Do you know what you are?

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I sold my car recently, and had a few hundred dollars to spare...I figured I'd cross one of the things on my bucket list off...a genetic test.

Over the past few years I've been on this whole "cultural self discovery" kick. Chicano/Latino studies classes, and alladat. I guess this was the ultimate manifestation of that journey.

I had always been told what I was, but as I learned...that can definitely be wrong...

It came back 23% Sub Saharan African, and 11% East Asian. I called them back to double check, and they said it came up multiple times...no mistake. I went through a pretty reputable company, too.

It doesn't affect my identity as a Latino, as we've always been an ethnicity made up of many races (European, Native, Black, etc.), but it sure as hell shocked me...and made sense. I knew there was a reason I own every Wu-Tang album :cool:

Anyone else have this done before? Or the desire to?

[Bob]

my great grandfather apparently liked hitler so nah, the less i know about my heritage the better honestly

though to be fair, my dad and my grandpa both seem pretty solidly anti-hitler, as does everyone on my mother's side. though my grandpa is a little racist in the way that most grandpas are. sometimes he forgets that we aren't supposed to use the n-word casually anymore

[Helvete]

I've always wondered about this, and being a European, it could be quite interesting!

[Dorothy Wood]

on my mom's side, everyone's supposedly Finnish, my grandparents' parents were born in Finland at least. my dad's mom is supposedly a descendant of conquistadors with a dash of native american, his dad was white...german and irish.

I honestly always thought my Grandma was Mexican, so I'm not really sure. My dad says our family has roots in the west since before it was the U.S., that our ancestors settled and formed Santa Fe. So that would be cool I guess if it turned out to be true.

[miss soul fire]

My great grandmother was from Italy and her husband was from Angola. This is on my dad's side. Also from my dad's family there's Arabian and Native Brazilian indians. On my mother's side there are the Portuguese. That's all I know. Maybe there's more.

[jackrock]

Star matter.

:cool:

[Bob]

my dad's mom is supposedly a descendant of conquistadors with a dash of native american

um...did they ever tell you how those two particular ancestors met?

[HEIRESS]

My dad always swore there was some Moor blood on his side of the family. Something about boats shipwrecking on the island in Scotland where they are from...

[Kid Presentable]

MOOPS

[Adam]

Star matter.

:cool:

I have a hetro boner for Prof Brian Cox [no homo]

DSR - did it break any of your DNA down to? Like what you'd likely to die of etc? I'm interested in that, like I've had my dad and two uncles die of a brain tumour - I'd be super interested mainly from a scientific point of view how I'm broken down. Don't think I'm the paranoid type where it'd change me to a point that every head ache means I'm gonna die in two years.

Ooooh, you've made me interested now. I might do it, I know it keeps getting cheaper to do. Thanks for the suggestions (y) :D

[TAL]

I sold my car recently

Good way to keep your CDs safe! :D

[Dorothy Wood]

um...did they ever tell you how those two particular ancestors met?

rape?

[A. Chimendez]

^lol

[tejana]

There's blood line and there's cultural lineage-

I know some of my family has tried to deny (or at least WHITEWASH!) its blood line, tried to 'act white', even tho they were latino.

In other branches of the family tree, we're SO many blood lines, but what does it matter? There is suicide, insanity, lots of other things that are WAY more important in the big picture, IMO.

I guess it's up to you to decide what's gonna influence You, Now. Decide what is in the past and is gonna stay there. My general rule is racial stereotypes are vague but possible, but genetic illnesses (inc. mental) are real. The rest is what you learn, maybe?

Also: I think we're all from Africa, so...;)

[Adam]

60,000 years ago, the entire human race was reduced to a single tribe of 2000 human beings wandering the savannahs of Africa

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I have a hetro boner for Prof Brian Cox [no homo]

DSR - did it break any of your DNA down to? Like what you'd likely to die of etc? I'm interested in that, like I've had my dad and two uncles die of a brain tumour - I'd be super interested mainly from a scientific point of view how I'm broken down. Don't think I'm the paranoid type where it'd change me to a point that every head ache means I'm gonna die in two years.

Ooooh, you've made me interested now. I might do it, I know it keeps getting cheaper to do. Thanks for the suggestions (y) :D

The particular test I got was $395, and it gave me four different percentages: European, Asian, African, and Native American. The price went up from there for health related tests, or other races, etc.

My paternal Grandmother was born in Spain, and back in the day she visited Mexico. She fell in love with a Native American (my maternal Grandfather), and even after being disowned by her rich Spanish family for marrying outside of her "class", stayed and started a family with him. That makes my father a "half-breed", so to speak.

My mother is from Alabama...but with strong Native roots (her dad was born on the Rez, and her mom, my Grandma, was quarter native). My mother looks largely white, but with some definite Native features.

So I knew European would come back, I knew Native....I had no idea about the Black and Asian. I have always loved those cultures though, and I couldn't be prouder to now be a (small) part of them :D


Good way to keep your CDs safe! :D

TAL, your memory is outstanding (y)

[kaiser soze]

I have Dutch, Czech, and Polish in my blood

So I'm 2/3 Old Eastern Communist Bloc (y)

[MC Moot]

Basque/Irish...Bilbao/Belfast...Spic/Mick...Catholic/Catholic...

[Echewta]

You're a shinig star, no matter who you are.

[TimDoolan]

my great grandfather apparently liked hitler so nah, the less i know about my heritage the better honestly

though to be fair, my dad and my grandpa both seem pretty solidly anti-hitler, as does everyone on my mother's side. though my grandpa is a little racist in the way that most grandpas are. sometimes he forgets that we aren't supposed to use the n-word casually anymore

My known family tree can be traced to the mid 1800's in Slovakia, on my dad's side, and Czechoslovakia on my mom's side.

Wiki Crap:

After the Munich Agreement Nazi Germany threatened to annex part of Slovakia and allow the remaining regions to be partitioned by Hungary or Poland unless independence was declared. Thus, Slovakia seceded from Czecho-Slovakia in March 1939 and allying itself, as demanded by Germany, with Hitler's coalition.

Unfortunately my grandmother's family lived in Slovakia, but Gramma had the brains to get out in 1919.
After the war, an effort was made to kick German speaking peoples out of some areas of Slovakia. And my family was forced to leave. They ended up in Germany after the war, and now most of my family on mom's side reside in Germany.
The Dad's side of my family is Jewish, and we've been marrying Catholics for 3 generations now. Major Shiksappeal.
Dad's side left Europe in 1920, thank God. Been in Chicagoland ever since.

[rirv]

On the paternal side my grandfather is from the very north-west of England, just below the Scottish border, so there's probably some Scots in there somewhere... a tiny little bit... too tiny to count. Grandmother is from Manchester.

Maternal side, both from the South-East of what is now the Czech Republic, though the borders used to be so liquid it's difficult to really trace these things. I know my grandmother lived in Hungary for a bit when a child but they always identified as Czech.

[synch]

Both parents Italian. One grandfather Sicilian though, and according to Dennis Hopper that means I'm probably 23% sub saharan african as well.

[Yetra Flam]

Interested in this, where did you get this test done?

[pshabi]

100% Motherfuckin Gangster(y)

[Myu-to]

Part man, part horse.

[synch]

... from the waist up?

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Interested in this, where did you get this test done?

I got mine done through these guys. (http://www.healthanddna.com/)

Several companies do similar stuff though...

I got the "Ethnicity DNA Test"

[little j]

this would be interesting... since i know some but not all about my ethnicity.

my paternal grandfather is 100% Hungarian (his parents immigrated in 1919 after WWI with my grandfather...) their immigration papers said "Rumania" for country of Origin, but the borders were apparently more fluid then than they are now... and after a little googlesearch there was apparently a war between Hungary and Romania at that time. My grandfathers mother was Jewish (we just recently found this out) so there's that too.

my paternal grandmother is Irish German with maybe something else thrown in. she was born in the US.

my maternal grandfather was at least 50% native american. he did not stay married to my maternal grandmother so his history is not well known to me. my maternal grandmother was irish/native american

so what does that make me? mostly hungarian/some irish/some native american/ a little german and probably some other european stuff thrown in there.(y)

[Freebasser]

100% scally