[John Rogers]

It only matters to those who want it to. As an example, I worked with a great sysadmin from Johannesburg who caused a huge blow up when he applied for a loan for something (forget what) and as part of the paper work package there was an sheet on personal information. When he went into the bank the loan officer went over everything but then said "we'll have to disqualify you since your personal information is wrong and it appears you have made things up"! Michael said "what do you mean?" and the bank fellow said you listed yourself as African American and you are white. Michael, who has red hair and freckles pulled out his native countries driver license and there it was. The loan officer would not back down so Michael called a San Diego new station right from the chair in the bank and as you can guess, the crap hit the fan! The local bank manger approved everything but only after a reporter showed up.