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Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2014 09:04:19PM 2 points [-]

Join a different culture.

That's not always possible, especially if your phenotype doesn't match.

It also depends on how do you perceive your identity and whether you can let go of old-culture values including, for example, your religion.

Comment author: mwengler 18 June 2014 08:18:09PM 1 point [-]

That's not always possible, especially if your phenotype doesn't match.

Fer sure not always possible.

But if it is possible, that would be my recommendation. And in the modern world, we have tremendous existence proofs of world wide migration with immigrants from Africa and Asia (among other places) visibly succeeding in many places in Europe, the America's, other parts of Asia, and Oceania.