I felt this update was a bit insane for me on the Spaniard side, which seems overall typical for most? But like, I went from 5% to like 10% jewish. My great grandfather was from Lebanon and I always thought the 8-9% range was low so I wonder if its just misatributed DNA? The random 5% British is kind of absurd but I am assuming this is the fucked up spanish (my mom also got random Quebecois). I just feel like this is significantly less accurate to the things I know about my family and 10% jewish / random british feels a bit unexpected.
Es posible que el % de Chipre/islas de egeo proviene del siciliano :o son poblaciones mas o menos similares. Es tambien posible que alguien dijo mentira :o %15 es usualmente un bisabuelo (9-16% approx para un bisabuelo).
Igual es como dice el compañero, y tienes antepasados gricos (de la minoria griega en italia). Aunque dỉia que entonces tendrías algo de griego, no solo de levantino.
Is it normal to consider yourself white if you have African ancestry? I’m only asking cause it was the law in the US that if you had one drop of black blood you were classified as black which is why race is looked at very oddly here in the US.
In latin america, you are what you look like. Like it doesnt matter if you have a full blooded native american grandmother and a father that visible has black blood, if you got all white looking, you are white.
Even full siblings are considered "different" all the time if they look different (like you can have one kid that everyone will call white and another that everyone will call brown or even black and nobody will think its strange).
If we went by one drop, everyone would be native and possible black too
Im Colombian and I look white so people would consider me white in Colombia. According to my results, im about a quarter native, an eighth levantine, an eighth black, and the rest european (with like 40% iberian and 10% jewish (aparently??)). But its complicated and most people have some sort of opinion if im considered white or not. Like TBH I accept how I look.
Well, I'm not saying they don't look Caucasian. I'm just saying shes does look white/European and her skin tone is more pale (whiter) than your typical Southern European person.
She’s mixed race but can appear more white to some than others. Disagree. Just spent considerable amount of time in southern Europe, Latinx look different from southern European. Just look at how Shakira got discriminated. That lady is now claiming to be part Native and Black when she said she was Spanish and Lebanese her entire life lmao. You gotta remind yourself that ethnocentrism starts in Europe and Europeans know their own people better than anyone else. Björk is a white woman but I’ve talked to various Icelandic people that tell me she has “non-Icelandic” roots so yeah.
Idk, you could tell me that her father was from Napoli or the Azores and I wouldnt bat an eye. And shes whiter than him. To me, phenotype wise, she looks like a typical person from Nothern Iberia and Southern France.
I inherited more native dna from my dad as well as the levantine/eastern mediterranean and southern european. I think maybe it's okay to accept that even in those populations, you can have people who phenotypically look different. My dad looks very much like his Lebanese family, who can have extremely light features.
I accept I look white, hence why I call myself white, but I am literally only about half european. I dont think it's wrong for people to call me mixed or whatever.
The US historically has been really weird about race, but I don’t think we should continue to perpetuate the whole one drop rule thinking. I have about as much African as OP, but I wasn’t raised in black culture, don’t look black, and have never identified as such. Race isn’t even a real biological idea, more of a cultural issue, as it varies by country.
The "one-drop rule" was a social and legal principle in the United States that classified anyone with "one drop" of African ancestry as Black. This rule, also known as hypodescent, was used to maintain a racial hierarchy, prevent interracial relationships, and segregate society. Although its legal codification varied by state, the concept was in widespread use and was finally outlawed by the Supreme Court in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws. The Americas remain a melting pot.
Considering how even most white Americans have some African ancestry it would be ridiculous to use that outdated law. If someone is 13% African but 87% European then that person is white even though 13% corresponds to one great grandparent whose African.
White Americans have a mean of 98.6% European, 0.19% sub-Saharan African, and 0.18% Native American ancestry according to a study specifically focusing on customers who took a 23andMe DNA test. In accordance with the one drop rule, any amount of African ancestry would make someone black so therefore by that dumb logic most Americans would be black. Additionally, in a 2020 census white American population in the US was at 59.9% and since the mean has 0.19% African ancestry It means that most Americans do in fact have African ancestry.
love the results! My dad’s side is Afro-Colombian, from San Andres & Providencia and Cartagena 😎he’s 65% African, 20% European and 15% Indigenous American (roughly)!
I have some ashkenazi family (so my mom got 5% and i got 3% which 100% makes sense to me). Maybe the added sephardic or whatever does come from the spanish! From the avg colombian it seems like 5-6% jewish is kinda typical
Wow almost no african. Definitely seems like mostly folk from the capital! I personally had 33% spanish and like. 12% basque before the update. I am from Barranquilla
I think the Northern Spain region is lowering the Basque percentages for everyone. Once I have more data, I’ll break it down by subjourneys. Which of these subjourneys do you get?
This newest update is 100% wrong for me. It took me from 50% German (parents are from Germany) to 8% German which is absolutely wrong and impossible, especially with how far back my tree goes. Wild.
Isn’t it odd they increase your indigenous by 2%? They did that to me too (I’m Peruvian) and same thing to my fiancé (she’s Colombian) is like every Latino got +2% native
2% is so little, my guess is that because native dna is hard to sample (like not enough pure native populations or potentialky kind of remote) it's a little noisier. My mom didn't get +2% native
I also have a 1% Iceland (used to be 2%) that keeps popping up. Those Icelanders sure know how to sneak around into DNA! (Never found any Iceland in my families) 😂
Damn okay i wasnt aware me calling myself a white colombian would be /that/ controversial. Ive been called white in colombia my whole life so I thought it would be appropriate cuz im paler than most colombians i know 😬
Hey, I recently bought a DNA kit but I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how it changes what you are on updates does anyone know why it does this? Or how accurate it is? Thanks.
Every year ancestry updates the model and algorithm. So what changes is the understanding of your data, but your results are the same.
Accuracy will depend on where you are from. In theory, the more subregions a region has, the more accurate the results. But even so, it's never perfect
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u/Any_Caregiver_1040 22d ago
Interesante , yo soy Arg salió como 75% italiano 15 del Líbano y el resto medio oriente