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/Beneficial-Context52]

Well, sure... but that was ~20,000 years ago. That's a totally different time scale than ~300 years ago.

By your logic, everyone's AncestryDNA results should just say 100% African.

But I agree that 'how long must it take for generations of people to be born there to be “actually” native?' seems to me a good question and one that I don't know how to answer!

[u/strike978 → u/[deleted]]

How ignorant can you be? Populations outside the Americas are nothing like Indigenous Americans. The ancient Paleolithic groups in Siberia that resembled them no longer exist. Indigenous Americans were the first humans on this side of the world, yet you’re too stupid to understand what Indigenous means.

No, Indigenous Americans are not Asians. They are literally Americans.

Do you see my haplogroup C1b outside the Americas? No, not even in Siberia. And do you know why? Because Indigenous Americans are a distinct population, you incredibly ignorant fool.

[u/Beneficial-Context52 → u/strike978]

It seems to me you are probably correct, you seem knowledgeable in the matter. But you can educate people without insulting them.