, but is now being brandished about by people who identify with another race or ethnicity. <br /> <br />Ja Du, whose birth name is Adam, claims being around the music and the food, and watching History Channel shows about the Philippines made him feel Filipino. <br /> <br />But inhaling factoids about the country and being able to scarf down balut and sweet spaghetti doesn't mean anything, except that you're a fan. <br /> <br />And not a very good one, because the tuk tuk you ride around in is not actually from the Philippines — it's from Thailand. So consider your application to be Filipino denied. <br /> <br />That might be one down, but there's a whole Facebook page of white people who are appropriating some other culture in the name of self-identification. <br /> <br />One licensed psychologist says people shouldn't take offense because it's harmless, and more or less equated identifying with a race to choosing a religion. <br /> <br />The thing is: unless a black dude can get a cop to back off by claiming he identifies as white, this nonsense is not gonna fly.
