My whole life I thought I was Kor-tal-ir-ench. With some mafia and monkey stuff mixed in. Turns out I'm....not exactly what I expected. WOW. Can't believe THIS was the result. Who knows! Maybe you're my cousin! Thanks Myheritage.com for the test! Check them out!
Paul is my favorite Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Vietnamese, Central Asian, Scandinavian, Italian, Scottish-Irish-English, Jewish-North African, Native-American, maybe Black and virtually non-French RUclipsr Edit: Okay I get it I forgot the Welsh, cymru am byth and whatevs
Take 23&me, it’s much better. My heritage is notoriously inaccurate and also DNA testing is banned in France which is why it’s very under represented in ethnicity tests. You could definitely still be French
I would say they say are equally accurate when it comes to people like me and Paul were both extremely mixed and it can be difficult for our dnas to be explained I took a 23&me test knowing full well I had scandanavian ancestry And it only came back British while my ancestry gave a far better explanation most likely due to its cheaper price and being far easier to get your hands on due to that
@@m05e1 fellow sephardi jew here :D if you were wondering sephardi jewish genetics is usually a clustering mixture of southern european, northern african and levantine genetics - a complete condensed mediteranean mix mash welcome to the tribe!
Here’s the thing, Paul-you don’t actually inherit an even 50/50 DNA from all of your parents haplogroups; instead, you’ll get a random selection from both. I, for example, have had this same test, as has my mother-Turns out she is significantly Scandinavian-but I have no Scandinavian *whatsoever*. Through random chance, none of her Scandinavian DNA was passed on to me. BUT! That does not, of course, mean that I’m somehow not descended from Scandinavian *people*. So, in other words, what I’m saying is-just because you don’t have any French DNA, doesn’t mean you don’t have French *ancestry*. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE, PAUL!!!
@@zi326 Nah; Nelson I got from my mother, who got it from her first husband (whom I am not related to). My fathers actual surname was Boss. Also, that wouldn’t change anything; I have no Scandinavian genes, so even if my father DID, it would only mean I didn’t get any of his, either.
This is exactly why family trees that have been verified through documents are SO IMPORTANT. DNA should be used to support the family tree, not in place of the family tree.
I think people can get a little confused, you *DO* inherent 50/50 from your mom and dad, but WHICH 50% of moms and WHICH 50% dad's DNA you GET os random more or less
I think your “French relative” was actually a Sephardic Jew from Algeria. I remember researching a lot about naturalisation laws in France around the time Algeria became independent and they gave Jews rights to citizenry in metropole France whilst muslims were excluded from this right and would remain under the newly independent Algeria. Could be this relative lived in France but was of Algerian (Jewish) descent most likely
Until Algeria became independent in 1962, Algeria was technically part of France, so that meant that many Algerians could easily become French citizens. Most of the Jewish population left Algeria soon after independence and most ended up in Israel or France. The same thing happened to most of the Jewish population in Morocco and Tunisia.
@@Alex_Plante the french made it much harder for muslim algerians to become citizens. They originally tried to make a system of citizenship to a greater france, excluding metropole france for French west/north african nations but that failed
@@Alex_Plante The Crémieux decree of 1870 recognized the Algerian Jews as French citizens, but the Algerian Muslims remained colonial subjects. However, the Algerians were permitted to serve in the French army, and sometimes received French citizenship in return. This was obviously a much harder path to citizenship then straightforward naturalization. When you say "many Algerians", it hides the fact that the French preferentially gave citizenship to Jews in order to play a colonial divide-and-conquer game.
@@jennw36 But it's nothing to do with genetics, if he's a french citizen it's not awkward to say that he's french or a member of the french community. So if they're remembered as a french person it's not weird
I'm French, took the test and discovered I'm 0% French as well but: - I had 30% Keltic and some of my ancestors for sure come from Brittany so maybe your Britton descent got mixed with the Irish indeed! - Also I'm 25% Scandanavian, maybe due to the Norman invasions in France, IDK Point is these 2 DNA bits I have and you have too could be sources of your French descent. Don't worry you're still French to me ❤
Most people don't understand, that those DNA tests take only the routes of maternal and paternal lineage (mother to grandmother to grand grandmother and so forth). Not because they want to, but that's how it works with DNA testing. So its very well possible that 21 generations down, you had a lot of other DNA mixed to it. 21 generations down, are over 1 million ancestors, so its possible, that your grand grand grand and so forth grandfather and grandmother were Celtic/Scandinavian and 950.000 other ancestors were something else. So those DNA test are always just indicators for your heritage, they can't tell the full story ever.
@@matthiasblum6555when you say 1 million ancestors, I think you underestimate the level of interbreeding that happened in small communities in the distant past
Remember that a DNA test only tells you what percentage of these genes that YOU inherited - if your family members took tests they could get quite different percentages just by luck of the draw! It doesn't tell you everything about your ancestors so you could definitely have ancestors from different places :) also took me a (weirdly) large amount of digging to find out that myheritage tells you where your ancestors were up to about 700 years ago. Things to keep in mind when interpreting your results!
Exactly! We did it both with my mum and she got lots of Italian genes that I did not inherit at all! That was really interesting! Paul, you should maybe try with your mum to see whether she has those French genes or not
These tests don't test genes. Genes don't mutate nearly as fast to be useful for a test like this. These test analyze DNA that doesn't do anything (junk DNA). The vast majority of genes that do something are the same among any ethnic group.
All my ancestors came to Canada from France in the 17th century. Yet, I am 75% Scandinavian and East English, which is explained by the predominance of Norman immigrants in my tree. Only 25% French, mostly from the South-West of France. And I, a convinced Québécois nationalist who has been fighting for decades for the protection and promotion of the French language in my Province. 🙃I was disappointed, as I so hoped to find a nice chunk of Celtic genes and significant First Nations blood. Nope, my roots did not dip in any of that juice.
Another factor makes everything related to France's genetics inaccurate/uncertain: genetic tests are "technically" forbidden in France (even if nobody would be ever be prosecuted for this lol), so the gene pool coming from France in their algorithms is relatively little compared with the data they have for the neighbours. Also, France had a lot of immigration early in their history. France dominated North Africain the late 19th century and until the mid-20th century, so the Jewish ancestry may be derived from either that or the Italian part, hard to say.
It's the "Italian" ancestry. Italians are genetically basically a mixture of various European, eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African peoples combining since at least the Roman times. I've had so many Italian-American friends who get completely unexpected genetic testing results.
@@Amaling that's an interesting question. Basically, it has to do with when the genetic sequence split into a new defined group. These groups can be defined from genetic mutations that happened tens of thousands of years ago. Sustained periods of interbreeding between already defined groups such as between Northern African group and Italian group happening in the last few thousand years would result in a family having both those two now separate genetic groups passing down their distinct DNAs. Sorry if I don't explain it too well it's been a long time since I've studied this
@@Amaling my Corsican friend got 98.3% Italian, 1.4% Greek and 0.3% North African. I think it's mostly the isolation that hepled them stay true. He has light skin and very dark and curly hair with brown eyes too.
@@MichelleObamasBBC "stay true" has some suspect vibes my friend not gonna lie. Genetically/biologically, being mixed is actually much better as you are much less likely to be at risk of recessive harmful traits, have vulnerable mutations etc
You have an infectious personality, I really enjoyed this video as a result. I had my test done by Ancestry and was pleased with the findings as they were pretty much what I expected. One thing I find really interesting is that they can determine which parent provided what regions. My father was made up of so many different regions! My mom, basically British Isles, not as interesting. Anyway, you might be able to find out more about your mother’s genetics by doing a test with Ancestry.
I am Puerto Rican but my dad always said he had a Chinese ancestor, we laughed at him. The DNA for me came out 54% Europe,22% Native American,18% African and 5% Chinese. You can't make this stuff up it's hilarious.
It's because of the similarity of East Asian people with the Native people of Siberia that are the ancestors of native people of the Americas. As a Puerto Rican you have ancestors that were Taino Indians. These ancestry DNA test results are not straight forward, "hard science", but estimations.
Scandinavian makes sense for someone with Irish heritage (or heritage from the British Isles in general) as the degree of contact and colonization by Scandinavian people in Ireland (and the British Isles) was quite large, also a lot of Scandinavian people emigrated to the US in the 1800s so that may also influence your degree of Scandinavian heritage. (edit) And yeah, the North African heritage is probably linked to Italian heritage, especially if your family is from the south of the country as we had a lot of crossover between the populations....
not just for britain does viking make sense, they were all over the continent duting the viking golden age, for example as varangian guards in constantinople or the normans that ruled northern france and later went to sicily under robert the fox of normandy.
If your talking about the Anglo-Celtic archipelago as a whole. North England would be the most Scandinavian. Ireland and Scotland would have a much smaller percentage of Scandinavian as they never got any sort of hold on either of the countries unlike in England with the danelaw. Admittedly the Vikings did create a lot of the main cities in Ireland but the were only there for a few decades, not nearly as long to produce such a vast scope of Scandinavian heritage across the Celtic lands unlike in England. Also don’t forget the Vikings lived in areas of northern France on the border with Brittany
North African heritage could also be linked to France, they did a lot of colonizing there and nowadays there's a lot of people with heritage from the former colonies living in France.
also with that little bit of english im suprised there was absolutely no french. england was conquered by the french and thats partially why so much of the english language is french
Scandinavia may also make some sense if the French ancestry comes from Normandy, where all the nobility and higher social classes came from Scandinavia - hence the name of the region.
I am French and my heritage : 53,9% iberian: (south of France🇫🇷, Spain🇪🇸,Portugal🇵🇹) 38,8% Scandinavia : Norway🇳🇴,Danemark🇩🇰,Sweden🇸🇪) probably my father its a norman and all the family 🇫🇷. 7,3% Greece and italien : 🇬🇷 🇮🇹
@@TheMrbadaboum Yes I don't know🙂 What I do know is that my father's surname meant ram in the Middle Ages and it's an old French surname. But I found the experience very pleasant🙂
@@TheMrbadaboum Also many barbarian tribes that invaded the Occident Roman Empire came from Scandinavia, Baltic and East Europe. The vandals I think were scandinavian, the very first vikings before the vikings hahaha
@@TheMrbadaboum maybe selective breeding? I know that sicilians preserved their norman ancestry because the fairer haired people were inclined to put up families with similarly light people (also the whiter you were the nobler your family)
@@TheMrbadaboum 100% it could have. On my dad's side I am (supposedly -- wouldn't take genetic research as gospel) descended directly from Rollo. Norman roots expanded in the following centuries fervently, and alongside sparse -- we're talking one of the most spread-about ethnic petri dish there has been in recorded history-- Viking Scandinavian mixing with local European populations, remnants of Norse groups which persisted into the later modern age, mimicking the pattern of French-Norman concentrations, would definitely stand to reason that they would have had a great influence on that. Edit: I should have prefaced the immediate point by saying that the relation to Rollo is in contrast of being Irish (born in Australia, just in case any ethnic gatekeeping trolls lurk these parts -- fuck off).
I did this test a few months ago. My grandfather always told us about his love for Eastern Europe and his fascination with the languages and cultures there. It turned out that my roots are mostly from Eastern Europe! I wish I could tell him that - I'm sure he would be delighted ❤
@@pranky16 they just do an analysis because everything is written in your DNA. And based on the facts some genes are connected to some areas of the world and comparing your results to those genes would tell you results!
The “native American” component is often interchangeable with some (central or east) Asian ancestry just because some of these testing companies have very few samples of some populations. Keep tabs on it and in future years they may refine it substantially.
Agreed. Many indigenous, native groups are severely underrepresented as are Middle Eastern populations. Checking the results about twice a year and you'll see tweaks to your estimates. :)
I forgot that part in my comment. And yes, you are absolutely right. I read, long ago, Hungarians can't get good testing on Native American ancestry thanks to Attila the Hun.
Please consider encouraging your mother to take a DNA test also and any siblings you have as well. It is fascinating to see the relationship through DNA of related people. I would love to see that episode, if you do it.
@@DaDARKPass Rarely. Every person in a family will be different. It is amazing to discover which side of your family you really take after. For an adoptee or someone who only knows one side of their ancestry, it can lead to discovering more about the missing parent's family history and relations. I assist adoptees with developing their family tree. all the people I have worked with have told me they feel more "complete" when they know more about their ancestors on that side.
You should take Ancestry DNA test. It's more accurate then My Heritage and you can now see which ethnicity comes from which parent. Also never take an ethnicity test too seriously, especially the lower percentages.
Beyond accuracy, DNA does not necessarily reflect the Cultural Heritage. Many DNA test of siblings from multiple ethnic heritage, while sharing the same parents, have sometime a huge disparity. For example, on a DNA test, one of the siblings was 60% French/German, while the other was only 10%. This is because you only take half of the DNA of your parents. If both parents are half French, it could be possible to have two children with one at 0% French DNA (took both half of non-French) and the other one at 100% French DNA (took both French half). Yet, both of them has the same French heritage, have the same interest and learnt the same from their parents. They are both legitimately inherited French culture. It is even more true today when generation of people from foreign background lived all their life in a different country: whatever their genetics say, their place are the country they always lived in. It doesn't matter what is in your blood: it doesn't define who you are. What define you is your education, and what want to be.
@@Clemehl that's why American claiming to be nationalities they clearly aren't like German, Irish, Italian and so on just because some of their immigrants ancestors came from those places always struck me, an European, as extremely weird. Are they ashamed of being American or what ?
@@descalzitao6779 well most Americans do that because if we’re talking from a purely ethnic standpoint the only true Americans are Native Americans. The U.S is still a relatively young country compared to places like France or England that have been around long enough to genetically create their own distinct ethnic identities.
The French héritage that you believed you have is most likely Pied-Noir Algerian. If you have 6.6% English and also some Celtic heritage you are likely have an ancestor from Dublin or Northern Ireland.
Yeah I can see it has one of two stuff(outside of what he said): from the Jewish Sephardi community (majority of modern French Jewish community is Sephardi that fled there post Arab expulsion after Israel was established but he could originate from the Jewish community of Algeria that the French gave citizenship but not to the regular Algerian)Italian that moved to France
I am sad to say that my Dad left two children in Korean. A son and a daughter. I hope one day to meet them and/or their families. They are my family too.
You should take a DNA test. Ancestry DNA will show you the people closely related to you that have also taken the test, and you would be able to possibly reconnect with them if they were to take the test.
Literally laughed out LOUD at 7:55, the hair productsss 🤣😂 So interesting finding more about your heritage, and learning more about yourself! Very cool, tres bien and we all def could be cousins somehow lol Keep spreading knowledge, bro! Much love💪🏾🌍❤
My boyfriend is half-Japanese and he totally can relate to the "finally I fit in" thing in Hawai'i! People thought he was a local until he started speaking.
Paul, your channel demonstrates the importance of geography in society as a whole. Your My Heritage video fully encapsulates how much a man of the world you are! Congratulations on the Irish/ Celtic percentage, being Irish myself, you can legitimately do St Paddy’s Day!
I'm from Quebec and I took a 23 and me test and expected a lot of variety coming from family telling stories about ourselves. Expected some Irish, some German even some native American along with the obvious French. Turned out to be 100% European, 90+% French, the rest Spanish/Iberian and broadly southern European. Verdict...I'm probably more French than a lot French people out there.
C'était sur voyons, les colons arrivés en nouvelle-france était strictement d'origine française et il n'y a pas eu beaucoup de métissage avec les autochtones. Par la suite ,notre peuple a été isolé autant d'un point de vue culturel que génétique, Les canadiens-français forment l'un des peuples les plus homogènes au monde.
Very important to remember that French DNA is always a bit of a problem on these tests as France actually has laws against the collection of DNA samples for demographic research so often these tests rely on people who have emigrated from France. It is unclear and not always accurate.
Congratulations LOL, but I hate to mention the fact that I have also met people from la maghreb that were black when was my friend's mom from Morocco the other was a guy from Libya South Libya
My DNA Test resulted exactly like how what we were taught in school. Schools in Puerto Rico teaches kids from Kindergarten and on, that PuertoRicans are European, African. And Taiínos. My DNA came back as 60% European 25% African 15% Taíno
That’s the one thing I dislike about people taking these tests so seriously - you have to take it with a grain of salt especially with different databases. The 3 major testing companies all will give different ethnic backgrounds. I know for sure my family has a lot of German, Irish, English, and more recently found out how through family tree research, a lot of French (Canadian) I have on my paternal grandfathers maternal side. I just did my test and my largest % outside of those four, was about 2% Cypriot! That’s not something I’d expect at all without any other results (maybe 1% Scandinavian, that makes sense though). Now I’d need my parents to do dna tests to figure out where it comes from!
BARBS! This is very relevant to you so I hope you see this but my mum did a DNA test with 23andme, and when we uploaded the DNA file to MyHeritage it came up with very different results. Just to be sure, we uploaded it to several other genetics websites and they all backed up 23andme's analysis. MyHeritage said my mum was like 20% Scandinavian, which didn't appear on any other DNA testing sites. On 23andme, it instead showed FRENCH ancestry, as well as some Gujerati, Native American, and Ashkenazi Jew, so I implore you to do a DNA test with a more reputable site like Ancestry or 23andme which both seem to give the most reliable results! Fascinating video all the same :)
The reason there are higher percentages and a less diverse history with a few others are due to their number of regional divisions and sub divisions. 23andMe does not offer subdivisions of genetic make-up like MyHeritage does. 23AndMe tend to group ancestry into larger regions which would cause the pecentages to be different. The reports are valid. It's just reported differently, some reports with a deeper dive into the breakdown of your past.
Yeah 23 and me has a larger data base and tweaks it more often. My origins 23 and me said I was 2% asian, then that was revised to native American and then I got the explanation that Asian DNA and Native American are so similar. But 23 and me depends on its members to update and tell details about themselves which can lead to some incorrect physical features for your DNA profile. As a person that ID's as Black, it says that most people with my profile have straight hair. ..... But anyway, I don't participate in the research after I found out that the information is gonna be used to make DNA targeted meds and sold eventually.
@@SIC647 This is a very interesting point, especially given the situation with DNA testing in France, it would make sense to me that some sources can only match it to some distant Scandinavian genes.
I wouldn't put a ton of stock in the results of your test. I took one, the results have changed several times over the years. My first test results differ greatly from my most recent test. Enjoy the journey.
I'm guessing that your french heritage would probably be like algerian- french one, which make sense since lots of algerian immigrant had fleed to france during colonial era and there is huge percentage of your heritage come form north africa.
The north african jews where officially French since 1870 ! Le décret Crémieux (du nom d'Adolphe Crémieux) est le décret no 136 qui attribue d'office en 1870 la citoyenneté française aux « Israélites indigènes
Do you know about the Black Irish? The "mixture" happened around the Roman era and from Spain or something south of Ireland. They were/are Irish with dark, somewhat coarse, straight or curly hair and darkish/tan skin...
If you do a more detailed test, you might find some variation. 23 & Me is a bit generic when it comes to profiles. I got 100% British with 23 & Me, but Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish & Danish from Ancestry DNA.
There are many people who get %100. I'm so sure I will be one of the people who will get 100% from my genetic tests because it is so likely my ancestors spent most of their time in the mountains region that my family LEFT for the first time in generations of our ancestors. Don't ask me how you know it. I just do. There is nothing in my village. Just mountains and a couple of houses made out of mud. Who could migrate there? They speak their unique tone of a minority language in the country and as I've watched from the people from my minority getting their DNA test, nearly half of them had %100 in their test and the others got like %90, %10 etc. It just can't be a coincidence.
@@turkishissunlanguage i can confirm, i was 100% as well but 100% Melayunesian since we arrived in 200 AD and never sail and assimilate to neighbooring races we were lefted pure alone amongs mixed world, so i didn't find to needed to accept motto's of "your nation ..... Not only for you" to fit on my nation
These ancestry tests only record the last 500 years of genetic information so while it's unusual to be 100% one thing, it's not like this means your ancestors lived in the same Chinese town since the dawn of humanity.
I loved your sense of humor, you’re lightheartedly hilarious, keep it up! Above all we all belong to the same species called human; the rest is secondary, let’s all get along🙏🏼
When the real facts about humans is given, people cannot accept the truth. It scares the hell out of people when they think they have no black ancestors. Latest genetic information proves all humans evolved from Africans.
A truly global heritage. I'm guessing the Scandinavian genes may be connected to the Irish side of the family. There were Nordic trading posts in the Dublin area (and all the Viking stuff but lets not dwell on that).
I've also done it. It's wild when you find out something so surprising about yourself as an adult. I knew most of me are from Finland, but the rest is something I've always drawn to and I couldn't explain it before, but now I need to explore things more.
Don’t completely rule out French - my mother’s maiden name is a French name, so her family says “we’re French”. But the last paternal French ancestor was born 300 years ago, so long ago that French would not show on a DNA test.
@@hirsch4155 Maybe. The amount of DNA you inherit is random, so it just depends. For example, if my dad was English and my mother Irish, it probably wouldn’t say 50% for each. However I don’t think DNA tests are necessary.. if you build a family tree you can find it out for yourself. It’s more fun, too.
@@hirsch4155 Both of my great-great-grandparents (following my paternal line) were born in Germany. I am 50% German. Interestingly, my husband is also 50% German and 3 out of 4 of our kids drew heavily from both of our German sides and have more percentage of German than either one of us individually. One of our daughters actually came back with 70% German! (The remaining 1 out of 4 is 48% German, which is still the majority for her)
It may sound weird but the melody in your french is Actually good . I think the french side in you can be explained by the fact that jews and many Harkis ( Algerians ) were expelled from Algeria after collaborating with the french .
Was it really after 'collaboration' with the french ? Because Algeria lost at least 1.5 million people during that time. I'm just reading comments about FRANCE and the french And with the current state of Mali It is important to be honest about what happened.
In regards to the Sefardi ancestry: that also includes certain groups of people from Portugal and Spain. During and after the Inquisition years, the Iberians, the Portuguese especially, deported people of Sephardic ancestry to France. A line of my family was deported from Portugal to Normandy.
Loved this! I had my DNA done early this year & it was fascinating but nowhere near as exciting as your results. You were clearly destined to teach us all about Geography & you do a brilliant job of it.
You have extremely cool mixture 🙂 I live in Finland and made a DNA test in 2017 and even made a video about that. I'm roughly about 90% Finnish and the rest East European. The only surprise was that I am so pure Finn. But then something hilarious happened. My wife has curvy dark hair like you and the stereotype says that Finns are blue eyed blondes. She was wondering that she must have some foreign ancestry. And then her result was 100% Finnish 😃😃
For some reason my paternal Aunt, who looks like an Eskimo (or Native American), got her results back and we are 2% Finnish. I’ve always wondered if we truly could have heritage from the Sami…
People forget Caucasian people can be almost transparent skin, super straight blonde hair with ice blue eyes all the way to dark brown eyes, black curly hair and tan skin. It's the most diverse racial group...we aren't all Nord stereotypes lol
I was really happy to find the African side of my heritage is from Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and parts of West Africa. I was a little shocked to find I had a percentage of Chinese and North African as well.
is this a joke? because that is absolutely not true 😂 Most north africans are a mix of sub-saharan african, north african, arabic. French as a language is common but not that genetically. Maybe one every 30 or something like that.
@@ryennfilms6429 It is very possible that North Africans crossed the Mediterranean and lived in France. That could have happened as recently as the French colonization of Algeria to as far back as the Carthiginian Empire
@@atumra4125 🙄 I already know its possible, because blacks have been in Europe for tens of thousands of years, the intermix of greek and roman empires allowed for such as they were multi-ethnic, spain had been occupied by north africans (berbers) for almost as long. And i'm talking about ancient berbers, not modern ones which more arab than they are african. France is incredibly new, so why are you suggesting that it had been colonized as long? it wasn't colonized, it was settled. Before France, there was carthage, yes. But carthage, like Rome, Athens, etc, was multiethnic. Racism was pointed towards Europeans back then, not Africans. Portraits of Hannibal Barca depict him black, written accounts describe as such, so why are you saying Algeria is French? they speak French, but they ae not French genetically. genetically, they are mainly African and Arabic. the Arab invasion of north Africa is perfectly described by people like ibn Battuta and West-African explorers. Carthage was a trading city, African and Arab traders throughout the empire and outside of it came to it just for trade. the ancestors of the Carthaginians came from Phoenician, a part of Israel, and were not really Arabic but Semitic.
@Ulrich Leland It has nothing to do with genes. If someone says "your grandpa was Irish/French" or whatever is was, they're not looking at their DNA. That Frenchman, French citizen, French speaking, culturally French, could easily be of immigrant descent. And there's been lots of N African immigration to France ever since colonial times.
@Ulrich Leland And you do? I starting talking about genes then pushed into skin colour which was the main point of the argument. If your going to act stupid, then don't butt in.
As 1 of ur African-American subscribers, I wanna say welcome 2 the family Barbs!!! And yes, the "Ethnic Haircare Aisle" is sumthin else 😂😂😂, though many of our major retailers are getting much better at stocking them up, & in my opinion the local beauty supply shops are even better 2 wander around. Thank you 4 sharing your heritage with us 🥰🥰🥰
@@ms.coleman8403 most places are separating curly hair. Anything over 3c will be in the black section. Most of the " white section" is now for curly hair.
Do you know who doesn't? Chinese! They put a quota on Chinese in all the top universities except in California. Anyone who's even part Chinese dare not even mention it. This affects my family, so I DON'T like it!
What scholarships? You have to be more than 25% of US native American to qualify for anything in the US. I have native American friends from Guyana but they are not native to the US. And they don't quality for anything in the US
@@OscarStigen It's not based on ethnicity. Its based on nationality. If you are not native to the US, why would you quality for services of native US Americans?
I just happened to find you on the internet and you are "hilariously funny to me",,,I can't stop laughing to look at the video because you keep saying things and doing things and it's cracking me up. I just love you already,,,, don't stop being funny, please don't,,, I am a 65-year-old woman and I love the way you do your videos. Keep being funny I love it 🖤
My sister (we're Italian - both of her parents have just Italian ancestors, as long as they remember) took the same test: she had some Greek and Kenyan, some Irish and some Scandinavian genes too. If you think about it, it makes sense, because people move and they mix up with local people, like your family history shows in just few generations! Imagine how much variability there is in thousands of years! I'm not surprised you have a big variety in you genome 😊 I'm pretty sure you got you beauty from the Italian side, you hot stud! 😜❤️😂
Fascinating, she could be my cousin😂😂😂 give her my salaams (greetings) from Kenya! Wish it was precise to show from which tribe, but because many East Africans haven't taken the test so that's why it wouldn't mention tribe.
My Italian mother (Ancona) had DNA from Greece, Greek Isles, and Albania, but somehow or other had 6% Swedish. That's actually a fair amount. Who knows? I can't get any of my Italian relatives to do their tests. They all think of themselves as 100% Italian--100% NORTHERN Italian. From my DNA test, this is just not true--it's mainly Southern Italian, though my grandmother was from Macerata, and grandfather from Bologna.
I took the test a few years ago, expecting it to be 100% Finnish (as most Finns who took the test got the same). I got 98% Finnish and 2% Inuit, which is still a mystery to me. My only explanation for that would be if MyHeritage lumps together the Inuit, Karelian and Sami people.
I think my dad got inuit on one of his tests and another came back 100% finnish. Mine came back 94% finnish and 6% Irish when neither of my parents had any Irish 🤷♂️
That means you are basically fully finnish in genes. Quite a few will get those 2% either Inuit or Japanese/Korean as remnants of the fact that our ancestors came from asia to europe.
Im a nerd for these hertiage shows, and just found out you did this video. I love these videos where you try to find out more about your roots n where you came from. :)
I took a test and found out my family has been almost as isolated as I thought it had been. I’m 99.8% Northwestern European of which 79.4% is Scandinavian and 20.4% being British and Irish. The last 0.2% being Ashkenazi Jewish. Genealogical records in my country show some of my ancestry in direct line back to the early 13th century to a guy literally named Viking (Víkingur).
I liked how you injected humor into these findings about your heritage. 😂😆 it's good not to take our backgrounds too seriously, we are who we are! part of the human race! 👍
What is human race? Different races came from different species of humanoids, whites from Neanderthals, Asians from Denisovans and Black's from other one..
You are hilarious and so intelligent. Yes, dude, your skin tone and hair literally screams African heritage. I am African American and got 2 DNA tests done. Both indicated that I have Scandinavian, Ireland/Scotland, Great Britain and small percentage of Asian bloodline, in addition to the majority African heritage. History certainly reveals itself through these DNA tests.
It does! My totally white father had some Japanese heritage. My second brother said that must be why we're so short. lol Actually most Japanese aren't as short as we are.
I usually avoid these DNA reveal videos. However, this one I really enjoyed. The introduction was interesting. Then the reveal was associated with real history. This man even knew about the Nubian Egyptian dynasty! I was so impressed and very, very entertained. Thank you.
Um, those DNA tests (read the details on them) only go back 10 Generations, up to 300 years not 2500 years. No way in hell anyone would know about thier ancient ancestry (except by thier haplogroup) unless they have very specialized (expensive) tests. So his heritage would be Sephardic Jewish/North African 300 years ago maximim.
Fascinating! That was great! The Native American - possibly - could be actually Siberian that snuck in the Central Asian genetics.. sometimes they're interchangable, depending on the test. A lot of times test results are pretty predictable,but I love those surprises.
@@pratosaurusrex1128 culturally obviusly no, but genetically more alike than what they would like to admit celto-germanic basically like most of britain
The French side could very well be from Brittany. A RUclipsr called living ironically in Europe took a test and was given Romanian. He did not have Romanians in his family but he did have Hungarians which may have come from Transylvania so you may have a similar situation.
*About being a French* - a lot of Maghrebi Jews from Morocco and especially in Algeria were assimilated in also French culture ever since Algeria became French colony, since the 1830's. So you can probably claim some French cultural heritage, even if not origin. But generally, Jews did not assimilate with other ethnicities as much as others. So about the African side, it is a possibility - but it's rather low.
This! I know plenty of Maghrebi Jews who were born in Colonial Algeria that spoke French as a first language and the whole gamut. I wouldn't discount this at all. And as you said, the likelihood of Black ancestry from them is very low, maybe heritage from the Berber side but nothing within the past 500 years which is what these admixture tests pick up on.
And to add on that - Sephardic Jewry were expelled from Spain in 1492 to the entire Mediterannean region (including the Maghreb) but also north to certain cities in Germany, England and the Netherlands of today.
This is why you get your DNA because most people don't know their genetic makeup. If you do extensive genealogy you may find out a lot. However, DNA gives you all your connections which is just wild. I have my DNA on two sites. The % changes a little as more people get their DNA and it brings more information into the data base. I think doing DNA helps to reduce hate....how can you dislike different races when we are part of so many different groups. A great equalizer.
Actually, if you don't have much insight into autosomal DNA tests then you're more likely to get mislead, which is what's happening here. The so-called "Sephardic North African Jewish" is in reality probably Italian. Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews and South Italians and Greeks are very similar genetically, because their Mesolithic ancestors are roughly the same, but that's 10,000 years before Roman Empire, Kingdom of Judah, Ancient Greece etc. The Iron Age and Medieval ancestors of these groups are VASTLY different.
Wow, this is fascinating! My biggest concern with these DNA tests is: where does your DNA end up? Who has access to your DNA? What do they use it for afterwards?
Eugenics, targeted poison, etc, the one thing it doesn't do is tell you where you are from, it compares markers to other current populations who could have come from anywhere
@@iaindcostanope that is not true if you’re Swedish you’re from Sweden. Your ancestors are from Sweden not China yes, you can go all the way back to the Stone Age when nobody would be Swedish whatsoever, because the Y chromosomes and mitochondria that make up the Swedish DNA wouldn’t of existed Once the German people came to Sweden they stayed there. They didn’t move to Britain then back to Sweden then a bunch of Chinese people came in. You bring this up have no idea how how human genetics work or the fact the mouth of the Pacific Ocean like Hawaiian New Zealand for example, didn’t have people during the Stone Age. Once farming began people settle down and didn’t move around all that much. You use the exact same plot that people think that the United Kingdom has the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
Ever heard of jew-fro? Also a lot of Sephardic jews from North Africa were expelled or fled to France and Israel. Many are considered French. And while religious jews define stuff by matrilineal descent, patrilineal jews are still accepted and you 'reconnecting' with heritage won't be frowned upon. Also Sephardic and north African jewish food is different from Ashkenazi matzoh ball soup and gefilte fish 😃
@UCCylZJTmEt25tUbbMJ-BQkA it says Sephardic jew - north African. This I think means the Sephardic jews who fled to North Africa (as opposed to Latin America, Turkey, etc) after the inquisition.
@@adonnen French link makes even more sense when you remember French colonies in Morocco and Algeria. And if he wants to explore the Sephardic heritage, lots of Sephardi Rabbis in LA to talk to!
They weren't expelled, during the french invasion of Algeria in order the divide and conquer strategy of France included giving all jews in France french citizenship, so when Algeria took its independance the few that were left simply went where they officially belonged, i.e France In Morocco it was part of a secret population exchange called operation Yakhin where Israel "bought" moroccan jews to sent them to Israel in ships
@@spongeboblover7052 Jews in Algeria were emancipated and given citizenship by the French, and many did leave for France. It was after non-Muslims were DEPRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP that 95% of the Algerian Jews left for France and Israel. Now, there are less than 200. Jews had been fleeing Morocco since anti-Jewish riots/massacres/pogroms broke out in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli war. They were prohibited (and later just restricted) from leaving, so Israel secretly paid the Moroccans to LET Jews leave. All of this information can be found by search on Wikipedia. Please do not spread denials of ethnic cleansing. Discrimination, violence, scapegoating, and economic and legal marginalization cause people to flee. Communities of people who have lived somewhere for hundreds of years don't just choose to leave and stop existing.
Remember you can be born in a country, your nationally. But your blood line comes from all your parents etc. Every family has a lot of secrets of any races they didn't want others to know about.
Haha yeah, i took the test, Iam Argentine but born and raised in sweden because my mom is half swedish, we made my grandma from my moms Argentine side take the test with me , my siblings and parents, turns out her dna group was venezuelan haha. me even though my mom is half swedish only got 2.5% scandinavian, 4.5% ashkenazi jew(have no idea where it comes from since i don't know of any relatives that are jewish) 4.5% north african, 1,6% nigerian, 12,7% mesoamerican and andean, 1,6% indigenous Amazonian 10,9% iberian, 10,4% italian, 51,8% North and western europe. it was fun to see the results, really recommend it if you are curious, did it on MyHeritage
whats interesting is to think about the history of those places. The North Africans did an invasion of Sicily/Southern Italy like a thousand years ago which could explain that heritage and the Vikings raided and settled in both England and Northern France (Normandy) where they intermixed with the locals
7:43 I fell out when he started referring to his hair in relation to the African results 😩😆 Too cute. Afro textured hair is such a marker. Though I have to point out that there is such a thing as a "jew fro" which many Jewish peoples have.
@@originaleverythingelseisca5977 no, although their is a small Jewish community in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), the Israelites were likely decedents of Canaanites much like the Phoenicians and Arameans
@@originaleverythingelseisca5977 no, the would mean they came to Ethiopia during ancient antiquity and intermixed with locals, if they were afro Semitic, Hebrew would probably be a south Semitic like Ge’ez or Sabean and so that is untrue
I'm Dutch without ANY Scandinavian relatives appearing in my family. But my DNA results said I was like 45% Scandinavian. Not because I'm actually Scandinavian but because Dutch people in general are default Scandinavian-ish. So having Scandinavian blood is likely more related to your British ancestors.
@@nagendraraman6410 Yeah I’m Dutch too and I got 39 percent Scandinavian on 23andme. But my dad who’s Dutch got much less, must be from my moms side then she’s Dutch too but from the Frisian province.
Hi Barb! Thank you for sharing. In the USA it was illegal in some states for interracial marriages. I have a cousin in the West Indies who got involved with a sailor and became pregnant. She told her mother and her mother wrote a letter to the captain of the ship stationed there where the young sailor lived. The captain transferred the sailor so he does not have to help the girl. He never spoke or sent any money to his future baby. This baby now a grown adult with children had found out about her biological father and was able to meet up with his adult children. Back in those days, Black and white offspring were hidden. Imagine, if men around the world who have relations with the women from overseas and got children from it, we will see that we all are related in one way or another and become friends. Peace on earth!
you really had me laughing! Yours is certainly the funniest and liveliest DNA reveal I've seen. this old grandma who knows her origins are incredibly diverse finds you absolutely charming! and, yes, we are cousins. i think you might enjoy the documentary 'Children of Adam', on the National Geography channel, in case you haven't seen it yet.
DNA testing is really hit or miss. That's why you can have twins with differing results from different organizations, even different results using the same company.
@@ryroberts1219 science should be precise .... a test done in the USA, or in Europe if done correctly should always give the same result .... if instead you do this test in 3 different places and get 3 different results, it means that this research is not reliable or that it has too large a margin of error.... but then, who doesn't know where he comes from? Have you ever asked your grandparents, about their parents and their respective grandparents lol ?
@@bluesoul7163 not all sciences are precise, especially DNA testing which is likely in the grand scheme of things still in its infancy, its a science because it is definite, as well the field fosters innovation each year. Was physics not a science before we know as it is today?
You can, but what it is is you get your DNA from your mom and your DNA from your dad you can get 50% from your mom 50% from your dad but you can have two siblings whether they be twins or not and the percentages are completely different and that is because not all twins are identical according to DNA there’s really not identical twins is actually very very rare. They may look like and share the same Facebook when it comes to DNA they’re not identical.
Actually as a Native Hawaiian I love that you are hapa but hapa doesn’t mean half Asian it just means half people discredit the word from us because of race and ethnicity but either I thought you should know and love your content. ❤
As a french this is so heartwarming the way you feel close to our country. You are always welcome and you don't need a % of french dna to be part of us ;)
@@professionalboycottservice7872 "Ewen" is a typical name from a part of France called Britanny, it's the celtic part of France, so it is FROM France but it's not quite french because its not in the official french calendar. Oliviero sounds Italian, but there's a a lot of this name also in britanny (dont know why)
@@professionalboycottservice7872 there is also a lot of french people with totally not french names due to centuries of immigration. So whatever right ?
I did my DNA test through Ancestry which can give you specific countries in your test. I was curious because my mother used to talk about her paternal grandmother and how she used to talk about having French heritage. We were born in Mexico, and of course Mexico had a lot of French influence, especially among the states along the Gulf of Mexico. My mother was born in Veracruz and on her father side they were born along Tabasco, Campeche, and other parts of the Quintana Roo Peninsula which has a lot of French influence. I did the test for me and I turn out to have just 1% percent French, but the other surprise was that I had 2% Basque which is an area in both Spain and France. Having said that, I was more intrigued and wanted my mother to do the DNA. It took me a while to convince her, but she finally did it. Her results were even more fascinating. She had 4% French, and 3% Basque. Among the other surprises in her DNA, she has 1% Irish, and 2% from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway which blew my mind. I really wish I could have done a DNA test for both my grandpa and even my father, but they all passed away a long time ago. Anyway, it is interesting what you can find.
Somehow this was the most fun I’ve ever had watching one of your videos Barbs. Love to see you connecting with all the research you’ve done! It makes me want to fit every country into my DNA! You give us all respect and understanding for the unknown. And that makes this video so much more rewarding: to see you discover that within your own genetic makeup
I took that test too. And my dad did. And my mom did. The biggest conclusion I’ve made: you don’t inherit mathematical amount of genes. Never, ever. Your body (personality, soul) desired to take something particular from you parents. Your dna chain can be not the same as your brother’s or sister’s. So, yes, a lot of family legends has been revealed but it does not mean that those are not true. You might just not inherited the French branch of your parents’ genes. Don’t worry, your children might have it 😊
Your conclusion is wrong. "you don’t inherit mathematical amount of genes." There is no such thing as a mathematical amount. I assume you are talking about probability. And of course are you able to determine the probability of inheriting a trait. Well maybe not you. You clearly don't understand the basics of genome inheritance, so please read up on it, before you explain something you don't understand and some idiot might believe it.
Exactly, if a certain ancestry was far enough back, though you may share some of their genes, this e may end up being genes that are shared between that ancestral groups and other groups. Remember, American Indians share the vast majority of their genes with other humans. I mean we even share 98.8% of our genes with chimpanzees, so sometimes when family lore says we have a distant ancestor from this or that group, genetic testing might not be a reliable way to determine the truth of it.
@@fordhouse8b Yes and no. "we even share 98.8% of our genes with chimpanzees" Not nessesarily genes but DNA sequence. This 1.2% percent differences in nucleotide sequence obviously impacts our genome and gene expression a lot more or we wouldnt be this different to chimps. And if you want to check relationship and ancestory you can look at conserved part of a genome (an area that doesn't mutate and change as much as other parts). Like the DNA for a rebosomal subunit. The mutations in an area like this do give you reliable information how closely two organism are related.
If he didn’t inherit the French chromosomes, his children won’t either. You can have a French grandparent and not have gotten a single French chromosome from that grandparent. It all depends on how the chromosomes were sorted into the gametes. DNA is a funny thing. It is mathematically possible (but improbable) that you can have a sibling that you do not share a single chromosome with. On the flip side, it is mathematically possible that you have a sibling that you are identical with (but not a twin). And then a whole range in between. This explains why some siblings look so similar and some look totally different. Because some siblings are more “related” to each other than others, genetically.
Congrats on your result! I took the same test with MyHeritage DNA and just like you, was totally shocked with the result: Expectation: 100% Asian with predominantly Malay and a mix of Chinese and Arab (as told by older family members for years) Actual result: 48.1% Thai and Cambodian 36.3% Filipino, Indonesian and Malay 9.5% South Asian 2.5% Baltic 2.1% Central Asian 1.5% Finnish I was most shocked that I am not even had Malay as the majority component, the 4% European mixes (which is totally unexpected) and the 2.1% Central Asian component. 0% Chinese and 0% Arab ouch! I have now made a vow that I will visit all the countries of my ancestors and have gained a new appreciation towards some of these countries which I never had before. Visited: Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia (motherland), Finland Top of the list to visit soon: Cambodia, India, Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) Adding to all these is the fact that I lived in the United Kingdom.
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My whole life I thought I was Kor-tal-ir-ench. With some mafia and monkey stuff mixed in. Turns out I'm....not exactly what I expected. WOW. Can't believe THIS was the result. Who knows! Maybe you're my cousin! Thanks Myheritage.com for the test! Check them out!
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You’ve 100% Karaboğa genetics😅
Hi!!
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Paul is my favorite Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Vietnamese, Central Asian, Scandinavian, Italian, Scottish-Irish-English, Jewish-North African, Native-American, maybe Black and virtually non-French RUclipsr
Edit: Okay I get it I forgot the Welsh, cymru am byth and whatevs
😂😂😂
I dunno man. I'm sure the other ones have way better content
@Awatierz Is there a reason you missed out Wales?
@@crose7412 maybe forgot because he doesn't look Welsh at all. no scales, doesn't breath fire, can't fly....
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Take 23&me, it’s much better. My heritage is notoriously inaccurate and also DNA testing is banned in France which is why it’s very under represented in ethnicity tests. You could definitely still be French
I would say they say are equally accurate when it comes to people like me and Paul were both extremely mixed and it can be difficult for our dnas to be explained I took a 23&me test knowing full well I had scandanavian ancestry And it only came back British while my ancestry gave a far better explanation most likely due to its cheaper price and being far easier to get your hands on due to that
Why is DNA testing banned in France?
ancestry is also solid from what I heard but yeah my heritage is very "Jew forward" so it is useless for Moroccans and ethiopians
@@israelilocal I am Moroccan and I wanna try it
@@atacama1000 because France are Xenophobic
Mr. Worldwide, Paul ;) Couldn´t be more fitting with this channel.
CONRAD YOU'RE MY COUSIN NOW!! (He's the guy in the Poland episode and is half Norwegian)
@@GeographyNow Yo i like you're content mate.
@@m05e1 fellow sephardi jew here :D
if you were wondering
sephardi jewish genetics is usually a clustering mixture of southern european, northern african and levantine genetics - a complete condensed mediteranean mix mash
welcome to the tribe!
@@GeographyNow and mine
WHAT YOU'RE A FAN OF GEOGRAPHY NOW MY MIND IS BROKEN I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO LIKES GEOGRAPHY AND ZELDA /J
Black, Jew, Samurai, Viking, Pochahantas.💀
Most north Africans aren't black
He is NOT Black but Part Arab ~ North African
north african is arab
@@colinchampollion4420 thank you
@@colinchampollion4420
He has Sephardic Jew*, also North African stands for Berber not Arab
Here’s the thing, Paul-you don’t actually inherit an even 50/50 DNA from all of your parents haplogroups; instead, you’ll get a random selection from both. I, for example, have had this same test, as has my mother-Turns out she is significantly Scandinavian-but I have no Scandinavian *whatsoever*. Through random chance, none of her Scandinavian DNA was passed on to me. BUT! That does not, of course, mean that I’m somehow not descended from Scandinavian *people*.
So, in other words, what I’m saying is-just because you don’t have any French DNA, doesn’t mean you don’t have French *ancestry*. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE, PAUL!!!
You sure that your father isn't also scandinavian because you got a scandinavian last name
@@zi326 Nah; Nelson I got from my mother, who got it from her first husband (whom I am not related to). My fathers actual surname was Boss.
Also, that wouldn’t change anything; I have no Scandinavian genes, so even if my father DID, it would only mean I didn’t get any of his, either.
This is exactly why family trees that have been verified through documents are SO IMPORTANT. DNA should be used to support the family tree, not in place of the family tree.
actually you do get it 50/50 from mom and dad. the reasons for what happened to you are different
I think people can get a little confused, you *DO* inherent 50/50 from your mom and dad, but WHICH 50% of moms and WHICH 50% dad's DNA you GET os random more or less
I think your “French relative” was actually a Sephardic Jew from Algeria. I remember researching a lot about naturalisation laws in France around the time Algeria became independent and they gave Jews rights to citizenry in metropole France whilst muslims were excluded from this right and would remain under the newly independent Algeria. Could be this relative lived in France but was of Algerian (Jewish) descent most likely
You right
That is exactly what I was thinking too
Until Algeria became independent in 1962, Algeria was technically part of France, so that meant that many Algerians could easily become French citizens. Most of the Jewish population left Algeria soon after independence and most ended up in Israel or France. The same thing happened to most of the Jewish population in Morocco and Tunisia.
@@Alex_Plante the french made it much harder for muslim algerians to become citizens. They originally tried to make a system of citizenship to a greater france, excluding metropole france for French west/north african nations but that failed
@@Alex_Plante The Crémieux decree of 1870 recognized the Algerian Jews as French citizens, but the Algerian Muslims remained colonial subjects. However, the Algerians were permitted to serve in the French army, and sometimes received French citizenship in return. This was obviously a much harder path to citizenship then straightforward naturalization. When you say "many Algerians", it hides the fact that the French preferentially gave citizenship to Jews in order to play a colonial divide-and-conquer game.
If one of your ancestors was from Algeria it's not that weird if they presented themselves as French at the time.
Lol how they represented themselves doesn’t mean you are genetically french!
@@jennw36 read what he said again
@@jennw36 But it's nothing to do with genetics, if he's a french citizen it's not awkward to say that he's french or a member of the french community.
So if they're remembered as a french person it's not weird
tunisian too
Yeah, and Algeria wasn’t even a colony of France, it was part of the mainland.
I'm French, took the test and discovered I'm 0% French as well but:
- I had 30% Keltic and some of my ancestors for sure come from Brittany so maybe your Britton descent got mixed with the Irish indeed!
- Also I'm 25% Scandanavian, maybe due to the Norman invasions in France, IDK
Point is these 2 DNA bits I have and you have too could be sources of your French descent. Don't worry you're still French to me ❤
and you're serbian?
No but my girlfriend is 😄@@piter4595
Most people don't understand, that those DNA tests take only the routes of maternal and paternal lineage (mother to grandmother to grand grandmother and so forth). Not because they want to, but that's how it works with DNA testing. So its very well possible that 21 generations down, you had a lot of other DNA mixed to it. 21 generations down, are over 1 million ancestors, so its possible, that your grand grand grand and so forth grandfather and grandmother were Celtic/Scandinavian and 950.000 other ancestors were something else. So those DNA test are always just indicators for your heritage, they can't tell the full story ever.
celtic*
@@matthiasblum6555when you say 1 million ancestors, I think you underestimate the level of interbreeding that happened in small communities in the distant past
Remember that a DNA test only tells you what percentage of these genes that YOU inherited - if your family members took tests they could get quite different percentages just by luck of the draw! It doesn't tell you everything about your ancestors so you could definitely have ancestors from different places :) also took me a (weirdly) large amount of digging to find out that myheritage tells you where your ancestors were up to about 700 years ago. Things to keep in mind when interpreting your results!
So yeah getting family members to take the test as well can be a good way of filling in some gaps!
his mom definitely looks mixed Asian like my cousins, the rest are probably from dad's side
Exactly! We did it both with my mum and she got lots of Italian genes that I did not inherit at all! That was really interesting! Paul, you should maybe try with your mum to see whether she has those French genes or not
Yes it does tell you about ancestors because that's what DNA heritage is, it spans back to Neolithic times
These tests don't test genes. Genes don't mutate nearly as fast to be useful for a test like this. These test analyze DNA that doesn't do anything (junk DNA). The vast majority of genes that do something are the same among any ethnic group.
If you have ancestry from France but a dna test shows Scandinavian instead, that is an indicator that you have Norman ancestry.
Huh. We have a great grand father that is French and both my brother and I have Scandinavian in our DNA results.
Scandinavian dna maybe come from north France but also from the Britain ( he was both English and Gaelic dna).
The Normans were a mix of Northern French with both Scandinavian and Celtic with some Britonnic.
All my ancestors came to Canada from France in the 17th century. Yet, I am 75% Scandinavian and East English, which is explained by the predominance of Norman immigrants in my tree. Only 25% French, mostly from the South-West of France. And I, a convinced Québécois nationalist who has been fighting for decades for the protection and promotion of the French language in my Province. 🙃I was disappointed, as I so hoped to find a nice chunk of Celtic genes and significant First Nations blood. Nope, my roots did not dip in any of that juice.
Another factor makes everything related to France's genetics inaccurate/uncertain: genetic tests are "technically" forbidden in France (even if nobody would be ever be prosecuted for this lol), so the gene pool coming from France in their algorithms is relatively little compared with the data they have for the neighbours.
Also, France had a lot of immigration early in their history. France dominated North Africain the late 19th century and until the mid-20th century, so the Jewish ancestry may be derived from either that or the Italian part, hard to say.
It's the "Italian" ancestry. Italians are genetically basically a mixture of various European, eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African peoples combining since at least the Roman times. I've had so many Italian-American friends who get completely unexpected genetic testing results.
Yeah that makes sense, but then there's also a straight up Italian section. Where's the distinguishing factor?
@@Amaling that's an interesting question. Basically, it has to do with when the genetic sequence split into a new defined group. These groups can be defined from genetic mutations that happened tens of thousands of years ago. Sustained periods of interbreeding between already defined groups such as between Northern African group and Italian group happening in the last few thousand years would result in a family having both those two now separate genetic groups passing down their distinct DNAs. Sorry if I don't explain it too well it's been a long time since I've studied this
@@Amaling my Corsican friend got 98.3% Italian, 1.4% Greek and 0.3% North African. I think it's mostly the isolation that hepled them stay true. He has light skin and very dark and curly hair with brown eyes too.
@@MichelleObamasBBC "stay true" has some suspect vibes my friend not gonna lie. Genetically/biologically, being mixed is actually much better as you are much less likely to be at risk of recessive harmful traits, have vulnerable mutations etc
@@Amaling that's a myth
You have an infectious personality, I really enjoyed this video as a result. I had my test done by Ancestry and was pleased with the findings as they were pretty much what I expected. One thing I find really interesting is that they can determine which parent provided what regions. My father was made up of so many different regions! My mom, basically British Isles, not as interesting. Anyway, you might be able to find out more about your mother’s genetics by doing a test with Ancestry.
I am Puerto Rican but my dad always said he had a Chinese ancestor, we laughed at him. The DNA for me came out 54% Europe,22% Native American,18% African and 5% Chinese. You can't make this stuff up it's hilarious.
What DNA site did you use?
@dajanna. 23 and me
"I'm black, my wife is Korean... and our kids are somehow Puerto Rican."
--Dave Chappelle 🤣
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It's because of the similarity of East Asian people with the Native people of Siberia that are the ancestors of native people of the Americas. As a Puerto Rican you have ancestors that were Taino Indians. These ancestry DNA test results are not straight forward, "hard science", but estimations.
Scandinavian makes sense for someone with Irish heritage (or heritage from the British Isles in general) as the degree of contact and colonization by Scandinavian people in Ireland (and the British Isles) was quite large, also a lot of Scandinavian people emigrated to the US in the 1800s so that may also influence your degree of Scandinavian heritage.
(edit) And yeah, the North African heritage is probably linked to Italian heritage, especially if your family is from the south of the country as we had a lot of crossover between the populations....
not just for britain does viking make sense, they were all over the continent duting the viking golden age, for example as varangian guards in constantinople or the normans that ruled northern france and later went to sicily under robert the fox of normandy.
If your talking about the Anglo-Celtic archipelago as a whole. North England would be the most Scandinavian. Ireland and Scotland would have a much smaller percentage of Scandinavian as they never got any sort of hold on either of the countries unlike in England with the danelaw. Admittedly the Vikings did create a lot of the main cities in Ireland but the were only there for a few decades, not nearly as long to produce such a vast scope of Scandinavian heritage across the Celtic lands unlike in England. Also don’t forget the Vikings lived in areas of northern France on the border with Brittany
North African heritage could also be linked to France, they did a lot of colonizing there and nowadays there's a lot of people with heritage from the former colonies living in France.
also with that little bit of english im suprised there was absolutely no french. england was conquered by the french and thats partially why so much of the english language is french
Scandinavia may also make some sense if the French ancestry comes from Normandy, where all the nobility and higher social classes came from Scandinavia - hence the name of the region.
I am French and my heritage :
53,9% iberian: (south of France🇫🇷, Spain🇪🇸,Portugal🇵🇹)
38,8% Scandinavia : Norway🇳🇴,Danemark🇩🇰,Sweden🇸🇪) probably my father its a norman and all the family 🇫🇷.
7,3% Greece and italien : 🇬🇷 🇮🇹
Vikings arrived in Normandy in 10th century, i don't know if it could have much infuence over your genetic.
@@TheMrbadaboum Yes I don't know🙂
What I do know is that my father's surname meant ram in the Middle Ages and it's an old French surname.
But I found the experience very pleasant🙂
@@TheMrbadaboum Also many barbarian tribes that invaded the Occident Roman Empire came from Scandinavia, Baltic and East Europe. The vandals I think were scandinavian, the very first vikings before the vikings hahaha
@@TheMrbadaboum maybe selective breeding? I know that sicilians preserved their norman ancestry because the fairer haired people were inclined to put up families with similarly light people (also the whiter you were the nobler your family)
@@TheMrbadaboum 100% it could have. On my dad's side I am (supposedly -- wouldn't take genetic research as gospel) descended directly from Rollo. Norman roots expanded in the following centuries fervently, and alongside sparse -- we're talking one of the most spread-about ethnic petri dish there has been in recorded history-- Viking Scandinavian mixing with local European populations, remnants of Norse groups which persisted into the later modern age, mimicking the pattern of French-Norman concentrations, would definitely stand to reason that they would have had a great influence on that.
Edit: I should have prefaced the immediate point by saying that the relation to Rollo is in contrast of being Irish (born in Australia, just in case any ethnic gatekeeping trolls lurk these parts -- fuck off).
Just watched until he found his roots explaining his hair. As an African I saw that one coming. Loved his light-hearted approach.
The moment I saw that HAIR...I said it's a negro in him somewhere! Lol, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY! ✌🏿
I did this test a few months ago. My grandfather always told us about his love for Eastern Europe and his fascination with the languages and cultures there. It turned out that my roots are mostly from Eastern Europe! I wish I could tell him that - I'm sure he would be delighted ❤
which part? the balkan or the central-north-baltic?
I got Scandinavian, North Baltic and Eastern Europe which was wierd because my family always claimed descent from the Middle East
How does it work? The test I mean do they really do some research or it is just fun?
@@pranky16 they just do an analysis because everything is written in your DNA. And based on the facts some genes are connected to some areas of the world and comparing your results to those genes would tell you results!
@@markokovacevic1550 Thank you Marko.
The “native American” component is often interchangeable with some (central or east) Asian ancestry just because some of these testing companies have very few samples of some populations. Keep tabs on it and in future years they may refine it substantially.
agree needs refining..
Agreed. Many indigenous, native groups are severely underrepresented as are Middle Eastern populations. Checking the results about twice a year and you'll see tweaks to your estimates. :)
And also because some migration from Asia took place relatively recently making exact separation between Asians and Native Americans hard to detect
Yes -Land claims are an issue in Canada and the US!
I forgot that part in my comment. And yes, you are absolutely right.
I read, long ago, Hungarians can't get good testing on Native American ancestry thanks to Attila the Hun.
'Complicated ethnic background"
Literally the whole Brazil
"Complicated ethnic background"
Brazil: So, welcome to the club lad.
Thats why you guys so beautiful and unique !!
So handsome and beautiful
lol true
Brazil is overwhelmingly PORTUGUESE, with some Angolan/Mozambique and some amerindian. Very simple.
I really love when people that know about geography and also about human migrations through history understand how a DNA test works. Cool!
Please consider encouraging your mother to take a DNA test also and any siblings you have as well. It is fascinating to see the relationship through DNA of related people. I would love to see that episode, if you do it.
Isn't that usually a horrible bombshell that never ends well?
@@DaDARKPass or if there's some secrets waiting to be found out
@@DaDARKPass Rarely. Every person in a family will be different. It is amazing to discover which side of your family you really take after. For an adoptee or someone who only knows one side of their ancestry, it can lead to discovering more about the missing parent's family history and relations. I assist adoptees with developing their family tree. all the people I have worked with have told me they feel more "complete" when they know more about their ancestors on that side.
isn't it ver y expensive tho
@@SvensssonboiMapping depends, here in the us they average around $100 per kit but they go on sale for the holidays for like $70 per kit
You should take Ancestry DNA test. It's more accurate then My Heritage and you can now see which ethnicity comes from which parent. Also never take an ethnicity test too seriously, especially the lower percentages.
Beyond accuracy, DNA does not necessarily reflect the Cultural Heritage. Many DNA test of siblings from multiple ethnic heritage, while sharing the same parents, have sometime a huge disparity. For example, on a DNA test, one of the siblings was 60% French/German, while the other was only 10%. This is because you only take half of the DNA of your parents.
If both parents are half French, it could be possible to have two children with one at 0% French DNA (took both half of non-French) and the other one at 100% French DNA (took both French half). Yet, both of them has the same French heritage, have the same interest and learnt the same from their parents. They are both legitimately inherited French culture. It is even more true today when generation of people from foreign background lived all their life in a different country: whatever their genetics say, their place are the country they always lived in.
It doesn't matter what is in your blood: it doesn't define who you are. What define you is your education, and what want to be.
yeah I think the Europe figures are kinda off, a lot of people migrated around
@@Clemehl that's why American claiming to be nationalities they clearly aren't like German, Irish, Italian and so on just because some of their immigrants ancestors came from those places always struck me, an European, as extremely weird. Are they ashamed of being American or what ?
Right.. I'm half German and half Danish and according to MyHeritage I'm 100% Scandinavian. They heavily overestimate Scandinavian on MyHeritage.
@@descalzitao6779 well most Americans do that because if we’re talking from a purely ethnic standpoint the only true Americans are Native Americans. The U.S is still a relatively young country compared to places like France or England that have been around long enough to genetically create their own distinct ethnic identities.
The French héritage that you believed you have is most likely Pied-Noir Algerian. If you have 6.6% English and also some Celtic heritage you are likely have an ancestor from Dublin or Northern Ireland.
Sounds logical
Dublin ancestry would explain the Scandinavian stuff because Vikings founded Dublin.
Yeah I can see it has one of two stuff(outside of what he said): from the Jewish Sephardi community (majority of modern French Jewish community is Sephardi that fled there post Arab expulsion after Israel was established but he could originate from the Jewish community of Algeria that the French gave citizenship but not to the regular Algerian)Italian that moved to France
@@chimera9818 why you don't speak when Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia welcome jews when Spain and Portugal expulsed jews
What about the Scandinavian part?
Normans are a thing...
OMG! I use Murray's Pomade too. 😂 Nothing else keeps my curls in check.
I am sad to say that my Dad left two children in Korean. A son and a daughter. I hope one day to meet them and/or their families. They are my family too.
Did you take a dna test, yet?
@@ree4061 No
Did he tell you about them? I really hope you have a reunion soon
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You should take a DNA test. Ancestry DNA will show you the people closely related to you that have also taken the test, and you would be able to possibly reconnect with them if they were to take the test.
This is by far the most entertaining video on DNA ancestry results I've seen.
Literally laughed out LOUD at 7:55, the hair productsss 🤣😂 So interesting finding more about your heritage, and learning more about yourself! Very cool, tres bien and we all def could be cousins somehow lol
Keep spreading knowledge, bro! Much love💪🏾🌍❤
The Murray's was hilarious to me 😆I didn't expect that 😆
I LOOOOOOVE ME SOME MURRAYS FOR WAVES!!!!.....AN THEN MOTIONS HAIR PRODUCTS
Being Black, I laughed at. I was remembering my sister/mama using that
Funniest part is he totally took on the attitude. He felt black - hilarious 🤣
Girl me too. Murray's though??? ROFL!
This was so cool. One of the best reveals on genetics I've watched 🎉🎉🎉🎉.
My boyfriend is half-Japanese and he totally can relate to the "finally I fit in" thing in Hawai'i! People thought he was a local until he started speaking.
I'm black, he had me dying laughing with the hair texture🤣
Dude.. The gutts.. 🤣🤣
Lmaooo I can’t stand him! He so funny 😂😂😂
Was cringe for me and somewhat disgusting
@@spencercharels4121 What was cringe about it? He can relate with our hair-struggles.
@@spencercharels4121 blk blk blk blk blk blk blk blk
How fitting that the person with the best geography channel on RUclips has much in common with so many people around the world. This is perfect.
Well it's not like that is a coincidence
It seems your people were enjoying each and every Continent thoroughly 😊
Paul, your channel demonstrates the importance of geography in society as a whole. Your My Heritage video fully encapsulates how much a man of the world you are! Congratulations on the Irish/ Celtic percentage, being Irish myself, you can legitimately do St Paddy’s Day!
I'm from Quebec and I took a 23 and me test and expected a lot of variety coming from family telling stories about ourselves. Expected some Irish, some German even some native American along with the obvious French. Turned out to be 100% European, 90+% French, the rest Spanish/Iberian and broadly southern European. Verdict...I'm probably more French than a lot French people out there.
@bastiat Iberia includes Portugal as well not just Spain and yes those are part of Europe I am well aware of that.
@bastiat Thank you for your absolutely amazing educative comment. :)
C'était sur voyons, les colons arrivés en nouvelle-france était strictement d'origine française et il n'y a pas eu beaucoup de métissage avec les autochtones. Par la suite ,notre peuple a été isolé autant d'un point de vue culturel que génétique, Les canadiens-français forment l'un des peuples les plus homogènes au monde.
Cou cou~
@@hugotremblay-pierre5384 There wasn't a united Spain when Portugal first came into existence, so you are obviously ignorant about Iberian history
Very important to remember that French DNA is always a bit of a problem on these tests as France actually has laws against the collection of DNA samples for demographic research so often these tests rely on people who have emigrated from France. It is unclear and not always accurate.
Hello, I am an Amazigh woman from North Africa. We are not black, but we are African.
Congratulations LOL, but I hate to mention the fact that I have also met people from la maghreb that were black when was my friend's mom from Morocco the other was a guy from Libya South Libya
@@SeanMichael-yt4ps😂😂😂
So you're an invader?🤔
First of all, let him be great, and did you know Our first parents were from North African.
How did your family come to be in Africa?!!!! Lol
My DNA Test resulted exactly like how what we were taught in school.
Schools in Puerto Rico teaches kids from Kindergarten and on, that PuertoRicans are European, African. And Taiínos.
My DNA came back as
60% European
25% African
15% Taíno
I've had my DNA for many years and it has changed so much as more people are taking the tests
I started our as 78 % Scottish and now down to 58%.
Yep, mine keeps changing too! 😌
It keeps changing because the more people that join increases their database and it becomes more accurate
@@jr3753 yes exactly
Mine too and I got new results
That’s the one thing I dislike about people taking these tests so seriously - you have to take it with a grain of salt especially with different databases. The 3 major testing companies all will give different ethnic backgrounds.
I know for sure my family has a lot of German, Irish, English, and more recently found out how through family tree research, a lot of French (Canadian) I have on my paternal grandfathers maternal side. I just did my test and my largest % outside of those four, was about 2% Cypriot! That’s not something I’d expect at all without any other results (maybe 1% Scandinavian, that makes sense though). Now I’d need my parents to do dna tests to figure out where it comes from!
BARBS! This is very relevant to you so I hope you see this but my mum did a DNA test with 23andme, and when we uploaded the DNA file to MyHeritage it came up with very different results. Just to be sure, we uploaded it to several other genetics websites and they all backed up 23andme's analysis. MyHeritage said my mum was like 20% Scandinavian, which didn't appear on any other DNA testing sites. On 23andme, it instead showed FRENCH ancestry, as well as some Gujerati, Native American, and Ashkenazi Jew, so I implore you to do a DNA test with a more reputable site like Ancestry or 23andme which both seem to give the most reliable results! Fascinating video all the same :)
The reason there are higher percentages and a less diverse history with a few others are due to their number of regional divisions and sub divisions. 23andMe does not offer subdivisions of genetic make-up like MyHeritage does. 23AndMe tend to group ancestry into larger regions which would cause the pecentages to be different. The reports are valid. It's just reported differently, some reports with a deeper dive into the breakdown of your past.
This is an Excellent comment. Let’s keep in mind that getting DNA from your dad and mom would give you ALL of it I would think?! 🤔😃
Yeah 23 and me has a larger data base and tweaks it more often. My origins 23 and me said I was 2% asian, then that was revised to native American and then I got the explanation that Asian DNA and Native American are so similar. But 23 and me depends on its members to update and tell details about themselves which can lead to some incorrect physical features for your DNA profile. As a person that ID's as Black, it says that most people with my profile have straight hair. ..... But anyway, I don't participate in the research after I found out that the information is gonna be used to make DNA targeted meds and sold eventually.
Showing up as French in some tests and Scandinavian in others can be due to Norman ancestors.
@@SIC647 This is a very interesting point, especially given the situation with DNA testing in France, it would make sense to me that some sources can only match it to some distant Scandinavian genes.
Great accents, bro! You have a good sense of different cultures without otherizing them.
I wouldn't put a ton of stock in the results of your test. I took one, the results have changed several times over the years. My first test results differ greatly from my most recent test. Enjoy the journey.
I'm guessing that your french heritage would probably be like algerian- french one, which make sense since lots of algerian immigrant had fleed to france during colonial era and there is huge percentage of your heritage come form north africa.
Christopher walken’s monologue in true romance
algerian french is not french heritage its north African
@@GoldenBoyDims Algerians who became french
yeah thats likely especially if they're jewish
The north african jews where officially French since 1870 !
Le décret Crémieux (du nom d'Adolphe Crémieux) est le décret no 136 qui attribue d'office en 1870 la citoyenneté française aux « Israélites indigènes
The fact that you are of all those ancestries makes it just that more fitting for you to be hosting geography now 🌎
Do you know about the Black Irish? The "mixture" happened around the Roman era and from Spain or something south of Ireland. They were/are Irish with dark, somewhat coarse, straight or curly hair and darkish/tan skin...
This explains Irish with curly abd coarse hair
This is so cool! My 23andme test said I was 100% Han Chinese. I was so shocked because I thought no one, no one was 100% one thing.
If you do a more detailed test, you might find some variation. 23 & Me is a bit generic when it comes to profiles. I got 100% British with 23 & Me, but Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish & Danish from Ancestry DNA.
There are many people who get %100. I'm so sure I will be one of the people who will get 100% from my genetic tests because it is so likely my ancestors spent most of their time in the mountains region that my family LEFT for the first time in generations of our ancestors.
Don't ask me how you know it. I just do. There is nothing in my village. Just mountains and a couple of houses made out of mud. Who could migrate there? They speak their unique tone of a minority language in the country and as I've watched from the people from my minority getting their DNA test, nearly half of them had %100 in their test and the others got like %90, %10 etc. It just can't be a coincidence.
@@turkishissunlanguage i can confirm, i was 100% as well but 100% Melayunesian since we arrived in 200 AD and never sail and assimilate to neighbooring races we were lefted pure alone amongs mixed world, so i didn't find to needed to accept motto's of "your nation ..... Not only for you" to fit on my nation
These ancestry tests only record the last 500 years of genetic information so while it's unusual to be 100% one thing, it's not like this means your ancestors lived in the same Chinese town since the dawn of humanity.
@@turkishissunlanguage would you be Fuzhounese by any chance?
I loved your sense of humor, you’re lightheartedly hilarious, keep it up! Above all we all belong to the same species called human; the rest is secondary, let’s all get along🙏🏼
This statement deserves far more votes!
Agreed to that! We are all human beings!
When the real facts about humans is given, people cannot accept the truth. It scares the hell out of people when they think they have no black ancestors. Latest genetic information proves all humans evolved from Africans.
A truly global heritage. I'm guessing the Scandinavian genes may be connected to the Irish side of the family. There were Nordic trading posts in the Dublin area (and all the Viking stuff but lets not dwell on that).
Also alot of danes lived in England before the Norman Conquest
@@PrincessLockette Don't remind me. As a Danish-Irish-English hydrid, I believe the North and East of England owe me a fortune in Danegeld. 💰
@@paulrobinson3649 lol 😆
Dublin was founded by vikings
@@junior7841 Twice apparently
I've also done it. It's wild when you find out something so surprising about yourself as an adult. I knew most of me are from Finland, but the rest is something I've always drawn to and I couldn't explain it before, but now I need to explore things more.
Don’t completely rule out French - my mother’s maiden name is a French name, so her family says “we’re French”. But the last paternal French ancestor was born 300 years ago, so long ago that French would not show on a DNA test.
My great-great-grandfather was born in Germany, do you think that would show up? Was wondering .
@@hirsch4155 Maybe. The amount of DNA you inherit is random, so it just depends. For example, if my dad was English and my mother Irish, it probably wouldn’t say 50% for each. However I don’t think DNA tests are necessary.. if you build a family tree you can find it out for yourself. It’s more fun, too.
Yep. DNA should be used to support the family tree, not in place of the family tree.
@@hirsch4155 Both of my great-great-grandparents (following my paternal line) were born in Germany. I am 50% German. Interestingly, my husband is also 50% German and 3 out of 4 of our kids drew heavily from both of our German sides and have more percentage of German than either one of us individually. One of our daughters actually came back with 70% German! (The remaining 1 out of 4 is 48% German, which is still the majority for her)
It may sound weird but the melody in your french is Actually good .
I think the french side in you can be explained by the fact that jews and many Harkis ( Algerians ) were expelled from Algeria after collaborating with the french .
Yeah thought of that, too
hhhhhh no i dont think he is a Harki 😅 , maybe his italian blood explains it because italians and berbers mixed a lot during the roman empire
This is pretty recent history, though. Algeria was only freed 60 years ago and the exodus of the Sephardim population happened mostly in the 70's.
@@lyes6033 nah harki all the jews that became french are harki / traitors.
Was it really after 'collaboration' with the french ? Because Algeria lost at least 1.5 million people during that time. I'm just reading comments about FRANCE and the french And with the current state of Mali It is important to be honest about what happened.
In regards to the Sefardi ancestry: that also includes certain groups of people from Portugal and Spain. During and after the Inquisition years, the Iberians, the Portuguese especially, deported people of Sephardic ancestry to France. A line of my family was deported from Portugal to Normandy.
Loved this! I had my DNA done early this year & it was fascinating but nowhere near as exciting as your results. You were clearly destined to teach us all about Geography & you do a brilliant job of it.
You have extremely cool mixture 🙂
I live in Finland and made a DNA test in 2017 and even made a video about that. I'm roughly about 90% Finnish and the rest East European. The only surprise was that I am so pure Finn. But then something hilarious happened. My wife has curvy dark hair like you and the stereotype says that Finns are blue eyed blondes. She was wondering that she must have some foreign ancestry. And then her result was 100% Finnish 😃😃
I am half Finnish and my dad blonde and he gas blue eyes but I have dark culrly hair. I did not take DNA tests right now but I wonder a lot.
For some reason my paternal Aunt, who looks like an Eskimo (or Native American), got her results back and we are 2% Finnish. I’ve always wondered if we truly could have heritage from the Sami…
People forget Caucasian people can be almost transparent skin, super straight blonde hair with ice blue eyes all the way to dark brown eyes, black curly hair and tan skin. It's the most diverse racial group...we aren't all Nord stereotypes lol
@@lucianaromulus1408 exactly
@@lucianaromulus1408 My redgaurd friend was saying the same thing
I really want to do one of these tests, see if I can shock myself and my parents with some information and learn about myself a little bit more.
Same
I really wanna know how Irish I am.
I know I am most Irish maybe like Above 50% since I am from there.
Please don't do Myheritage watch the video put out by the channel usefulcharts comparing 5 DNA sites to see why
Bruh i am gonna be like 90% berber/arab
they probably steal your dna data or something , idk but its better to keep your dna for yourself
@@zikopro7369
people from Algeria/morocco have on average 80-97%berber and only 0-2% arab most are more Jewish than arabic
I was really happy to find the African side of my heritage is from Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and parts of West Africa. I was a little shocked to find I had a percentage of Chinese and North African as well.
Those tests are not valid.
Hey, what's up congo friend?! 😃
Cool
Same here!!!!
Hey My congo family up in here
😂 dude you are entertaining and having fun with this! Great vid!
North African heritage could easily be your French bit. Lots of people exchange between Algeria/Tunisia/Morocco and France over the last 2 centuries.
is this a joke? because that is absolutely not true 😂 Most north africans are a mix of sub-saharan african, north african, arabic. French as a language is common but not that genetically. Maybe one every 30 or something like that.
@@ryennfilms6429 It is very possible that North Africans crossed the Mediterranean and lived in France. That could have happened as recently as the French colonization of Algeria to as far back as the Carthiginian Empire
@@atumra4125 🙄 I already know its possible, because blacks have been in Europe for tens of thousands of years, the intermix of greek and roman empires allowed for such as they were multi-ethnic, spain had been occupied by north africans (berbers) for almost as long. And i'm talking about ancient berbers, not modern ones which more arab than they are african.
France is incredibly new, so why are you suggesting that it had been colonized as long? it wasn't colonized, it was settled. Before France, there was carthage, yes. But carthage, like Rome, Athens, etc, was multiethnic. Racism was pointed towards Europeans back then, not Africans. Portraits of Hannibal Barca depict him black, written accounts describe as such, so why are you saying Algeria is French? they speak French, but they ae not French genetically.
genetically, they are mainly African and Arabic. the Arab invasion of north Africa is perfectly described by people like ibn Battuta and West-African explorers.
Carthage was a trading city, African and Arab traders throughout the empire and outside of it came to it just for trade.
the ancestors of the Carthaginians came from Phoenician, a part of Israel, and were not really Arabic but Semitic.
@Ulrich Leland It has nothing to do with genes. If someone says "your grandpa was Irish/French" or whatever is was, they're not looking at their DNA. That Frenchman, French citizen, French speaking, culturally French, could easily be of immigrant descent. And there's been lots of N African immigration to France ever since colonial times.
@Ulrich Leland And you do? I starting talking about genes then pushed into skin colour which was the main point of the argument. If your going to act stupid, then don't butt in.
As 1 of ur African-American subscribers, I wanna say welcome 2 the family Barbs!!! And yes, the "Ethnic Haircare Aisle" is sumthin else 😂😂😂, though many of our major retailers are getting much better at stocking them up, & in my opinion the local beauty supply shops are even better 2 wander around. Thank you 4 sharing your heritage with us 🥰🥰🥰
lets see his yt side welcome yo lack of knowledge having azz to the family..smdh
In order to not be offensive, I think it's called the curly hair section.
@@catherinelomas318 not to be rude but I. Some states it's called ethnic hair, it depends where we are
@@ms.coleman8403 most places are separating curly hair. Anything over 3c will be in the black section. Most of the " white section" is now for curly hair.
Based on your results, you qualify for most of the scholarships. Geography is in your blood. Now your content will be more personal for you.
Do you know who doesn't? Chinese! They put a quota on Chinese in all the top universities except in California. Anyone who's even part Chinese dare not even mention it. This affects my family, so I DON'T like it!
What scholarships? You have to be more than 25% of US native American to qualify for anything in the US. I have native American friends from Guyana but they are not native to the US. And they don't quality for anything in the US
@@japhya0378 lolwtf? I didn't know there was a caste system based on ethnicity in USA.
@@OscarStigen It's not based on ethnicity. Its based on nationality. If you are not native to the US, why would you quality for services of native US Americans?
@@OscarStigen it's not a caste system, that's one benefit. native Americans get special treatment because of what we did to their people.
I just happened to find you on the internet and you are "hilariously funny to me",,,I can't stop laughing to look at the video because you keep saying things and doing things and it's cracking me up. I just love you already,,,, don't stop being funny, please don't,,, I am a 65-year-old woman and I love the way you do your videos. Keep being funny I love it 🖤
My sister (we're Italian - both of her parents have just Italian ancestors, as long as they remember) took the same test: she had some Greek and Kenyan, some Irish and some Scandinavian genes too. If you think about it, it makes sense, because people move and they mix up with local people, like your family history shows in just few generations! Imagine how much variability there is in thousands of years! I'm not surprised you have a big variety in you genome 😊
I'm pretty sure you got you beauty from the Italian side, you hot stud! 😜❤️😂
Fascinating, she could be my cousin😂😂😂 give her my salaams (greetings) from Kenya! Wish it was precise to show from which tribe, but because many East Africans haven't taken the test so that's why it wouldn't mention tribe.
My Italian mother (Ancona) had DNA from Greece, Greek Isles, and Albania, but somehow or other had 6% Swedish. That's actually a fair amount. Who knows? I can't get any of my Italian relatives to do their tests. They all think of themselves as 100% Italian--100% NORTHERN Italian. From my DNA test, this is just not true--it's mainly Southern Italian, though my grandmother was from Macerata, and grandfather from Bologna.
Whaaaaaaa beauty ????
@@steveneardley7541crusaders came partially from Scandinavia. So its not that strange.
I took the test a few years ago, expecting it to be 100% Finnish (as most Finns who took the test got the same). I got 98% Finnish and 2% Inuit, which is still a mystery to me. My only explanation for that would be if MyHeritage lumps together the Inuit, Karelian and Sami people.
I think my dad got inuit on one of his tests and another came back 100% finnish. Mine came back 94% finnish and 6% Irish when neither of my parents had any Irish 🤷♂️
@Reese B I'm talking about the test...
That means you are basically fully finnish in genes. Quite a few will get those 2% either Inuit or Japanese/Korean as remnants of the fact that our ancestors came from asia to europe.
i’ve never seen such a unique ethnic makeup tbh
I have 11 different, but they only range south america and europe. this guy has a few others.
Im a nerd for these hertiage shows, and just found out you did this video. I love these videos where you try to find out more about your roots n where you came from. :)
I took a test and found out my family has been almost as isolated as I thought it had been. I’m 99.8% Northwestern European of which 79.4% is Scandinavian and 20.4% being British and Irish. The last 0.2% being Ashkenazi Jewish.
Genealogical records in my country show some of my ancestry in direct line back to the early 13th century to a guy literally named Viking (Víkingur).
I liked how you injected humor into these findings about your heritage. 😂😆 it's good not to take our backgrounds too seriously, we are who we are! part of the human race! 👍
What is human race? Different races came from different species of humanoids, whites from Neanderthals, Asians from Denisovans and Black's from other one..
You are hilarious and so intelligent. Yes, dude, your skin tone and hair literally screams African heritage. I am African American and got 2 DNA tests done. Both indicated that I have Scandinavian, Ireland/Scotland, Great Britain and small percentage of Asian bloodline, in addition to the majority African heritage. History certainly reveals itself through these DNA tests.
Skin tone and hair color/texture is determined differently than the percentage of ethnicity.
Seriously. Not sure why he's so surprised.
It does! My totally white father had some Japanese heritage. My second brother said that must be why we're so short. lol Actually most Japanese aren't as short as we are.
@@mizzmolly7649 why you think beside everyone wants to be white.
I thought the same about skin tone and hair! We have the same skin tone and I am a PROUD African American
7:10 - North Africa also had some FRENCH people, I can’t believe you didn’t make that connection.
I usually avoid these DNA reveal videos. However, this one I really enjoyed. The introduction was interesting. Then the reveal was associated with real history. This man even knew about the Nubian Egyptian dynasty! I was so impressed and very, very entertained. Thank you.
Um, those DNA tests (read the details on them) only go back 10 Generations, up to 300 years not 2500 years. No way in hell anyone would know about thier ancient ancestry (except by thier haplogroup) unless they have very specialized (expensive) tests. So his heritage would be Sephardic Jewish/North African 300 years ago maximim.
He is hilarious 🎉🎉
Fascinating! That was great! The Native American - possibly - could be actually Siberian that snuck in the Central Asian genetics.. sometimes they're interchangable, depending on the test. A lot of times test results are pretty predictable,but I love those surprises.
That si true. I knew a Lakota man who I took for being Mongolian or maybe Korean.
There's genetic links between East Asians and Native Americans.
@@markus711from the mtDNA Yh the y dna is ane
Dude you’re a mix of pretty much everything. That’s awesome!
I’m English but I know I have Scottish, Indian and parts of Southern Europe in my family.
English and scottish is normal england and scotland are literraly on the same island
everything that makes up a gypsy
@@francoisdaureville323 true but to say they are the same is just wrong
@@pratosaurusrex1128 culturally obviusly no, but genetically more alike than what they would like to admit celto-germanic basically like most of britain
@@pratosaurusrex1128 Indian....British Raj?
Great video, so entertaining! KD
The French side could very well be from Brittany. A RUclipsr called living ironically in Europe took a test and was given Romanian. He did not have Romanians in his family but he did have Hungarians which may have come from Transylvania so you may have a similar situation.
*About being a French* - a lot of Maghrebi Jews from Morocco and especially in Algeria were assimilated in also French culture ever since Algeria became French colony, since the 1830's.
So you can probably claim some French cultural heritage, even if not origin.
But generally, Jews did not assimilate with other ethnicities as much as others. So about the African side, it is a possibility - but it's rather low.
This! I know plenty of Maghrebi Jews who were born in Colonial Algeria that spoke French as a first language and the whole gamut. I wouldn't discount this at all. And as you said, the likelihood of Black ancestry from them is very low, maybe heritage from the Berber side but nothing within the past 500 years which is what these admixture tests pick up on.
And to add on that - Sephardic Jewry were expelled from Spain in 1492 to the entire Mediterannean region (including the Maghreb) but also north to certain cities in Germany, England and the Netherlands of today.
No, it's from his Italian side.
As an Algerian I can see that it's known that we had alot of jews that choosed to claim france during the colonization
@@pt2ql2gd3e
What do you mean by """chose to claim France"""?
This is why you get your DNA because most people don't know their genetic makeup. If you do extensive genealogy you may find out a lot. However, DNA gives you all your connections which is just wild. I have my DNA on two sites. The % changes a little as more people get their DNA and it brings more information into the data base. I think doing DNA helps to reduce hate....how can you dislike different races when we are part of so many different groups. A great equalizer.
Guess what racism is better and i love it 😈😈😈
It's always tougher for Californian mystery meat
Actually, if you don't have much insight into autosomal DNA tests then you're more likely to get mislead, which is what's happening here.
The so-called "Sephardic North African Jewish" is in reality probably Italian.
Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews and South Italians and Greeks are very similar genetically, because their Mesolithic ancestors are roughly the same, but that's 10,000 years before Roman Empire, Kingdom of Judah, Ancient Greece etc.
The Iron Age and Medieval ancestors of these groups are VASTLY different.
You come from the “human” race.
Wow, this is fascinating! My biggest concern with these DNA tests is: where does your DNA end up? Who has access to your DNA? What do they use it for afterwards?
They use it to clone you so that they can make you 100% italian
If you were born in the hospital, or been to the hospital more likely they already have a sample of your DNA
What would they do with it clone you lol
Eugenics, targeted poison, etc, the one thing it doesn't do is tell you where you are from, it compares markers to other current populations who could have come from anywhere
@@iaindcostanope that is not true if you’re Swedish you’re from Sweden. Your ancestors are from Sweden not China yes, you can go all the way back to the Stone Age when nobody would be Swedish whatsoever, because the Y chromosomes and mitochondria that make up the Swedish DNA wouldn’t of existed Once the German people came to Sweden they stayed there. They didn’t move to Britain then back to Sweden then a bunch of Chinese people came in. You bring this up have no idea how how human genetics work or the fact the mouth of the Pacific Ocean like Hawaiian New Zealand for example, didn’t have people during the Stone Age. Once farming began people settle down and didn’t move around all that much. You use the exact same plot that people think that the United Kingdom has the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
I also had my DNA Tested and it turned out
I am 100% *VOLANCAN* 💚💜
I did one and it came out 100% Vatican 🇻🇦
I read that as Vulcan first time. 🖖
He may not be fully french, but he embraces the french culture! Wonderful as always! 😊👍
Ever heard of jew-fro? Also a lot of Sephardic jews from North Africa were expelled or fled to France and Israel. Many are considered French.
And while religious jews define stuff by matrilineal descent, patrilineal jews are still accepted and you 'reconnecting' with heritage won't be frowned upon.
Also Sephardic and north African jewish food is different from Ashkenazi matzoh ball soup and gefilte fish 😃
@UCCylZJTmEt25tUbbMJ-BQkA it says Sephardic jew - north African. This I think means the Sephardic jews who fled to North Africa (as opposed to Latin America, Turkey, etc) after the inquisition.
@@adonnen French link makes even more sense when you remember French colonies in Morocco and Algeria. And if he wants to explore the Sephardic heritage, lots of Sephardi Rabbis in LA to talk to!
They weren't expelled, during the french invasion of Algeria in order the divide and conquer strategy of France included giving all jews in France french citizenship, so when Algeria took its independance the few that were left simply went where they officially belonged, i.e France
In Morocco it was part of a secret population exchange called operation Yakhin where Israel "bought" moroccan jews to sent them to Israel in ships
@@spongeboblover7052
Jews in Algeria were emancipated and given citizenship by the French, and many did leave for France. It was after non-Muslims were DEPRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP that 95% of the Algerian Jews left for France and Israel. Now, there are less than 200.
Jews had been fleeing Morocco since anti-Jewish riots/massacres/pogroms broke out in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli war. They were prohibited (and later just restricted) from leaving, so Israel secretly paid the Moroccans to LET Jews leave.
All of this information can be found by search on Wikipedia.
Please do not spread denials of ethnic cleansing. Discrimination, violence, scapegoating, and economic and legal marginalization cause people to flee.
Communities of people who have lived somewhere for hundreds of years don't just choose to leave and stop existing.
@@adonnen More like 99.9%
First time viewer. Very funny on multiple levels.
Remember you can be born in a country, your nationally. But your blood line comes from all your parents etc. Every family has a lot of secrets of any races they didn't want others to know about.
Or maybe just boring just what you thought you were
that is why my family only marries within our community to preserve our distinct genetic composition
@@jaishankarmishra7585 marrying your own family 🤢
Haha yeah, i took the test, Iam Argentine but born and raised in sweden because my mom is half swedish, we made my grandma from my moms Argentine side take the test with me , my siblings and parents, turns out her dna group was venezuelan haha. me even though my mom is half swedish only got 2.5% scandinavian, 4.5% ashkenazi jew(have no idea where it comes from since i don't know of any relatives that are jewish) 4.5% north african, 1,6% nigerian, 12,7% mesoamerican and andean, 1,6% indigenous Amazonian 10,9% iberian, 10,4% italian, 51,8% North and western europe. it was fun to see the results, really recommend it if you are curious, did it on MyHeritage
whats interesting is to think about the history of those places. The North Africans did an invasion of Sicily/Southern Italy like a thousand years ago which could explain that heritage and the Vikings raided and settled in both England and Northern France (Normandy) where they intermixed with the locals
7:43 I fell out when he started referring to his hair in relation to the African results 😩😆 Too cute. Afro textured hair is such a marker. Though I have to point out that there is such a thing as a "jew fro" which many Jewish peoples have.
True, but where do you think they (looking at their lineage) got it from?
Yeah but jew fros are probably from Africa. The original jews are actually black from Ethiopia
@@originaleverythingelseisca5977 no, although their is a small Jewish community in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), the Israelites were likely decedents of Canaanites much like the Phoenicians and Arameans
@@mgplayzxd3062 what I said stands, have you heard of the falashas. At the end of the day The jews were originally black. Bronze skin with wooly hair.
@@originaleverythingelseisca5977 no, the would mean they came to Ethiopia during ancient antiquity and intermixed with locals, if they were afro Semitic, Hebrew would probably be a south Semitic like Ge’ez or Sabean and so that is untrue
That was a fun video! Thanks.
I'm Dutch without ANY Scandinavian relatives appearing in my family. But my DNA results said I was like 45% Scandinavian. Not because I'm actually Scandinavian but because Dutch people in general are default Scandinavian-ish. So having Scandinavian blood is likely more related to your British ancestors.
Scandinavian-ish? Sorry Groose, but the word you're looking for is 'Germanic'
@@NateVDZ right.
If you have Frisian background you’re likely to have more Scandinavian DNA
@@hirsch4155 is it because the of the constant viking raids and settlement.
@@nagendraraman6410 Yeah I’m Dutch too and I got 39 percent Scandinavian on 23andme. But my dad who’s Dutch got much less, must be from my moms side then she’s Dutch too but from the Frisian province.
Hi Barb! Thank you for sharing. In the USA it was illegal in some states for interracial marriages. I have a cousin in the West Indies who got involved with a sailor and became pregnant. She told her mother and her mother wrote a letter to the captain of the ship stationed there where the young sailor lived. The captain transferred the sailor so he does not have to help the girl. He never spoke or sent any money to his future baby. This baby now a grown adult with children had found out about her biological father and was able to meet up with his adult children. Back in those days, Black and white offspring were hidden. Imagine, if men around the world who have relations with the women from overseas and got children from it, we will see that we all are related in one way or another and become friends. Peace on earth!
Congratulations 🎉 on being an Earthling 😂 I’ e never seen such a large mixture. A real Heinz variety 😂😂🐨🦘
😂🤣🤣
human mutt - mixed breed
sarcasm
you really had me laughing! Yours is certainly the funniest and liveliest DNA reveal I've seen. this old grandma who knows her origins are incredibly diverse finds you absolutely charming! and, yes, we are cousins. i think you might enjoy the documentary 'Children of Adam', on the National Geography channel, in case you haven't seen it yet.
DNA testing is really hit or miss. That's why you can have twins with differing results from different organizations, even different results using the same company.
Seems more a bunch of Bs more than hit or miss tou
@@bluesoul7163 so now science is bs? Ok buddy 😂
@@ryroberts1219 science should be precise .... a test done in the USA, or in Europe if done correctly should always give the same result .... if instead you do this test in 3 different places and get 3 different results, it means that this research is not reliable or that it has too large a margin of error....
but then, who doesn't know where he comes from?
Have you ever asked your grandparents, about their parents and their respective grandparents lol ?
@@bluesoul7163 not all sciences are precise, especially DNA testing which is likely in the grand scheme of things still in its infancy, its a science because it is definite, as well the field fosters innovation each year. Was physics not a science before we know as it is today?
You can, but what it is is you get your DNA from your mom and your DNA from your dad you can get 50% from your mom 50% from your dad but you can have two siblings whether they be twins or not and the percentages are completely different and that is because not all twins are identical according to DNA there’s really not identical twins is actually very very rare. They may look like and share the same Facebook when it comes to DNA they’re not identical.
Actually as a Native Hawaiian I love that you are hapa but hapa doesn’t mean half Asian it just means half people discredit the word from us because of race and ethnicity but either I thought you should know and love your content. ❤
As a french this is so heartwarming the way you feel close to our country.
You are always welcome and you don't need a % of french dna to be part of us ;)
I mean. 11% Scandinavian.
Normandy France.
You get where I'm getting at?
Cute
@ewen then why your name doesn't sound French at all? You're brazuca or portuguese.
@@professionalboycottservice7872 "Ewen" is a typical name from a part of France called Britanny, it's the celtic part of France, so it is FROM France but it's not quite french because its not in the official french calendar.
Oliviero sounds Italian, but there's a a lot of this name also in britanny (dont know why)
@@professionalboycottservice7872 there is also a lot of french people with totally not french names due to centuries of immigration.
So whatever right ?
Straightaway he looked central Asian to me! Makes total sense where the Asian and European parts of the continent meet.
I did my DNA test through Ancestry which can give you specific countries in your test. I was curious because my mother used to talk about her paternal grandmother and how she used to talk about having French heritage. We were born in Mexico, and of course Mexico had a lot of French influence, especially among the states along the Gulf of Mexico. My mother was born in Veracruz and on her father side they were born along Tabasco, Campeche, and other parts of the Quintana Roo Peninsula which has a lot of French influence.
I did the test for me and I turn out to have just 1% percent French, but the other surprise was that I had 2% Basque which is an area in both Spain and France. Having said that, I was more intrigued and wanted my mother to do the DNA. It took me a while to convince her, but she finally did it. Her results were even more fascinating. She had 4% French, and 3% Basque. Among the other surprises in her DNA, she has 1% Irish, and 2% from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway which blew my mind.
I really wish I could have done a DNA test for both my grandpa and even my father, but they all passed away a long time ago. Anyway, it is interesting what you can find.
Somehow this was the most fun I’ve ever had watching one of your videos Barbs. Love to see you connecting with all the research you’ve done! It makes me want to fit every country into my DNA! You give us all respect and understanding for the unknown. And that makes this video so much more rewarding: to see you discover that within your own genetic makeup
The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson.
What a great video! You are wonderful!❤❤
Love your humor and your honesty. It's good to embrace who we are, after all we can't change it.
I took that test too. And my dad did. And my mom did. The biggest conclusion I’ve made: you don’t inherit mathematical amount of genes. Never, ever. Your body (personality, soul) desired to take something particular from you parents. Your dna chain can be not the same as your brother’s or sister’s. So, yes, a lot of family legends has been revealed but it does not mean that those are not true. You might just not inherited the French branch of your parents’ genes. Don’t worry, your children might have it 😊
Your conclusion is wrong. "you don’t inherit mathematical amount of genes." There is no such thing as a mathematical amount. I assume you are talking about probability. And of course are you able to determine the probability of inheriting a trait. Well maybe not you. You clearly don't understand the basics of genome inheritance, so please read up on it, before you explain something you don't understand and some idiot might believe it.
It's not working that way. If you didn't receive some genes they just disappear. The test shows all genes that can be passed to the next generation.
Exactly, if a certain ancestry was far enough back, though you may share some of their genes, this e may end up being genes that are shared between that ancestral groups and other groups. Remember, American Indians share the vast majority of their genes with other humans. I mean we even share 98.8% of our genes with chimpanzees, so sometimes when family lore says we have a distant ancestor from this or that group, genetic testing might not be a reliable way to determine the truth of it.
@@fordhouse8b Yes and no.
"we even share 98.8% of our genes with chimpanzees" Not nessesarily genes but DNA sequence. This 1.2% percent differences in nucleotide sequence obviously impacts our genome and gene expression a lot more or we wouldnt be this different to chimps.
And if you want to check relationship and ancestory you can look at conserved part of a genome (an area that doesn't mutate and change as much as other parts).
Like the DNA for a rebosomal subunit. The mutations in an area like this do give you reliable information how closely two organism are related.
If he didn’t inherit the French chromosomes, his children won’t either.
You can have a French grandparent and not have gotten a single French chromosome from that grandparent. It all depends on how the chromosomes were sorted into the gametes.
DNA is a funny thing. It is mathematically possible (but improbable) that you can have a sibling that you do not share a single chromosome with. On the flip side, it is mathematically possible that you have a sibling that you are identical with (but not a twin). And then a whole range in between. This explains why some siblings look so similar and some look totally different. Because some siblings are more “related” to each other than others, genetically.
Congrats on your result! I took the same test with MyHeritage DNA and just like you, was totally shocked with the result:
Expectation: 100% Asian with predominantly Malay and a mix of Chinese and Arab (as told by older family members for years)
Actual result:
48.1% Thai and Cambodian
36.3% Filipino, Indonesian and Malay
9.5% South Asian
2.5% Baltic
2.1% Central Asian
1.5% Finnish
I was most shocked that I am not even had Malay as the majority component, the 4% European mixes (which is totally unexpected) and the 2.1% Central Asian component. 0% Chinese and 0% Arab ouch! I have now made a vow that I will visit all the countries of my ancestors and have gained a new appreciation towards some of these countries which I never had before.
Visited: Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia (motherland), Finland
Top of the list to visit soon: Cambodia, India, Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan)
Adding to all these is the fact that I lived in the United Kingdom.