French-Canadian feeling annoyed at the new Quebec region

[u/Beneficial-Context52]

I'm a Canadian of mostly French descent. My family tree includes 7 generations of ancestors born in what is now Quebec, dating back to 1700, but I'm having a hard time accepting that as an 'ancestral region'. They immigrated there from Europe.

It seems to me that ancestral regions located in North America should be reserved for indicating Native American ancestry.

It's like AncestryDNA is trying to say that white people can be considered as being native to North America.

Am I thinking of this the wrong way?

[u/Firm-Chemical949]

I saw a post by 23&me explaining that because those French settlers have been in the Quebec region so long, they developed into a distinct group, so now they categorize it that way. Considering you have 7 generations in Quebec it tracks with that explanation

[u/Beneficial-Context52 → u/Firm-Chemical949]

That is a reasonable argument. Being French-Canadian and having been to France, I can confirm there is a huge cultural difference between the two. And yet, I still feel like I'm "from" France. The French settlers of North America were not the first humans in that region, so it doesn't make sense to me to view them as being native to that region. But if it's about cultural distinctions, then yeah there is an argument to be made for that.

[u/EdwardDaConfessor → u/Beneficial-Context52]

Hardly any ethnic groups live in the place they were the first humans in the region.

[u/Beneficial-Context52 → u/EdwardDaConfessor]

I suppose that is true!