If you are partly Kurdish, you shouldn't wonder that you get a lot of Iran. Kurds are Iranian (or better "Iranic"). As a half-Kurd I got 93% Iran and 7% Anatolia and Caucasus. My mother's side is Talysh and the Talysh people are Iranic as well. Turkey doesn't mean "Turkish" by the way, it means native Anatolian.
@@spyderr_exe Most people associate Iranian with a synonym of Persian but this is not true at all. It is like saying that Germanic and German are the same.
@@ermioniburgess8720 Central Asia is not pure Turkic. The ancient Turks were from the Manchuria or Mongolia and not from Central Asia. The Turks of Turkey are a mixed nation. Most of their ancestry comes from the native Anatolians (Luwians, Hittites, Lydians, etc.).
@@desertboy1162 Come to think about it most people are some shade of light to dark brown (with the exception of albinos who are literally white and Irish who are light pink...)
Yeah I really don't understand that at all. This woman actually looks very typically Middle Eastern in not just coloration but her facial features. And white Westerners thought she must have a white European parent for her to look like this? I guess it's because the image they have of Middle Easterners is the actors they see in those post 9/11 TV shows, who are usually South Asian.
The DNA doesn't go by BORDERS, it goes by REGION. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq were not countries on the world's maps until 1921, they were created after WWI by British and French colonial powers and after the Ottomans were defeated. Iran (Persian Kingdom), Turkiye (Ottoman Empire), India (British Colony), and Russia (Russian Tzar Empire) were the only countries that existed at the start of 1900 in the region.
I’m also Iraqi!! My parents were born in Iraq And I am Assyrian. I just took a dna test with ancestry and got 54% Middle East, 42% Turkey/ Caucasus and 4% Iran/persia
@@spyderr_exe you're right. Turkey is too much different from middle East. Although many people say Turkey is middle east, basically i disagree with that.
The Assyrian empire travelled and dominated a huge area in that region over 6000 years ago, we also had to flee many conflicts in the past 500 years, as a result we are all over the world now.
Eastern Turkey is highlighted because it used to be Western Armenia and that’s were the majority of Armenians lived during the Ottoman Empire. Also Kurds and Assyrians.
Lot of people are finding out their Armenian ancestry due to Armenians hiding it after fleeing the Ottoman Empire or from Muslim families adopting orphaned Armenians from the genocide.
Armenians we’re not majority in any city of so called Eastern Anatolia, it is not even Anatolia and either Kurdistan or partly Armenia . Eastern Anatolia is a fabricated name of occupier Turks. Please read whatever report from that time (Ottoman) you Cant find a single reliable report claiming that Armenians were majority in region including American and British reports.
I had mine done recently as a white Australian female, knowing a little of our family history and that one part we are descended from the Plantagenets who ruled Britain for over 400 years. Discovered a lot of Viking blood, Swedish, Finnish and Slavic Viking. The rest is French with no African traces at all. But the biggest shock of all was the discovery of a half sister that we never knew that we had. She was the result of a fling that our father had while still married to our mum, and she is 3 months older than my baby sister. We lost my dad last December aged 87 and coot confront him about what he did, but we are left with his irresponsible and selfish behaviour in creating a child (who he never knew about) who was placed into an orphanage. Our father was a rotten husband but a wonderful dad to us and she never got to experience that, which is just so sad. She is coming to meet our mum and aunt and myself on Saturday for the first time. My mum holds no grudge against her at all, despite what dad did, as mum said, she did not ask to be born. So she will be welcome and included into mum’s wonderful family as she is our sister. We are wondering if there are going to be any more that will come out of the woodwork. I am so angry at my dad, for being irresponsible and so careless, and he ruined my parent’s marriage with his infidelity. He raised us to be responsible and accountable yet he didn’t do that himself, and we are the ones dealing with the consequences of his behaviour.
Really not your dad’s fault, blame the woman for not letting it be known and not raising your sister. it’s great that your mom and your family are excepting her into the family, your mother is a great woman/mother. Let nothing and no one take your memories of your dad from you. I think of my dad daily, for 17 years, he got to hold my first grandchild before he passed.
Your family seems like a very loving family. This also happened to us. We r close to our half sister, and mom handled it like your mom, it isn't the half sister's fault. Our half sister, adores our mom. Her mom passed, we went to her funeral to support our sister. Some ppl were surprised, but most were moved by our support for our sister.
As you mentioned in the video, the ethnicity estimate is intended to indicate where you were from 500 to 1000 years ago, so most countries didn't even exist then by their modern names.
The max is ten generations which is roughly the very end of the 1600s into 1700s at max. And modern borders were drawn in the 20th century. Nationalities are also different from ethnicities and races.
Isn't it interesting that today's sovereign states are educating the people within the borders of today's nation states on the absence of Kurds, and this becomes a source of income for some companies. People like us are trying to break the one nation and one state barrier that the dominant mentality is trying to create in the sovereign with our own efforts so that we can reach the truth, but these companies that do DNA testing are not acting with scientific ethics but with commercial logic. Because the truth destroys the one nation logic that the state wants to create, and these commercial companies are not telling the truth, and we are commenting on it. Nobody talks about the Kurds because the Kurds have not had a state for a hundred years and these companies do not see the Kurds.
Caucasian is often used as a synonym for "white" or "of European ancestry". But in anthropology, caucasian or caucasoid usually includes some or all of the populations of Europe, the Caucasus (a region in Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which includes Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and parts of Russia, Turkey and Iran), Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.
the ignorance is real here..........Iraqis and other middle easterns are usually NOT ethnic arabs genetically. Ya'll speak Arabic because ya'll where conquered by the arabs during the 6th century-7th century ad. Iraqis are from ancient non-arabic Sumerians and babylonians. Syrians from ancient non-arabic speaking Assyrians...Eygptians from NON-Arabic speaking Eygptians. etc etc etc
Iraqi is hard to determine the DNA because Iraqis share a lot of DNA with turkish region, Arab and Iranian regions. All overlap in Iraq. I did 23 and me and it says I'm Persian even though my parents and grandparents and great grandparents all come from iraq
I was supposed to be mostly eastern European and northern European. And 25% Ashkenazi Jewish from my grandpa, that's jewish from eastern europe. I found my grandfather's real birth certificate, and his mother was listed with an Arabic name. I found out she was an early Syrian immigrant to America, but apparently my grandfather's father was still Ashkenazi Jewish. I was like my dad has allot of explaining to do, no one ever told me my great grandmother is Arabic. And i got 1% native american
I am part of the Amazigh tribes of Morocco and I always tell my father to stop being racist because no one really knows his origin, I will show him your video to clarify things a little and then I have always said it, no one really knows his origin and where he comes from, we are part of our country by our ideology, our culture and our love for the country not otherwise
Freddie Mercury’s features are similar to yours yet his ethnic region is South Asian. But he looks like he’s of Persian, Iranian descent. You’re quite lovely Btw..
Part of what these DNA companies do is pinpoint your DNA markers with test populations. If they do not have a large enough pool of DNA from a particular area, it is harder for them to pinpoint. Your DNA markers are similar or close to DNA markers in test subjects in the surrounding area. This was a problem with identifying French DNA in European populations, because France doesn't allow home DNA testing (It's better now as they are not strict on blocking DNA testing). When I tested (2017), I showed 0% English, yet my dad was showing 88%. If we get 50% from each parent, I should have shown some English. Future updates added English in my mix. I now show 31% while my dad's dropped to 67%. Over time, they improve their "precision and recall" of DNA markers and you will probably see Iraqi on a future update.
Here's the crazy thing about these DNA tests: I don't know about Ancestry, but 23&Me (company I had used) had changed my results about a year later. I originally had 8% Scandinavian, 0.9% Italian, and 0.2% Spanish and Portuguese, as well as 35.9% British/Irish (strongest indications towards London, Liverpool, County Dublin, County Cork) and 29.5% French/German (strongest indications Bavarian, and as my paternal grandsire was from East Bavaria, that made sense). Fast forward about a year, and they had changed my percentages to around 51% Brit/Irish, 35ish % (more or less) French/German, and 0% Iberian or Italian but a negligible percentage of East European (which agreed with my being in R-1a-CTS3402 y haplogroup, which I share with Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, as well as some Russian nobles from c. 16-19), and a negligible percentage "Anatolian" (not specified as to Turkish, Pontic Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, Galatian -- as easternmost extension of the Celts, or Hittite). Just be patient; they may change some of your reported DNA percentages, too.
Ancestry does that too. I like to say it’s play play genealogy 😹. They took my mom’s balkins result a couple months ago and left mine. My dad doesn’t have it at all. So it was like wtf…where’d it come from then? Of course I knew lol. They constantly remove and put back. I also have mine on GEDMatch. I put my raw 🧬 there the second my Native and Jewish DNA didn’t appear. Both appeared on that site. It’s a more pro site and it’s free. They don’t sell the tests though. My dad’s Native family rumor was also confirmed there. The really funny thing (ironic funny) was finding out he has higher percentages than my mom. Her Grandmother was half, so it’s like wtf… They also have a section where they match you against remains from past digs. I think they keep that open and add onto it as more are found in the future. That section is a bit fun to play around with as well. There’s also a section, or rather network, where you can find other matches. Distant relatives or even close relatives. For people who want to confirm familial ties and whatnot. Or even if you just want to get in contact with cousins 🤷🏻♀️. They’re really quite thorough with the free section. I’m not sure what the other section has, I’ve never really looked. Plus I’m happy with what I have, but they do have more tools for the more serious hunter. Maybe someday I will, just not right now 😹. Hope you find something you trust more than what you spoke of above lol. Oh another is Familtreedna. They offer the y test too. I if the other site does but I know Ancestry does not. They have the maternal as well.
@@spyderr_exe it's more common among Shias than Sunnis. Persia built a lot of cities in Iraq. These cities converted to Islam, local Mesopotamian semites converted to Islam, and miscenegination fused them together under Shia Islam. Honestly why can't Kurds, Turks, Persians and Arabs mix more and get along as individuals more is beyond me.
Your DNA Test Results aren't saying that you're not Iraqi, they're merely pointing out that the closest matches to your DNA found in Ancestry's Proprietory Data Base where found mostly in areas surrounding Iraq. Now, as more Iraqis take Ancestry's DNA Test then Ancestry's database will grow & likely reflect more matches in Iraq, but maybe not very many, because... Note: from your early comments of how your fellow Iraqis viewed you, these results seem reasonable, as you apparently have a more rare Iraqi look than say the average Iraqi. It appears that many of your traveling relatives either settled down in places outside of Iraq, or at least got their DNA tested while traveling outside of Iraq. You're Iraqi, but most of your relatives who have specifically tested with Ancestry's DNA Test Kit aren't heavily concentrated in Iraq: that's all that this result states. Note: You may have some other heritage that was missed. A DNA test involves over 700,000 snips & if there's a 1% error, then that's over 7,000 snips totally missing their observation - & then some observed snips can get mis-read (especially trace results, if any). Note: In the Philippines there are recognizable Spanish last names that are now rare in Spain. Those now-small families in Spain are still Spanish & some may have more relatives living outside of Spain than actually living in Spain now. So much can happen over time. While DNA test results can help answer some questions, they can also raise some questions. It's all very interesting - fascinating even. BTW: The only English I dectect in you is your accent. 😄👍
Your cross over points tells you what you are and it all crosses over into Iraq and the Caucasian Turkish is white. They came from these regions and mixed in Iraq which was also Babylon. It's telling you you're migration patterns and the cross over points are where you ended up.
Wow you look a lot like Amy winehouse who was Ashkenazi/European Jewish. Jews are genetically mostly middle eastern so it makes sense that Jews resemble lots of middle eastern groups
Ancestry does not go back 1,000 years because it compares your dna to population panels of people today. Any discrepancy is most probably due to lack of samples from some regions. Also you should compare to someone of a similar ethnicity and you most probably will have similar results.
@@spyderr_exe They do get it pretty correct although they mostly will compare old world populations. For example a Brazilian will have an Ancestry Comp of mostly Spanish/Portuguese, Amerindian and some SSA. Some companies are also better than others.
Interesting video! I think the reason, why you don't have any Iraqi DNA is because they don't have a specific category for Iraqi people. That would also explain, why all of the population groups were around Iraq
@@spyderr_exe. Plus know that your report will change through time as the database changes. Interesting stuff! Plus your familial “hits” will also change through time as the database changes! Have fun.
Many Somalis trace their ancestors to Sheikh ishaaq Binu Hashim a preacher from Iraq who travelled in Arab world and settled in east Africa in the 12th century CE
I am 5% Native American but my 3rd Cousin has NO Native American Blood.. but our Great Grandparents are Full Blooded Brothers AND sisters .. and the Native American came from the Woman’s side of the family.. our Great Great Grandmother 👨💻
I have an Iranian friend (I'm Iranian as well, btw), and she had like, 1-2%, I think, but I beliebe it was extended further back than 1000 years, I think. I'm not completely certain, though.
DNA can be lost over the generations. It is NOT a complete picture of anyone's ancestry, but will be closest for those few people who didn't ever mix much...which would probably be rare.
Iraq wasnt a country until after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It was also at the cross roads of many cultures. Especially the Turkic, Iranic, and Arabic peoples.
@@Ambrosia- you dont need to be born in Türkiye to be Turkish. Turkey has laws which state that the government has to give citizenship to any minority of turkish origin from neighbouring countries. if your parents are ottoman turks in bulgaria, greece, or turkmens from iraq, syria - government gives you citizenship if you demand
It helps to get parents, grandparents, aunts uncles, and cousins and stuff tested because they may have inherited something that you haven’t. For example your parents or grandparent may have a very small amount of south Asian and it just didn’t get passed down to you
There are Iraqi and Syrian people who had light hair and blue eyes, it’s not uncommon. My cousin is half German and half Lebanese, so he thought his blond hair was from his German mom. Then he found his Lebanese siblings via Ancestry, and his dad was full Lebanese had blond hair and blue eyes. It’s not as common, but some people have lighter features.
Iraq is a nation not an ethnicity. The Persians were everywhere around there. I had some friends from Iran and they were quite pale with dark hair and eyes. The Caucaus mountains are where Caucasians (white people) came from. If you read about all the empires that waltzed through Iraq, I am surprised that you didn't have some other heritage (like some European/Mediterranean blood).
Modern day Iraqis are a mix of Ubaidian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Gutian, Amorite, Israelite, Jewish, Greek, Persian, Median, Arab, Roman, Armenian, Assyrian, Elamite etc. people.
@@yeshh6255 Bro I'm talking about 10,000+ years of civilizations, wars, invasions, migration and conversion. The cultures in Iraq might be different but most people are genetically identical. People have been breeding for thousands of years. Nobody is a 100% anything unless the family comes from a long line of inbreeding and marrying siblings for 10,000 years.
@@mikeletterst9882 Kurds have in time long married each other (not to siblings) but to cousins or relatives. Read about Ezidism. But we who became Muslims have been able to marry a little with anyone.
@@mikeletterst9882 And it is said that Kurds have mes Y in their DNA and in addition it is difficult to extract much from our history due to 74 genocides amd occuiped states.
I’m Baghdad born Iraqi. Ok, let’s sort out couple things here, the country of Iraq as we know it today did NOT exist until 1919 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire as Iraq was part of, in fact turkey to this day claim Mosul is theirs and must be returned, looking back at history, yes, they practically built it, it flourished and benefited, but again the moors founded Granada, Córdoba and many others in Spain that were never a part of Spain . as theirs, so the argument is lost. Same fate with Syria, Egypt,Jordan,etc were part of the Ottoman Empire, p.1919, Iraq is a British creation with drawn out international borders, etc. Mesopotamia; however is a whole other issue, it’s over 8000 years old, “cradle of civilization” conquered, re conquered by Sumerians , Akkadians, Assyrians, babylonians, Persians and and and There’s nothing Arab about Iraq, a true “Arab”came from the Arabian peninsula and when Islam was introduced in the seventh century (~ 630 AD) heavily influenced by the Arabic language, in fact intertwined with it and everyone was “Arabized” if you will. So in the year 620 AD and you knocked on the door of a house and asked of their ethnicity, I do not know how they responded, 200% not Arab but surely in the year 720, the answered would’ve been “Arab” even though were blonde, green eyed and pale white with different looks, features, frame distinguished from the true sub-Saharan Arab who looked way different. If I had to pick an ethnicity, a nationality or ? I’d say Iraqis are Sumerians. For all intents and purposes I identify as Arab even though there’s no Arab in me. 25% Persian, 25% Levant, 50% Caucasian (Georgia, Armenia, surrounding towns and villages).
@@dinaibrahim4022 some not all. Go to northern Syria or Northern Iraq and find a Christian who identified as Assyrian or Chaldean. Or a Mandaean in Central Iraq. Or some other Semitic something.
As a Kurd I have 37% Anatolian and 63% Iranian but don’t let the terminology used for regions mislead you as Kurdistan is consist of what they call Iran and Anatolia. Just draw the map of Medes empire of Kurds and look at results you got. It is Kurdistan 💛❤️💚 and Kurds !
The Caucasus are WHITE! It gives us the name Caucasian, those mostly North of the mountain range. Your DNA goes much further back than 1000 years. Humans have had civilizations in your region going back to the Ice Age. Hittites, Assyrians, Persians and Babylonians and finally Arabic people. Many the foundations of civilization itself. Be proud of who you are, it took ten thousand years to perfect you.
@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement Yes it's a mixture of both but if you do some research you'll find out that Old Persians were classified as White Indo-Europeans...
@@cariocabassa I doubt "old persians" were white skinned and blue eyed, just look at the painting of Darius 2 fighting Alexander on a rock relief in Persiapolis, he has typical dark hair and eyes but rosy red cheeks. Or better yet, google the "Persian Immortals" rock relif and you will see they look dark skinned.
If you have some kurdish it normal to find out turkey. Dosent mean you are turkish. Kurds can be native to turkey ,iran,Iraq and syria. As a kurd (from turkey) i also got turkey mainly but that dosent mean that im turkish
I enjoyed your video but just to let you know, Arab isn't a distinct race but rather an ethnicity/culture composed of one or more races of people (depending on the family genetics) similar to "Hispanic" (there are white Hispanics, black Hispanics, Mestizo Hispanics who are a mix of Spanish/white and Native American and a variety of mixtures of the aforementioned races). Of course you have European/white DNA! If fully broken down, you would find you have a TON of European/white DNA and some Asian DNA considering the history of your ancestors and just common sense vis-a-vis where the Middle East is located in relation to the continents of Europe (particularly the Mediterranean region) and Asia. For you to say that you have no white in you would be like an ethnically Jewish, southern Italian, Greek or Persian saying they have no white in them (all of whom are overwhelmingly white and classified as "Caucasian". You don't have African DNA and that leaves European, Asian (including Native Americans) and/or a mixture of the two because again "Arab" isn't a distinct race, but rather an ethnicity/culture. Even Native Americans are part white because they mixed with Siberians before crossing the Bering Strait from Beijing, China to North America thousands of years ago. I hope this all makes sense 😎
Interesting results!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Where are u from in iraq? My results were: 52.2% Levantine Lebanon & Syria 32.2% Iranian, Caucasian and Mesopotamian 7.9% Egyptian 1.0% Greek and Balkan 0.8% North African 0.8% Italian 0.5% Central Asian
@@aviationking8088 Loa2a2 mother side E-M132 dad side. Sub Saharan African 87.1% West African 74% 🇳🇬 35.1% 🇬🇭 and 🇱🇷 and 🇸🇱 26.3% 🇸🇳 and. 🇬🇲 and 🇬🇳 2.4% Broadly West African 10.2% 🇨🇩 and Southern East African 12% 🇦🇴 and 🇨🇩 9.8% Southern East African 0.1% Broadly 🇨🇩 and Southern East African 2.1% Northern East African 0.1% 🇸🇩 0.1% Broadly Sub Saharan African 1.0% European 10.3% Northern Western European 10.2% British and Irish 8.3 % 🇫🇷 and German. 1.4% Broadly Northwestern European 0.5% Southern European 0.1% 🇵🇹 and 🇪🇸 0.1% East Asian and Indigenous American 1.9% Indigenous 🇺🇸 1.0% 🇨🇳 and South East Asian 0.9% 🇮🇩 and Thai and Khmer and Myanmar 0.4% 🇵🇭 and Austronesian 0.3% Broadly 🇨🇳 and South east Asian 0.2% Unasssigned 0.7%
Iraq is a new country 100 years ago British and French colony made country called Iraq , Iran. Turkey …. Rest of former Ottoman Empire areas, so people before 100 years ago were still mixing and going around , before borders lined and people separated , as a Kurdish from Iraq Erbil , I got similar DNA result as yours
Türkiye was never a colony, at the contrary turks ruled ottoman empire. Arabs betrayed turks and arabs were ruled by British people, those Arab lands became middle eastern . Türkiye, an eurasian country was created by Turks thanks to Atatürk who defeated British, Greeks and French... . Iran was never in ottoman empire.
@@Cat-be2wzwell that’s because Persians invaded northern India, not because we are related people? How manny Indians do you see that look Kurdish? Iranians had good relations with Indians they respected each other, Kurds are native Mesopotamians and are ethnically Iranian.
light.eyes are rare in West Asia most have dark brown eyes and most dark hair and olive to brown skin... light eyes skin hair peak around north europe😂
@@ProudMesopotamianGirl yea kurds they look like they are quintessential west asians kindve like Armenians and assyrians ! Lots of anatolian turks have DNA .from them
I don't like the way these are named actually, because you're truly Iraqi. Mesopotamia had once owned west of Iran and part of turkey. so you ARE Iraqi.
Many people simply have a stereotype of what "middle eastern" or Arab is based on the media they consume and you don't fit that stereotype. You look very much in line with an Iraqi to me. I'd have probably guessed Chaldean or Lebanese. There is a diversity of phenotypes in the middle east like everywhere else. You get the same thing in the U.S. when people think of Mexicans. There is a particular look associated with Mexicans, but most Mexicans are very much Mediterranean European in terms of appearance.
@@ariahi5355 They are a Mediterranean people and so look like their fellow Mediterraneans. The ones they show you on TV crossing the border in migrant caravans may not look like Mediterraneans, but you're only seeing a particular fraction of Mexicans. You're accustomed to seeing the minority underdog class. People look different depending on what part of the country they are from. Selma Hayek (Lebanese/Spanish), Arianna Grande (Italian), Penelope Cruz (Spanish), Jessica Alba (87% European Mexican), Eva Longoria (70% European Mexican), Monica Belucci (Italian) and others are Mediterranean people who fit many people's idea of a Mexican. They are all European in appearance. Most Mexicans are in that range of appearance. You look at Mario Lopez and his Italian wife and they look like siblings. Latin America was colonized by Mediterranean Europeans in the same way the US was colonized by Anglo-Saxon. Maybe you're not aware of how many Mediterranean Europeans look.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome Mexicans are citizens of Mexico. It's not a race or a phenotype. They aren't _supposed_ to look like anything. Mexicans can be Negro, Nordic, East Asian, East Indian or whatever. Just like Americans. Thank you for proving my point about people having ill-informed stereotypes. Mexico is not an indigenous country. Mexico was founded by European conquerors. So was South Africa and modern day Egypt (it was Kemet prior to European and "Assyrian" replacement). None of them are nations founded by the indigenous people. The Indigenous people were admixed out of existence, killed and/or pushed out and exist as a minority within a foreign born state. By your logic a white guy born and raised in Oklahoma isn't an American. Take some time to ponder how ridiculous that sounds.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome Nobody said there weren't people there prior to European colonialism. Get your prideful head out of your arse and pay attention to what I"m saying.The land was not called "South Africa". Europeans named the nation *they started* South Africa. The people there prior did not call it that. They had a completely different culture and tradition outside of capitalism and so-called "democracy". Or are you telling me apartheid, capitalism, parliament, etc. was the doing of the indigenous people? Do you get what I'm saying now? Or are you going to keep making up strawman arguments? No, I'm saying an influx of SW Asian Caucasoid lead to people mixing. This in conjunction with straight up conquests and genocides. Are you implying that no race mixing ever occurred in ancient Egypt with all those Caucasoid flooding into the Levant and NE Africa? A minority of them, the Caucasoid ones, still have the E-M2 haplotypes. I kind of get the feeling you're just looking for something be angry about. This is why you're strawmanning instead of addressing what I actually said. You're borderline trolling at this point. And I'm African American.
Iraq is a modern state not an ethnic group. The people of modern day Iraq may speak Arabic but just like the Egyptians they aren't ethnically Arab, they have just been Arabized. Most of Today's Arab speaking world were Arabized under successive Muslim conquests. The parts of the Persian Empire that were closer to Arabia lost their language while the parts that were farther east managed to keep their language to a degree.
You are half white because you are Kurdish.And you said that you have Kurdish in you,even before the test.In your case Iran,,Turkey, Caucasus all points to your Kurdish (Aryan/white/Caucasian)roots.
Hi Lara, the companies that do this commercially are very, very superficial. Every place named in your profile had many very different different peoples living there. Actual Persians were 'Indo-Europeans' originally from around Ukraine, and swept in on horseback. They called themselves 'Aryans' and were related to the same people who swept into Europe and made it 'whiter'. At one time Persians had conquered all the Middle East, even Egypt. So having that DNA is perfectly logical. The Hittites, from Western Turkey, at times conquered parts of Iraq, and so very likely left plenty of DNA too. If you had 'original' Iraqi DNA, it would be from people like the Sumerians (probably related to southern Iraq's 'Marsh Arabs)'. or the Babylonians. I don't know about Babylonians, but no Sumerian DNA has been recovered yet. And when Iraq was conquered by Arab armies, the language was adopted (because Arabs were appointed as rulers, and because the Arabic Koran was considered authoritative), but the army moved on to conquer Persia pretty quickly, so may not have changed DNA there that much. I haven't confirmed this, but understand that actual Arabs were originally from the Arabian Peninsula, and it is very likely that it was mostly the language and religion that was changed rather then the DNA in Iraq and many other places. The commercial companies simply cannot be considered reliable. Treat it like 'History Channel' history, and be glad they didn't say you were a space alien.
@thriftthrift4638 lol yes but turkic dna & ancestry isn't from native Anatolia, & what I mean by that is, turks often look to their central asian heritage, Kazakhstan/ Kyrgyzstan region, as a marker & indication of being a turkic ancestry. & from her results she didn't have any central asian
The term, "White" is pretty broad. From looking at Lara, I would say she is 100% White because of the way she looks, but then IMO, all Iranians, Iraqis, Turkish people and Arabs are "White". When I was in college, the county coroner came in to one of my Humanities classes talk about "race", and he said that there were three broad "races", all based on bone structure, not skin color. These three broad categories were Eurasian, African and Asian. Eurasian catches all Europeans, all Arabs, people from India and the Australian aboriginals. Again, think bone structure, not skin color. African catches all of Africa below the Sahara Desert and Asia catches those in Asia and the inhabitants of the various Pacific islands. Native Americans in the Americas are Asian. Even this is not totally accurate - Somalis are on average 60% Arab and 40% African. The coroner said that bone structure is how the coroner can examine skeletal remains found somewhere and come up with a "race" and gender (if they have the right bones). He said that African Americans were tough to categorize because most of them have both European and African genes, and some Latin Americans are a mix of Asian (Native American) and European skeletal influences. I am 99.5% or 99.0% northern European, depending on which of the Ancestry / 23andMe tests you chose, but I am darker skinned (I spend a lot of time outdoors and tan nicely) than a Black / African American lady that worked at my last office. She obviously had a significant percentage of European genetic influence and stayed indoors all the time. We probably need to get away from using skin color to categorize people into groups, if we are going to categorize people at all.
You’re so pretty! I would try 23 and Me like others suggested. It even gave me a trace bit of Mesopotamian 😅 My husband is 100% Tunisian (from Tunisia) and his results show quite a mix.
@@spyderr_exe first you should check out the current update and inheritance if you haven't. In any case 23&me should be more accurate from narrowing down results
Linguistically, Iran means the land of Aryans, the eastern branch of Indo-Europeans. A group of Aryans (or Indo-Iranians) who migrated to the Iranian plateau around 2000 BCE from Central Asia, are thought to be the direct ancestors of modern Iranians, This has encouraged many historians to start the history of Iran from the Aryan migrations or the establishment of the first Aryan political power, the Achaemenid Empire. At the same time, it is true that long before the influx of Aryans into Iran, different peoples with established civilizations and kingdoms inhabited the country. These dynasties that deteriorated before the arrival of the Aryans or were defeated by them had an extensive system of international trade and relations with other civilizations of their time, as far west as Egypt and maybe Southern Europe and to China in the east.
Young lady, you can’t say ur not white ! Caucasian = white. You have 45% Caucasian lineage ! I’m of Iraqi lineage and I have 50% Caucasian almost like yourself. In all honesty, I was disappointed as I felt I was the son of Sumer, the son of Babylon. I told my friends of the results and now they’ve too afraid to do their DNA analysis preferring not to know,I’m 100% sure they’re similar to mine.
I was told all my life that I was half Italian- did ancestry dna and have 0% Italian 😂. Turns out My mother’s mother doesn’t truly know who her father was and was just guessing to give her a name. 😮
@@spyderr_exe It may also have something to do with Iraq being a creation of arbitrary boundaries drawn after WWI and not boundaries drawn along older political or even traditional tribal lines. The void in the middle of the map seems to be the land between the Tigris and Euphrates.
I'm Mexican and even I had Iraq show up lol. We thought we were only Mexican maybe with a little Jewish.Turns out were Andalusian Spanish, North African, Egyptian, Iraqi, Armenian and Native American. You have the same look like most of my family has! we also have alot of light colored eyes.
I see some people confusing language with DNA. DNA has nothing to do with langauge. You may speak turkish but your DNA could be kurdish witch is part of biger indo Iranian DNA.I watched vidoes here in youtube that peopel from turkey made DNA test and find out that they are not even turks. Looking for nature of the history in this reagin it is normal to have a mix of diffrent DNA. Regarding Irak, most of northern iraki has kurdish(Indo Iranian DNA) where southern Iraki are more arabic with IndoIranian mix DNA)
Check your DNA mix annually. It gets updated. Some mixes get higher/lower, and some completely disappear/appear. It just updated. The last update was in July 2023.
Caucasian is LITERALLY White. All NW Europeans are from Persian/Germanic Tribes. And despite all of your wishful thinking, you are more Indo-European, than you are Iraqi.
@@samanzarandi6657 no they don't. Iraqis have a distinct look. They absolutely do not look like Persians. Persian have more Central Asiatic factures, while Iraqis have a more Mesopotamian rounder features.
It doesn't say you're not Iraqi. Actually it says exactly that you ARE an Iraqi . The genetic pool of most middle eastern people comes from 3 main neolithic population groups : 1- natufian (Lebanon Syria Palestine) 2- Anatolian hunter gatherer (turkey Caucasus) 3- proto Iranian Iraq is the at the center of these areas and it's perfectly natural that Iraqi are a result of an equal mix between these three neolithic groups . And there you are a living proof of that .
@@Fatkidlovecake there are no assyrians. And chaldeans are older (ancient babylonians) than nestorians who got the name "assyrian" 150 years ago from the British
@@spyderr_exe yes exactly that where you got the Iranian part because they don't have this category in they database so the althegorytm would put it to the much closer one .wich for you case if your kurdish the mose similar will be Iranian .
They just don't have enough data to pinpoint your anchestry more detailed way. Hopefully people in Iraq and surrounding area would take more DNA tests in the future. Also you maybe should consider taking test from some other companies too. They may have better databases.
That's basically the result I would expect for someone of western Asian descent. Before the early 20th century Iraq and Iran were borderless. Their people were nomads (I can't remember the proper term for it at the moment). So not getting an "Iraqi" result is expected. I don't think you could really break it down that much. It's like the Native Americans in the USA. You can say yes, you're Native American, but you most certainly can't narrow it down tothe the tribe the individual would be from. That's impossible and anyone saying otherwise is lying to you. There isn't enough data in the system for that as of yet. It's the same with the majority of the Western and Central Asian Counties. Some you can like Egypt, Saudi Arabi, Turkey, Israel, and, Palestinians. But that's because deep studies have been done on not just the the modern day people but also their modern ancestors and archaic ancestors. They haven’t found enough modern remains of your ancestors, let alone archaic, to do so. And even if they did find them, who’s to say they would be Iraqi or Iranian or something completely different. They were nomadic after all. No one knows where they were originally from. So you get a basic generalization. If you want a better more, thorough readout upload your raw DNA and have it emailed to yourself. Then upload it to GEDMatch, its free. But because modern day Iraqis were once nomadic you may find that long long ago some of your ancestors weren’t from that region at all. I think I heard once that the original rulers of Iran and Iraq were brothers or first cousins or something like that. So it wouldn’t be surprising if you got Iranian or hits all over the Middle East/Eastern Asian/Central Asian. Just try to remember, before the first world conflict neither Iraq nor Iran existed. Some British person created their borders. There’s a movie about it with Nicole Kidman. She plays an Archaeologist from that time period. She was the one who supposedly did it. I think it was when Lawrence of Arabia was over there s€r3wing around and messing about. I only saw pieces of it while my roommates watched it. But I think he was in it, but don’t quote me. 🤷🏻♀️
There could be Mongol since it was included in the Mongol Empire the largest contiguous land empire in history that reached from Asia through the Middle East all the way into Europe.
Dont be surprised, most of us got almost the same result, I have been born in Iraq and my parents are both Iraqi and got a very diverse result. I’ve got 48% Arabian Peninsula(Iraq). 28% Levant, 20% Anatolia & the caucasus, 1% south Bantu, 1% Eastern Bantu, 1% Southern Italy 🇮🇹… it seems that my ancestors were love to wander the whole world 😅
Native Iraqis (Mesopotamians) are Caucasian. The Assyrians one of the few lasting native people all lean towards the Caucasus (specifically Armenia) because they used to be neighbours for thousands of years. Some even theories that Armenians were originally Mesopotamian according to ancient greek sources. As for Persia that's definitely your Kurdish side. Be proud of her heritage and God bless.
Lol, Mesopotamians didn't come from georgia dumbass! But according to recent studies seems ancient Mesopotamian people came from india Hindu valley and after settled definitively in current iraq, their Indian DNA mutated and become native genes of that area.
@@sicilian845 No one had even brought up Georgia, stupid dip$*&#. Armenians have inhabited Anatolia (currently turkey) where they neighbored Mesopotamia (specifically Assyria) for thousands of years. According to ancient Greek historians, Armenians were originally Mesopotamian tribes who migrated north. Posidonius referred to Armenians as "Mesopotamian people". Even modern-day Armenians acknowledge this. It's quite ironic because you seem to have a Greek name. As for the "hindu origin" that's completely false. First of all, this study focuses on Sumerians whom strictly inhabited Southern Mesopotamia and had little to do with later Akkadia, Babylonia and Assyria. So we're talking about a very specific group of people and NOT "Mesopotamians" as a whole, like you implied. Second of all this study is extremely restricted as no one truly knows for sure who the discovered DNA belongs to, most researchers throw this study altogether because it's most-likely belongs to indian travellers who used to visit Southern Mesopotamia for trade quite often. and not actual Sumerians. Some say Sumerians were Caucasian others referees to them as Semtic (which makes sense seeing that Abraham, the father of Semites was Sumerian) some think they were proto-european. Modern Mesopotamians have no indian ancestry, except for Kurds who aren't native to begin with. and this video confirms it LOL As far as we know the truth is something along these lines we just can't be 100% sure.
@@christopher5846 According to my researchs armenians came from Indo-european people and they isolated their pure jamma indoeuropean dna in their new home armenia in caucasus for a long time before mixing a bit with greeks, georgians and maybe even some north African and semite, but not very sure. Assyrians have their own dna which has not any link to other populations, just about the structure which is similiar to mesopotamian aka today iraqis one, but always different. Even if mesopotamians wouldn't came from India actually, their dna is always very specific and unique which make it very different from Assyrian, Amrenian, iranic, semite and caucasian stuffs
@@sicilian845 If you look at the genetical distance between Assyrians and other populations you will find the closest groups the following: "Georgian_Jew, Armenian, Iraqi_Mandean, Mountain_Jew, Iraqi_North, Iraqi_Jew, Kurdish, Syrian_West, Druze, Greek_Trabzon, Syrian_North, Syrian_Kurd, Lebanese_Druze....etc" From the closest to the farthest.
Kurds don't come from India (who told you they did?). You are roughly half white. The borders of Iraq were arbitrarily drawn and are not based on any ancient people group.
Most geneticists ever: "Iraq isn't Arab they are culturally Arabized their family tree lineage is fabricated forgery, and this and that about Iraqi DNA" every geneticists and phenotypicist ever. I am a geneticist and phenotypicist. Lol
@@spyderr_exe not really. Geneticists now a days say to everyone *"your not that ethnic group your actually this ethnic group your ancestors just assimilated and your family tree is forgery and is not ethnicity what it claims"* you hear that a lot from geneticists. I myself don't care to do that but I see other geneticists do. Even explain how assimilation changes family tree claims upon assimilation. Turkey England And Morocco are 3 examples geneticists will talk about. It can get old fast. I used to do that myself but don't really care anymore. Coming from a geneticist.
The land was conquered and controlled by iranic people from 600bc - arab conquests. If anything Iraqi Arabs are more likely to have Persian/Kurdish DNA as well as Arab.
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If you are partly Kurdish, you shouldn't wonder that you get a lot of Iran. Kurds are Iranian (or better "Iranic"). As a half-Kurd I got 93% Iran and 7% Anatolia and Caucasus. My mother's side is Talysh and the Talysh people are Iranic as well. Turkey doesn't mean "Turkish" by the way, it means native Anatolian.
I hadn’t realised the two were linked! I know better now :)
@@spyderr_exe Most people associate Iranian with a synonym of Persian but this is not true at all. It is like saying that Germanic and German are the same.
Turkey is Caucasus.Turkish people mostly are Greeks Armenians Aramaic Georgians and some got small percentage of Turkie from Central Asia.
@@ermioniburgess8720 Central Asia is not pure Turkic. The ancient Turks were from the Manchuria or Mongolia and not from Central Asia. The Turks of Turkey are a mixed nation. Most of their ancestry comes from the native Anatolians (Luwians, Hittites, Lydians, etc.).
@@spyderr_exe that's crazy you didn't realize that since there's a gazillion Indo-European, Indo-Iranic and Aryan studies.
Funny how people think all Middle Eastern people are dark brown and don't realize we come in all shades.
Exactly it pisses me off
We are not dark brown we are light brown lol
@@desertboy1162 Come to think about it most people are some shade of light to dark brown (with the exception of albinos who are literally white and Irish who are light pink...)
Yea I've seen every skintone ever
Yeah I really don't understand that at all. This woman actually looks very typically Middle Eastern in not just coloration but her facial features. And white Westerners thought she must have a white European parent for her to look like this? I guess it's because the image they have of Middle Easterners is the actors they see in those post 9/11 TV shows, who are usually South Asian.
The DNA doesn't go by BORDERS, it goes by REGION.
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq were not countries on the world's maps until 1921, they were created after WWI by British and French colonial powers and after the Ottomans were defeated.
Iran (Persian Kingdom), Turkiye (Ottoman Empire), India (British Colony), and Russia (Russian Tzar Empire) were the only countries that existed at the start of 1900 in the region.
That’s right,bravo
I’m also Iraqi!! My parents were born in Iraq And I am Assyrian. I just took a dna test with ancestry and got 54% Middle East, 42% Turkey/ Caucasus and 4% Iran/persia
Time to bring out some history books and see how our people travelled through those areas 😂
@@spyderr_exe so, Turkey is not considered as middle East?
On AncestryDNA they separated turkey from the Middle East, if you fast forward on my video you can see how they split the regions! 😁
@@spyderr_exe you're right. Turkey is too much different from middle East. Although many people say Turkey is middle east, basically i disagree with that.
The Assyrian empire travelled and dominated a huge area in that region over 6000 years ago, we also had to flee many conflicts in the past 500 years, as a result we are all over the world now.
Eastern Turkey is highlighted because it used to be Western Armenia and that’s were the majority of Armenians lived during the Ottoman Empire. Also Kurds and Assyrians.
Lot of people are finding out their Armenian ancestry due to Armenians hiding it after fleeing the Ottoman Empire or from Muslim families adopting orphaned Armenians from the genocide.
Assyrians has nothing to with eastern Anatolia. You forgot other ethnicities..
Armenians we’re not majority in any city of so called Eastern Anatolia, it is not even Anatolia and either Kurdistan or partly Armenia . Eastern Anatolia is a fabricated name of occupier Turks. Please read whatever report from that time (Ottoman) you Cant find a single reliable report claiming that Armenians were majority in region including American and British reports.
Bullshit.... This test shows dna of the population were tbe dna is today. Nothing to do with Armenian
@@koordrozita7236 the ottomans did their best to silence and cover up the millions of Armenians they killed
I had mine done recently as a white Australian female, knowing a little of our family history and that one part we are descended from the Plantagenets who ruled Britain for over 400 years. Discovered a lot of Viking blood, Swedish, Finnish and Slavic Viking. The rest is French with no African traces at all. But the biggest shock of all was the discovery of a half sister that we never knew that we had. She was the result of a fling that our father had while still married to our mum, and she is 3 months older than my baby sister. We lost my dad last December aged 87 and coot confront him about what he did, but we are left with his irresponsible and selfish behaviour in creating a child (who he never knew about) who was placed into an orphanage. Our father was a rotten husband but a wonderful dad to us and she never got to experience that, which is just so sad. She is coming to meet our mum and aunt and myself on Saturday for the first time. My mum holds no grudge against her at all, despite what dad did, as mum said, she did not ask to be born. So she will be welcome and included into mum’s wonderful family as she is our sister. We are wondering if there are going to be any more that will come out of the woodwork. I am so angry at my dad, for being irresponsible and so careless, and he ruined my parent’s marriage with his infidelity. He raised us to be responsible and accountable yet he didn’t do that himself, and we are the ones dealing with the consequences of his behaviour.
Really not your dad’s fault, blame the woman for not letting it be known and not raising your sister. it’s great that your mom and your family are excepting her into the family, your mother is a great woman/mother. Let nothing and no one take your memories of your dad from you. I think of my dad daily, for 17 years, he got to hold my first grandchild before he passed.
There is a Plantagenet gene?
So does that mean you're an aristocrat?
The plantagenets are from my birthplace angers 😊
Your family seems like a very loving family. This also happened to us. We r close to our half sister, and mom handled it like your mom, it isn't the half sister's fault. Our half sister, adores our mom. Her mom passed, we went to her funeral to support our sister. Some ppl were surprised, but most were moved by our support for our sister.
As you mentioned in the video, the ethnicity estimate is intended to indicate where you were from 500 to 1000 years ago, so most countries didn't even exist then by their modern names.
It really just makes you wonder how your ancestors lived 🧐
@@spyderr_exe Que nada! é a miscigenação, vejo que os povos do caucaso são miscigenados com semitas.
The max is ten generations which is roughly the very end of the 1600s into 1700s at max. And modern borders were drawn in the 20th century. Nationalities are also different from ethnicities and races.
@@spyderr_exe People from your area 7000 years ago spread across Europe and replaced the Hunter Gatherers. You are the original white people.
@UCz4D9ReblB0imwClAMVp8Bw Man - get an education - lol you are wrong.
My friend is kurd from iraq he did DNA test it came up as 99% Iranian and i cant rememeber what his other 1% was.
is he an asylum seeker?
Kurds are a mix of Zagrosian (West Iran) and Anatolian so if your friend thought he’s Kurdish he’s actually Iranian.
Kurdish is a subgroup of Iranian, another subgroup of Iranian is persian @@narienzawity862
Isn't it interesting that today's sovereign states are educating the people within the borders of today's nation states on the absence of Kurds, and this becomes a source of income for some companies. People like us are trying to break the one nation and one state barrier that the dominant mentality is trying to create in the sovereign with our own efforts so that we can reach the truth, but these companies that do DNA testing are not acting with scientific ethics but with commercial logic. Because the truth destroys the one nation logic that the state wants to create, and these commercial companies are not telling the truth, and we are commenting on it. Nobody talks about the Kurds because the Kurds have not had a state for a hundred years and these companies do not see the Kurds.
Caucasian is often used as a synonym for "white" or "of European ancestry". But in anthropology, caucasian or caucasoid usually includes some or all of the populations of Europe, the Caucasus (a region in Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which includes Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and parts of Russia, Turkey and Iran), Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.
It's a silly term many people in that category aren't white lookin the true whites are the Nordic Aryans and Celts 😂
the ignorance is real here..........Iraqis and other middle easterns are usually NOT ethnic arabs genetically. Ya'll speak Arabic because ya'll where conquered by the arabs during the 6th century-7th century ad. Iraqis are from ancient non-arabic Sumerians and babylonians. Syrians from ancient non-arabic speaking Assyrians...Eygptians from NON-Arabic speaking Eygptians. etc etc etc
we need to revive our babylonian / sumerian genes
Iraqi is hard to determine the DNA because Iraqis share a lot of DNA with turkish region, Arab and Iranian regions. All overlap in Iraq. I did 23 and me and it says I'm Persian even though my parents and grandparents and great grandparents all come from iraq
Iraqi has nothing to with turks, they are Arabs or arabyzed kurds!
@@Ambrosia-they're Aryans and Assyrians
I was supposed to be mostly eastern European and northern European. And 25% Ashkenazi Jewish from my grandpa, that's jewish from eastern europe. I found my grandfather's real birth certificate, and his mother was listed with an Arabic name. I found out she was an early Syrian immigrant to America, but apparently my grandfather's father was still Ashkenazi Jewish. I was like my dad has allot of explaining to do, no one ever told me my great grandmother is Arabic. And i got 1% native american
that's a very interesting mix!!
I am part of the Amazigh tribes of Morocco and I always tell my father to stop being racist because no one really knows his origin, I will show him your video to clarify things a little and then I have always said it, no one really knows his origin and where he comes from, we are part of our country by our ideology, our culture and our love for the country not otherwise
People will be surprised how much diversity they have in their DNA!! It's always so interesting
My grandfather is also racist, he grew up in a different era so I can't convince him to not be one.
@@ghiles.a he hates Arabs and Italians the most.
Did your fahrer hates arabs?
Freddie Mercury’s features are similar to yours yet his ethnic region is South Asian. But he looks like he’s of Persian, Iranian descent. You’re quite lovely Btw..
That is because he was a Hindu-Parsi, they were Persians that migrated to India during Muslim invasion.
Freddy was Parsi, so yes his descendants were Persians and they migrated to India
Part of what these DNA companies do is pinpoint your DNA markers with test populations. If they do not have a large enough pool of DNA from a particular area, it is harder for them to pinpoint. Your DNA markers are similar or close to DNA markers in test subjects in the surrounding area. This was a problem with identifying French DNA in European populations, because France doesn't allow home DNA testing (It's better now as they are not strict on blocking DNA testing). When I tested (2017), I showed 0% English, yet my dad was showing 88%. If we get 50% from each parent, I should have shown some English. Future updates added English in my mix. I now show 31% while my dad's dropped to 67%. Over time, they improve their "precision and recall" of DNA markers and you will probably see Iraqi on a future update.
This is a very good explanation.
Who’s gonna tell him 👆🏼
Iraqi won't show because simply it's a nationality and it's recent lol
@@xeon39688 it would say Mesopotamia,
Correct me if I’m wrong but Egypt IS in Africa 🤷🏽♀️
They are arabianized coptic egyptians
Here's the crazy thing about these DNA tests: I don't know about Ancestry, but 23&Me (company I had used) had changed my results about a year later. I originally had 8% Scandinavian, 0.9% Italian, and 0.2% Spanish and Portuguese, as well as 35.9% British/Irish (strongest indications towards London, Liverpool, County Dublin, County Cork) and 29.5% French/German (strongest indications Bavarian, and as my paternal grandsire was from East Bavaria, that made sense). Fast forward about a year, and they had changed my percentages to around 51% Brit/Irish, 35ish % (more or less) French/German, and 0% Iberian or Italian but a negligible percentage of East European (which agreed with my being in R-1a-CTS3402 y haplogroup, which I share with Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, as well as some Russian nobles from c. 16-19), and a negligible percentage "Anatolian" (not specified as to Turkish, Pontic Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, Galatian -- as easternmost extension of the Celts, or Hittite). Just be patient; they may change some of your reported DNA percentages, too.
Ancestry does that too. I like to say it’s play play genealogy 😹. They took my mom’s balkins result a couple months ago and left mine. My dad doesn’t have it at all. So it was like wtf…where’d it come from then? Of course I knew lol. They constantly remove and put back. I also have mine on GEDMatch.
I put my raw 🧬 there the second my Native and Jewish DNA didn’t appear. Both appeared on that site. It’s a more pro site and it’s free. They don’t sell the tests though.
My dad’s Native family rumor was also confirmed there. The really funny thing (ironic funny) was finding out he has higher percentages than my mom. Her Grandmother was half, so it’s like wtf…
They also have a section where they match you against remains from past digs. I think they keep that open and add onto it as more are found in the future. That section is a bit fun to play around with as well.
There’s also a section, or rather network, where you can find other matches. Distant relatives or even close relatives. For people who want to confirm familial ties and whatnot. Or even if you just want to get in contact with cousins 🤷🏻♀️.
They’re really quite thorough with the free section. I’m not sure what the other section has, I’ve never really looked. Plus I’m happy with what I have, but they do have more tools for the more serious hunter. Maybe someday I will, just not right now 😹.
Hope you find something you trust more than what you spoke of above lol. Oh another is Familtreedna. They offer the y test too. I if the other site does but I know Ancestry does not. They have the maternal as well.
@@M.Campbell-Sherwoodnative to where?
I am surprised you are shocked you are not “Iraqi”. Iraq was put together in 1920’s. Historically people of Iraq would be Babylonian, Assyrian, Mede.
Almost every Iraqi has Persian/Iranian blood in them lol
I'm not surprised!
@@spyderr_exe it's more common among Shias than Sunnis.
Persia built a lot of cities in Iraq. These cities converted to Islam, local Mesopotamian semites converted to Islam, and miscenegination fused them together under Shia Islam.
Honestly why can't Kurds, Turks, Persians and Arabs mix more and get along as individuals more is beyond me.
@@PARSA.Korosh.Ardashir1 I think you may have replied to the wrong comment mate.
Kurdish are an iranic group of people and their language as well.
Yes
Your DNA Test Results aren't saying that you're not Iraqi, they're merely pointing out that the closest matches to your DNA found in Ancestry's Proprietory Data Base where found mostly in areas surrounding Iraq. Now, as more Iraqis take Ancestry's DNA Test then Ancestry's database will grow & likely reflect more matches in Iraq, but maybe not very many, because...
Note: from your early comments of how your fellow Iraqis viewed you, these results seem reasonable, as you apparently have a more rare Iraqi look than say the average Iraqi.
It appears that many of your traveling relatives either settled down in places outside of Iraq, or at least got their DNA tested while traveling outside of Iraq.
You're Iraqi, but most of your relatives who have specifically tested with Ancestry's DNA Test Kit aren't heavily concentrated in Iraq: that's all that this result states.
Note: You may have some other heritage that was missed. A DNA test involves over 700,000 snips & if there's a 1% error, then that's over 7,000 snips totally missing their observation - & then some observed snips can get mis-read (especially trace results, if any).
Note: In the Philippines there are recognizable Spanish last names that are now rare in Spain. Those now-small families in Spain are still Spanish & some may have more relatives living outside of Spain than actually living in Spain now.
So much can happen over time. While DNA test results can help answer some questions, they can also raise some questions.
It's all very interesting - fascinating even.
BTW: The only English I dectect in you is your accent.
😄👍
Kurds are iranian people
Your cross over points tells you what you are and it all crosses over into Iraq and the Caucasian Turkish is white. They came from these regions and mixed in Iraq which was also Babylon. It's telling you you're migration patterns and the cross over points are where you ended up.
Wow you look a lot like Amy winehouse who was Ashkenazi/European Jewish. Jews are genetically mostly middle eastern so it makes sense that Jews resemble lots of middle eastern groups
I get Amy Winehouse a LOT!
Ancestry does not go back 1,000 years because it compares your dna to population panels of people today. Any discrepancy is most probably due to lack of samples from some regions. Also you should compare to someone of a similar ethnicity and you most probably will have similar results.
Hmm that would get pretty complicated over the next few decades as people are constantly migrating
@@spyderr_exe They do get it pretty correct although they mostly will compare old world populations. For example a Brazilian will have an Ancestry Comp of mostly Spanish/Portuguese, Amerindian and some SSA. Some companies are also better than others.
She is so funny when she calls her Mama! 😂😂😂😂
I cracked up when you yelled MAMAAAAA
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You are a twin to my Persian sister in law. ❤️ You are half Persian. I am half Persian half British and look caucasian 🤣
Most of those countries she has ancestry in are considered to be of Ayran ancestry. So she is related to Caucasians.
Why the term of Iran or Arians has to be Persian? Kurds are more than Persians in the region and she is clearly Kurdish while living among the Kurds.
Persians and Kurds are of the Ayran (Caucasian) race. @@koordrozita7236
@@robertwilson2007no they arent.aryan a lot of Semitic in those areas
There is a lot of Turkish heritage in (esp in northern) Iraq so your results are not surprising at all.
Whatever your results says, know that you are 100% perfect ❤️
Thank you ☺️💖
She is a nice chick, no lies.
Interesting video! I think the reason, why you don't have any Iraqi DNA is because they don't have a specific category for Iraqi people. That would also explain, why all of the population groups were around Iraq
I thought so too! A lot of people have recommended 23AndMe for that region so I’m going to give that a try!
@@spyderr_exe. Plus know that your report will change through time as the database changes. Interesting stuff! Plus your familial “hits” will also change through time as the database changes! Have fun.
Many Somalis trace their ancestors to Sheikh ishaaq Binu Hashim a preacher from Iraq who travelled in Arab world and settled in east Africa in the 12th century CE
I remember my grandpa saying we had Native American in us, I took the test, not one drop lolololol
Maybe not you. Could be other members in family.
I am 5% Native American but my 3rd Cousin has NO Native American Blood.. but our Great Grandparents are Full Blooded Brothers AND sisters .. and the Native American came from the Woman’s side of the family.. our Great Great Grandmother 👨💻
I have an Iranian friend (I'm Iranian as well, btw), and she had like, 1-2%, I think, but I beliebe it was extended further back than 1000 years, I think. I'm not completely certain, though.
DNA can be lost over the generations. It is NOT a complete picture of anyone's ancestry, but will be closest for those few people who didn't ever mix much...which would probably be rare.
Iraq wasnt a country until after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It was also at the cross roads of many cultures. Especially the Turkic, Iranic, and Arabic peoples.
your dna is not your nationality. your ancestors can be turkish or kurdish or someone else but if you feel yourself as iraqi, you are iraqi
Yes
She can't be Turkish she's not from Türkiye 😂.
@@Ambrosia- you dont need to be born in Türkiye to be Turkish. Turkey has laws which state that the government has to give citizenship to any minority of turkish origin from neighbouring countries. if your parents are ottoman turks in bulgaria, greece, or turkmens from iraq, syria - government gives you citizenship if you demand
It helps to get parents, grandparents, aunts uncles, and cousins and stuff tested because they may have inherited something that you haven’t.
For example your parents or grandparent may have a very small amount of south Asian and it just didn’t get passed down to you
Weird how that works
There are Iraqi and Syrian people who had light hair and blue eyes, it’s not uncommon. My cousin is half German and half Lebanese, so he thought his blond hair was from his German mom. Then he found his Lebanese siblings via Ancestry, and his dad was full Lebanese had blond hair and blue eyes. It’s not as common, but some people have lighter features.
I read that the blue eye alleles arrived at the levant about 6000 years ago. Lots of Lebanese have blue/green eyes.
Like Sharika! She does her hair now but as a kid she was blonde
@@wellesmorgado4797that is true but the highest percent of blonde and red hair and light eyes is in north Europe.ofcourse
Iraq is a nation not an ethnicity. The Persians were everywhere around there. I had some friends from Iran and they were quite pale with dark hair and eyes. The Caucaus mountains are where Caucasians (white people) came from. If you read about all the empires that waltzed through Iraq, I am surprised that you didn't have some other heritage (like some European/Mediterranean blood).
Modern day Iraqis are a mix of Ubaidian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Gutian, Amorite, Israelite, Jewish, Greek, Persian, Median, Arab, Roman, Armenian, Assyrian, Elamite etc. people.
Gutian median and elamite are kurdish with hurrians
@@yeshh6255 Bro I'm talking about 10,000+ years of civilizations, wars, invasions, migration and conversion. The cultures in Iraq might be different but most people are genetically identical. People have been breeding for thousands of years. Nobody is a 100% anything unless the family comes from a long line of inbreeding and marrying siblings for 10,000 years.
@@mikeletterst9882 Yes and they have done tests on Kurds, they have come forward and discussed that hurrians are closest to Kurds genetically
@@mikeletterst9882 Kurds have in time long married each other (not to siblings) but to cousins or relatives. Read about Ezidism. But we who became Muslims have been able to marry a little with anyone.
@@mikeletterst9882 And it is said that Kurds have mes Y in their DNA and in addition it is difficult to extract much from our history due to 74 genocides amd occuiped states.
Iraqi isnt techincally an ethnicity its a nationality
I’m Baghdad born Iraqi. Ok, let’s sort out couple things here, the country of Iraq as we know it today did NOT exist until 1919 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire as Iraq was part of, in fact turkey to this day claim Mosul is theirs and must be returned, looking back at history, yes, they practically built it, it flourished and benefited, but again the moors founded Granada, Córdoba and many others in Spain that were never a part of Spain . as theirs, so the argument is lost. Same fate with Syria, Egypt,Jordan,etc were part of the Ottoman Empire, p.1919, Iraq is a British creation with drawn out international borders, etc.
Mesopotamia; however is a whole other issue, it’s over 8000 years old, “cradle of civilization” conquered, re conquered by Sumerians , Akkadians, Assyrians, babylonians, Persians and and and There’s nothing Arab about Iraq, a true “Arab”came from the Arabian peninsula and when Islam was introduced in the seventh century (~ 630 AD) heavily influenced by the Arabic language, in fact intertwined with it and everyone was “Arabized” if you will.
So in the year 620 AD and you knocked on the door of a house and asked of their ethnicity, I do not know how they responded, 200% not Arab but surely in the year 720, the answered would’ve been “Arab” even though were blonde, green eyed and pale white with different looks, features, frame distinguished from the true sub-Saharan Arab who looked way different.
If I had to pick an ethnicity, a nationality or ? I’d say Iraqis are Sumerians. For all intents and purposes I identify as Arab even though there’s no Arab in me. 25% Persian, 25% Levant, 50% Caucasian (Georgia, Armenia, surrounding towns and villages).
A Iraqi who admits Arabized not Arab tribal origins.
Finally.
This is what I have been saying!
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 It doesn't matter anymore. We are culturally Iraqi Arabs. We speak Arabic.
@@dinaibrahim4022 some not all. Go to northern Syria or Northern Iraq and find a Christian who identified as Assyrian or Chaldean.
Or a Mandaean in Central Iraq.
Or some other Semitic something.
As a Kurd I have 37% Anatolian and 63% Iranian but don’t let the terminology used for regions mislead you as Kurdistan is consist of what they call Iran and Anatolia. Just draw the map of Medes empire of Kurds and look at results you got. It is Kurdistan 💛❤️💚 and Kurds !
The Caucasus are WHITE! It gives us the name Caucasian, those mostly North of the mountain range. Your DNA goes much further back than 1000 years. Humans have had civilizations in your region going back to the Ice Age. Hittites, Assyrians, Persians and Babylonians and finally Arabic people. Many the foundations of civilization itself. Be proud of who you are, it took ten thousand years to perfect you.
Kurds and Persians are basically the same people. They got separated during Saffavid dynasty in Iran.
I heard that Persians were actually "White Asians Indo-Europeans"
Persians are not white
@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement yes some are White Indo-Europeans yes...
@@cariocabassa Some sure, but most aren't. Most Persians and Iranians in general are olive skinned or brown.
@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement Yes it's a mixture of both but if you do some research you'll find out that Old Persians were classified as White Indo-Europeans...
@@cariocabassa I doubt "old persians" were white skinned and blue eyed, just look at the painting of Darius 2 fighting Alexander on a rock relief in Persiapolis, he has typical dark hair and eyes but rosy red cheeks. Or better yet, google the "Persian Immortals" rock relif and you will see they look dark skinned.
Egypt is in Africa.
African continent, Arab culturally like Morocco. Like India is in Asia, but is culturally not Oriental
If you have some kurdish it normal to find out turkey. Dosent mean you are turkish. Kurds can be native to turkey ,iran,Iraq and syria. As a kurd (from turkey) i also got turkey mainly but that dosent mean that im turkish
Sorry you do have something in Africa, Egypt
I enjoyed your video but just to let you know, Arab isn't a distinct race but rather an ethnicity/culture composed of one or more races of people (depending on the family genetics) similar to "Hispanic" (there are white Hispanics, black Hispanics, Mestizo Hispanics who are a mix of Spanish/white and Native American and a variety of mixtures of the aforementioned races). Of course you have European/white DNA! If fully broken down, you would find you have a TON of European/white DNA and some Asian DNA considering the history of your ancestors and just common sense vis-a-vis where the Middle East is located in relation to the continents of Europe (particularly the Mediterranean region) and Asia. For you to say that you have no white in you would be like an ethnically Jewish, southern Italian, Greek or Persian saying they have no white in them (all of whom are overwhelmingly white and classified as "Caucasian". You don't have African DNA and that leaves European, Asian (including Native Americans) and/or a mixture of the two because again "Arab" isn't a distinct race, but rather an ethnicity/culture. Even Native Americans are part white because they mixed with Siberians before crossing the Bering Strait from Beijing, China to North America thousands of years ago. I hope this all makes sense 😎
Interesting results!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Where are u from in iraq?
My results were:
52.2% Levantine
Lebanon & Syria
32.2% Iranian, Caucasian and Mesopotamian
7.9% Egyptian
1.0% Greek and Balkan
0.8% North African
0.8% Italian
0.5% Central Asian
North Iraq :)
Which dna test did you take? Mine didn’t say Levantine
I used 23andme. 23andme are accurate and detailed. If you try 23andme they will tell you if you are Levantine.
@@aviationking8088 Loa2a2 mother side
E-M132 dad side.
Sub Saharan African 87.1%
West African 74%
🇳🇬 35.1%
🇬🇭 and 🇱🇷 and 🇸🇱 26.3%
🇸🇳 and. 🇬🇲 and 🇬🇳 2.4%
Broadly West African 10.2%
🇨🇩 and Southern East African 12%
🇦🇴 and 🇨🇩 9.8%
Southern East African 0.1%
Broadly 🇨🇩 and Southern East African 2.1%
Northern East African 0.1%
🇸🇩 0.1%
Broadly Sub Saharan African 1.0%
European 10.3%
Northern Western European 10.2%
British and Irish 8.3 %
🇫🇷 and German. 1.4%
Broadly Northwestern European 0.5%
Southern European 0.1%
🇵🇹 and 🇪🇸 0.1%
East Asian and Indigenous American 1.9%
Indigenous 🇺🇸 1.0%
🇨🇳 and South East Asian 0.9%
🇮🇩 and Thai and Khmer and Myanmar 0.4%
🇵🇭 and Austronesian 0.3%
Broadly 🇨🇳 and South east Asian 0.2%
Unasssigned 0.7%
@@ahmadmuhammad6200 interesting results
@@aviationking8088 Alhamdulillah I know right . I'm mainly West African with some Sudanese etc
Iraq is a new country 100 years ago British and French colony made country called Iraq , Iran. Turkey …. Rest of former Ottoman Empire areas, so people before 100 years ago were still mixing and going around , before borders lined and people separated , as a Kurdish from Iraq Erbil , I got similar DNA result as yours
That's really interesting! Some dialects have some French-ier sounding accents
Türkiye was never a colony, at the contrary turks ruled ottoman empire. Arabs betrayed turks and arabs were ruled by British people, those Arab lands became middle eastern . Türkiye, an eurasian country was created by Turks thanks to Atatürk who defeated British, Greeks and French... . Iran was never in ottoman empire.
Kurds are very light skinned and a lot have silver eyes
@@Cat-be2wzwell that’s because Persians invaded northern India, not because we are related people? How manny Indians do you see that look Kurdish? Iranians had good relations with Indians they respected each other, Kurds are native Mesopotamians and are ethnically Iranian.
light.eyes are rare in West Asia most have dark brown eyes and most dark hair and olive to brown skin... light eyes skin hair peak around north europe😂
Most Kurds I've seen have neutral or slightly tan skin with dark eyes and hair... Maybe you're talking about the Kurds in Turkey?
@@ProudMesopotamianGirl yea kurds they look like they are quintessential west asians kindve like Armenians and assyrians ! Lots of anatolian turks have DNA .from them
She does nt know she is kurdish ? 🤔🤔 why no one teach her geography?! 🤔🤔
What an absolutely gorgeous young woman!
Thank you🥰
Try other one
I don't like the way these are named actually, because you're truly Iraqi. Mesopotamia had once owned west of Iran and part of turkey. so you ARE Iraqi.
Many people simply have a stereotype of what "middle eastern" or Arab is based on the media they consume and you don't fit that stereotype. You look very much in line with an Iraqi to me. I'd have probably guessed Chaldean or Lebanese. There is a diversity of phenotypes in the middle east like everywhere else. You get the same thing in the U.S. when people think of Mexicans. There is a particular look associated with Mexicans, but most Mexicans are very much Mediterranean European in terms of appearance.
I've had Lebanese a LOT :) That makes sense since Chaldea is now modern Iraq! Very informative thank you :)
Most Mexicans are not Mediterranean in appearance.
@@ariahi5355 They are a Mediterranean people and so look like their fellow Mediterraneans. The ones they show you on TV crossing the border in migrant caravans may not look like Mediterraneans, but you're only seeing a particular fraction of Mexicans. You're accustomed to seeing the minority underdog class. People look different depending on what part of the country they are from.
Selma Hayek (Lebanese/Spanish), Arianna Grande (Italian), Penelope Cruz (Spanish), Jessica Alba (87% European Mexican), Eva Longoria (70% European Mexican), Monica Belucci (Italian) and others are Mediterranean people who fit many people's idea of a Mexican. They are all European in appearance. Most Mexicans are in that range of appearance. You look at Mario Lopez and his Italian wife and they look like siblings. Latin America was colonized by Mediterranean Europeans in the same way the US was colonized by Anglo-Saxon. Maybe you're not aware of how many Mediterranean Europeans look.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome Mexicans are citizens of Mexico. It's not a race or a phenotype. They aren't _supposed_ to look like anything. Mexicans can be Negro, Nordic, East Asian, East Indian or whatever. Just like Americans. Thank you for proving my point about people having ill-informed stereotypes.
Mexico is not an indigenous country. Mexico was founded by European conquerors. So was South Africa and modern day Egypt (it was Kemet prior to European and "Assyrian" replacement). None of them are nations founded by the indigenous people. The Indigenous people were admixed out of existence, killed and/or pushed out and exist as a minority within a foreign born state. By your logic a white guy born and raised in Oklahoma isn't an American. Take some time to ponder how ridiculous that sounds.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome Nobody said there weren't people there prior to European colonialism. Get your prideful head out of your arse and pay attention to what I"m saying.The land was not called "South Africa". Europeans named the nation *they started* South Africa. The people there prior did not call it that. They had a completely different culture and tradition outside of capitalism and so-called "democracy". Or are you telling me apartheid, capitalism, parliament, etc. was the doing of the indigenous people? Do you get what I'm saying now? Or are you going to keep making up strawman arguments?
No, I'm saying an influx of SW Asian Caucasoid lead to people mixing. This in conjunction with straight up conquests and genocides. Are you implying that no race mixing ever occurred in ancient Egypt with all those Caucasoid flooding into the Levant and NE Africa? A minority of them, the Caucasoid ones, still have the E-M2 haplotypes.
I kind of get the feeling you're just looking for something be angry about. This is why you're strawmanning instead of addressing what I actually said. You're borderline trolling at this point.
And I'm African American.
The face of a pure west asian 😮 anatolia and iran to the core she makes armenians look mixed
I'm also fully iraqi as far as my parents have told me but now your results are making me second-guess 😂 I should probably take a test too
dooo it, you'll be surprised like me 🤣
Iraqi isn't an ethnicity mate, itself has existed only since after WW1
Iraq is a country
Most of the worlds national borders were redrawn by European colonialism without regard to the different ethnic group’s influence.
Iraq is a modern state not an ethnic group. The people of modern day Iraq may speak Arabic but just like the Egyptians they aren't ethnically Arab, they have just been Arabized. Most of Today's Arab speaking world were Arabized under successive Muslim conquests. The parts of the Persian Empire that were closer to Arabia lost their language while the parts that were farther east managed to keep their language to a degree.
You are half white because you are Kurdish.And you said that you have Kurdish in you,even before the test.In your case Iran,,Turkey, Caucasus all points to your Kurdish (Aryan/white/Caucasian)roots.
I am Kurdish and Persian I did my 23 and me
Hi Lara, the companies that do this commercially are very, very superficial. Every place named in your profile had many very different different peoples living there. Actual Persians were 'Indo-Europeans' originally from around Ukraine, and swept in on horseback. They called themselves 'Aryans' and were related to the same people who swept into Europe and made it 'whiter'. At one time Persians had conquered all the Middle East, even Egypt. So having that DNA is perfectly logical. The Hittites, from Western Turkey, at times conquered parts of Iraq, and so very likely left plenty of DNA too. If you had 'original' Iraqi DNA, it would be from people like the Sumerians (probably related to southern Iraq's 'Marsh Arabs)'. or the Babylonians. I don't know about Babylonians, but no Sumerian DNA has been recovered yet. And when Iraq was conquered by Arab armies, the language was adopted (because Arabs were appointed as rulers, and because the Arabic Koran was considered authoritative), but the army moved on to conquer Persia pretty quickly, so may not have changed DNA there that much. I haven't confirmed this, but understand that actual Arabs were originally from the Arabian Peninsula, and it is very likely that it was mostly the language and religion that was changed rather then the DNA in Iraq and many other places.
The commercial companies simply cannot be considered reliable. Treat it like 'History Channel' history, and be glad they didn't say you were a space alien.
I Guessed Turkish before you showed Results… it’s those Turkish Eyes 👁 very unique
thank you!
Not at all Turkish eyes 😂, turkish eyes are slanted
yeah real turks have east asian eyes
@@bbdo1111 her eyes look different obviously. They have a hint of Slant to them
@thriftthrift4638 lol yes but turkic dna & ancestry isn't from native Anatolia, & what I mean by that is, turks often look to their central asian heritage, Kazakhstan/ Kyrgyzstan region, as a marker & indication of being a turkic ancestry. & from her results she didn't have any central asian
The term, "White" is pretty broad. From looking at Lara, I would say she is 100% White because of the way she looks, but then IMO, all Iranians, Iraqis, Turkish people and Arabs are "White".
When I was in college, the county coroner came in to one of my Humanities classes talk about "race", and he said that there were three broad "races", all based on bone structure, not skin color. These three broad categories were Eurasian, African and Asian. Eurasian catches all Europeans, all Arabs, people from India and the Australian aboriginals. Again, think bone structure, not skin color. African catches all of Africa below the Sahara Desert and Asia catches those in Asia and the inhabitants of the various Pacific islands. Native Americans in the Americas are Asian. Even this is not totally accurate - Somalis are on average 60% Arab and 40% African.
The coroner said that bone structure is how the coroner can examine skeletal remains found somewhere and come up with a "race" and gender (if they have the right bones). He said that African Americans were tough to categorize because most of them have both European and African genes, and some Latin Americans are a mix of Asian (Native American) and European skeletal influences.
I am 99.5% or 99.0% northern European, depending on which of the Ancestry / 23andMe tests you chose, but I am darker skinned (I spend a lot of time outdoors and tan nicely) than a Black / African American lady that worked at my last office. She obviously had a significant percentage of European genetic influence and stayed indoors all the time. We probably need to get away from using skin color to categorize people into groups, if we are going to categorize people at all.
😭😭 loved this
Thank you 🥰 I was just so shocked at the results 😭
I'm Scandinavian and Persian with blue eyes. As a blonde I'm Norwegian. As a brunette I'm Iranian (Persian.) LOL
You’re so pretty! I would try 23 and Me like others suggested. It even gave me a trace bit of Mesopotamian 😅 My husband is 100% Tunisian (from Tunisia) and his results show quite a mix.
Everyone keeps telling me to do 23 and Me so I'm going to have to try it!! 🤣
@@spyderr_exe first you should check out the current update and inheritance if you haven't.
In any case 23&me should be more accurate from narrowing down results
What’s your heritage, are you middle eastern
Good! I didn't know for sure if they were checking Mesopotamian (early Iraqi). It is a shame no one has found Sumerian DNA yet.
Linguistically, Iran means the land of Aryans, the eastern branch of Indo-Europeans. A group of Aryans (or Indo-Iranians) who migrated to the Iranian plateau around 2000 BCE from Central Asia, are thought to be the direct ancestors of modern Iranians, This has encouraged many historians to start the history of Iran from the Aryan migrations or the establishment of the first Aryan political power, the Achaemenid Empire. At the same time, it is true that long before the influx of Aryans into Iran, different peoples with established civilizations and kingdoms inhabited the country. These dynasties that deteriorated before the arrival of the Aryans or were defeated by them had an extensive system of international trade and relations with other civilizations of their time, as far west as Egypt and maybe Southern Europe and to China in the east.
Young lady, you can’t say ur not white ! Caucasian = white. You have 45% Caucasian lineage ! I’m of Iraqi lineage and I have 50% Caucasian almost like yourself. In all honesty, I was disappointed as I felt I was the son of Sumer, the son of Babylon. I told my friends of the results and now they’ve too afraid to do their DNA analysis preferring not to know,I’m 100% sure they’re similar to mine.
What else did you get? and where are you from? :)
@@Woollzable
25% Levant
25% Persian
Greetings from San Diego, California
You know, that the Sumerians and Akkadians imported defeated Hittite and Urartian tribes into Iraq right so Caucasus lineage is inevitable?
I was told all my life that I was half Italian- did ancestry dna and have 0% Italian 😂. Turns out My mother’s mother doesn’t truly know who her father was and was just guessing to give her a name. 😮
I wonder if it is because not many people in/from Iraq have become part of the database.
I think it’s that!
@@spyderr_exe It may also have something to do with Iraq being a creation of arbitrary boundaries drawn after WWI and not boundaries drawn along older political or even traditional tribal lines. The void in the middle of the map seems to be the land between the Tigris and Euphrates.
I'm Mexican and even I had Iraq show up lol. We thought we were only Mexican maybe with a little Jewish.Turns out were Andalusian Spanish, North African, Egyptian, Iraqi, Armenian and Native American. You have the same look like most of my family has! we also have alot of light colored eyes.
Iraq is a modern constructed country, not a historical ethnic group. It’s likely not considered an actual ethnic group
They are actually arabized native mesopotamian people
Yah it’s new ppl use to live there for 8000 years
That’s super new
Assyrian Syriac Aramaic Arab super new ethnic groups
I see some people confusing language with DNA. DNA has nothing to do with langauge. You may speak turkish but your DNA could be kurdish witch is part of biger indo Iranian DNA.I watched vidoes here in youtube that peopel from turkey made DNA test and find out that they are not even turks. Looking for nature of the history in this reagin it is normal to have a mix of diffrent DNA. Regarding Irak, most of northern iraki has kurdish(Indo Iranian DNA) where southern Iraki are more arabic with IndoIranian mix DNA)
Wait are you kurdish?
I'm kurdish iraq but my DNA results was Balkans exactly Albania lol
1/4 Kurdish! 😁
You may be ARNAOOT ارنووط
Check your DNA mix annually. It gets updated. Some mixes get higher/lower, and some completely disappear/appear. It just updated. The last update was in July 2023.
mentions Kurdish.
Surprises to get a lot of Iran.
Lol
Caucasian is LITERALLY White. All NW Europeans are from Persian/Germanic Tribes. And despite all of your wishful thinking, you are more Indo-European, than you are Iraqi.
I laughed so hard the whole area AROUND Iraq was highlighted lmao xD
YES! Lara has herself surrounded!
The small sounds you made at 2:08 are super cute. I can’t this cuteness. 😍
🤣🤣🤣
You actually look more Persian then anything.
41% Persian apparently so it makes sense!
@@spyderr_exe I mean many Iraqi look so Persian and other way around
She doesn't look Persian at all. Have your eyes checked.
@@samanzarandi6657 no they don't. Iraqis have a distinct look. They absolutely do not look like Persians. Persian have more Central Asiatic factures, while Iraqis have a more Mesopotamian rounder features.
It doesn't say you're not Iraqi. Actually it says exactly that you ARE an Iraqi . The genetic pool of most middle eastern people comes from 3 main neolithic population groups :
1- natufian (Lebanon Syria Palestine)
2- Anatolian hunter gatherer (turkey Caucasus)
3- proto Iranian
Iraq is the at the center of these areas and it's perfectly natural that Iraqi are a result of an equal mix between these three neolithic groups . And there you are a living proof of that .
Girl before knowing you were kurdish I assumed it hahahaha west iran and nort iraq and east anatolia damn you are definitely kurdish
Syrians,Kurds, Lebanese, Anatolians, Persians,Iraqi's, and Egyptians,are not Arabs. Iraq is a newly " created " country by the British.
You’re funny girl lol I’m Chaldean Iraqi and I want to take the test, I wonder what I’ll get
@@DukeNukem2000 update: you’re right, I got Anatolian & the Caucasus the highest. The map indicated Georgia and Armenia with Turkey.
Until recently, 23&me is better for Iraqis than ancestry. Though ancestry is better for Iraqis now
@@lizagebrael5362 *assyrian. ChAldean split a nation for money lol. Imagine eating the catholic church ass the same ones who divided your people
@@Fatkidlovecake there are no assyrians. And chaldeans are older (ancient babylonians) than nestorians who got the name "assyrian" 150 years ago from the British
Kurds aren’t indigenous to Iraq.. originally from Iran.
Assyrians are natives to Iraq.
Turkey and Caw-cack-ass 🤣🤣🤣
Egypt is Africa and Lebanon is Levantine and Phoenisian not Arab.
Phoenician were semite
No kurdish are Iranian people
Kurdish people are Kurdish! :)
@@spyderr_exe yes they are kurdish but they also came from a Iranian branch
I know because I have kurdish ancestors as well
That makes sense because they’re so close! It also makes sense because I’m 1/4 Kurdish and my ancestry says I’ve got Iranian in me!
@@spyderr_exe yes exactly that where you got the Iranian part because they don't have this category in they database so the althegorytm would put it to the much closer one .wich for you case if your kurdish the mose similar will be Iranian .
So you are half turkish half iranian as many many people on this region.
They just don't have enough data to pinpoint your anchestry more detailed way. Hopefully people in Iraq and surrounding area would take more DNA tests in the future. Also you maybe should consider taking test from some other companies too. They may have better databases.
Hey dear yes But West Iran and east Anatolia are Kurdistan my dear , so that Turkish and caucuses mountain are Kurdistan historically
That's basically the result I would expect for someone of western Asian descent. Before the early 20th century Iraq and Iran were borderless. Their people were nomads (I can't remember the proper term for it at the moment). So not getting an "Iraqi" result is expected. I don't think you could really break it down that much.
It's like the Native Americans in the USA. You can say yes, you're Native American, but you most certainly can't narrow it down tothe the tribe the individual would be from. That's impossible and anyone saying otherwise is lying to you. There isn't enough data in the system for that as of yet.
It's the same with the majority of the Western and Central Asian Counties. Some you can like Egypt, Saudi Arabi, Turkey, Israel, and, Palestinians. But that's because deep studies have been done on not just the the modern day people but also their modern ancestors and archaic ancestors.
They haven’t found enough modern remains of your ancestors, let alone archaic, to do so. And even if they did find them, who’s to say they would be Iraqi or Iranian or something completely different. They were nomadic after all. No one knows where they were originally from. So you get a basic generalization.
If you want a better more, thorough readout upload your raw DNA and have it emailed to yourself. Then upload it to GEDMatch, its free. But because modern day Iraqis were once nomadic you may find that long long ago some of your ancestors weren’t from that region at all.
I think I heard once that the original rulers of Iran and Iraq were brothers or first cousins or something like that. So it wouldn’t be surprising if you got Iranian or hits all over the Middle East/Eastern Asian/Central Asian. Just try to remember, before the first world conflict neither Iraq nor Iran existed.
Some British person created their borders. There’s a movie about it with Nicole Kidman. She plays an Archaeologist from that time period. She was the one who supposedly did it. I think it was when Lawrence of Arabia was over there s€r3wing around and messing about. I only saw pieces of it while my roommates watched it. But I think he was in it, but don’t quote me. 🤷🏻♀️
There could be Mongol since it was included in the Mongol Empire the largest contiguous land empire in history that reached from Asia through the Middle East all the way into Europe.
Great mix! You're so beautiful too! 💜
thanks Ed!
Dont be surprised, most of us got almost the same result, I have been born in Iraq and my parents are both Iraqi and got a very diverse result. I’ve got 48% Arabian Peninsula(Iraq). 28% Levant, 20% Anatolia & the caucasus, 1% south Bantu, 1% Eastern Bantu, 1% Southern Italy 🇮🇹… it seems that my ancestors were love to wander the whole world 😅
Surprised there's no greek
Native Iraqis (Mesopotamians) are Caucasian. The Assyrians one of the few lasting native people all lean towards the Caucasus (specifically Armenia) because they used to be neighbours for thousands of years.
Some even theories that Armenians were originally Mesopotamian according to ancient greek sources.
As for Persia that's definitely your Kurdish side.
Be proud of her heritage and God bless.
Lol, Mesopotamians didn't come from georgia dumbass! But according to recent studies seems ancient Mesopotamian people came from india Hindu valley and after settled definitively in current iraq, their Indian DNA mutated and become native genes of that area.
@@sicilian845 No one had even brought up Georgia, stupid dip$*&#.
Armenians have inhabited Anatolia (currently turkey) where they neighbored Mesopotamia (specifically Assyria) for thousands of years.
According to ancient Greek historians, Armenians were originally Mesopotamian tribes who migrated north.
Posidonius referred to Armenians as "Mesopotamian people". Even modern-day Armenians acknowledge this. It's quite ironic because you seem to have a Greek name.
As for the "hindu origin" that's completely false. First of all, this study focuses on Sumerians whom strictly inhabited Southern Mesopotamia and had little to do with later Akkadia, Babylonia and Assyria. So we're talking about a very specific group of people and NOT "Mesopotamians" as a whole, like you implied.
Second of all this study is extremely restricted as no one truly knows for sure who the discovered DNA belongs to, most researchers throw this study altogether because it's most-likely belongs to indian travellers who used to visit Southern Mesopotamia for trade quite often. and not actual Sumerians.
Some say Sumerians were Caucasian others referees to them as Semtic (which makes sense seeing that Abraham, the father of Semites was Sumerian) some think they were proto-european.
Modern Mesopotamians have no indian ancestry, except for Kurds who aren't native to begin with. and this video confirms it LOL
As far as we know the truth is something along these lines we just can't be 100% sure.
@@christopher5846 According to my researchs armenians came from Indo-european people and they isolated their pure jamma indoeuropean dna in their new home armenia in caucasus for a long time before mixing a bit with greeks, georgians and maybe even some north African and semite, but not very sure. Assyrians have their own dna which has not any link to other populations, just about the structure which is similiar to mesopotamian aka today iraqis one, but always different.
Even if mesopotamians wouldn't came from India actually, their dna is always very specific and unique which make it very different from Assyrian, Amrenian, iranic, semite and caucasian stuffs
@@sicilian845 If you look at the genetical distance between Assyrians and other populations you will find the closest groups the following:
"Georgian_Jew, Armenian, Iraqi_Mandean, Mountain_Jew, Iraqi_North, Iraqi_Jew, Kurdish, Syrian_West, Druze, Greek_Trabzon, Syrian_North, Syrian_Kurd, Lebanese_Druze....etc"
From the closest to the farthest.
@@sicilian845 Armenians are only Indo-european linguistically.
Kurds don't come from India (who told you they did?). You are roughly half white. The borders of Iraq were arbitrarily drawn and are not based on any ancient people group.
Most geneticists ever: "Iraq isn't Arab they are culturally Arabized their family tree lineage is fabricated forgery, and this and that about Iraqi DNA"
every geneticists and phenotypicist ever.
I am a geneticist and phenotypicist. Lol
Interesting stuff 🧐
@@spyderr_exe not really. Geneticists now a days say to everyone *"your not that ethnic group your actually this ethnic group your ancestors just assimilated and your family tree is forgery and is not ethnicity what it claims"* you hear that a lot from geneticists. I myself don't care to do that but I see other geneticists do. Even explain how assimilation changes family tree claims upon assimilation.
Turkey
England
And Morocco are 3 examples geneticists will talk about.
It can get old fast. I used to do that myself but don't really care anymore.
Coming from a geneticist.
The land was conquered and controlled by iranic people from 600bc - arab conquests. If anything Iraqi Arabs are more likely to have Persian/Kurdish DNA as well as Arab.
@@letstalknba7582 The levant especially Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are arabized. It was a lot arab washing during the rise of Islam.
@@letstalknba7582 I have no idea
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