Ethnically Ambiguous Woman Shocked By DNA Test Results

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
  • In this video, Lady Decade discussed the results of her Ancestry DNA test.
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  • @joesretrostuff
    @joesretrostuff 11 месяцев назад +73

    That's genuinely interesting, had always assumed you were of Indian heritage like most people probably did. Thanks for sharing with us, not that it was any of our business! Fascinating look at our history as a country too

    • @Tore_Lund
      @Tore_Lund 10 месяцев назад

      The DNA test just proves most Scots are Indian.

    • @ninagill1407
      @ninagill1407 10 месяцев назад +4

      I’m of Indian heritage (North Indian Punjabi) and have exactly the same colouring as her.

    • @MrJeffcoley1
      @MrJeffcoley1 10 месяцев назад +3

      My wife took a DNA test. She always thought her family was German, but the DNA said she's Scandanavian. Which isn't really surprising - the Scandanavians are Germanic people, and the countries are all close together geographically. Her family did indeed immigrate from Germany, but they come from a part of northern Germany where a lot of the people are of Danish ethnicity. Denmark shares a border with Germany.

    • @Women-hate-me
      @Women-hate-me 6 месяцев назад

      ​​That's why he said Indian bcuz she mixed when her grand father migrated and mixed but north indian have european DNA way back already without even migration. ​@@ninagill1407

  • @GamingPalOllieMK
    @GamingPalOllieMK 11 месяцев назад +98

    I've thought about this many times and this video confirms it, you'd make an amazing teacher. I don't know what your non youtube job is, but god you are so well spoken and explain things so clearly you're a born teacher if you don't happen to be one already.

    • @sadetwizelve
      @sadetwizelve 11 месяцев назад +3

      How? She doesn't TEACH anything,she reports...She'd make a good journalist and reporter because of the research she does and presenting it.

    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa 11 месяцев назад +9

      *slight curtain pullback*
      She and her husband are both teachers 🐢

    • @messagedeleted1922
      @messagedeleted1922 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@sadetwizelvewhut. So you don't understand what reporting is Reporting involved current events. Talking about the past, reporting if you'd even like to use the word, is teaching.

    • @UninvitedGhost
      @UninvitedGhost 11 месяцев назад +1

      Writing a script for (or having your script written for you for) your entire class word for word everyday seems like a lot more work than doing occasional videos.

    • @c0d3warrior
      @c0d3warrior 11 месяцев назад +1

      Lol, I love the phrase "non-RUclips job" 😂

  • @PassportBrosBusinessClass
    @PassportBrosBusinessClass 11 месяцев назад +19

    When I look at you I see the Greek.
    Mirina Sirtis is EXACTLY what I thought. And you sound like her too.

  • @songoku9348
    @songoku9348 11 месяцев назад +150

    Lady decade is lady decade. Her beauty, feet and games are all that matters.

  • @Scott-fj9uf
    @Scott-fj9uf 11 месяцев назад +26

    Dhalsim’s theme. Too good!

    • @JohnnyProctor9
      @JohnnyProctor9 11 месяцев назад +7

      So can she breathe fire then? 😉

  • @vic5015
    @vic5015 11 месяцев назад +7

    "You're all German, really."
    Me:

  • @alucardxxz
    @alucardxxz 11 месяцев назад +13

    I didn’t think I’d watch this and love every second of it but here we are on my third watch and I’m literally entranced and entertained by your genetic history. PLEASE keep just switching it up with these videos, this one was a cool one to watch

  • @lordlycanthrope7059
    @lordlycanthrope7059 11 месяцев назад +27

    I always love hearing about geneaology and the differences/simularities between all peoples. Being able to fill in blanks to our personal histories is fadcinating.

  • @Girichoko
    @Girichoko 11 месяцев назад +89

    People may not know this but in Sri Lanka, there is a ancient method to determine your heritage. There are specific parts of the sole of you feet that reveals where you are from. If you'll be so kind to show us you feet we can determine for sure what makes you so special. 🧐

    • @LadyDecade
      @LadyDecade  11 месяцев назад +56

      👣

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 11 месяцев назад +19

      😂😂😂😂

    • @DafyddBrooks
      @DafyddBrooks 11 месяцев назад +13

      hahahahahahah AMAZING, hats off to you :)

    • @JamieBainbridge
      @JamieBainbridge 11 месяцев назад +11

      Was in tears trying to read this comment out to my partner, well done 😅

    • @retrovintageaddict2492
      @retrovintageaddict2492 11 месяцев назад +6

      Very rarely does a comment make me laugh, or even get a smirk out of me. You, kind fellow, made me snort. Thank you

  • @brett6239
    @brett6239 11 месяцев назад +29

    Ancestry DNA often has trouble seeing differences in ethinicities in the British Isles because they are all so closely related. You may see this change in future updates. For example, my nephew kept coming back with very high rates of Scottish but no English. Even though his father has a ton of English. Later it was updated and came back with a high degree of English as well.

    • @54356776
      @54356776 11 месяцев назад +1

      Unless it's done professionally its just nonsense. All these websites are a waste of time.

    • @mver191
      @mver191 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@54356776It's not. It's quite accurate.

    • @lazarushernandez5827
      @lazarushernandez5827 10 месяцев назад +8

      That's the key, as more people try their service, the library grows and the results become more fine tuned.

    • @rymic72
      @rymic72 10 месяцев назад +1

      Misattributed paternity is an extremely common thing and has been for centuries.

    • @brett6239
      @brett6239 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@rymic72 No he has like 25% DNA in common with me.

  • @JiltedValkyrie
    @JiltedValkyrie 11 месяцев назад +25

    I'm loving these non-gaming videos, too! Your essay prowess and editing is a great fit for just about any topic. Thanks for sharing a bit of your story!

    • @rufon5562
      @rufon5562 11 месяцев назад +1

      She's going red pill

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 10 месяцев назад

      There's the odd inaccuracy though, the Anglo-Saxons (I'm as close to an Angle as you'll ever find) were 4 tribes just the 2 largest were the Angles and Saxons. The 3rd largest were the Jutes who mostly settled in the region named after them (Jutland). I've forgotten who the 4th were. Next and this is a common error made to simplify the subject, no one came from Germany as it didn't exist until the 19th century, that whole region was part of the Danelaw, in fact it was considered to be Denmark itself. The Danelaw spread across continental north western Europe except Scandinavia and controlled all the islands of the north Atlantic up to and including Greenland, the only place back then that escaped the Danelaw was British Isles where the Anglo-Saxons eventually defeated the Danish invasion. Didn't last though, they were finished off by a bunch of French speaking Norwegians from Normandy.

  • @MINKIN2
    @MINKIN2 11 месяцев назад +55

    A friend of mine had a DNA test. Said she was 0.2% native American. She went out and bought every dream catcher and "faux fur" animal pelt she could find.
    Thing was, she came from a mining town in the north of England. Like one of those towns where it's so rare for someone to leave, that the whole town comes out to see them off.

    • @TheBusyJane
      @TheBusyJane 10 месяцев назад +11

      I've seen stuff like this. I have a hypothesis I'm not educated enough in genealogy to make, but make anyway. I think stuff like that happens for ethnic groups that testing company doesn't have enough info on. I remember seeing a video of Middle Eastern people taking a DNA test, but the test they took was primarily researched for European Jews, so nearly all got a small percent Jewish, when it seems more likely that's just Middle Eastern DNA common in European Jews because of their Middle East ancestry.
      So in your friend's case, I think it's more likely a bunch of English people from her area went to America early on and their DNA became common enough in Native Americans to be assumed Native than an Indigenous American great-great-grandmother.

    • @jamegumb7298
      @jamegumb7298 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheBusyJane My dad is black-Amerindian with a Jewish Portuguese maraner last name, and my mom is Volga German-Dutch with some Nenet somewhere.
      Whatever surprise the test has for me, I will believe it. I do wonder how much of each (white, black, Asian, Indian, latino, jew, slav) it will show.

    • @loosilu
      @loosilu 10 месяцев назад +3

      One American or Canadian a few generations back could account for it.

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@TheBusyJane
      Seeing as Islam grew out of Judaism is it that surprising? Ethiopians are also derived from Jewish tribes that migrated there in Biblical times which recently following extensive DNA studies led to them being fully accepted as a Semitic tribe by Israel and Jewish faith leaders. Fun fact: The Qur'an was compiled by the Jews of Medina after Mohammed's death, their aim was to record his teachings for posterity as he himself was illiterate so wrote nothing down.

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@TheBusyJane
      As the Vikings colonised parts of North America I think it's more likely the interchange of genetics between modern northern Europeans most likely derives from them. You can't really separate the Nors, or any of the Germanic tribes due to constant migration, the first culture that became a unified culture of all Britain were the Orcadians that arrived on Orkney from Scandinavia before colonising the mainland, they were the people that built the stone circles and other monolithic structures the oldest of which are on Orkney, they also invented ball bearings which is how they moved 60 tonne stones across Britain, they didn't have those on Orkney so it is surmised they used beds of slippery seaweed to slide the stones on. There was also a large migration of Neolithic tribes that migrated to the East coast of what is now the US during the last ice age, we know this because for years one of the US's most prized archeological artifacts was a Clovis point arrowhead, these were common in Neolithic France and Spain with thousands discovered in one cave alone. Many of the tribes persecuted during the colonisation of America were from European descent. The point is that Human migration was common in the ancient World, Humans were mostly nomadic before the rise of larger communities in central Europe (the oldest known site is in the Czech Republic and it's possible that it's the place where modern Human society began, the alpha site) again during the last ice age. Discoveries at this site found the oldest hunting nets ever found and the earliest examples of specialisation, the quality of tools found there were manufactured to a standard never found at hunter gatherer sites and none as old made to this standard have ever been found anywhere else on Earth.

  • @greenkoopa
    @greenkoopa 11 месяцев назад +89

    She's Welsh 😬😬🐢

    • @mikesilva3868
      @mikesilva3868 11 месяцев назад +8

      ❤coolest

    • @Seven71987
      @Seven71987 11 месяцев назад +4

      Foreigner

    • @OrunitaVivi
      @OrunitaVivi 11 месяцев назад +11

      Farmers, lock up yer sheep

    • @skeletor7908
      @skeletor7908 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@OrunitaViviwhy? Because you're horny...😂

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 11 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@OrunitaViviThat's just what welsh ladies look like.

  • @issofsar
    @issofsar 10 месяцев назад +2

    I'm 80% English, and I've never left America. Growing up, my family always said my maternal grandmother was Cuban, but I have 0% of any Latin countries.

    • @skeletalforce9673
      @skeletalforce9673 2 месяца назад +1

      Do you have Spanish? The Cuban ancestor might have been fully Spanish by blood, then no latin countries would show up

    • @bgriffiths1840
      @bgriffiths1840 5 дней назад

      There were a lot of Americans and Europeans in Cuba before the revolution. Also, if it was a grandmother and she only had a smaller portion of indigenous or Latin DNA you might just not have inherited it because each generation only passes a random 50% to the next generation. If your mother, siblings, or cousins got tested they might have inherited it.

  • @ItsTheRealMrMaD
    @ItsTheRealMrMaD 11 месяцев назад +19

    Awesome, now that we have your DNA floating around out there, that means we can finally cop us a few ILLEEEEEGAL clones of Lady Decade from the Chinese market 😎😎😎

  • @TheONE10X
    @TheONE10X 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've watched a lot of Lady Decade building my retro library, but landed on this video on accident. Glad I did! I now know a lot more of where I come from than I did when I woke up today. Thank you!

  • @derekwright7447
    @derekwright7447 11 месяцев назад +15

    DNA tests are so weird. I remember when I took one, it said I had 0.01% Japanese DNA from a relative in the 1700s. I was confused but excited. Months later, they updated and said it was a mistake 😂 Now 100% European in origin.

    • @ur-inannak9565
      @ur-inannak9565 10 месяцев назад +3

      Its because we still have ancient DNA that is common to vast swaths of people across different continents. When the tests run into this they just write something that will make people interested and tell their friends about it to make them want to test themselves.

    • @selrahc2061
      @selrahc2061 10 месяцев назад

      Black Irish have Moorish ancestry.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 10 месяцев назад +3

      @selrahc2061
      No. The name comes from their hair colour being darker than the typical brown, red, and later blond heads.

    • @loosilu
      @loosilu 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@nealjroberts4050 Tradition says they came from Spain.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@loosilu
      Not only is tradition wrong but it's also not where Moors come from.

  • @BenSATX
    @BenSATX 11 месяцев назад +5

    Your DNA results are so interesting, thanks for sharing. I kinda want to get my DNA results, it makes you feel more connected with your ancestors in a way.

  • @vampiro664
    @vampiro664 11 месяцев назад +15

    I always thought you were Indian but regardless you are an amazing person. Your videos are very informative and fun.

  • @jonpaul4787
    @jonpaul4787 11 месяцев назад +5

    I once was digging a trench at work during the summer and was very tan. A man walked up to me and started speaking Spanish. When I looked up he jumped backwards and said oh my god I thought you were Mexican. I just said sorry to disappoint and we both laughed.

  • @micky8ball
    @micky8ball 11 месяцев назад +4

    Oh snap? Lady Decade now does world history! Just an idea. I'd definitely be down for it.

  • @TheKingOfAmazing
    @TheKingOfAmazing 11 месяцев назад +18

    This was a very informative video. As a black guy here in the UK it is always interesting to see what peoples exact ethical backgrounds are

    • @patsk8872
      @patsk8872 11 месяцев назад +1

      It would be interesting, if it worked, which it doesn't

    • @ijustneedmyself
      @ijustneedmyself 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@patsk8872Why doesn't it work?

    • @freschcookable
      @freschcookable 11 месяцев назад

      Why do I keep getting recommended this page

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@patsk8872
      Except it absolutely does.
      Mildly interested to find out why you think otherwise though.

    • @54356776
      @54356776 11 месяцев назад

      Me too. Although being ethnically English I get called silly names for being interested in other humans.
      It's built in to us I think and most don't listen to it. But I can usually tell even if someone has irish, german or other very close ancestry.

  • @lagmonster7789
    @lagmonster7789 11 месяцев назад +4

    Lady D, like many British things such as Tea or Whiskey is blended to absolute perfection 😁

  • @CinemaMacabro
    @CinemaMacabro 11 месяцев назад +2

    You can pass for my Puerto Rican cousins in NYC

  • @thepicatrix3150
    @thepicatrix3150 11 месяцев назад +3

    I have never watched Lady Decade and do not know why she popped up in y recommends but she's charming. So I subbed.

  • @benjaminattwell1430
    @benjaminattwell1430 11 месяцев назад +2

    Only in a super pale place like England would anyone consider Lady Decade "brown" here in California she'd be called olive skinned.

    • @dangercat9188
      @dangercat9188 10 месяцев назад +1

      She wouldn't be confused with mexican? I'm Hispanic from the east coast, I have very pale skin (like, anemic looking lol) and I can only imagine what californians would think about me. This woman looks north Indian to me. Or maybe mixed with Punjab and White.

  • @mnibp
    @mnibp 11 месяцев назад +2

    I always stumble on to your videos, and I always end up learning something

  • @tbroschat81
    @tbroschat81 10 месяцев назад +3

    I thought you were Indian because… to me, you look Indian, and with that the British accent also made a lot of sense.

  • @gonzaloNMF
    @gonzaloNMF 11 месяцев назад +4

    You bear a resemblance to Charlie Murphy, so 100% British.

    • @LadyDecade
      @LadyDecade  11 месяцев назад +7

      I'm Rick James bitch lol

  • @mver191
    @mver191 11 месяцев назад +3

    English DNA is tricky because it's in itself a mix of Celtic/German/Scandinavian DNA which are also groups on their own.
    So if a segment on your DNA is slightly more Celtic than other groups it gets assigned as Celtic (Scotland/Wales/Ireland). If your family is from York you'd probably have a higher percentage of Scandinavian than other groups on segments and thus it will be assigned as Scandinavian.
    Only people with a very balanced out profile between these groups in their segments (+-30% sca, +-30% celtic, +-30% german, +-10% other) will get assigned as "English", because if they loosen the strict definition for assignment a lot more of Dutch/Germans/Scandinavians would be wrongly assigned as "English" while it is the other way around.
    Then there is the "between" group. If your mom is from Russia and you dad is from the UK you will have a chance you'll test Polish despite having no ancestors in Poland. It's just the group what your DNA is most like as a +-50% mix of germanic/slavic.

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 10 месяцев назад +1

      English and northwest European includes Normandy, Franco German borders down to Switzerland. Genetics blends unlike borders

  • @JonathanHenry
    @JonathanHenry 11 месяцев назад +2

    My family has roots in America going back to the 1500s. Most recently we came out of Ireland and Austria. But i'm 400 years of grab bag American. When i lived in Germany i learned i had a lot of family in Austria. But they all felt as if i was coming to take something away from them. Gods only know what that's about. But i did get to meet one of the blacksheep. He was nice enough.

  • @bryansmith1920
    @bryansmith1920 10 месяцев назад

    I'm 69yrs old one of my Grandparents actually descended from one of Seven families named in Magna Carter of people living in London, But Nobody lived in the British Isles, when they were buried under a half-mile thick sheet of Ice, Appart from Woolly Mammoths

  • @CrimsonDamian
    @CrimsonDamian 11 месяцев назад +9

    Definitely an interested video. I never really wondered what your heritages were since it never crossed my mind, but cool that you got to find out more about yourself. ^v^ I personally already knew what my heritages were since all my family were pretty vocal about being things like Irish, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Native American, Swedish, and such. So I never had an interest in doing the tests, but i definitely understand why people would want to, especially if their family never talked much about it.

    • @mercster
      @mercster 11 месяцев назад +2

      Families can misremember/fudge the truth, of course, you know that right? ;-) It's not even a bad thing, it's just... while oral histories are indeed very important, they aren't the gold standard of evidence. You may have a large chunk of ethnicity you never knew, because that part of the family history isn't talked about/forgotten/etc.

    • @CrimsonDamian
      @CrimsonDamian 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@mercster perhaps. I can see maybe some families may not want to be as open or supportive of some part or another of their lineage, and many may not be as open as mine has been. I'm not discouraging the idea of anyone looking into it for themselves, just mostly saying I never had the need for it myself, since my family always kept things like birth records, photos, family trees, so I know pretty much what all is there outside of maybe some stray .5% or something of that nature.

    • @mercster
      @mercster 11 месяцев назад

      @@CrimsonDamian So they have birth records, photos, and family trees going back 1000 years? I think you may be underestimating the amount of genetic variance... someone could have birth records going back for 300 years and absolutely believe they are 100% "something"... but way back before, had admixture with something else. It's not a question of whether your family is "open" or not, it's just the huge amount of data one would need to be "sure." I mean if you don't care, I don't care... I'm just lettin' ya know "I don't need a test because my family is open and honest about our genealogy" is a rather myopic statement. It's making a lot of assumptions and diminishing the very real possibility of gaps in the knowledge, no matter how "open" they are. But hey, like I said... if ya don't care, save yourself the $80 or whatever! Doesn't matter in the end, some people are more curious than others.

  • @gtvrossa
    @gtvrossa 11 месяцев назад +3

    This explains why she's gorgeous! Love her skin tone.

  • @ThatArabGirl10
    @ThatArabGirl10 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'm Eastern European Jewish, Greek, Italian, Turkish and from all over the Middle East. I'm proud of everything that I am.

  • @thesonofdormammu5475
    @thesonofdormammu5475 11 месяцев назад +7

    I got a DNA test and then some people in black suits and sunglasses showed up at my house and I had to slip out the back. Now I'm on the run and going by the name sonofdormammu. I thought it was weird that my mom always told me NOT to get a DNA test before she hopped on this weird round plane for a "business trip". I haven't seen her since.
    It feels so good to get that off my chest. Thanks!

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug92 10 месяцев назад +3

    1. These tests use quite a small part of your DNA, and two siblings might get quite different results because even though they're 50/50 of their parents they're a different combination of that 50/50
    2. Greek/South Italian might actually be Etruscan (which were Greek city-states in Italy) or from Magna Graecia rather than Roman.

  • @kessiawright1710
    @kessiawright1710 10 месяцев назад

    I did 23&me. I had a bit of surprise because I have family who are First Nation. I did not have that in my results.
    On my father's side, he and one of my brother's met a cousin who is First Nation. The family oral history, although not much is known, is that everytime there was a sentence when my father was growing up, that they gave them a different European country each time to protect the family. This was during the residental school days when Native kids were removed from their home and forced to go to a boarding school to try and remove their culture.
    So the DNA results gave different information. I knew that we are Irish and English, just not the percentages.
    I used to daydream that I was switched at birth when I was a kid. I was not. The test showed that I was indeed my parents biological daughter.
    The test also showed that I was almost 50% Irish and 50% English. I have a pinch of generic Scandinavian, as well.
    It was still interesting, but I didn't expect those percentages.

  • @brichan1851
    @brichan1851 11 месяцев назад +3

    No matter what you are, you’re 100% Lady Decade!

  • @LeandroFTW
    @LeandroFTW 11 месяцев назад +3

    I did a DNA test back in 2017 and my results keep changing.

    • @sepheronx
      @sepheronx 10 месяцев назад

      Someone has invented a time machine and is having fun with your ancestors.

    • @susanshomebiz
      @susanshomebiz 10 месяцев назад +1

      I came here to say the same thing. I used to be 14% Italian and then I went to Italy where the locals all thought I was full Italian. Then later I checked my DNA results and now I’m 0% Italian. And one of the two highest results keep changing all over the continent. I have to log in periodically when people ask what am I just to confirm my latest results!~ 😂

  • @nilstiman2474
    @nilstiman2474 11 месяцев назад +2

    I'm half Swedish and half Sri Lankan. My grandparents were from Tamil Nadu.

  • @cheekyfragrance
    @cheekyfragrance 11 месяцев назад +1

    This was genuinely interesting, thank you, enjoyed it

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 11 месяцев назад +1

    I always figured Lady Decade was Indian was because she reminds me of that character from Thin Blue Line.

  • @pitmatix1457
    @pitmatix1457 10 месяцев назад +1

    That was quite a fun and interesting diversion from the normal gaming content. The Tamil people I know (I've met a fair few living in South London) are quite dark so it makes sense that even one quarter Tamil is going to give you an overall skin tone and eye colour that is quite "Mediterranean" even when the rest of your genetic makeup is very Northern European.

  • @MikeB-in1nd
    @MikeB-in1nd 9 месяцев назад +1

    I did my DNA and live in USA but I’m not Native American I found out I’m 98% European.

  • @bjrnegillarsen1380
    @bjrnegillarsen1380 11 месяцев назад +1

    Something to keep in mind with scandinavian ancestry is that in addition to the vikings Norway at one point had the worlds 3rd largest merchant fleet, and during WWII the norwegian army in exile were stationed in Scotland.

  • @ladyv5655
    @ladyv5655 10 месяцев назад +1

    There are mistakes sometimes. My DNA profile showed a small amount of Polynesian DNA, but later it was re examined and I am really mostly Scottish with Irish, English, French, Dutch and Scandinavian. In other words, genetically similar to my ancestors who settled in the New England, New York and Canadian colonies.

  • @TheBl00D1u5t
    @TheBl00D1u5t 11 месяцев назад +4

    Wonderfully ambiguous 😅 honestly actually pretty unique! Fun fact about the 0.8% mesoamerican, the aztec empire spread all the way to brazil and even cuba at certain times, and the vikings came to the americas for trade and plunder pretty regularly. Apparently there was a lady somewhere in those piles of riches 😂

  • @CarbonatedTurtle
    @CarbonatedTurtle 11 месяцев назад +2

    I always enjoy your gaming videos, but it's fun to see you do something completely different and I'd be happy to see more of it. 🙂

  • @bulletsforteeth5029
    @bulletsforteeth5029 11 месяцев назад +2

    A friend of mine had a DNA test done... They said he was genetically linked to various cultures of the UK as well, Welsh, Irish, etc. etc. The funny thing is his great grand parents spoke fluent German. 🍺😂🌭

  • @sillycookie1982
    @sillycookie1982 10 месяцев назад

    My uncle married a woman with Welsh heritage. My cousin is very dark with deep Hazel eyes. He looks middle Eastern. His tan is mental and people talk to him in their language on foreign holidays too lol

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 5 месяцев назад

    As I like to say:
    *_"You DO choose your FRIENDS."_*
    *_"You DO NOT choose your DNA."_*

  • @antoinedodsonsbandana5856
    @antoinedodsonsbandana5856 10 месяцев назад +1

    A really interesting video. I never really gave it too much thought, but I assumed her ethnicity was Indian.

  • @StephenWestSyd
    @StephenWestSyd 11 месяцев назад

    I know a guy whose dad was full British and his mum was British Indian of 3 generations in India. He is British looking except you can see in his eyes he has Indian heritage. His younger brother is fully brown. Products of the East India trading company!

  • @Sonicstillpoint83
    @Sonicstillpoint83 10 месяцев назад

    Bravelle! These types of videos are always so interesting, kind of like living history books.

  • @aaldrich1982
    @aaldrich1982 11 месяцев назад +2

    A great video, really interesting and your usual funny self. I guess it just shows that you're a great youtuber and I think that if you're passionate about what you're talking about, it's unskippable for me.

  • @littleannie390
    @littleannie390 7 месяцев назад

    Actually not all ancient Britons were celts. The celts mainly settled in Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and migrated originally from Brittany and Iberia but the oldest tribes of ancient Britain (known as the beaker people because of their pottery) were here a long time before that and there is much debate about where they came from.

  • @peterullinger2814
    @peterullinger2814 11 месяцев назад

    "“And now imagine your line of ancestors - since the birth of Christ. There was a Roman captain, a black guy, brown as a ripe olive, who taught Latin to a blonde girl. And then a Jewish spice dealer came into the family. He was a serious person who became a Christian before he got married and founded the Catholic household tradition. - And then a Greek doctor came along, or a Celtic legionnaire, a Graubünden Landsknecht, a Swedish rider, a soldier of Napoleon, a deserted Cossack, a Black Forest seafarer, a wandering miller's boy from Alsace, a fat sailor from Holland, a Magyar Pandur, an officer from Vienna, a French actor, a Bohemian musician - they all lived on the Rhine, fought, drank and sang and fathered children - and - and Goethe, who came from the same pot, and Beethoven and Gutenberg, and Matthias Grünewald, and - oh well, look it up in the dictionary. They were the best, my dear! The worlds best! And why? Because the peoples mixed there. Mixed together - like the waters from springs and streams and rivers, so that they run together into one great, living stream." Harras in Des Teufels General from Carl Zuckmayer.
    There are some problematic last three sentences I let out here, but the point still stands and goes for all corners of our earth..

  • @vinista256
    @vinista256 10 месяцев назад +1

    I had the same result in my “English” ancestry (which should have been roughly 25%)-none of it was actually “English”. It was a combination of Welsh (native Briton?), Scottish, and Norwegian (Viking?). Like you, I get the “where are you from?” thing a lot, in spite of the fact that I was born in Washington DC, I didn’t set foot outside the United States until I was 26, my parents were both born in the states, and some of my ancestors arrived in the colonies in the early 17th century. My most abundant ethnicity is actually Nordic (some via my putative British line and most via my grandmother, whose parents immigrated from Norway); however, my Sicilian and Jewish genes determined my phenotype. When I get angry and someone makes a comment about my fiery Italian temper, I say, “no-it actually comes from my pillaging Viking ancestors!”

  • @jonathanwobesky9507
    @jonathanwobesky9507 10 месяцев назад

    The Celts were a mid European continent tribe and a few of them made it to Britain long after it was fully settled from quite a few places over many thousands of years. In the mid 18th century the name was co-opted for commercial reasons.

    • @hoodswell1
      @hoodswell1 10 месяцев назад

      That view is being challenged recently. Celts may have come from the west.

  • @BowsettesFury
    @BowsettesFury 11 месяцев назад +2

    Pretty cool vid, I never thought about it to be honest. I can see the Irish though.
    Mostly just always thought “she’s pretty.” Fairly sure this was quite the journey for you.❤👍
    Would be hilarious if the Scottish part took over and she couldn’t say purple burglar alarm. 😂

  • @deltasyn7434
    @deltasyn7434 11 месяцев назад

    Not only is England's genealogy messy. So is the language. How the hell did Old English evolve into what we speak today?

  • @joeyparkhill8751
    @joeyparkhill8751 11 месяцев назад +11

    This was really cool to watch, Lady Decade! Thanks! As an American, I've learned more history about the world watching this video than listening to a fellow American talk about it!

  • @janetmiller2980
    @janetmiller2980 10 месяцев назад

    That's interesting results and history of the Tamil peoples of Sri Lanka. I did Ancestry DNA and IIRC showed 74% from the UK, what they consider England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; 19% from the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (not surprising with a great grandfather from Hamburg, a few hours from Denmark), and most of the rest from various Western European countries.
    The surprise was 1% from the former French colonies of northern Africa. Years before doing the test I had married a French speaking indigenous North African from Algeria, maybe this marriage was a subconscious going home.

  • @MrJeffcoley1
    @MrJeffcoley1 10 месяцев назад

    Welsh singer Tom Jones was known to American audiences first by his voice, which led many to believe he was black. Then they say the Welsh crooner on TV ... and still weren't sure.

  • @Aeonova
    @Aeonova 11 месяцев назад +1

    DNA now on file. A necessity for gracious cloning.
    In all seriousness, as an American, I found your presentation here very interesting.
    My smol brain grew 3 sizes that day.

  • @LupinKing
    @LupinKing 5 месяцев назад

    Ngl, your Greek/Southern Italian dna, though a smaller percentage, definitely went hard in the paint, because the first time I saw one of your videos (about 2 hours ago, before I started my binge, lol) I immediately thought you reminded me of Mirina Sirtis 😂

  • @mercster
    @mercster 11 месяцев назад +2

    Interesting! Yeah I always wondered, I thought maybe South Asian or Persian. 😏 I did one of those tests too, I'm 52% French/German, 15.7% British/Irish, and 26.8% Polish. Curiously it also says 0.2% North Indian/Pakistani, which... I'm white as a ghost. I think those trace things are either statistical anomalies or, some very slight hint of the Indo-European peoples coming through from tens of thousands of years ago or whatever. Thanks for the video.

  • @johnmurray9654
    @johnmurray9654 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'll pass as Hispanic to amuse myself. Strangers tend to play up their love for tacos and burritos when they're going for 'friendly,' so it's not hard. One time, I was cleaning the trunk of my 4Runner in a parking lot, a couple of guys came and thrusted cash at me. Asked for some tamales with a side of salsa. Told him I'd like some too.

    • @dangercat9188
      @dangercat9188 10 месяцев назад

      So all of us Hispanics are mexican? Ok 🤦‍♂️

  • @benhiatt307
    @benhiatt307 10 месяцев назад

    Fun fact. Celts were not the first people in the British Isles.

  • @jeffreyjeffrey007
    @jeffreyjeffrey007 11 месяцев назад

    The editing with all the context images and gifs, and the meme reactions is engaging. Your dresses are fun too. Keep it up ^_^

  • @alunevans380
    @alunevans380 10 месяцев назад

    The Celts are the ancient ancestors of the millions of British indigenous people of the UK today.

  • @Paradigmfusion
    @Paradigmfusion 11 месяцев назад +2

    Well keeping in mind we share about 60% of our DNA with a Banana. Nothing really surprises me. Plus if you think about it really hard and go back far enough, we are all related in 1 way or another.

  • @RustBunny
    @RustBunny 11 месяцев назад +3

    I've considered trying one of these tests out. I hit a couple roadblocks trying to piece together my family tree and that was only going back a few generations; to the best of my knowledge, both sides of the family came from Europe late 19th into early 20th century, but I couldn't make much progress there. While this likely wouldn't help sort through some of those issues, it'd be something to add on to the side.

    • @ArtofLunatik
      @ArtofLunatik 11 месяцев назад

      Im considering too because i dont know shit about my family history, im adopted and i dont know my real parents.

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 10 месяцев назад

      What these vidz overlook is the cousin matches...

  • @shawn_530
    @shawn_530 11 месяцев назад

    This was really cool. Thanks for sharing!

  • @TheWtfnonamez
    @TheWtfnonamez 10 месяцев назад

    I have been on 23andme for years, and I dont trust any of it anymore.
    First off, my personal results changed over time.
    I used to have all kinds of results from different countries in Europe, and some in Eastern Europe.
    Over the years this has gradually morphed into 99% British.
    Personally I think this is the result of two factors:
    1. Its not historical DNA.
    They dont have a time machine so your results are heavily skewed by the test results of other people. They are essentially polling the populations NOW, and comparing you to DNA people have in those locations NOW. Given that Im Anglo Saxon, and my mother descended from Eastern Europe, its pretty bizarre that those traits have gradually disappeared.
    2. They are trying to promote their genealogy service
    The more they push the whole "trace your family tree" services, the less information they gave on genetic makeup.
    When I signed up I thought it was science.
    After watching my DNA results do a complete about-turn over several years I think the whole thing is nonsense.
    They comparing you to DNA found in some cave man frozen in ice two thousand years ago, they are calculating a mean average on the fly, based on the results of their customers.

  • @randywilson944
    @randywilson944 10 месяцев назад

    When someone asks me where I’m from, I ask them if they’re taking the census ✍️ End of conversation 😂

  • @zeuso.1947
    @zeuso.1947 10 месяцев назад

    As a fellow Welch, welcome to the family.

  • @kilerscn
    @kilerscn 5 месяцев назад

    Although the Angles were situated where Denmark is now they were actually Germanic at the time.
    The Scots were originally Picts and the Irish were originally Scots.

  • @Sanya4561
    @Sanya4561 10 месяцев назад

    I did like to hear these things about your Ancestry Lady! :) To be honest our Ancestry doesn`t matter to us cuz you not being more or less... I wanted to say you`re beautiful. :)

  • @martinvanburen4578
    @martinvanburen4578 10 месяцев назад

    When you have dark hair in Britain, there is no mystery that you have a different ethnic background. The history of Britain is a drive towards and love of blonde hair and blue eyes. All one has to do is scan English literature and see this but the easiest is the case of Captain Richard Burton, the traveler, soldier and general man about the world from the 1800's. He was called a gypsy for having dark hair.

  • @Damnmel
    @Damnmel 11 месяцев назад +1

    Every mixed girl has heard “WHY ARE YOU BROWN,” to the point of exhaustion. ❤

    • @stephenfisher3721
      @stephenfisher3721 10 месяцев назад

      I am in the United States. I do not hear "brown" being used. What country are you in?

    • @Damnmel
      @Damnmel 9 месяцев назад

      @@stephenfisher3721 It’s an umbrella term for POC.

  • @spartansfan1026
    @spartansfan1026 7 месяцев назад

    Ahah, you always seemed so familiar to me, and now that you mentioned other people think you have a resemblance to Marina Sirtis, I realize that's exactly why! Very cool to hear your results.

  • @damiensadventure
    @damiensadventure 11 месяцев назад

    I found this to be really cool! Thank you for sharing with us!

  • @jamescorvus6709
    @jamescorvus6709 11 месяцев назад +5

    I'm 4% white European, 1.5% Native American and 94% Black African. I can get an EU Citizenship right?

    • @xkidmidnightx
      @xkidmidnightx 11 месяцев назад

      How about a ticket back to Africa

  • @lukeshioshio
    @lukeshioshio 11 месяцев назад

    A lot of the comments didn't get to the end of the video, because you are part Sri Lankan. Interesting video, thank you!

  • @HYTELES
    @HYTELES 9 месяцев назад

    I am 100% European, 66% British and I can trace my English ancestry back to the 1600s. I was thinking I might have Irish blood, but I can't find one ancestor who was Irish. I am also 23% Swedish/Denmark. It's interesting that by blood I am more British and European than a large percentage of British or Europeans who exist on the continent and hold citizenship. I am American.

  • @dantheman9784
    @dantheman9784 10 месяцев назад

    One fact that is left out. The Celts are also not originally from the British Isles, but rather central Europe and they migrated outwards.

  • @chrisbricky7331
    @chrisbricky7331 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing and doing so in a fun and informative way.

  • @loosilu
    @loosilu 10 месяцев назад

    My mother is pure Quebecois, many of whom came from Normandy. No ancestry test can differentiate between Northwest France and British DNA. So she comes out as British, French, a small amount of Italian, and about 2% Native American. This is very typical of Quebecois. I have yet to run across a Quebecer who doesn't have that little slice of Native American.

  • @Stoonk
    @Stoonk 11 месяцев назад

    As an American this is all mindblowing. You're all english to me

  • @jazzman81
    @jazzman81 11 месяцев назад

    This was such and informative video in Britain history. Thanks for sharing some of your personal background!!!! Ur mad cool!!

  • @zaciroth
    @zaciroth 11 месяцев назад

    Congrats .A bit of correction, Scandinavians,, Saxons, and Danes are all Germanic. The Celtic people in England proper weren't displaced but absorbed and became "English" over time. Also the Celts in Scotland and some places of Ireland had their own Germanic invasions and connections. Also all of these people are closely related west Indo-European peoples.

  • @caiobueno666
    @caiobueno666 11 месяцев назад +1

    I don't care of skin color because I'm brazilian and most of brazilian people is, at least , product of 4 etnical groups: bants, angolans, portugueses and native brazilians like the Tupi-Guarani tribes, your semblances of indian women never lied to me, because there are so many indians and other people that migrated to my country, and there mixes of blacks, browns and white people in the entire country. It's really very common couples of white blonde women and a black man here. However if my wife didn't unfertile, we'd a son or daughter blond of pulled eyes, my wife is at great part descendant of japanese. My like and subscryption at your channel is guaranteed. I liked very much of your videos, so congratulations about this one!

  • @itzdm0r3
    @itzdm0r3 11 месяцев назад

    Awesome video, thanks for sharing some of your history.

  • @purplepanther2771
    @purplepanther2771 9 месяцев назад

    That's a good explanation. It's why the Irish get the highest amount of "British & Irish", and the Eastern English get the lowest amount.

  • @txmeats
    @txmeats 11 месяцев назад

    When I started watching your videos, I knew that some of your ancestors were from India. You are just a lovely person all around, sense of humor, articulation, and intelligence. Just be you.

  • @liamconverse8950
    @liamconverse8950 10 месяцев назад

    I don't know what company you used but for 23andMe they actually consider British and Irish the same thing so they just have a category called British and Irish and they said Im 95% that. I think they put a half a percent of some random stuff in just to keep people interested or something.

  • @tomhalla426
    @tomhalla426 11 месяцев назад

    For the US, she is not all that dark. My first guess would have been Greek or Eastern Med, but North India is plausible, as she has some resemblance to Nikki Haley, whose family is Punjabi.

  • @maestroicarodecarvalho3947
    @maestroicarodecarvalho3947 11 месяцев назад +1

    Its funny how genetics work... i have almost nothing from arabian/levantine/north African dna, yet i easily pass as an inhabitant from these parts of the world.
    I would never thought you are so much north european/nordic, but at the same time its quite relatable to me to have people asking me what my ethnicity is.