Pia's South European ancestry results are logical because the Greeks colonized parts of the Mediterranean area. Afterall, Ukraine has sizable Greek minority due to the ancient Greek colonies (probably from the time of Alexander ). Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire that also encompassed parts of the Balkans.
well said. Lebanon-Philistine coast line has been constantly influenced by Hellenic traders and emigrations for millenias. Sour(tyros), Beyrouth(Vyritos),Jbail(Byblos),Saida(Sidonia), Tripoli some of which were colonies I guess. There is an intriguing theory about one of the first waves of immigration from Micynai, Greece around 1000-1200BC when it seems like the kingdom crumbled, that settled in Palestine and gave their name from Peleset(Pelasgi)-Peleste-Philiste->Philistine.
@@daniell8331 No, blue eyes were already present in the area before the crusaders came in. You can see ancient Middle Eastern statues with blue eyes, for example.
Ionia (/aɪˈoʊniə/ eye-OH-nee-ə)[1] was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements[citation needed]. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the region before the archaic period and the Caspian's The Caspians of the Egyptian papyri are therefore generally considered as either an Iranian people or strongly under Iranian cultural influence. In the 5th century BC, during the Persian rule in Egypt, a regiment (Aramaic degel) of Caspians was stationed in Elephantine, as attested in the Elephantine papyri.
maybe you should try another company that breaks it down a little bit more like my heritage or 23andme and apparently these tests only show the last few hundred years and it doesn’t go far into the past , that was a really cool video and nice results for both of you xx
@@RickiHockersmith83 iono where you get the idea that all vietnamese has flat nose. I'm 100% Vietnamese, well, 99.9% to be exact, and my nose aint flat. There are chinese people with flat nose, same for vietnamese or any ethnicity.
No, he looks Cantonese to me. But he look like having similar DNA to me. My ancestry is in Zhuhai and Zhongshan but I was born in Northern China. My colleagues thought I might have some european ancestors but I don't.
Edwards 23% Western minority in China can mean Xinjiang region, so ingridents of Arabic, Persian and Turkish. That's the Mideastern connection of you two, very cute
@benjamindo8142sorry to correct you, Xinjiang has over 30 ethnic groups including Russian tartars, not all Uighur are Muslim while the Hui Muslim are actually Han people same background as Edward albeit that he’s not Muslim. The Han ethnicity make up 97% of the people in China. The Uighur are diverse with not just Turk background but Persians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Central Asia countries , that’s why you have Uighur that look Chinese ( from Central Asia) and some look western (Turk) but mind you Turkish is not a white race. There’s over 2,000 years of history of mixing the Uighur culture, therefore not all Uighur are the same. This goes back to the original Silk Road when Persian and Turk traders came to China for high tech products that other countries cannot produce. Silk, porcelain, tea, paper, compass, were considered high tech in those days. 2024, countries are still going to China for trade. High tech such as infrastructure, high speed rail, superconductors, space tech, etc.
Historically Xinjiang or East Turkestan was never part of China. The Chinese name Xinjiang literally translates to “new territory” which is basically an admission that China colonized it. The true Western China is Sichuan Province or any part of that is west of Lanzhou. That is where a lot of Hui Muslims come from and he could possible have roots there. But the only thing that Arabs and Hui Muslims share is religion. They are genetically identical to Han Chinese people.
Mediterranean peoples (whether in Southern Europe, North Africa or the Middle East) tend to be rather closely related. A lot of back and forth migration. From the Greco-Roman conquests, to the Jewish diaspora, to the Arabian conquests, to the Crusades. And so forth.
South europeans are basically white ppl, they look different than MENA and traditionally they were considered Caucasian in Western Civilizations which they are, and they also mixed with germanics dialeting the MENA dna like Ashkenazi Jews did, You can see that iberians are 90% european in average the remaining is north african and if you go to The Northern Regions such as North Italy, North Iberia, Macedonia they have little to no MENA dna, but the average in Iberia is 5-10% of MENA, Italy is 5-20%, France is also 5-10% , and they look white asf,
Southern Europeans are White ppl, And they are generally considered white in Western Societies, Another thing Southern Europeans mixed with germanics that is why they look different then MENA
I am drunk as a skunk right now and I just cannot stop laughing at this comment. Nothing wrong with it, just reading it in this state is making me crack up. 😂😂😂
Piia, it is not that long ago that the Euphrates was considered the border between Europe & Asia. Southern Europe today is populated by significant flows of people from Mesopotamia.
When I look at Edward he looks a lot like myself and also a friend of mine. My friend was born in Taiwan but his ancestry was in Nanhai which is a county in Guangdong province. I was born in Beijing China, both of my parents have the same ancestry in the same county now different cities Zhu Hai and Zhong Shan (which are cities bordering Macao). My mother has that European look when she was young and often people thought she was Russian, neither of my grandparents in law were from Russia, they both were 100% Chinese, one born in Zhongshan and other born in Shaoxing. My great parents were both Cantonese but both were born in Northern China.
You know Piia, the Arabic script is actually a pretty widely used written language in China. The subway stations in western China have station names in Arabic and Chinese. It’s called the Xiao er jing script.
"Arab" is a modern, ambiguous nationality which was started in the 20th century, before that it generally meant a nomadic tribesman and was a reference to a certain lifestyle. It had nothing to do with whether you spoke a certain language, or anything of this sort. Those are modern inventions.
@@andromilk2634 this comment is so idiotic. Arab is an ethnicity with a rich language and culture. Next thing you gonna say kurdish is an invented ethnicity although they they speak a different distinct language
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h It is only problematic if your knowledge about the subject is nil. According to an ideologue like Sati Al Husri : "Every Arab-speaking people is an Arab people. Every individual belonging to one of these Arabic-speaking peoples is an Arab. And if he does not recognize this, and if he is not proud of his Arabism, then we must look for the reasons that have made him take this stand. It may be an expression of ignorance; in that case we must teach him the truth. It may spring from an indifference or false consciousness; in that case we must enlighten him and lead him to the right path. It may result from extreme egoism; in that case we must limit his egoism. But under no circumstances, should we say: "As long as he does not wish to be an Arab, and as long as he is disdainful of his Arabness, then he is not an Arab." He is an Arab regardless of his own wishes. Whether ignorant, indifferent, undutiful, or disloyal, he is an Arab, but an Arab without consciousness or feeling, and perhaps even without conscience" Learn to understand what one is saying : I did not say "arabs" did not exist before, what I said is that Arabism, a political ideology such as can be seen in Sati Al-Husri's quote, is a modern invention. "Arabs" back then did not refer to whether you spoke a certain language or dressed in a certain way, it meant to refer to nomadic tribesmen. By the way, yes, there are several invented groups in today's Middle East which would not exist without the knowledge and techniques of Europe, that's very clear.
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h Did you actually understand what I said? I'm asking this because the point I'm making is very clear and you seem to be saying something which I'm not saying
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h Language is irrelevant. In Lebanon, (Where I'm from) the different communities don't identify on the basis of language, they never did for that matter. As for your Kurdish example, some Kurdish national leaders claim a variety of groups as under the category of"Kurds", even if such groups don't have any interest in such a thing. Some other people will claim, and they will fight you for it, that they have called themselves after forgotten civilizations which were recently uncovered by Europeans. My point is that a lot of things in the modern Middle East are not only new and invented, they are also confused and suffer from artificiality.
she's so hot. wow. obviously she's from lebanon. she's not arab. if they broke it down she would be more Canaanite/Syrian than anything else. Just because Greeks/Arabs, Turks, conquered doesn't change the bulk of the indigenous DNA.
32% european perfectly makes sense considering the history of your region : greeks were there, then romans were there, vandals (germanic people) migrated to the roman empire and also spread there etc...
At least with 23 and Me, the ethnicity data gets refined over time so you should check by in a year and see what’s changed. According to 23 and Me, I originally had Japanese and Korean heritage but that ethnicity got removed over time.
@@generalnguyenngocloan1700 Come to Arizona and New Mexico, rent or buy a motorcycle, and take a nice long trip through our majestic desert. Visit the people who live along this route. Follow the routes of the old Wild West expeditionary trails like the ill fated Texas-Santa Fe Expedition of 1842 and the Goodnight Loving cattle drive trail and you'll see what I mean. Piia would pass here as a full blooded Apache.
@@BlueSkyCountry My background is in New World Archaeology and Native American studies. I’ve lived, studied, and worked on Crow and Mandan Indian Reservations. I’ve had courses in race and human variation long before the “woke”. I know pure blooded Native American and Inuits who look very much like Koreans with some Siberian DNA. Even full blooded Apaches of 150 years ago looked much more East Asian. Indeed, Piia is beautiful.
The Levant/Syria was occupied by Greeks and Romans for almost 1000 years from the time of Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest at the end of the 7th century. So Lebanese are mostly going to be a mix of local Syriac / Aramaic / Canaanite populations and immigrants from Greece, Italy, and the Balkans.
It's always hard to understand, but christian lebanese are indeed the result of old greek presence and Frankish invasions because yes the crusaders were mainly Franks from France. This is the reason why lebanon has such a big christian population and why a lot of them are European passing. Because compared to other middle-eastern, they are not a 100% arabic. The result isn't the same usually with Muslim lebanese who tend to be more middle-eastern, and a bit north-african sometimes, correlating with the historical link between North Africa and M-E since antiquity.
@@akhesa8135 Not quite true, they have a substantial link to the crusaders who were essentially franks and christians... Read history and genetics it's well documented.
@@maths8458 Crusaders? Substantial? I don't know if such a small sample would even be considered when it comes to genetics. I'd be curious to see your sources and documentation...
My husband is Lebanese, but he looks either Italian or Mexican/Hispanic. Some of his cousins look Arab and some don't. Greek is definitely known as well. Since Lebanese is in Western Asia/Middle East, I do see diversity in some.
Piia heritage probably derived from people who inherited the Byzantium empire or Easter Roman Empire. The capital of Byzantium are in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Most Turkist people have the same heritage as Piia i am almost 100% sure.
These tests are really designed for Americans to show their recent migration possibly 500-1000 years not deeper. I am Palestinian and my results were 60% Levantine, 35% Anatolian the rest is Greek
My DNA is 96% middle eastern and I can pass as English! My brother is 96% Middle eastern and looks super tan with black hair and black eyes. DNA is an odd thing.
Hello, you are wonderful and I wish you much happiness in the new 2025 year and at all! :) Allow me to make a suggestion about your Southern European origin. In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire conquered the Balkans and Greece for about 500 years. It also conquered many Arab countries in the Middle East. I reacently met a friend from Lebanon, he also made a genetic test, that showed him he had origins from the Balkans. This is quite natural, since in the Ottoman Empire there was a great exchange and movement of population, people traded freely, visited holy places, without any borders, from the Balkans to Siria, Egipet and Iraq. This created extremely favorable conditions for mixed marriages, so considering that you have beautiful white skin and you look a lot like a woman from the Balkans, most likely your Southern European origin is from there. All the best and much happiness!
Few know this, but the white/Aryan race began in and around what is now Iran. You can still see this ancient DNA in the Pashtun and Kurdish people. Abraham and Sarah were called out from that place and a vast majority of them eventually left the Middle east and passed over the Caucasus Mountains at the cross roads of Asia and Europe and those people of Israel began to be known as Caucasians. It does not seem strange to me at all, that you have blue eyed relatives since the Middle East is where those traits' came from.
Western minority includes places as far as like Xinjiang, where they are mainly of Turkic and central Asian ancestry, with middle eastern admixture. Eg, the majority ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I bet if Edward go to Xinjiang, he might be mistaken as a Uyghur too, because from the beginning, I already said Edward may be Chinese, but somewhere along his ancestry line there could be a Turkic ancestry. Edward could do a DNA test kit from China that breaks down into ethnicity groups in China. Anyway Han Chinese is not a monolithic group either. There are so many "dialectical groups" that have been conveniently lumped by the Chinese Govt under Han.
The communist took over 70 years ago, Han ethnicity existed 5,000 years ago. Funny you blame the Chinese communist government for branding Han Chinese. BTW, different dialects doesn’t mean they are not Han. Shanghai dialect is quite different from Cantonese but both are Han people.
The Uyghurs' plight is no different than the plight of other indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Every country has had a dark history. It is what it is though, and people have to move on.
@@BlueSkyCountry Uyghurs arent native to that land either. Technically if you go far enough it doesnt belong to either people. I do agree with CCP policies with the Uyghurs. All the rape and organ harvesting stuff is fake propaganda created by a Chinese UFO cult called the Falun Gong.
Cultarally you're Arabized. Genetically you're the descendant of Canaanites. Modern Lebanese inherited ~90% of their genes from them, not Arabs. Southern European and other from the Caucasus make up the rest. And Cannanites themeselves were a mix of neolithic Levant farmers (Natufian and neolithic Anatolian farmers) and Copper age Iranic people.
The issue is that some people keep mixing two very different things, one historical and the other is a modern political invention inspired by European nationalism : "Arab" in the way it is used today is a modern (and failed) national movement which claimed that by the virtue of speaking arabic, you were an "arab", and since arabs supposedly form one "nation", then they should be able to form one state. That's the modern invention which only took off in the 20 th century. The historical meaning of arabs, in the way it is used in Islamic sources and how it was used by locals, even the arabic-speaking ones, is that "Arab" refered to a nomadic tribesman, it was a term to denote a certain lifestyle. It had nothing to do with whether you spoke arabic or not. An "Arab" was a term of insult, not of national pride. This is all the more bizarre when you consider that in the societies of the Eastern Med., the defining criterion of one's identity and loyalties is not based on what you happen to speak, but on your religion.
I don't know a single middle eastern woman who likes white men, arab women either stay with their men or marry asian men. White men? Never in a million years 😂
I think more likely his western minority in China include Xinjiang, where his ancestors could have mixed in with the Turkic/Central Asians/Middle Eastern peoples of that time. Present Xinjiang still have people that look a lot like a mix of East and West, basically central asian looks.
I think Edward looks like Sinitic mixed with some Tai-Kradai or Austronesian, and his appearance is quite common in the region he came from (Guangdong and Guangxi).
@@ymhktravel He isn't from Xinjiang though, he's from Guangzhou which is a city located in Far South China. It looks like he has some Kradai or Austronesian admixtures judging by his appearance.
@@weifan9533 Riight? His nose is beautifully bridged! If I'm not mistaken, although his eyes still have an Asian structure to them, up-close, they are bigger, wider, darker, and with a bigger iris than most Asian men :)
The DNA results shouldn’t be that surprising: Phoenicians explored and settled the entire Mediterranean basin and European armies marched through or remained in Lebanon on their way to the holy land…
Western Minority is basically Xinjiang region which is where the Muslim Uyuighurs are from who have a strong connection obviously to central asian middle eastern and Arab connection due to the religion
No, they cluster with Central Asian. "Western minority" means, as CantoMando said, "the land where the pandas are from", i.e. Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, home of indigenous Tibeto-Burman, Hmong-Mien, and Kra-Dai peoples.
Wow I mean I expected for the lady to be somewhat of European origin but 32% could mean one of your parents got more than half from one of their parents and so on, or that a lot of your distant ancestors were from around the mediternian Italy-Greece-Anatolia-Minor Asia
The inhabitants of Syria, Libya and Palestine are Levantine farmers, they are characterized as a mixture of Natufian peoples from the Middle East and Anatolians, while the southern Europeans are a mixture of Anatolians with Indo-Europeans from the steppes. The DNA test cannot tell you where you are from because in reality the mixture occurred thousands of years ago, the DNA tests can only tell you precisely where you come from up to a period of 2000 years, which means that the mixture is prior to that period.
@@user-yt3xd2jl6dI don't find that reliable. The Y chromosome test could go back 10's of thousands of years, the mitochondrial only about 300-400 maybe 500 years. Wha test are you talkin g about?
@@FreeState.21ST The Haplogroup yes, but you must keep in mind that DNA tests do not measure the type of Haplogroup, they measure Autosomal DNA, the complete composition of DNA. Haplogroups are just Patrilineal ancestry markers that tell you who your parents are, but Autosomal DNA can change a lot, for example there are African populations in Chad that have R1b (typical of a European), but their Autosomal DNA is 70% a 80% Sub-Saharan, only 20 to 30% correspond to populations from the Middle East and Europe.
When I thought of Lebanese the first thing came to mind would be the mighty ancient seafarers the Phoenician that ruled the Mediterranean and founded the city of Carthage in North Africa…..the European part would be from the crusaders probably from France:)
No, Southern European part of DNA comes from the Romans and Byzantine, which account for the Italy, Greece, and rest of Balcans. Lebanese and North Syrians have a large genetic component originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey).
Hola Piia! Soy española y sinceramente estoy segura de que tienes rasgos mediterráneos (España, Italia, Grecia...o puede que incluso Francia o Rumanía). Deberías hacer una prueba que te detalle más... porque ésa es muy inespecífica. Realmente yo sí creo que eres una mezcla grande, aunque ponga Oriente Medio no te está especificando procedencia antigüa. Podrías pasar por española o que al menos uno de tus padres lo fuera. Yo si no hubiera leído nada pensaria que eres española o italiana con un poco de Oriente o turca. Seas lo que seas eres muy guapa. Saludos desde España!
So she's basically Mediterranean. People from the region have been intermixing under different empires for millenia. The borders of today don't really mean much.
The asian man is mostly east asian and have some south asian admixture,so you are not mixed,you just have admixture from another asian group but race wise you are a unmixed asiatic with no other race admixture. Oh and lebanon is in asia,so the lady in the video is asian,she is south west asian.
I can tell you for sure young lady, if your grandma had black eyes you are mix with alien blood, you are truly rare, alien species they interact with some of humanity but not all.
Ancient Greece, Rome, Eastern Rome, and the Crusaders = Lebanese being about half European. Thousands of years of mixed European settlements, trade, etc.
"Caucasian" is NOT just European. Skin color is not the major classifying factor. Caucasian includes Semitic peoples (Arabs, Jews), Persians, Turkic peoples, and most south Asian peoples (formerly called "Aryans"). The 3 major racial classifications are Caucasoid, Negroid/Africanoid (sub-Saharan Africans), and Mongoloid (East Asiatic).
Caucasian and Caucasoid are two completely different things the latter being an anthropological racial category. And these are fake groupings invented a few centuries ago by Europeans. Technically Lebanese people would be Caucasoid but not Caucasian. In reality only people from Caucasus mountains and adjacent regions such as Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Dagestanis, Armenians etc. are "Caucasian." In the USA however Caucasian was erroneously used interchangeably with Caucasoid and white. But that's when there was no Middle Eastern people living there so technically they'd be classified as Caucasian too, as well as Indians and most Northern Africans but never been seen as such by the American public. Even Latinos are "othered." Now come to Western Europe and no one here has ever considered Arabs or South Asians as white or "Caucasian." Ask the Jews, Roma Gypsies, Moroccans and Algerians they where hated even more than blacks...
@user-vw6bk4pb4l Many groups have been discriminated against in the North America and northwestern Europe - Irish, Italians, Spanish, and others you named but that doesn't make them any less Caucasian or Caucasoid. All these ethnic groups' ancestors originated from the Caucasus and Eurasian steppe region. Regardless of skin tone, DNA proves that Europeans, Arabs, Persians, Jews, most South Asians, etc. have common ancestors who originated in Eurasia.
A Chinese Arab or Chinese and Israeli couple would be an Asian couple too. Koreans, Hungarians, and Turks also come from the same ethnic line called the Altaic. The Magyars are named because they were originally Malgal from the borderland between Korea and China. Some Malgal migrated westward and settled Hungary. The eastern Malgal who stayed in Manchuria founded the Goguryeo and Jin Dynasties. Eurasia is very complex. After all, you can ride a train from Seoul to Paris without switching tracks. Can't do that from Seoul to Tokyo though.
You haven't seen enough Far South Chinese then. Several of my Guangdong and Guangxi friends and acquaintances have similar looks to him. I think he looks quite typical for his region.
Beautiful couple! You're both lucky to have each other. Thank you for sharing your video.
Pia's South European ancestry results are logical because the Greeks colonized parts of the Mediterranean area. Afterall, Ukraine has sizable Greek minority due to the ancient Greek colonies (probably from the time of Alexander ). Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire that also encompassed parts of the Balkans.
well said. Lebanon-Philistine coast line has been constantly influenced by Hellenic traders and emigrations for millenias. Sour(tyros), Beyrouth(Vyritos),Jbail(Byblos),Saida(Sidonia), Tripoli some of which were colonies I guess. There is an intriguing theory about one of the first waves of immigration from Micynai, Greece around 1000-1200BC when it seems like the kingdom crumbled, that settled in Palestine and gave their name from Peleset(Pelasgi)-Peleste-Philiste->Philistine.
Crusaders mixed with the Maronites?? Apparently, that's why my Lebanese mum has blue eyes
@@daniell8331 No, blue eyes were already present in the area before the crusaders came in. You can see ancient Middle Eastern statues with blue eyes, for example.
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Anatolians or Caspian's may the blue eyes
Ionia (/aɪˈoʊniə/ eye-OH-nee-ə)[1] was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements[citation needed]. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the region before the archaic period
and the Caspian's
The Caspians of the Egyptian papyri are therefore generally considered as either an Iranian people or strongly under Iranian cultural influence. In the 5th century BC, during the Persian rule in Egypt, a regiment (Aramaic degel) of Caspians was stationed in Elephantine, as attested in the Elephantine papyri.
maybe you should try another company that breaks it down a little bit more like my heritage or 23andme and apparently these tests only show the last few hundred years and it doesn’t go far into the past ,
that was a really cool video and nice results for both of you xx
Seriously, you 2 look a like. Even though you’re completely diff region of the world. It’s fascinating.
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Soulmates tend to have similarities
idk i honestly don't see it lol
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@@jo100 I agree. I have results from both 23andMe with Ancestry. 23andMe was more fun. But I paid for the full kit
Edward’s DNA actually makes sense. I always thought he looked Vietnamese.
No! Edward's looks more like people from Xinjiang/ Central Asian region. Vietnamese has bigger flat nose.
Nah I’m Viet and he looks Viet to me
@@RickiHockersmith83Viets are not a monolith. They have mixed ancestry too. I always thought he look WAY more Viet than Chinese
@@RickiHockersmith83 iono where you get the idea that all vietnamese has flat nose. I'm 100% Vietnamese, well, 99.9% to be exact, and my nose aint flat. There are chinese people with flat nose, same for vietnamese or any ethnicity.
No, he looks Cantonese to me. But he look like having similar DNA to me. My ancestry is in Zhuhai and Zhongshan but I was born in Northern China. My colleagues thought I might have some european ancestors but I don't.
Edwards 23% Western minority in China can mean Xinjiang region, so ingridents of Arabic, Persian and Turkish. That's the Mideastern connection of you two, very cute
Yup you are correct
Interesting 🤔
@benjamindo8142sorry to correct you, Xinjiang has over 30 ethnic groups including Russian tartars, not all Uighur are Muslim while the Hui Muslim are actually Han people same background as Edward albeit that he’s not Muslim. The Han ethnicity make up 97% of the people in China. The Uighur are diverse with not just Turk background but Persians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Central Asia countries , that’s why you have Uighur that look Chinese ( from Central Asia) and some look western (Turk) but mind you Turkish is not a white race. There’s over 2,000 years of history of mixing the Uighur culture, therefore not all Uighur are the same. This goes back to the original Silk Road when Persian and Turk traders came to China for high tech products that other countries cannot produce. Silk, porcelain, tea, paper, compass, were considered high tech in those days. 2024, countries are still going to China for trade. High tech such as infrastructure, high speed rail, superconductors, space tech, etc.
@@piiatamareuve got his seed in you
Historically Xinjiang or East Turkestan was never part of China. The Chinese name Xinjiang literally translates to “new territory” which is basically an admission that China colonized it. The true Western China is Sichuan Province or any part of that is west of Lanzhou. That is where a lot of Hui Muslims come from and he could possible have roots there. But the only thing that Arabs and Hui Muslims share is religion. They are genetically identical to Han Chinese people.
Mediterranean peoples (whether in Southern Europe, North Africa or the Middle East) tend to be rather closely related. A lot of back and forth migration. From the Greco-Roman conquests, to the Jewish diaspora, to the Arabian conquests, to the Crusades. And so forth.
Southern european are basically white ppl
South europeans are basically white ppl, they look different than MENA and traditionally they were considered Caucasian in Western Civilizations which they are, and they also mixed with germanics dialeting the MENA dna like Ashkenazi Jews did, You can see that iberians are 90% european in average the remaining is north african and if you go to The Northern Regions such as North Italy, North Iberia, Macedonia they have little to no MENA dna, but the average in Iberia is 5-10% of MENA, Italy is 5-20%, France is also 5-10% , and they look white asf,
Yes is chru. I livin in USA e vry bary tel luk like arab im from albania my ADN R1B1 87 percent
Southern Europeans are White ppl, And they are generally considered white in Western Societies, Another thing Southern Europeans mixed with germanics that is why they look different then MENA
Indeed, she is Mediterranean, not Arab. Also, the Lebanese ancestors are the Phoenicians
Wooow exotic piia ❤
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No but our children are gonna be 😉
Mediterranean
I haven't watched it, but you will definitely be Turkish, Greek and Italian. I will comment after watching :D
I don't believe it, I knew it, I think I guessed it well :D
حبيبتي انتي جميله بكل حالاتك ومن وين ماكنتي و راح تبقين بيا الحلوه والي نحبها وندعمها للأبد
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That's very cool Piia❤😊
I'm guessing your DNA is 100% cutie 🤭
Edward 🥰
I am drunk as a skunk right now and I just cannot stop laughing at this comment. Nothing wrong with it, just reading it in this state is making me crack up. 😂😂😂
Pia do more vlogs!!
All in all, you look beautiful in an Asian sense.
She has a Greek face! Greeks had colonies in the Levant region since antiquity! 🇬🇷
I have a few Greek friends that look like her
Piia, it is not that long ago that the Euphrates was considered the border between Europe & Asia. Southern Europe today is populated by significant flows of people from Mesopotamia.
Your babies will look beautiful
When I look at Edward he looks a lot like myself and also a friend of mine. My friend was born in Taiwan but his ancestry was in Nanhai which is a county in Guangdong province. I was born in Beijing China, both of my parents have the same ancestry in the same county now different cities Zhu Hai and Zhong Shan (which are cities bordering Macao). My mother has that European look when she was young and often people thought she was Russian, neither of my grandparents in law were from Russia, they both were 100% Chinese, one born in Zhongshan and other born in Shaoxing. My great parents were both Cantonese but both were born in Northern China.
You know Piia, the Arabic script is actually a pretty widely used written language in China. The subway stations in western China have station names in Arabic and Chinese. It’s called the Xiao er jing script.
It doesn't matter who you are by nationality, but you are stunning!
She is not Arab by DNA although she may be culturally Arab.
"Arab" is a modern, ambiguous nationality which was started in the 20th century, before that it generally meant a nomadic tribesman and was a reference to a certain lifestyle. It had nothing to do with whether you spoke a certain language, or anything of this sort. Those are modern inventions.
@@andromilk2634 this comment is so idiotic. Arab is an ethnicity with a rich language and culture. Next thing you gonna say kurdish is an invented ethnicity although they they speak a different distinct language
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h It is only problematic if your knowledge about the subject is nil. According to an ideologue like Sati Al Husri : "Every Arab-speaking people is an Arab people. Every individual belonging to one of these Arabic-speaking peoples is an Arab. And if he does not recognize this, and if he is not proud of his Arabism, then we must look for the reasons that have made him take this stand. It may be an expression of ignorance; in that case we must teach him the truth. It may spring from an indifference or false consciousness; in that case we must enlighten him and lead him to the right path. It may result from extreme egoism; in that case we must limit his egoism. But under no circumstances, should we say: "As long as he does not wish to be an Arab, and as long as he is disdainful of his Arabness, then he is not an Arab." He is an Arab regardless of his own wishes. Whether ignorant, indifferent, undutiful, or disloyal, he is an Arab, but an Arab without consciousness or feeling, and perhaps even without conscience"
Learn to understand what one is saying : I did not say "arabs" did not exist before, what I said is that Arabism, a political ideology such as can be seen in Sati Al-Husri's quote, is a modern invention. "Arabs" back then did not refer to whether you spoke a certain language or dressed in a certain way, it meant to refer to nomadic tribesmen. By the way, yes, there are several invented groups in today's Middle East which would not exist without the knowledge and techniques of Europe, that's very clear.
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h Did you actually understand what I said? I'm asking this because the point I'm making is very clear and you seem to be saying something which I'm not saying
@@user-gh3dd5yj4h Language is irrelevant. In Lebanon, (Where I'm from) the different communities don't identify on the basis of language, they never did for that matter. As for your Kurdish example, some Kurdish national leaders claim a variety of groups as under the category of"Kurds", even if such groups don't have any interest in such a thing. Some other people will claim, and they will fight you for it, that they have called themselves after forgotten civilizations which were recently uncovered by Europeans. My point is that a lot of things in the modern Middle East are not only new and invented, they are also confused and suffer from artificiality.
she's so hot. wow. obviously she's from lebanon. she's not arab. if they broke it down she would be more Canaanite/Syrian than anything else. Just because Greeks/Arabs, Turks, conquered doesn't change the bulk of the indigenous DNA.
32% european perfectly makes sense considering the history of your region : greeks were there, then romans were there, vandals (germanic people) migrated to the roman empire and also spread there etc...
Lebanon was under Greek, later Rome and Byzantium rule. It is not surprising you have southern European.
You Are pretty no matter what ❤
At least with 23 and Me, the ethnicity data gets refined over time so you should check by in a year and see what’s changed. According to 23 and Me, I originally had Japanese and Korean heritage but that ethnicity got removed over time.
You look a lot like my co-worker, who is Iranian (Persian). Very similar facial features.
True! She has a nice Persian nose :)
You have that Mediterranean look, indo-European phenotype.
Very strong Native looks too. She can pass for Apache or Nez Perce.
@@BlueSkyCountryNah.
@@generalnguyenngocloan1700 Come to Arizona and New Mexico, rent or buy a motorcycle, and take a nice long trip through our majestic desert. Visit the people who live along this route. Follow the routes of the old Wild West expeditionary trails like the ill fated Texas-Santa Fe Expedition of 1842 and the Goodnight Loving cattle drive trail and you'll see what I mean. Piia would pass here as a full blooded Apache.
@@BlueSkyCountry My background is in New World Archaeology and Native American studies. I’ve lived, studied, and worked on Crow and Mandan Indian Reservations. I’ve had courses in race and human variation long before the “woke”. I know pure blooded Native American and Inuits who look very much like Koreans with some Siberian DNA. Even full blooded Apaches of 150 years ago looked much more East Asian. Indeed, Piia is beautiful.
@@generalnguyenngocloan1700 Your Vietnamese immigrant parents must be so proud that you studied a useless major
Yall eill have interesting mix of kids. I guess vontinue to watch along yalls journey
She's mostly west Asian and part southern European. Still better then just one ethnicity.
The Levant/Syria was occupied by Greeks and Romans for almost 1000 years from the time of Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest at the end of the 7th century.
So Lebanese are mostly going to be a mix of local Syriac / Aramaic / Canaanite populations and immigrants from Greece, Italy, and the Balkans.
Salma Hayek is both Lebanese and Spaniard...she's purely Iberian Spanish on her mom side and purely Lebanese on her father's side
it tee illllly waaaa !!! i speak a little Aramaic also heeheh . But i am from toshian southern china .
It's always hard to understand, but christian lebanese are indeed the result of old greek presence and Frankish invasions because yes the crusaders were mainly Franks from France. This is the reason why lebanon has such a big christian population and why a lot of them are European passing. Because compared to other middle-eastern, they are not a 100% arabic.
The result isn't the same usually with Muslim lebanese who tend to be more middle-eastern, and a bit north-african sometimes, correlating with the historical link between North Africa and M-E since antiquity.
no, the Lebanese were part of the first Christians and a part became Muslim after
@@akhesa8135 Not quite true, they have a substantial link to the crusaders who were essentially franks and christians... Read history and genetics it's well documented.
@@maths8458 Crusaders? Substantial? I don't know if such a small sample would even be considered when it comes to genetics. I'd be curious to see your sources and documentation...
Roman, Greek and Caucasus is apart of Lebanon. Its that Lebanon has alot of arab in its mix, but those three in combination are a big part of Lebanon.
100% beautiful.
My husband is Lebanese, but he looks either Italian or Mexican/Hispanic. Some of his cousins look Arab and some don't. Greek is definitely known as well. Since Lebanese is in Western Asia/Middle East, I do see diversity in some.
Piia heritage probably derived from people who inherited the Byzantium empire or Easter Roman Empire. The capital of Byzantium are in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Most Turkist people have the same heritage as Piia i am almost 100% sure.
These tests are really designed for Americans to show their recent migration possibly 500-1000 years not deeper.
I am Palestinian and my results were 60% Levantine, 35% Anatolian the rest is Greek
My first guess for mix is European, ppl don’t know geography. She looks a bit asian because the Middle East is near Asia
what a beautiful girl！！！
Do Ancestry D&A or my Heritage it will break it down for you
My DNA is 96% middle eastern and I can pass as English! My brother is 96% Middle eastern and looks super tan with black hair and black eyes. DNA is an odd thing.
You both like twins 😊 both of your anchestor actually were ancient Han that spread to central and western asia and south eastern europe
Hello, you are wonderful and I wish you much happiness in the new 2025 year and at all! :)
Allow me to make a suggestion about your Southern European origin. In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire conquered the Balkans and Greece for about 500 years. It also conquered many Arab countries in the Middle East. I reacently met a friend from Lebanon, he also made a genetic test, that showed him he had origins from the Balkans. This is quite natural, since in the Ottoman Empire there was a great exchange and movement of population, people traded freely, visited holy places, without any borders, from the Balkans to Siria, Egipet and Iraq. This created extremely favorable conditions for mixed marriages, so considering that you have beautiful white skin and you look a lot like a woman from the Balkans, most likely your Southern European origin is from there. All the best and much happiness!
Spain is only 10 miles by water to Africa so they went to Levant afterwards
Few know this, but the white/Aryan race began in and around what is now Iran.
You can still see this ancient DNA in the Pashtun and Kurdish people.
Abraham and Sarah were called out from that place and a vast majority of them
eventually left the Middle east and passed over the Caucasus Mountains at the cross roads of Asia and Europe
and those people of Israel began to be known as Caucasians.
It does not seem strange to me at all, that you have blue eyed relatives since the Middle East is where
those traits' came from.
Why your eyes not blue ?
You can pass as a native Italian easily!
You’re Arabic habibti 🇱🇧❤
No she's literally not. Lebanese are not Arabs but they are Middle Eastern.
Western minority includes places as far as like Xinjiang, where they are mainly of Turkic and central Asian ancestry, with middle eastern admixture. Eg, the majority ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I bet if Edward go to Xinjiang, he might be mistaken as a Uyghur too, because from the beginning, I already said Edward may be Chinese, but somewhere along his ancestry line there could be a Turkic ancestry. Edward could do a DNA test kit from China that breaks down into ethnicity groups in China. Anyway Han Chinese is not a monolithic group either. There are so many "dialectical groups" that have been conveniently lumped by the Chinese Govt under Han.
The communist took over 70 years ago, Han ethnicity existed 5,000 years ago. Funny you blame the Chinese communist government for branding Han Chinese. BTW, different dialects doesn’t mean they are not Han. Shanghai dialect is quite different from Cantonese but both are Han people.
I think Edward mentioned his family is from Southern China in pervious videos.
@@wilkesmcdermid7906
Edward looks like Chinese actor tony leung tseu wai..... and tony is toisanese the original Chinese settlers in north America
The Uyghurs' plight is no different than the plight of other indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Every country has had a dark history. It is what it is though, and people have to move on.
@@BlueSkyCountry Uyghurs arent native to that land either. Technically if you go far enough it doesnt belong to either people. I do agree with CCP policies with the Uyghurs. All the rape and organ harvesting stuff is fake propaganda created by a Chinese UFO cult called the Falun Gong.
Yes do part 2 this wasn’t in details and didn’t show abroad results maybe u need to try another company
But yes I want to see a part 2
European part is your crusader lineage
you ll have really beautiful kids w strong genes
Cultarally you're Arabized. Genetically you're the descendant of Canaanites. Modern Lebanese inherited ~90% of their genes from them, not Arabs. Southern European and other from the Caucasus make up the rest. And Cannanites themeselves were a mix of neolithic Levant farmers (Natufian and neolithic Anatolian farmers) and Copper age Iranic people.
Wow it’s like you saw my DNA
My ancient were 66% Anatolian farmer,32% metal age invaders, 3% non European. I am Palestinian
@@Anonymouse166 - Sounds about right. Palestinians go back deep into antiquity in the Levant.
@@Anonymouse166 Sounds about right. Palestinian DNA goes back deep into antiquity in that area, the Neolithic even.
The issue is that some people keep mixing two very different things, one historical and the other is a modern political invention inspired by European nationalism : "Arab" in the way it is used today is a modern (and failed) national movement which claimed that by the virtue of speaking arabic, you were an "arab", and since arabs supposedly form one "nation", then they should be able to form one state. That's the modern invention which only took off in the 20 th century. The historical meaning of arabs, in the way it is used in Islamic sources and how it was used by locals, even the arabic-speaking ones, is that "Arab" refered to a nomadic tribesman, it was a term to denote a certain lifestyle. It had nothing to do with whether you spoke arabic or not. An "Arab" was a term of insult, not of national pride. This is all the more bizarre when you consider that in the societies of the Eastern Med., the defining criterion of one's identity and loyalties is not based on what you happen to speak, but on your religion.
I know a Lebanese who is Shia but her grandfather is Irish.
I don't know a single middle eastern woman who likes white men, arab women either stay with their men or marry asian men. White men? Never in a million years 😂
God, you're one of the beautiful one.
Does Piia ever get mistaken as being hapa (half-Asian) or Hispanic? She does have a very ethnically ambiguous look.
Piia looks like a mix of Italian and middle eastern, Edward most likely has Han mixed with East Indian or Malaysian
I think more likely his western minority in China include Xinjiang, where his ancestors could have mixed in with the Turkic/Central Asians/Middle Eastern peoples of that time. Present Xinjiang still have people that look a lot like a mix of East and West, basically central asian looks.
I think Edward looks like Sinitic mixed with some Tai-Kradai or Austronesian, and his appearance is quite common in the region he came from (Guangdong and Guangxi).
@@ymhktravel He isn't from Xinjiang though, he's from Guangzhou which is a city located in Far South China. It looks like he has some Kradai or Austronesian admixtures judging by his appearance.
@@weifan9533 Riight? His nose is beautifully bridged! If I'm not mistaken, although his eyes still have an Asian structure to them, up-close, they are bigger, wider, darker, and with a bigger iris than most Asian men :)
Try myHeritage DN, better for arabics
The DNA results shouldn’t be that surprising: Phoenicians explored and settled the entire Mediterranean basin and European armies marched through or remained in Lebanon on their way to the holy land…
You are mixed with beautiful
Modern day Lebanese are direct descendants of the ancient Phoencicians.
I don't know but Pia is 100% beautiful, I do know that...
what is this DNA test called?
Circle DNA
After seeing your name or surname I thought you are indian I swear on god
Western Minority is basically Xinjiang region which is where the Muslim Uyuighurs are from who have a strong connection obviously to central asian middle eastern and Arab connection due to the religion
No, they cluster with Central Asian. "Western minority" means, as CantoMando said, "the land where the pandas are from", i.e. Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, home of indigenous Tibeto-Burman, Hmong-Mien, and Kra-Dai peoples.
You look very Greek. This was my first impression of you when I saw you.
Greek women don't look as good as Piia.
@@brandonso Greeks are notorious for being not good looking !
I think you're mixed West asian greek or arminia
In the Balkans you could pass as "their", nice girl.
Yeah. You look part european. I know a Lebanese and she is light skinned like you, however, she has black hair
oh. isn't your boyfriend part of cantomando?
Wow I mean I expected for the lady to be somewhat of European origin but 32% could mean one of your parents got more than half from one of their parents and so on, or that a lot of your distant ancestors were from around the mediternian Italy-Greece-Anatolia-Minor Asia
The inhabitants of Syria, Libya and Palestine are Levantine farmers, they are characterized as a mixture of Natufian peoples from the Middle East and Anatolians, while the southern Europeans are a mixture of Anatolians with Indo-Europeans from the steppes. The DNA test cannot tell you where you are from because in reality the mixture occurred thousands of years ago, the DNA tests can only tell you precisely where you come from up to a period of 2000 years, which means that the mixture is prior to that period.
@@user-yt3xd2jl6dI don't find that reliable. The Y chromosome test could go back 10's of thousands of years, the mitochondrial only about 300-400 maybe 500 years. Wha test are you talkin g about?
@@FreeState.21ST The Haplogroup yes, but you must keep in mind that DNA tests do not measure the type of Haplogroup, they measure Autosomal DNA, the complete composition of DNA. Haplogroups are just Patrilineal ancestry markers that tell you who your parents are, but Autosomal DNA can change a lot, for example there are African populations in Chad that have R1b (typical of a European), but their Autosomal DNA is 70% a 80% Sub-Saharan, only 20 to 30% correspond to populations from the Middle East and Europe.
When I thought of Lebanese the first thing came to mind would be the mighty ancient seafarers the Phoenician that ruled the Mediterranean and founded the city of Carthage in North Africa…..the European part would be from the crusaders probably from France:)
No, Southern European part of DNA comes from the Romans and Byzantine, which account for the Italy, Greece, and rest of Balcans. Lebanese and North Syrians have a large genetic component originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey).
Middleeastern ladies are beautiful
You should do the DNA test 23 And Me. It's more precise.
Your children will be gorgeous!
to me the girl looks like she could be from Philippines while boy looks eastern Asian with some European
You two are adorable! Hurry up and make babies 👶
Wait, you aren't Phoenician
Tamare is not an Arab surname...
Christian Arabs have slightly different names than Muslim Arabs.
This can be clarified if she provides her name in Arabic alphabet.
Hola Piia! Soy española y sinceramente estoy segura de que tienes rasgos mediterráneos (España, Italia, Grecia...o puede que incluso Francia o Rumanía). Deberías hacer una prueba que te detalle más... porque ésa es muy inespecífica. Realmente yo sí creo que eres una mezcla grande, aunque ponga Oriente Medio no te está especificando procedencia antigüa. Podrías pasar por española o que al menos uno de tus padres lo fuera. Yo si no hubiera leído nada pensaria que eres española o italiana con un poco de Oriente o turca. Seas lo que seas eres muy guapa.
Saludos desde España!
So she's basically Mediterranean. People from the region have been intermixing under different empires for millenia. The borders of today don't really mean much.
The asian man is mostly east asian and have some south asian admixture,so you are not mixed,you just have admixture from another asian group but race wise you are a unmixed asiatic with no other race admixture. Oh and lebanon is in asia,so the lady in the video is asian,she is south west asian.
LEBANESE people are not Arab, although being invaded by Arabs frm Arabia Peninsula
I can tell you for sure young lady, if your grandma had black eyes you are mix with alien blood, you are truly rare, alien species they interact with some of humanity but not all.
I think you have a bit of an Asian vibe, not joking. Its more noticeable when you smile. Its the eyes.
Ancient Greece, Rome, Eastern Rome, and the Crusaders = Lebanese being about half European. Thousands of years of mixed European settlements, trade, etc.
"Caucasian" is NOT just European. Skin color is not the major classifying factor. Caucasian includes Semitic peoples (Arabs, Jews), Persians, Turkic peoples, and most south Asian peoples (formerly called "Aryans"). The 3 major racial classifications are Caucasoid, Negroid/Africanoid (sub-Saharan Africans), and Mongoloid (East Asiatic).
Caucasian and Caucasoid are two completely different things the latter being an anthropological racial category. And these are fake groupings invented a few centuries ago by Europeans.
Technically Lebanese people would be Caucasoid but not Caucasian. In reality only people from Caucasus mountains and adjacent regions such as Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Dagestanis, Armenians etc. are "Caucasian."
In the USA however Caucasian was erroneously used interchangeably with Caucasoid and white. But that's when there was no Middle Eastern people living there so technically they'd be classified as Caucasian too, as well as Indians and most Northern Africans but never been seen as such by the American public. Even Latinos are "othered."
Now come to Western Europe and no one here has ever considered Arabs or South Asians as white or "Caucasian." Ask the Jews, Roma Gypsies, Moroccans and Algerians they where hated even more than blacks...
@user-vw6bk4pb4l Many groups have been discriminated against in the North America and northwestern Europe - Irish, Italians, Spanish, and others you named but that doesn't make them any less Caucasian or Caucasoid. All these ethnic groups' ancestors originated from the Caucasus and Eurasian steppe region. Regardless of skin tone, DNA proves that Europeans, Arabs, Persians, Jews, most South Asians, etc. have common ancestors who originated in Eurasia.
100% arap for Lebanese is ultra bs, because real araps are saudis, Yemenis and Bedouin
Are you Lebanese maronite?
New sub 👍
yes try 23andMe for more detailed breakdown of your European and Middle East sides
My first guesses would've been Moroccan or Israeli.
No, not at all ! She is too pretty to be either one, especially Israeli.
lebanese is west asian, and chinese is asian. thats it.
Chinese is East Asian like Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, etc.
A Chinese Arab or Chinese and Israeli couple would be an Asian couple too. Koreans, Hungarians, and Turks also come from the same ethnic line called the Altaic. The Magyars are named because they were originally Malgal from the borderland between Korea and China. Some Malgal migrated westward and settled Hungary. The eastern Malgal who stayed in Manchuria founded the Goguryeo and Jin Dynasties. Eurasia is very complex. After all, you can ride a train from Seoul to Paris without switching tracks. Can't do that from Seoul to Tokyo though.
You can easily pass as Italian, Greek, Spanish, etc.
Edward's looks more like Central Asian people than Han Chinese or Vietnamese.
I think look can be deceiving. I think Edward looks like the news anchor at Phoenix TV ( a news program from HK). His name is Jiang Chun Yang.
You haven't seen enough Far South Chinese then. Several of my Guangdong and Guangxi friends and acquaintances have similar looks to him. I think he looks quite typical for his region.
take 23andme or ancestrydna, the company you used isnt accurate at all
I dunno if you're 100% Arab, but you're definitely 110% QT.
I think Pia has more Asian in her than she thinks.😅
I can't help but notice you bear a close resemblance to Amal Clooney, though a bit more feminine and better looking.