A Young Person from Southern California Has Four German Grandparents

A young person from Southern California has four German grandparents. She lived in Los Angeles all her life before accepting a job in Milwaukee. She's never really thought about her German heritage, but in Milwaukee she discovers many other people with similar ancestries and starts using her ethnicity as a way to develop social and professional relationships. What is this an example of?

A) symbolic ethnicity
B) internal colonialism
C) passing
D) situational ethnicity
E) the disparities in racial consequences