"And, of course, I am also a dwarf."

"You know, Carrot, I keep meaning to talk to you about that -"

"Adopted by dwarfs, brought up by dwarfs. To dwarfs I'm a dwarf, sir. I can do the rite of k'zakra, I know the secrets of h'ragna, I can ha'lk my g'rakha correctly ... I am a dwarf."

"What do those things mean?"

"I'm not allowed to tell non-dwarfs."

• Carrot and Vimes, The Fifth Elephant.

In short, Carrot's genetics play only a minor part in his sense of identity; he is genetically human but culturally dwarf, and thus in most situations he counts as both.