Could Icelanders have Affirmative Action?

Legally, a CDIB card with one quarter Native American ancestry is how you are supposed to be chosen for Indian preference, although some tribes that have been assimilated for years (e.g. the Eastern Cherokee) allow a 1/16 percent to join. Salon discusses the problem of the many Americans who have blood of the indigenous people, and they use DNA studies to suggest it is widespread.

At least a few percent of the population. While just 1.7 percent of Americans self-identified as either completely or partially Native American on the 2010 census, the Cornell University Genetic Ancestry Project used genetic tests to identify Native American heritage in between 4 percent and 5 percent of the 200 undergraduates studied. That sample isn’t necessarily representative of the general population, because the students who volunteered themselves were likely curious about their backgrounds, but other projects of approximately the same size have produced similar findings.

of course, being "Native American" is also supposed to get affirmative action because of cultural prejudice, so those like Elizabeth Warren who are 1/32 and have never lived on a reservation or suffered discrimination or poverty are not supposed to get ahead by claiming they were. On the other hand, if you want to be scientific, and base it on DNA studies, maybe Icelanders should be given Indian preference. From Nat Geo:

Analyzing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, scientists found more than 80 living Icelanders with a genetic variation similar to one found mostly in Native Americans. ... This signature probably entered Icelandic bloodlines around A.D. 1000, when the first Viking-American Indian child was born, the study authors theorize.

Yeah, those guys really got around.

A lot of those who were brought to Iceland as slaves ended up as farmers, which accounts for the high rate of celtic DNA in that population too.  

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Since Filipinos run the world, it made me wonder how many are in Iceland: This article says 1390