[krapp]

>as a non-american I have a hard understanding why law in US should distinquish your race? >May be I am missing something?

You're missing the fact that the US was founded on the principle of racial hierarchy which led to centuries of oppression and stratification of class along racial lines. Numerous laws were passed in the US which explicitly granted or denied rights by race, the most obvious being slavery, through which people of African descent were legally classified as property in slaveholding states, and "separate but equal" laws post Reconstruction.

As a result of this history of racial discrimination, American culture and law are inextricably linked to racial segregation and classification, as must be any attempts to correct the injustices of the past.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_aspects_of_race_in_th...

[1]https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio...

[2]https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-census-is-right-to-as...

[defertoreptar]

And I think you're missing the fact that you're not actually breaking any laws by telling people you're one race or another. Saying, "by law in the US she is considered white" implies there is some legal repercussion, which was likely cause for jumasheff's confusion. I could only imagine that happening if there was some sort of fraud involved.