I'm African American, from Louisiana. I did my test with Ancestry as well, and I wasn't so much surprised with how much European ancestry I had given the state's complex racial history, but the traces from so many regions is what was so surprising, 67% African (Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon/Congo, Senegal, ASEB, North Africa, Mali) 30% European (England, Italy Greece, Irish, Western European, European Jewish, Iberian Peninsula, Finland) 2% Caucasus, and
+Mia Buggage Wow!! Amazing results! why havent u done a video???!!! And yes that is true alot of people dont realize how mixed African Americans are!!!
Mia Buggage You have a similar physical appearance to myself (I was born in eastern Ohio to a rather mulatto mother and a dark but mixed-race father from Alabama); but I have yet to take a DNA test. But you are right about the complexities.
+Mia Buggage Exactly!!! finally someone say it, "blacks" are not actually blacks they are mixed people. That is why race is only a social construction.
I am fortunate not to have to take a test to know where my family come from Iberian Peninsula if you have that in your DNA that means you are Jew like me my family's been traced back two lesbos Spain they fled after Spanish Inquisition
I did the DNA Ancestry Test and I'm: 63% European ~33% Iberian Peninsula ~20% Italy/Greece ~4% Great Britain ~3% Ireland ~3% Findland/Northwest 22% African ~8% Senegal ~6% Africa North ~1% Cameroon/Congo ~1% Ivory Coast/Ghana 12% Native American 3% Middle Eastern I'm Dominican from Santiago.
Roz Briggs be honored to have that much taino bc most PR are practically wipedout and diluted with other invaders. I'm pr btw (the person in my profile isn't me)
Thanks for sharing! I am full Dominican (but born in NYC) and took My Ancestry test as well. Both my parents were born in DR and are Cibaenos. Here are my results: 61% Europe ( 30% Iberian Peninsula, 15% Ireland, 6% European Jewish, 6% Italy/Greece , 2% Finland , 1% Europe West , 1% Great Britain) 25% Africa (17% Nigeria, 3% Mali, 3% North Africa, 1% Senegal, 1% Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers) 9% America (9% Native American (Taino)) 5% West Asia (4% Middle East, 1% Caucasus)
+headchampion Yeah I live in LA now and not many Dominicans here, but I got use to that growing up in Hell's Kitchen where it was mostly Irish and PRicans lol.
Rosario De Jesus Thank you for watching! The website is called ancestrydna.com and the kit costs 99dollars but if you google "ancestrydna coupon" you might find a coupon for free shipping which would bring the price down to 89 dollars if i am not mistaken.
My mother is Puerto Rican and My Dad is Half Puerto Rican/ Dominican...My Results : 44% AFRICAN (18% Ivory Coast/ Ghana, 11% Nigerian, 5% Congo, 4% Senegal, 2% Benin/Togo, 1% Africa North, 1% S.Eastern Bantu, 1%< Africa South Central Hunter Gather, 1%< Mali). 40% EUROPEAN (18% Iberian Peninsula, 10% Ireland, 5% Italy/Greece, 3% European Jewish , 2% Great Britain, 1% Europe East/West, 1%< Scandinavia). 10% NATIVE AMERICAN - North/South America 5% WEST ASIA (4% Middle East, 1% Caucus). 1%< POLYNESIA When I get the chance I'll make a video :) Pretty much split down the middle. I have to say I didnt think I'd have that much European. I thought it would be wayyyy lower like 25% and I thought my African was going to be like 50%. I was way off. Didnt expect Ireland, Italy, Britain, and especially European Jewish anything lol.
Moniqtee and i just want to say that i am light like this because i stay out of the sun. I live in miami florida. If i were to be out in the sun, i would be darker. I stay out of the sun to avoid pre mature aging, skin cancer and damage
Qtee, The lighter africans aren't original africans at all. Africa, like most continents, had many invasions. From arabs and whites. Light skinned africans like libyans, algeria, morocco are a mixture. This does not include Somalis though, who are Black and darker skinned.
Your results are pretty interesting. I also did the ancestryDNA test because being the son of a Venezuelan father and an African American mother I was curious about what I inherited from my parents. My results came back 41% African, 41% European, 16% Native American and 2% South Asian. Hopefully as more people take the ancestryDNA test, they will be able to refine the results and gives more specific ancestry percentages especially regarding Native American ancestry.
+firstpower100 Oh wow! thats amazing!!! 16% native american!! that is alot!!! but not too surprising because of venezuela being in south america and those countries have alot of amerindian decent! Have you tried uploading your raw data to GEDMATCH? i did last night, and WOW!! they have alot of in depth break downs. its kind of confusing though because they have so many calculations and different pie charts and things. I would suggest googling and reading about gedmatch first...oh yea and its free to upload on there!!!
+firstpower100 your results look to be very common in the coastal regions of venezuela, once you head to the andean regions of venezuela it starts to become heavily mestizo.
***** I would do a video, but i have a very hard time understanding the gedmatch data base results. some of the names of the admixtures are strange. Do u know more about gedmatch? maybe you can help me if you do!
+Shan BOODY AWWWWWWWWWW!!! WOW!!! thank you for watching my video! im beyond flattered and touched and happy that u watched little ole me and commented!!!! wowwwwwwwwww
***** Yes, that is where the 7% native american blood comes from in my ancestry. And it being only 7% means that it was a pretty long time ago. like a few hundred years ago!!
barbar atlas Dont tell me that! u are scaring me!!!!! What if they use my DNA to make a clone out of me and he will come and kill me and take over my life
+NP Pcvl They don't, they look like a mix of africans and a little native americans, i have never heard of a dominican saying he or her doesn't has african roots
@Headchampion The whole time you were just telling us about your DNA results, I was clapping and rooting for you as if you were telling me about my own DNA results. I am so happy for you and it truly is empowering to know your ancestral origins. I'm gonna have to do mine soon. Congratulations!
came in here to check you out since u made that awesome Black Cubans actually know they are black comment u made on some random channel i saw and loved it... i am actually waiting on my DNA results now... u r a smart young man. Keep it up!
The 8% West Asian can be from the Lebanese people who immigrated to the Dominican Republic before WW2 and post WW1. Most of them were Christian Lebanese escaping religion persecution from the Ottoman Empire(Muslims). They went all over many Latin America countries as well. It's actually estimate that 85,000 of current Dominicans are of Lebanese descent or have some Lebanese roots. In fact one of our very know Dominican cuisine that we usually eat such as "Kipe" is actually of Lebanese origin. Also we even had a fully Lebanese descent President in the Dominican Republic. Lebanese people contributed A LOT to the Dominican culture and our genetic as well.
+Mino R.D. that is where it may come from then!!! its either that, or when the moors took control over spain. I wish i knew which one, but either way its amazing. and on GEDMATCH my west asian, middle eastern goes up to 16% or more...the range in ancestry DNA goes up to 12%
Headchampion Yeah it could have be, you should try to get your family tree in order, you can go back to DR and try to see if you find those documents on your town Catholic Church or in the "El Ayuntamiento or Alcaidia" you can check ur family records, sometimes they dont have it cuz some ppl back in DR didn't paid much attention to keeping family records but you should try once u have a chance to travel to DR. It could be that or it could be straight from Spaniards but i doubt it. Cuz i didnt come out with West Asian DNA & no every Dom has West Asian DNA which i assumed ur W.A. dna most have been from direct roots. What town & province are u back in DR? I could try & do some research about where exactly did Lebanese ppl settled. Dam thats much more, u need to check on that more serious. Anyway let me know ur parents town/state back in DR.
before the video even began i could see the heavy african influence. Alot of people from latin countries dominicans and puerto ricans have a significant amount of black blood.
I enjoyed your video. It demonstrated yet again how people can throw around labels about themselves and not really get what they are saying about themselves until they actually LOOk at the numbers. I appreciate your honesty!
the motherland. Gotta love it. Love the fact that we can find where our ancestors were taken from. Beautiful thing. Can help a lot of people who fee lost. Can't wait to get mine.
Cool results. Funny how genetics works. Im a few shades darker than you but I have more European and less African then you... but then again I'm 12% Taino. I love seeing DNA results from my fellow dominicans. Especially seeing the Native American percentages. Check my results out I have the video on my channel.
+M Z I dont go out in the sun that much so that is a factor in why i am so light skinned. And yes, i love seeing DNA results from Dominicans as well!!! Its so interesting and amazing to see where we come from and our mixture. And wow you have 12% native???!!! I am jealous!! lololol I will chek your video out right now!!!
On the Origins of “Dominican” The first recorded use of the word "Dominican" is found in a letter written by King Phillip IV of Spain in 1625 to the inhabitants of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola. In this letter, which was written before the arrival of French settlers on the Western side of the island, the King congratulates the "Dominicans" for their heroic efforts in defending the territory from an attack by the Dutch fleet. The term or demonym ("gentilicio") "Dominican" was used in reference to the Dominican Order - after their patron Saint Dominic - which had been a key institution and element in shaping the island's post-Columbian religious and civic identity for over a century. This letter can be found today in the "Archivo General de Indias" in Seville, Spain.
I'm not gon lie, I dead thought you was just a light skin Black American. My mother's family are light skin Black Americans and my father's family is multi-ethnic but they identify as Black. , so growing up as a kid I was always used to seeing people who looked "slightly" different from me so it took me a while to understand that not all people of color consider themselves Black. Outsiders would find it weird to meet my family and see someone who looks Mexican but talks ebonics and loves soul food. We all grew up around the Black American culture. So I definitely had a reality check growing up and understanding that not everybody is Black American, but also blessed to understand the diversity of Blackness even within my own family whereas other people can't look at those differences and see unity.
i AM just a light skinned black person! my parents just happen to be from the Dominican republic is all. We are a part of the diaspora just like African Americans and other countries who come from slavery
Headchampion you're mixed race. Not a light skinned black. African Americans use their ethnicity and race interchangeably. Nowhere in the world is a mixed race person called black, except US because of the one drop rule. Some AAs call themselves light skinned because they wer never allowed to identify as mixed race/biracial. There is a big difference. You have European ancestry.
We're all mixed, we've been colonized. Some groups are more mixed than others, but just because you have European ancestry doesn''t make you less black. Race is social construct, its a political statement. There are ethnic differences among us but we are all still Black in that sense. The same way not all White people are actually white, for example Russians are technically people of color there are still indigenous people there today, yet they have been able to assimilate to America's exploitative and ever-changing idea of whiteness.
Aamari Green having European ancestry doesn't make you less black? Ummm actually that's exactly what it does. LITERALLY. You're asking people to lie about who they are and erase their identity as if they never existed. Why is that? What is so threatening about the idea that people have multiple ethnic/racial heritage. Every other group of people recognizes mixed race groups:individuals except for African American. Because you have been beaten, killed, jailed, segregated to keep a pure whiteness in the US. You are actually contributing to the erasure of blackness. Mixed race people are the face of African Americans set forth as the respectable, beauty standard. Look at your activists and beauty queens. Who do you see? Also there are groups of mixed race people in the US like creoles and melungeons. Why should they subvert their cultures?
And as per the "we're all mixed" thing. Look in the mirror and tell me if anyone is going to feature you in the cover of a magazine called MiXed Men. We're talking about phenotype here. Americans have race so screwed up y'all don't even recognize what blackness actually looks like. Real Subsaharan African blackness. This is why the Rachel Dolezal and Paris Jacksons of the world are thriving. Because you guys want to claim EVERYBODY as black.
Hi Headchampion, I just got my results back last night! I'm debating on doing a video, or just posting them to your comments section not sure.. but I'm just glad I know what I am now! Though I only have on parent who is Dominican though.. and my results were really interesting, surprised myself.
+Effiecacious94 Sorry for replying so late!!! PLEASE DO A VIDEO!!!!!!! and also post them on here! but pleeeease do a video. i think this is very important!!!! especially for latino and hispanic people!!! please do ittt!!! lolol
+Headchampion Lols, I just got this in my email, but okay, I'll try to set aside some time to film it, and edit it, and post it. Hopefully soon, I understand what you're saying about it being important for Latinos and Hispanics fully cause, we are so mixed, and it's interesting to know and find out our multinational backgrounds.
Effiecacious94 lol when you list all of those things u make it seem like its alot. Come on! take one day that you have off and you tackle the video. do it early in the morning, edit in the afternoon, and by night time its uploaded. YOU CAN DO ETTTTT!!!!
+Headchampion Lols, I know, I'll try to do this weekend, I won't make it long but a quick reveal and just a little commentary on my background but yeah, I'll definitely link you!
It seems that results from the Caribbean region are the most diverse of all! I understand how you feel, I've been wanting to find out my exact heritage for such a long time. The test is definitely on my bucket list. Thank you for sharing your results with us.
+Elsbeth Mareile Thank you so much! This was on my bucket list as well! Answered so many questions i have had all my life. Its just incredible to be able to finally know the truth ofones roots! Its such and amazing feeling when you get that email letting you know that your results are in and that initial viewing!!! Thank you so much for watching!!!!
+Headchampion hey! I'm Black lol. I'm a mutt though. My father is Puerto Rican, Dominican and Chinese (Black, White, Native and Asian). My mom is Black, Irish and Native American. Her father is half Cherokee and a registered member of the Cherokee Nation. I did an admixture test. I'm 45% Sub Saharan African, 28% European (Spanish mostly, Irish and British), 14% East Asian and 12% Native American and less and 1% unaccounted... What that less than 1% is, I haven't a clue lol great post though bro.
very cool! I want to take that test, too. Your Middle Eastern heritage is probably from your Iberian heritage. Southern Spaniards have Middle Eastern heritage, which is where Flamenco and Southern Spanish music's heritage comes from. :-)
What an interesting video! I like the way you're really interested and happy knowing your heritage. You're really dissecting all the info. That's great little bro. They're always advertising these ancestry.coms on tv and I've had a vague interest but now that I'm seeing this I'm anxious to do it myself. Just think. Maybe if more individuals learned their ancestry it might help to alleviate the racism and hate crimes. Wishful thinking. I am an African-American woman and I'm expecting my results to show heavy native american results due to the regions where my elders lived here in the US. But who knows? Thanks a lot for this. Now every youtuber and his brother is getting into the act. Yours is the first one that I've watched. Proud of you and grateful for your sharing.
Enjoyed your video immensely. I particularly liked the later part of your video as you went into the range component of your test results. After watching your video I took a second look at my results. I didn't know that AncestryDNA suggests that the range portion of our results actually projects a much stronger and higher genetic regional match inference than the average percentages listed. As an American descendant of slaves who were brought to the Carolinas to work the Indigo, Rice, Tobacco, and Cotton plantations, my results fit well with historical documented narrative of Slave Disembarkation dispersal records. I love when DNA, Documented History, and Documented Family Genealogy align. Thanks for your video!
+Michael Williams Thank you so much!!! And yes, i havent seen anyone else on youtube speak about the range, which i feel is a very important part of the test!!! the average percentages are not as accurate as the range. the range has a higher accuracy than the average. How long ago did you receive your results?
headchampion A year ago. I've tested with quite a few commercial DNA Testing companies and I found that all of the test results were consistent. Part of my family's collective memory is that our heritage is tied to the French West Indies in Martinique and theirs an ancestral connection to the Bayou Country in Southwestern corner of Louisiana too. When AncestryDNA showed me that upwards of about 28% of my African DNA derives from the region presently known as Benin today I became intrigued. I have a book about the direct slave trade from Benin's slave port known as Whydah (Ouidah) to Martinique and Haiti titled 'The Diligent' by Robert Harms. I also know that Louisiana also received a good portion of Africans from the Benin/Nigeria area as well.
Michael Williams yes! my hightest percentage of african comes from benin. Also benin is the home of vodou which is a spiritual system i have always been intrigued and have gravitated towards.
I dont know anyone personally who does roots readings.i follow a voodoo practitioner by the name of The Divine Prince Ty Emmecca though. Maybe he can help?
Thank you for sharing your results. You are such a sweet person! I like how you respond to some of the rudest comments with a simple "thank you". Be blessed
I thought you would have a little more africa than that. Thank you so much for giving so much detail to the website. I can't decide which test to do, but looks like this one gives a lot of specific details.
+punky298705 Thannk you for watching!!! My thing with 23andme is that is does not give you country breakdowns like ancestry. That alone was enough for me to pick ancestry
African is not a race it's a nationality. Black is a race. Dominican is an ethnicity. Geez, why do so many people confuse this? It's not a hard concept.
Retro Basement Gaming & Anime african is not nationality cuz africa is not country but continent and black is skin color not race, we are all from same race human race , Dominican is nationality (you are mixed ethnicity )
It is interesting how many people have some Native American DNA. I have looked at a number of Hispanic DNA results and most have some Native and African DNA.
This is soo cool.. I think that people from the caribbean are blessed with a little bit of everything; that's a reason why we are the way we are :).. I did mines with family tree Mtdna and recently sent it out. Am hoping to see native, european and african in there. Gd knows what I come up with.. Embrace who you are.. You're unique & beautiful. Be blessed!
You are a product of the Americas. Every bit of your DNA makes perfect sense. The Moors ( Muslims of Middle Eastern and North African ancestry ) ruled Spain for 800 years. The Jews, Spanish Christians and Middle Eastern and Spanish Muslims lived in harmony for the majority of that time. The exodus of people out of the Iberian Peninsula, was in small part due to the increase in exploration in the region but it's also likely (due to your ancestry), that these people were chased out due to the Spanish Inquisition.
Im totally obsessed with my results!!!! LOL i go back and look at the site all the time and just look at it. i try to visualize my ancestors and what they were doing in these countries
Dominicans come in so many colors, shades, hair textures etc. My mother is from Villa Mella Santo Domingo Norte Dominican Republic. My Dominican cousin did hers. She is 66 percent African, 28 percent European, 5 percent native indigenous and 1 percent asisn. I enjoy your video. Thx 4 sharing
Thank you so much for sharing your results. Side note: Because Native Americans originated from Asia, you also have Asian in you. I always knew I have Native American ancestry, but I look as though I'm bi racial with black and Chinese. I can tell you had some Asian too, because of the little slant in your eyes.
On the Origins of “Dominican” The first recorded use of the word "Dominican" is found in a letter written by King Phillip IV of Spain in 1625 to the inhabitants of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola. In this letter, which was written before the arrival of French settlers on the Western side of the island, the King congratulates the "Dominicans" for their heroic efforts in defending the territory from an attack by the Dutch fleet. The term or demonym ("gentilicio") "Dominican" was used in reference to the Dominican Order - after their patron Saint Dominic - which had been a key institution and element in shaping the island's post-Columbian religious and civic identity for over a century. This letter can be found today in the "Archivo General de Indias" in Seville, Spain.
yep...thank you for this...sadly there are waaaaaaaaaay too many on YT that think that Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican are actually "races"...sad bunch
Our results are pretty similar I'm just Puerto Rican lol! Africa 41% Nigeria 14% Benin/Togo 10% Senegal 9% Trace Regions 8%: Africa Southeastern Bantu 3% Cameroon/Congo 3% Africa North 1% Mali 1% Native American 12% Europe 45% Iberian Peninsula 18% Italy/Greece 14% Ireland 7% Trace Regions 6%: European Jewish 2% Europe West 2% Great Britain 1% Finland/Northwest Russia < 1% Middle East 2%
Great results...very interesting. I'm a Ghanaian woman btw. The reason why they list Benin/Togo and IvoryCoast/Ghana is due to how French and British colonialism/slavery divided African Kingdoms along the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean or West African Coast) into tiny nations, in order to easily conquer our Ancestors. There are regions in IvoryCoast where Ghanaian tribal languages are spoken, complete with similar diets/cultural observances and vice versa.
awesome video.. expecting similar results with this boricua i'm getting tested.. i posted me and my grandparents dna results already and my cuban grandpa and the boricuas results just arrived at ancestry. soo I'll post their results soon, can't wait to see how much Native American is in them :D
Headchampion. I hope you see this message. You've stated an interest in reaching facts with family members in DR. I urge you to do so while you have the chance. Elderly folks will not be around forever. When they're gone a lot of interesting info goes with them. Speaking from experience. Most of my family has passed on, so I can't ask any questions. Family photos are all scattered among the handful of us left. All the best.
Thanks for sharing your results with us. I ran across this earlier today. It's based on a study of Puerto Rico, which we know has a similar history to the D.R. and it shows scarily how both stories can really be true. One story being that the Tainos were killed off and the other that the Taino lines continued on. Makes sense when you consider that most of the ships coming from Spain were initially all men. voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/25/genographic-project-dna-results-reveal-details-of-puerto-rican-history/
+davis2022 Also, puerto ricans (IN GENERAL) for some reason manage to have substantially more Taino DNA than dominicans. idk if in puerto rico the spaniards killed less or impregnated more taino women...but puerto ricans (IN GENERAL) tend to have more european and more taino but less african than dominicans....and i am just speaking in general..i know that is not true for all
I wish I had know that fact about 23andme before.I got my results and thought the countries were to vague. I had already bought a second kit for my dad ...but getting my sister and mom tested at a lab and they said they would be able to break it down .Its so amazing that you can do the break down of the countries !
I tried Gedmatch and it was very confusing ...:( but I had my mother and sister do a swab test at a local lab near me where they said they would be able to determine it better then 23andme which they said they have heard people say the same thing to them ..so just waiting to see:) then I will update my videos .plus 23andme comes out that I only have northern european ...while gedmatch says I have southern european.Which to be honest gedmatch made more sence as my mom and her sisters have thalesemia which is a Mediterranean blood disorder. I also figure if you keep only inheriting 50/50 of your parents genes each time ...what else perhaps can these tests not tell
+Headchampion I just received my dad's results from 23andme ....and due to that it changed mine. It was fascinating the changes that took place just from my dad's now I am going to be excited to see the changes that take place once my mom's come in.I think another three months ! lol .They have been so busy that their 8 week period was extended to 12 weeks once reaching the lab . My ged number is M214760.I found out anyone with the number can review them as well.My dad's is M822566 for gematch .I think with him the harappa calculator works best. I just did a short video with the differences before and after with my dad uploaded.Cant wait to see the changes they will do with my mom . But my mother's maternal haplo is African ....my dad's maternal is South Asian and his paternal is Asian ( Chinese Han haplo) but my mom's results I figured should really be the interesting one :)
All in all, you're a true bloodline descendant of the Biblical Hebrew/Israelites. Most people don't realize that Blacks once ruled Europe, and the first inhabitants of Asia were BLACK people. Black skinned people weren't ONLY excluded to the African continent.
Black Americans(North and South and of the Caribbean Islands) are the true bloodline descendant of the Biblical Hebrew/Israelites...our ancestors fled the land of Israel(77AD)from Roman persecution, due to the curse that God/Yah placed on them(Deuteronomy 28) if they became disobedient and rebellious against HIM. They fled Israel to (modern day) NE Africa, (modern day NE Africa, because Israel and the entire "Middle East" at one time was well-known to be apart of the African continent, BEFORE Europeans started tampering with history and geography). where they encountered the Arabian Slave Trade(which is also when Black-skinned Egypt started to become a Brown-skinned Egypt(Arabs). Our ancestors then fled to West Africa, where they remained MANY years until they encountered the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. All those that had a hand in enslaving our people(including certain Africans that assisted) were well aware of the fact that they were enslaving Hebrews. They were already tribes of Hebrews(Blacks/Africans) in the Americas even before the Slave Trade, they were classified as Indians as well...our history is SO MUCH deeper than most would even imagine! It's not just "talking points" to say that we come from royalty. We DO come from a lineage of Kings and Queens, we were the Chosen People of God/Yah. The search on Ancestory.com only scratched the surface to what you can discover about your ancestory bloodline...
MichaelAngelo Taylor dude just stop I've seen blacks say the were first everything . first natives first europeans vikings were black Chinese were first black first Irish were black like stfu
Out of the people who videoed their results, you're the only one who was excited about the African part. Some of the black people who did their results seemed very disgusted.
+Lee Antoinette I was VERY excited an extremely happy that my african percentages are so high!!!! i did not expect to be nearly half african!! but i am so happy and so proud to have so much african blood flowing through my veins!!! This DNA test is one of the most important things i have ever done. Truly a life changing experience. So glad that i know exactly where i come from and what i am made of!!!! And yea i have seen some black ppl be disappointed or question the results cuz of their african percentages being more than what they wanted or expecting to have native american or european...smh...the self hate is real with alot of ppl.
Headchampion yea I think with many black people who do this, They go into believing that they are native American because weve always been told that by different family members and it just isn't true, really it's a myth because 9 times outta 10 we aren't sure where we come from. Even I was told some type of native American at some point but I never believed it for a second, I was extremely happy with my results, 94% African!
The Arabs was associated with the Spanish during the European exploration. A lot of Hispanic and Latino people are of West Asian and Middle Eastern descent.
+Nappyboi LOL!!!! I was surprised too but PLEASANTLY surprised and extremely proud and in awe of my 45% African percent!!!! Im about to watch yours right now!!!!!!
+jenthagem Of course!!!! So was i when i was looking at it!!!! My scorpio ass loves to dig deeper and find out the truth to things so i had to know!!! Have u by any chance uploaded your results to GEDMATCH?
+jenthagem sorry for the late response! And yes, because they show you different ethnic groups that you may not know you have, they literally have dozens on dozens of tests that you can run your DNA through!!
I'm excited for you! ancestry.com just sent me an ad and the kits are $ 69.00 for a little bit. I'm gonna order the kit, too. how long did it take for the results, please?
you are right bro cause my app doesnt explain why to use certain words like i know tienes is you have or do you have in question form but one day im watching the spanish channel and i put the caption on and this dude said tengas and i typed tengas on my translator app and it said you have, and i was like dang so now its two ways to say you have so now i got to figure out when to say tienes or tengas. give me a few days and i got you cause i wanna be bilingual and i want me a fine dominican or puerto rican honduran muchacha
+Dudeluv212 LOL only reason i am so light is cuz i stay out of the sun. When i tan, i burn red, then turn brown. when i was in high school and had to catch the bus to go places, i was several shades darker, like 6 or 7 shades maybe more....i could show u pics, but its because of my european ancestry that i am able to be this light skinned when not exposed to the sun for long periods of time. but when exposed to the sun , i do tan brown!!!! And i have one brother from both parents and he is light skinned like me, maybe a shade or two darker cuz he is outside more, with my same type of hair but cut low and he has side burn beard thing going on. Both of my parents are "light skinned", with my dad being the darker of the two tho, he is like caramel/red complected with hazel eyes and kinky afro hair, and my mom being high (darker than me tho) yellow with wavy/straight hair and dark brown eyes. So i came out on the lighter side like my mother,but with kinky hair from my dad side. I know that 45% african comes from both of them but for sure more from my dads side than my mothers.
+headchampion ohh ok, it makes sence now. genetics can be a recombination thing in regards to color, my brother is more browner skinned than me yet he pretty much has the same DNA percentages as i do. I came out olive skinned due to the fact that my father is also light skinned, closer to swarthy med and not nordid, however we both have the similar facial features. Your hair is very kinky afro, that trait is undoutebly sub saharan and overall you're very mixed. I would recommend 23andme just to see if your interested in seeing your maternal and paternal haplogroups. Both companies are good although 23andme has more features for you to play with. I like ancestry dna too simply because it can break down your african regions.
Yes!!! My hair is afro textured. I love it now tho! when i was a kid, i didnt. The reason im growing it out is as an acceptance and embracing of my african heritage. And yes i am planning on doing the 23andme one of these days because i am interested in the halo groups as well. I played around with gedmatch.com as well and that was very fun and interesting, but a little confusing. and yea the reason i like ancestry is cuz they break down the african regions and that was very important for me
+headchampion I am not Dominican. Congrats to you senor on finding out and embracing the African in you plus the Indian and who you are as a human being . Take care of yourself. Merry Christmas to you and your familia. La Republica Dominicana represent!
Black color is the most dominant. It takes centuries for the dark skin to shade.And there's tons of pale Dominicans who are mixed aswell as dark skinned Dominicans who are mixed .Modern Dominicans are mixed, but during the 1800s Dominicans were white and the only blacks were the slaves but everything change really fast when Dominicans started mixing with their slaves.By the mids 1800s every Dominicans was either white or free people of color (criollo)..The first settlements in Dominican Republic were White and most of them stay to D.R to raise their childrens and their family for generetions and generetions.And they were responsible for shaping up D.R and being involved with our independence and revolution.Unlike U.S.A ,Dominicans free their slave earlier and didn't have an Issue with the people of color.This is why now most Dominicans are mixed and come in all shades and every color.And Dominicans can look like their ancestors,typical Italian or Spaniard depending on what region you from.Today day there are some brainwashed Dominicans that are being taught to hate or deny their white ancestors when instead they should be glad and proud of their white ancestors.If it wasn't for our white ancestors Dominican Republic would have never gained independence and would be in miseries rn.First Government of D.R were white aswell as most of our heroes and individuals who help D.R rise.And once again yes also Criollo people were involved in the movement aswell but my whole point is to not stop embracing your white ancestors neither your black ancestors of course but to regconize our ancestors bravery and courage for what they have done to our beautiful
Yeah they need to tell you guys the truth ... The Spanish conquerors raped the native (Taino) women they try to ignore than and there were some natives who intermingled with Africans as well.
+jamal deslandes You are correct that is a bit of information that certain people omit (you know those people who chant "make America white again") that live here in the United States and claim that the country is theirs) regarding the Native Americans Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
+jamal deslandes sorry....who is trying to ignore the truth?. It is pretty well know Spaniards raped native american been. It is on history text books.
wow!! schooling in Cameroon we are told almost all countries in the Caribbeans Came from Central and West Africa. even though they Claim they are Latinos(Latino or Spanish is a Language not a race) y'all blacks . Respect From Cameroon
+lala0413 AncestryDNA test is the least expensive one on the market. its about 89 dollars. I actually bought my kit with the money i made from selling tshirts i created on spreadshirt.com. If you can save up for it for a few months just put away 5 here, 10 there, and before u know it u have 89 to 100 bucks that u can spend on this. I think its totally worth it!!
Lots of ancient Jews in Morocco/Senegal. (Remember these countries have recently been broken up) Look at some family customs. That is how I found my Hebrew roots. I have taken 4 DNA tests and they are all fairly different. I wanted to be Ghanaian. I don't have it, but my brother does. So, I am Ghanian on my father's side. I named a couple of my children Ghanaian names and I love Kwame Nkrumah. I hold on to the widdy bit of Ghanaian DNA. :-)
I'm Greek, and I can't wait to get my results! I am not expecting ANYTHING lol because Greeks, along the same timespan as Africans, were taken over by the Turks (400 so years) and so there are barely any records of my family because they were never recorded :/ I'm so nervous, but excited to share with the world what a Greek person's DNA is made up of
headchampion i didn't think anyone would be excited about that xD well then I can't wait to share it with someone, even if it's only one. I hope I don't disappoint!
00Indeedibly00 Its okay! just try not to forget about me when you make t, but either way i am subscribed to you, so when u upload it, youtube will notify me!!
I always find the reaction from those in the Latinx community when they find out they are part Sub-Saharan African very interesting, particularly Dominicans. The only question is, does it change how they look at themselves and those who identify with their African ancestry i. e. Haitians.
I’m not latinX. I don’t identify with that word. Before I took this test years ago, I knew I had African ancestry, I just wanted to know how much percentage I had. So that’s not what i was surprised about. And I identified as black before the test and I identify as black after the test.
Oh wao I see now. I thought your European was going to be more, you look pretty light skin, I guess skin color get anyone confused. Thts pretty good to know your roots
+Leonel Logrono The reason i am this light is cuz i stay out of the sun, but if i were to be in the sun, i could get brown skinned. But i did think my European was gona be more, cuz i dont come from a black parent and a white parent. Both of my parents are mixed and so are their parents and so are their parents, most dominicans are deeply mixed by hundreds of years. so im sure the 45% comes from both my parents and not just one of them. And yea i am happy as hell to finally know
Dominicanita Linda i didnt see dominican republic in that lineup in the link you posted. And i mean i think the results are pretty accurate. the african and european is alomost half and half. I'm just this light skinned because i protect my self from the sun.
+Dominicanita Linda I do agree with you on that!!! the "west Asian" is the Caucasus area and that is definitely an ancient migration, and in my opinion, the people of west Asia are like proto Europeans..they are like the half and half between Arabs and norther Europeans. they are the bridge between Europe and the middle east
Awesome! I'm half Dominican (cibao) and half Honduran born here in the States, and sent in my mom and dad's ancestry kits! We decided to to my parents results instead. Let me tell you, we are mixed as it all gets, so it will be interesting to find out where our ancestors originated from! I get it all, some people think I'm East Indian, others think I'm Polynesian, or Phillipino, or mixed with black which I definitely am! I can't wait!!!!
Hello, I should but I've never done a RUclips video before, I guess I will post the info here!! Thanks for sharing your information! I've been doing lots of genealogy research and I can find my dad's mother side from DR all way up to 1730!!
+jamil shabazz I think so. And i think its the reason why my last name is Morillo. hence the word "Mor" signifying "moore" and then the word "illo" is a spanish word that is added. Does that make sense?
Actually the Majority of muslims in Spain were native Iberian converts to Islam mainly of Celtiberian,Hispano Romano, & Visigoth Origin. The Few Thousand foreign muslims who did settle in Iberia were mainly Moroccan Berbers & this has been demonstrated by Genetic testing in which the results show up as Africa North. Africa North results show up in Highest percentages in people from the Spanish Canary Islands who are of Native Guanche Origin... ranges for canary islanders is about 8-15%.
Headchampion North African Berbers are definitely related somewhat to Western Asians because Berbers came from the middle east about 7000-5000 years ago so yes they do share DNA but North Africans are mainly Haplogroup E1b1b while West Asians aka Middle Eastern folk are mainly Haplogroup J1. Europeans came from the Middle East about 45,000 years ago. Spain France UK Ireland are the most closely related Western Europeans & all 4 nations are between 60-80 % Haplogroup R1b Which is the majority Haplogroup of all Western Europe.
having west asian that is because some people in spain were arabs some escape like moors and jews...most southern spanish have some mix to that. not surprising
But their were some Lebanese Christians that migrated to Dominican Republic as well. The 47th president of the Dominican Republic who is Lebanese: Jacobo Majluta Azar.
+Stacil Yonan That is true as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just dont know which one it is. Does my west Asian come from spain back when the moors took control, which means its an ancient DNA from a very long time ago, or if it is more recent and from a lebanese migration to DR. wish i knew which one!!
thats whats up im learning now i use duo lingo app and i have a dictionary. i just wush it wasnt so many ways to say simple words like that. i swear its 5 ways to say that and 2 ways to say was and informal spanish its like 3 ways to say you. thats whats difficult for me
Both my parents are also Dominicans. It cool too see how similar results can be. i am 55% European 30% Alberian Peninsula 25% Italy/Greece 30% African- 12% Benin/Togo 22%- A bunch of trace regions but mainly West Africa 15% Native American- Most like Tieno Should i post a video?
+thesmartguy964 Damn! 15% native american tho????!!!! thats alot!!! PLEEEEASE make a video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As many dominicans need to make these videos as possible!! it needs to be a movement! please do it!!! i am subscribing to u so when u post it i know!
Have you done any research on your family history? Omg, it's amazing!!! I've found out so much by using my dna matches on ancestry and if you really start digging into your family history, you can upload your raw dna to gedmatch for free and ftdna first 20 matches free, 39.00 for all matches using their family finder tool...ok GOD BLESS
Beautiful! You have the typical mix of a Dominican person, the native Am, African and Europe! It always confuses me that dominicans are surprised how African they are. Lol I can see that in the texture of your hair! YALL ARE BLACK TOO CONGRATILATIONS! My results were 94% African 4 % Scandanavian Less than 1% Great Brit Less than 1% middle east So SUPER BLACK lol
You must not take these results as totally accurate. The results are to be taken as a bit of fun, and especially the areas of Africa given are not an accurate reflection of reality.
Y'all ain't nothing but triracial , I'm black with both black parents I am 75 percent east and west African , 5 percent Asian afganistan and 20 percent Scandinavian and Great Britain , French, combined
+Jayla Brown Tainos are basically Arawak Indians who lived in the Caribbean. The taino are the natives of the Caribbean . thought to be extinct, but many people today carry taino DNA in their blood.
Not sure if anyone else has commented on this but your Malian & Africa North, combined with your West Asian heritage suggests at least some of your Hispanic ancestors were Moriscos. These were former Arabic Moors who converted (nominally) to Christianity in the 1500's but then fled to Spain's colonies to avoid the attentions of the Inquisition.
I'm African American, from Louisiana. I did my test with Ancestry as well, and I wasn't so much surprised with how much European ancestry I had given the state's complex racial history, but the traces from so many regions is what was so surprising, 67% African (Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon/Congo, Senegal, ASEB, North Africa, Mali) 30% European (England, Italy Greece, Irish, Western European, European Jewish, Iberian Peninsula, Finland) 2% Caucasus, and
+Mia Buggage Wow!! Amazing results! why havent u done a video???!!! And yes that is true alot of people dont realize how mixed African Americans are!!!
Mia Buggage LOUISIANA!!!!! YAAASSSST
Mia Buggage You have a similar physical appearance to myself (I was born in eastern Ohio to a rather mulatto mother and a dark but mixed-race father from Alabama); but I have yet to take a DNA test. But you are right about the complexities.
+Mia Buggage Exactly!!! finally someone say it, "blacks" are not actually blacks they are mixed people. That is why race is only a social construction.
I am fortunate not to have to take a test to know where my family come from Iberian Peninsula if you have that in your DNA that means you are Jew like me my family's been traced back two lesbos Spain they fled after Spanish Inquisition
I did the DNA Ancestry Test and I'm:
63% European
~33% Iberian Peninsula
~20% Italy/Greece
~4% Great Britain
~3% Ireland
~3% Findland/Northwest
22% African
~8% Senegal
~6% Africa North
~1% Cameroon/Congo
~1% Ivory Coast/Ghana
12% Native American
3% Middle Eastern
I'm Dominican from Santiago.
I’m Dominican from Santiago too and your dna is close to mine: I’m: 62% european
24 % African
12% native america
2% Arabic
I love it went dominican's do it because they are so mixed, it's like there from the whole world!! i m african from Mali by the way!!
+JaydDemally JaneDiao LOL Yes we are!!!!! thank you so much!!!! Wow Mali!!!! I love it!!!!!!
headchampion all love!! :))
Check my DNA ancestry results in my channel video.
Am Dominican
Mino R.D. i will check it out!!
I love the D.R!! My 3rd great grandfather was from the island....Ive been 6x
mine is a flip
Im PR
52 % African
30% European
18 % Native American
+Roz Harris Amazing results!! Would you ever make a video?????
Yeah cutie make one 😍
Roz Briggs damn thats alot of Taïno.
Roz Briggs that’s amazing ♥️♥️
Roz Briggs be honored to have that much taino bc most PR are practically wipedout and diluted with other invaders. I'm pr btw (the person in my profile isn't me)
Thanks for sharing! I am full Dominican (but born in NYC) and took My Ancestry test as well. Both my parents were born in DR and are Cibaenos.
Here are my results:
61% Europe ( 30% Iberian Peninsula, 15% Ireland, 6% European Jewish, 6% Italy/Greece , 2% Finland , 1% Europe West , 1% Great Britain)
25% Africa (17% Nigeria, 3% Mali, 3% North Africa, 1% Senegal, 1% Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers)
9% America (9% Native American (Taino))
5% West Asia (4% Middle East, 1% Caucasus)
+Rob Tineo Wow!!! Amazing results!!! Both of my parents are from San Juan De La Maguana, and i was also born in NYC !!!!
+headchampion Yeah I live in LA now and not many Dominicans here, but I got use to that growing up in Hell's Kitchen where it was mostly Irish and PRicans lol.
wow
Where I can get the link to get DNA kit? and how much cost?
thank you for sharing your video!!!
Rosario De Jesus
Thank you for watching! The website is called ancestrydna.com and the kit costs 99dollars but if you google "ancestrydna coupon" you might find a coupon for free shipping which would bring the price down to 89 dollars if i am not mistaken.
My mother is Puerto Rican and My Dad is Half Puerto Rican/ Dominican...My Results :
44% AFRICAN (18% Ivory Coast/ Ghana, 11% Nigerian, 5% Congo, 4% Senegal, 2% Benin/Togo, 1% Africa North, 1% S.Eastern Bantu, 1%< Africa South Central Hunter Gather, 1%< Mali).
40% EUROPEAN (18% Iberian Peninsula, 10% Ireland, 5% Italy/Greece, 3% European Jewish , 2% Great Britain, 1% Europe East/West, 1%< Scandinavia).
10% NATIVE AMERICAN - North/South America
5% WEST ASIA (4% Middle East, 1% Caucus).
1%< POLYNESIA
When I get the chance I'll make a video :) Pretty much split down the middle. I have to say I didnt think I'd have that much European. I thought it would be wayyyy lower like 25% and I thought my African was going to be like 50%. I was way off. Didnt expect Ireland, Italy, Britain, and especially European Jewish anything lol.
WOW!!!!!!!!!! Great results!!! please do make a video!!! I will follow you just so i can know when you post it!!! Thanks so much!
Moniqtee
and i just want to say that i am light like this because i stay out of the sun. I live in miami florida. If i were to be out in the sun, i would be darker. I stay out of the sun to avoid pre mature aging, skin cancer and damage
interesting results. I have 5 regions too but I'm african american.
Qtee, The lighter africans aren't original africans at all. Africa, like most continents, had many invasions. From arabs and whites. Light skinned africans like libyans, algeria, morocco are a mixture. This does not include Somalis though, who are Black and darker skinned.
+Johny Appleseed That jewish dna probably comes from your spaniards ancestors. Spain had many jewish around XV century, they came to the New Spain.
Your results are pretty interesting. I also did the ancestryDNA test because being the son of a Venezuelan father and an African American mother I was curious about what I inherited from my parents. My results came back 41% African, 41% European, 16% Native American and 2% South Asian. Hopefully as more people take the ancestryDNA test, they will be able to refine the results and gives more specific ancestry percentages especially regarding Native American ancestry.
+firstpower100 Oh wow! thats amazing!!! 16% native american!! that is alot!!! but not too surprising because of venezuela being in south america and those countries have alot of amerindian decent! Have you tried uploading your raw data to GEDMATCH? i did last night, and WOW!! they have alot of in depth break downs. its kind of confusing though because they have so many calculations and different pie charts and things. I would suggest googling and reading about gedmatch first...oh yea and its free to upload on there!!!
+firstpower100 your results look to be very common in the coastal regions of venezuela, once you head to the andean regions of venezuela it starts to become heavily mestizo.
***** I would do a video, but i have a very hard time understanding the gedmatch data base results. some of the names of the admixtures are strange. Do u know more about gedmatch? maybe you can help me if you do!
This is so damn interesting! Good for you for doing this and investing
+Shan BOODY AWWWWWWWWWW!!! WOW!!! thank you for watching my video! im beyond flattered and touched and happy that u watched little ole me and commented!!!! wowwwwwwwwww
*****
DId you take a DNA test
Did you take a DNA test?
*****
Yes, that is where the 7% native american blood comes from in my ancestry. And it being only 7% means that it was a pretty long time ago. like a few hundred years ago!!
barbar atlas
Dont tell me that! u are scaring me!!!!! What if they use my DNA to make a clone out of me and he will come and kill me and take over my life
Welcome home my brother! So glad you learned about your African roots!
+Swarthy Daisy Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Swarthy Daisy and European and taini roots aswell sis
Swarthy Daisy Dominicans always tryin to ignoring that !!
+Swarthy Daisy He is only 45% african, he is only your half "brother"
+NP Pcvl They don't, they look like a mix of africans and a little native americans, i have never heard of a dominican saying he or her doesn't has african roots
@Headchampion The whole time you were just telling us about your DNA results, I was clapping and rooting for you as if you were telling me about my own DNA results. I am so happy for you and it truly is empowering to know your ancestral origins. I'm gonna have to do mine soon. Congratulations!
+CzarJuliusIII Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That really means alot to me!!!! Yes it is extremely empowering!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!
came in here to check you out since u made that awesome Black Cubans actually know they are black comment u made on some random channel i saw and loved it... i am actually waiting on my DNA results now... u r a smart young man. Keep it up!
Chacha Mena thank you so much!!! Let me know your results when they come in!
The 8% West Asian can be from the Lebanese people who immigrated to the Dominican Republic before WW2 and post WW1. Most of them were Christian Lebanese escaping religion persecution from the Ottoman Empire(Muslims). They went all over many Latin America countries as well.
It's actually estimate that 85,000 of current Dominicans are of Lebanese descent or have some Lebanese roots. In fact one of our very know Dominican cuisine that we usually eat such as "Kipe" is actually of Lebanese origin.
Also we even had a fully Lebanese descent President in the Dominican Republic. Lebanese people contributed A LOT to the Dominican culture and our genetic as well.
+Mino R.D. that is where it may come from then!!! its either that, or when the moors took control over spain. I wish i knew which one, but either way its amazing. and on GEDMATCH my west asian, middle eastern goes up to 16% or more...the range in ancestry DNA goes up to 12%
Headchampion Yeah it could have be, you should try to get your family tree in order, you can go back to DR and try to see if you find those documents on your town Catholic Church or in the "El Ayuntamiento or Alcaidia" you can check ur family records, sometimes they dont have it cuz some ppl back in DR didn't paid much attention to keeping family records but you should try once u have a chance to travel to DR.
It could be that or it could be straight from Spaniards but i doubt it. Cuz i didnt come out with West Asian DNA & no every Dom has West Asian DNA which i assumed ur W.A. dna most have been from direct roots.
What town & province are u back in DR? I could try & do some research about where exactly did Lebanese ppl settled.
Dam thats much more, u need to check on that more serious. Anyway let me know ur parents town/state back in DR.
Yea you are right, i will have to go to DR one day and find those records. both of my parents are from san juan de la maguana.
before the video even began i could see the heavy african influence. Alot of people from latin countries dominicans and puerto ricans have a significant amount of black blood.
Yes and i love it!!!
Johnny Cuff and significant amount of European aswell
Black color is the most dominant. It takes centuries for the dark skin to shade.And there's tons of pale Dominicans who are mixed
OriginalMaster16 my friend is from DR and she has you complexion and your hair texture.
I enjoyed your video. It demonstrated yet again how people can throw around labels about themselves and not really get what they are saying about themselves until they actually LOOk at the numbers. I appreciate your honesty!
+Lmgera Naeava Exactly!!! that is why i am s glad i took this test. No more guessing, no more assuming. This is what it is. And i love it
the motherland. Gotta love it. Love the fact that we can find where our ancestors were taken from. Beautiful thing. Can help a lot of people who fee lost. Can't wait to get mine.
+Beauty yessss!!!!!! please make a video when you get yours!!!
Cool results. Funny how genetics works. Im a few shades darker than you but I have more European and less African then you... but then again I'm 12% Taino. I love seeing DNA results from my fellow dominicans. Especially seeing the Native American percentages. Check my results out I have the video on my channel.
+M Z I dont go out in the sun that much so that is a factor in why i am so light skinned. And yes, i love seeing DNA results from Dominicans as well!!! Its so interesting and amazing to see where we come from and our mixture. And wow you have 12% native???!!! I am jealous!! lololol I will chek your video out right now!!!
+headchampion Hahah thanks for checking it out! I love seeing Dominican ancestry results too. Too bad their aren't more videos on here!
Me to!!!! and i know! I wish there were more dominicans to take this test as well. I know in time we will definitely see more!
On the Origins of “Dominican”
The first recorded use of the word "Dominican" is found in a letter written by King Phillip IV of Spain in 1625 to the inhabitants of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola. In this letter, which was written before the arrival of French settlers on the Western side of the island, the King congratulates the "Dominicans" for their heroic efforts in defending the territory from an attack by the Dutch fleet. The term or demonym ("gentilicio") "Dominican" was used in reference to the Dominican Order - after their patron Saint Dominic - which had been a key institution and element in shaping the island's post-Columbian religious and civic identity for over a century. This letter can be found today in the "Archivo General de Indias" in Seville, Spain.
Yes, Native Americans are colored too. Just not as dark as africans
I'm not gon lie, I dead thought you was just a light skin Black American. My mother's family are light skin Black Americans and my father's family is multi-ethnic but they identify as Black. , so growing up as a kid I was always used to seeing people who looked "slightly" different from me so it took me a while to understand that not all people of color consider themselves Black. Outsiders would find it weird to meet my family and see someone who looks Mexican but talks ebonics and loves soul food. We all grew up around the Black American culture. So I definitely had a reality check growing up and understanding that not everybody is Black American, but also blessed to understand the diversity of Blackness even within my own family whereas other people can't look at those differences and see unity.
i AM just a light skinned black person! my parents just happen to be from the Dominican republic is all. We are a part of the diaspora just like African Americans and other countries who come from slavery
Headchampion you're mixed race. Not a light skinned black. African Americans use their ethnicity and race interchangeably. Nowhere in the world is a mixed race person called black, except US because of the one drop rule. Some AAs call themselves light skinned because they wer never allowed to identify as mixed race/biracial. There is a big difference. You have European ancestry.
We're all mixed, we've been colonized. Some groups are more mixed than others, but just because you have European ancestry doesn''t make you less black. Race is social construct, its a political statement. There are ethnic differences among us but we are all still Black in that sense. The same way not all White people are actually white, for example Russians are technically people of color there are still indigenous people there today, yet they have been able to assimilate to America's exploitative and ever-changing idea of whiteness.
Aamari Green having European ancestry doesn't make you less black? Ummm actually that's exactly what it does. LITERALLY. You're asking people to lie about who they are and erase their identity as if they never existed. Why is that? What is so threatening about the idea that people have multiple ethnic/racial heritage. Every other group of people recognizes mixed race groups:individuals except for African American. Because you have been beaten, killed, jailed, segregated to keep a pure whiteness in the US. You are actually contributing to the erasure of blackness. Mixed race people are the face of African Americans set forth as the respectable, beauty standard. Look at your activists and beauty queens. Who do you see? Also there are groups of mixed race people in the US like creoles and melungeons. Why should they subvert their cultures?
And as per the "we're all mixed" thing. Look in the mirror and tell me if anyone is going to feature you in the cover of a magazine called MiXed Men. We're talking about phenotype here. Americans have race so screwed up y'all don't even recognize what blackness actually looks like. Real Subsaharan African blackness. This is why the Rachel Dolezal and Paris Jacksons of the world are thriving. Because you guys want to claim EVERYBODY as black.
Hi Headchampion, I just got my results back last night! I'm debating on doing a video, or just posting them to your comments section not sure.. but I'm just glad I know what I am now! Though I only have on parent who is Dominican though.. and my results were really interesting, surprised myself.
+Effiecacious94 Sorry for replying so late!!! PLEASE DO A VIDEO!!!!!!! and also post them on here! but pleeeease do a video. i think this is very important!!!! especially for latino and hispanic people!!! please do ittt!!! lolol
+Headchampion Lols, I just got this in my email, but okay, I'll try to set aside some time to film it, and edit it, and post it. Hopefully soon, I understand what you're saying about it being important for Latinos and Hispanics fully cause, we are so mixed, and it's interesting to know and find out our multinational backgrounds.
Effiecacious94
lol when you list all of those things u make it seem like its alot. Come on! take one day that you have off and you tackle the video. do it early in the morning, edit in the afternoon, and by night time its uploaded. YOU CAN DO ETTTTT!!!!
+Headchampion Lols, I know, I'll try to do this weekend, I won't make it long but a quick reveal and just a little commentary on my background but yeah, I'll definitely link you!
awwwwwwwwwwwww thank you!! i cant wait to seeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
It seems that results from the Caribbean region are the most diverse of all! I understand how you feel, I've been wanting to find out my exact heritage for such a long time. The test is definitely on my bucket list. Thank you for sharing your results with us.
+Elsbeth Mareile Thank you so much! This was on my bucket list as well! Answered so many questions i have had all my life. Its just incredible to be able to finally know the truth ofones roots! Its such and amazing feeling when you get that email letting you know that your results are in and that initial viewing!!! Thank you so much for watching!!!!
That 8% Asia may be Y-DNA/M-DNA from Native Americans. Native Americans were nomads and blended genetics over their time of migrations.
+xblatino328 What is your background and have you taken a DNA test?
+Headchampion hey! I'm Black lol. I'm a mutt though. My father is Puerto Rican, Dominican and Chinese (Black, White, Native and Asian). My mom is Black, Irish and Native American. Her father is half Cherokee and a registered member of the Cherokee Nation. I did an admixture test. I'm 45% Sub Saharan African, 28% European (Spanish mostly, Irish and British), 14% East Asian and 12% Native American and less and 1% unaccounted... What that less than 1% is, I haven't a clue lol great post though bro.
xblatino328 oh wow we are the same percentage of African. Have you uploaded your raw DNA on gedmatch.com?
very cool! I want to take that test, too. Your Middle Eastern heritage is probably from your Iberian heritage. Southern Spaniards have Middle Eastern heritage, which is where Flamenco and Southern Spanish music's heritage comes from. :-)
yup!! i agree!! So interesting though!! i have always had a love for arabic music, and some of the culture like belly dancing, and now i know why
It’s north african Berber btw. Not Arab from the middle east
What an interesting video! I like the way you're really interested and happy knowing your heritage. You're really dissecting all the info. That's great little bro. They're always advertising these ancestry.coms on tv and I've had a vague interest but now that I'm seeing this I'm anxious to do it myself. Just think. Maybe if more individuals learned their ancestry it might help to alleviate the racism and hate crimes. Wishful thinking. I am an African-American woman and I'm expecting my results to show heavy native american results due to the regions where my elders lived here in the US. But who knows? Thanks a lot for this. Now every youtuber and his brother is getting into the act. Yours is the first one that I've watched. Proud of you and grateful for your sharing.
Enjoyed your video immensely. I particularly liked the later part of your video as you went into the range component of your test results. After watching your video I took a second look at my results. I didn't know that AncestryDNA suggests that the range portion of our results actually projects a much stronger and higher genetic regional match inference than the average percentages listed. As an American descendant of slaves who were brought to the Carolinas to work the Indigo, Rice, Tobacco, and Cotton plantations, my results fit well with historical documented narrative of Slave Disembarkation dispersal records. I love when DNA, Documented History, and Documented Family Genealogy align. Thanks for your video!
+Michael Williams Thank you so much!!! And yes, i havent seen anyone else on youtube speak about the range, which i feel is a very important part of the test!!! the average percentages are not as accurate as the range. the range has a higher accuracy than the average. How long ago did you receive your results?
headchampion A year ago. I've tested with quite a few commercial DNA Testing companies and I found that all of the test results were consistent. Part of my family's collective memory is that our heritage is tied to the French West Indies in Martinique and theirs an ancestral connection to the Bayou Country in Southwestern corner of Louisiana too. When AncestryDNA showed me that upwards of about 28% of my African DNA derives from the region presently known as Benin today I became intrigued. I have a book about the direct slave trade from Benin's slave port known as Whydah (Ouidah) to Martinique and Haiti titled 'The Diligent' by Robert Harms. I also know that Louisiana also received a good portion of Africans from the Benin/Nigeria area as well.
Michael Williams yes! my hightest percentage of african comes from benin. Also benin is the home of vodou which is a spiritual system i have always been intrigued and have gravitated towards.
headchampion I want a roots reading. Any suggestions?
I dont know anyone personally who does roots readings.i follow a voodoo practitioner by the name of The Divine Prince Ty Emmecca though. Maybe he can help?
Thank you for sharing your results. You are such a sweet person! I like how you respond to some of the rudest comments with a simple "thank you". Be blessed
Yay. Im so happy for you! I cant wait to get mines, I know im black but its just exciting to know exactly what countries your ancestors are from.
+Beauty Mixx That was the most important part to me, I wanted to know the exact countries!!!!!
I thought you would have a little more africa than that. Thank you so much for giving so much detail to the website. I can't decide which test to do, but looks like this one gives a lot of specific details.
+punky298705 Thannk you for watching!!! My thing with 23andme is that is does not give you country breakdowns like ancestry. That alone was enough for me to pick ancestry
The African race is beautiful!!!!
INDEED!!!
LOL!
TheSushiraw
Not true
African is not a race it's a nationality. Black is a race. Dominican is an ethnicity. Geez, why do so many people confuse this? It's not a hard concept.
Retro Basement Gaming & Anime african is not nationality cuz africa is not country but continent and black is skin color not race, we are all from same race human race , Dominican is nationality (you are mixed ethnicity )
Wow! You and Bizzy Bone are twins!
+Vani Jay lol i always get that
Headchampion Welp, we're not lying! haha
Buzzy bones gay bro
I see that 45% African in your hair. lol
lol yes!! Thank yoou!!!
Headchampion All of your features are african especially your hair and nose. You look just like this black guy I went to school with.
Jennifer Laster
I am glad. Do u know his name? I am always curious to see people who look like me
lol
African hair comes in all sorts of textures, fyi! I did my ancestry as well.
It is interesting how many people have some Native American DNA. I have looked at a number of Hispanic DNA results and most have some Native and African DNA.
+W Jude Yea i noticed that as well!!!
This is soo cool.. I think that people from the caribbean are blessed with a little bit of everything; that's a reason why we are the way we are :).. I did mines with family tree Mtdna and recently sent it out. Am hoping to see native, european and african in there. Gd knows what I come up with.. Embrace who you are.. You're unique & beautiful. Be blessed!
+Vaishali Setareh Thank you so much!!!!!!
Israel 4Ever Many African Americans are descendants of the Carribean---they just don't know it yet.
IamVee Blessed? Their ancestors were raped.How would you call that blessed?
I'm Dominican as we'll and I'm really excited to see what I am. I'm contemplating on whether or not I should make a video when I receive my results.
+Victoria Vargas HELL YES! Make a video. We need as many Dominicans to take these tests as possible and record our results. This is very important.
+Victoria Vargas what's the matter? Are you afraid that you are a gran prieta? No me sorprendió la mayoría de quisqueyos.
You are a product of the Americas. Every bit of your DNA makes perfect sense. The Moors ( Muslims of Middle Eastern and North African ancestry ) ruled Spain for 800 years. The Jews, Spanish Christians and Middle Eastern and Spanish Muslims lived in harmony for the majority of that time. The exodus of people out of the Iberian Peninsula, was in small part due to the increase in exploration in the region but it's also likely (due to your ancestry), that these people were chased out due to the Spanish Inquisition.
Im totally obsessed with my results!!!! LOL i go back and look at the site all the time and just look at it. i try to visualize my ancestors and what they were doing in these countries
Dominicans come in so many colors, shades, hair textures etc. My mother is from Villa Mella Santo Domingo Norte Dominican Republic. My Dominican cousin did hers. She is 66 percent African, 28 percent European, 5 percent native indigenous and 1 percent asisn. I enjoy your video. Thx 4 sharing
Thank you so much for sharing your results. Side note: Because Native Americans originated from Asia, you also have Asian in you. I always knew I have Native American ancestry, but I look as though I'm bi racial with black and Chinese. I can tell you had some Asian too, because of the little slant in your eyes.
On the Origins of “Dominican”
The first recorded use of the word "Dominican" is found in a letter written by King Phillip IV of Spain in 1625 to the inhabitants of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola. In this letter, which was written before the arrival of French settlers on the Western side of the island, the King congratulates the "Dominicans" for their heroic efforts in defending the territory from an attack by the Dutch fleet. The term or demonym ("gentilicio") "Dominican" was used in reference to the Dominican Order - after their patron Saint Dominic - which had been a key institution and element in shaping the island's post-Columbian religious and civic identity for over a century. This letter can be found today in the "Archivo General de Indias" in Seville, Spain.
yep...thank you for this...sadly there are waaaaaaaaaay too many on YT that think that Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican are actually "races"...sad bunch
Thanks for sharing and breaking it down! I really, want to get this done! I'm getting excited about knowing!
+SuzetteNVa1 Thank you so much for watching!!!! And please let us know when you get your results!!
Our results are pretty similar I'm just Puerto Rican lol!
Africa 41%
Nigeria 14%
Benin/Togo 10%
Senegal 9%
Trace Regions 8%:
Africa Southeastern Bantu 3%
Cameroon/Congo 3%
Africa North 1%
Mali 1%
Native American 12%
Europe 45%
Iberian Peninsula 18%
Italy/Greece 14%
Ireland 7%
Trace Regions 6%:
European Jewish 2%
Europe West 2%
Great Britain 1%
Finland/Northwest Russia < 1%
Middle East 2%
Wow!! Amazing!! Thank you for sharing!!
Great results...very interesting. I'm a Ghanaian woman btw. The reason why they list Benin/Togo and IvoryCoast/Ghana is due to how French and British colonialism/slavery divided African Kingdoms along the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean or West African Coast) into tiny nations, in order to easily conquer our Ancestors. There are regions in IvoryCoast where Ghanaian tribal languages are spoken, complete with similar diets/cultural observances and vice versa.
I am so proud to have Benin togo and just west African blood period. Its so powerful!!!!
Headchampion You have every right to be. Cheers. I am so glad to hear that. You will always be my brother. Congratulations. :)
MSE. Dzirasa
Yes!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
I;m glad you found out about your roots! I feel like many hispanic people have varying mixtures of spanish, african and native american ancestries.
+Yinksy93 Yes!!!! that is the truth. there is extreme variety!!!
Thanks for sharing those Great Results! Congrats!
+Cassandra Sellers, M.A. Thank you so much!!!!
So cool! Thank you for sharing your results!
+Nomada Sin Rumbo Thank you!!!!! I enjoyed your videos as well!!!!!
+Headchampion My love please share your results on this facebook page for dominican dna results m.facebook.com/Dominicandna/
Nomada Sin Rumbo
Definitely! i will do that right now!
awesome video.. expecting similar results with this boricua i'm getting tested.. i posted me and my grandparents dna results already and my cuban grandpa and the boricuas results just arrived at ancestry. soo I'll post their results soon, can't wait to see how much Native American is in them :D
+Sapa Inti Oh wow!!! I will check out your youtube channel RIGHT NOW!!! thanks!!!
Wow what a great mix,Dominicans are already mixed,with different things always and I can see black blood in you your nose and hair.
Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!
Headchampion. I hope you see this message. You've stated an interest in reaching facts with family members in DR. I urge you to do so while you have the chance. Elderly folks will not be around forever. When they're gone a lot of interesting info goes with them. Speaking from experience. Most of my family has passed on, so I can't ask any questions. Family photos are all scattered among the handful of us left. All the best.
Much respect and love from your Boricua neighbor! Sent in a week ago. Can't wait!
Dominican results are the best! you guys are from all over!
+K Moore Thanks!!! i just wish there were more of us on youtube to share our results!!! i think everyone should take this test!!
Thanks for sharing your results with us. I ran across this earlier today. It's based on a study of Puerto Rico, which we know has a similar history to the D.R. and it shows scarily how both stories can really be true. One story being that the Tainos were killed off and the other that the Taino lines continued on. Makes sense when you consider that most of the ships coming from Spain were initially all men. voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/25/genographic-project-dna-results-reveal-details-of-puerto-rican-history/
+davis2022 Also, puerto ricans (IN GENERAL) for some reason manage to have substantially more Taino DNA than dominicans. idk if in puerto rico the spaniards killed less or impregnated more taino women...but puerto ricans (IN GENERAL) tend to have more european and more taino but less african than dominicans....and i am just speaking in general..i know that is not true for all
Love this. I've been to the Dominican Republic. It's so beautiful!
Awesome video 'neighbor' lol, I love how knowledgeable you are!
+DXLYN locs Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! lol hey neighbor!!!!! lololol thank you so much
Thanks 4 sharing!! I'm from D.R 2 (Santiago)..cant wait 2 get my results...PEACE & LOVE!
+Eileen V. Thank you so much! Will you be making a video?
I wish I had know that fact about 23andme before.I got my results and thought the countries were to vague. I had already bought a second kit for my dad ...but getting my sister and mom tested at a lab and they said they would be able to break it down .Its so amazing that you can do the break down of the countries !
+really You can also upload your results on GEDMATCH, even tho they are kind of confusing, at least to me
I tried Gedmatch and it was very confusing ...:( but I had my mother and sister do a swab test at a local lab near me where they said they would be able to determine it better then 23andme which they said they have heard people say the same thing to them ..so just waiting to see:) then I will update my videos .plus 23andme comes out that I only have northern european ...while gedmatch says I have southern european.Which to be honest gedmatch made more sence as my mom and her sisters have thalesemia which is a Mediterranean blood disorder. I also figure if you keep only inheriting 50/50 of your parents genes each time ...what else perhaps can these tests not tell
really I will be looking forward to your video updates!!!!!
+Headchampion I just received my dad's results from 23andme ....and due to that it changed mine. It was fascinating the changes that took place just from my dad's now I am going to be excited to see the changes that take place once my mom's come in.I think another three months ! lol .They have been so busy that their 8 week period was extended to 12 weeks once reaching the lab . My ged number is M214760.I found out anyone with the number can review them as well.My dad's is M822566 for gematch .I think with him the harappa calculator works best. I just did a short video with the differences before and after with my dad uploaded.Cant wait to see the changes they will do with my mom . But my mother's maternal haplo is African ....my dad's maternal is South Asian and his paternal is Asian ( Chinese Han haplo) but my mom's results I figured should really be the interesting one :)
All in all, you're a true bloodline descendant of the Biblical Hebrew/Israelites. Most people don't realize that Blacks once ruled Europe, and the first inhabitants of Asia were BLACK people. Black skinned people weren't ONLY excluded to the African continent.
Black Americans(North and South and of the Caribbean Islands) are the true bloodline descendant of the Biblical Hebrew/Israelites...our ancestors fled the land of Israel(77AD)from Roman persecution, due to the curse that God/Yah placed on them(Deuteronomy 28) if they became disobedient and rebellious against HIM. They fled Israel to (modern day) NE Africa, (modern day NE Africa, because Israel and the entire "Middle East" at one time was well-known to be apart of the African continent, BEFORE Europeans started tampering with history and geography). where they encountered the Arabian Slave Trade(which is also when Black-skinned Egypt started to become a Brown-skinned Egypt(Arabs). Our ancestors then fled to West Africa, where they remained MANY years until they encountered the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. All those that had a hand in enslaving our people(including certain Africans that assisted) were well aware of the fact that they were enslaving Hebrews. They were already tribes of Hebrews(Blacks/Africans) in the Americas even before the Slave Trade, they were classified as Indians as well...our history is SO MUCH deeper than most would even imagine! It's not just "talking points" to say that we come from royalty. We DO come from a lineage of Kings and Queens, we were the Chosen People of God/Yah. The search on Ancestory.com only scratched the surface to what you can discover about your ancestory bloodline...
MichaelAngelo Taylor dude just stop I've seen blacks say the were first everything . first natives first europeans vikings were black Chinese were first black first Irish were black like stfu
jj gg lol I wonder where did he get that info from
Out of the people who videoed their results, you're the only one who was excited about the African part. Some of the black people who did their results seemed very disgusted.
+Lee Antoinette I was VERY excited an extremely happy that my african percentages are so high!!!! i did not expect to be nearly half african!! but i am so happy and so proud to have so much african blood flowing through my veins!!! This DNA test is one of the most important things i have ever done. Truly a life changing experience. So glad that i know exactly where i come from and what i am made of!!!! And yea i have seen some black ppl be disappointed or question the results cuz of their african percentages being more than what they wanted or expecting to have native american or european...smh...the self hate is real with alot of ppl.
Headchampion yea I think with many black people who do this, They go into believing that they are native American because weve always been told that by different family members and it just isn't true, really it's a myth because 9 times outta 10 we aren't sure where we come from. Even I was told some type of native American at some point but I never believed it for a second, I was extremely happy with my results, 94% African!
The Arabs was associated with the Spanish during the European exploration. A lot of Hispanic and Latino people are of West Asian and Middle Eastern descent.
you are absolutely right
2% congo? welcome to the family (ndeko) brother😄
Thank yoou soooooooooooooooo much!!
Mbote
lina Mwana nahhh
+lina Mwana 2% it is too low to even consider it
he is not your family.
Damn I thought you would be like 20% black!! In my video I was kinda surprised by my results too.
+Nappyboi LOL!!!! I was surprised too but PLEASANTLY surprised and extremely proud and in awe of my 45% African percent!!!! Im about to watch yours right now!!!!!!
Im so glad u explained about the range part cause I was so confused on that!
+jenthagem Of course!!!! So was i when i was looking at it!!!! My scorpio ass loves to dig deeper and find out the truth to things so i had to know!!! Have u by any chance uploaded your results to GEDMATCH?
+headchampion No I haven't done that yet..Will something be different about my results?
+jenthagem sorry for the late response! And yes, because they show you different ethnic groups that you may not know you have, they literally have dozens on dozens of tests that you can run your DNA through!!
I'm excited for you! ancestry.com just sent me an ad and the kits are $ 69.00 for a little bit. I'm gonna order the kit, too. how long did it take for the results, please?
It took me about 2weeks to get my resyults. 2 long weeks!!
you are right bro cause my app doesnt explain why to use certain words like i know tienes is you have or do you have in question form but one day im watching the spanish channel and i put the caption on and this dude said tengas and i typed tengas on my translator app and it said you have, and i was like dang so now its two ways to say you have so now i got to figure out when to say tienes or tengas. give me a few days and i got you cause i wanna be bilingual and i want me a fine dominican or puerto rican honduran muchacha
+Lorenzo migo lol
You look pretty light skin to be 45% african, most of your phenotype looks caucasian, are any of your brothers or sisters dark skinned?
+Dudeluv212 LOL only reason i am so light is cuz i stay out of the sun. When i tan, i burn red, then turn brown. when i was in high school and had to catch the bus to go places, i was several shades darker, like 6 or 7 shades maybe more....i could show u pics, but its because of my european ancestry that i am able to be this light skinned when not exposed to the sun for long periods of time. but when exposed to the sun , i do tan brown!!!! And i have one brother from both parents and he is light skinned like me, maybe a shade or two darker cuz he is outside more, with my same type of hair but cut low and he has side burn beard thing going on. Both of my parents are "light skinned", with my dad being the darker of the two tho, he is like caramel/red complected with hazel eyes and kinky afro hair, and my mom being high (darker than me tho) yellow with wavy/straight hair and dark brown eyes. So i came out on the lighter side like my mother,but with kinky hair from my dad side. I know that 45% african comes from both of them but for sure more from my dads side than my mothers.
+headchampion ohh ok, it makes sence now. genetics can be a recombination thing in regards to color, my brother is more browner skinned than me yet he pretty much has the same DNA percentages as i do. I came out olive skinned due to the fact that my father is also light skinned, closer to swarthy med and not nordid, however we both have the similar facial features. Your hair is very kinky afro, that trait is undoutebly sub saharan and overall you're very mixed. I would recommend 23andme just to see if your interested in seeing your maternal and paternal haplogroups. Both companies are good although 23andme has more features for you to play with. I like ancestry dna too simply because it can break down your african regions.
Yes!!! My hair is afro textured. I love it now tho! when i was a kid, i didnt. The reason im growing it out is as an acceptance and embracing of my african heritage. And yes i am planning on doing the 23andme one of these days because i am interested in the halo groups as well. I played around with gedmatch.com as well and that was very fun and interesting, but a little confusing. and yea the reason i like ancestry is cuz they break down the african regions and that was very important for me
+headchampion I am not Dominican. Congrats to you senor on finding out and embracing the African in you plus the Indian and who you are as a human being . Take care of yourself. Merry Christmas to you and your familia. La Republica Dominicana represent!
Wow thank you so much for your amazing words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas to you and your family too!!!!
Black color is the most dominant. It takes centuries for the dark skin to shade.And there's tons of pale Dominicans who are mixed aswell as dark skinned Dominicans who are mixed
.Modern Dominicans are mixed, but during the 1800s Dominicans were white and the only blacks were the slaves but everything change really fast when Dominicans started mixing with their slaves.By the mids 1800s every Dominicans was either white or free people of color (criollo)..The first settlements in Dominican Republic were White and most of them stay to D.R to raise their childrens and their family for generetions and generetions.And they were responsible for shaping up D.R and being involved with our independence and revolution.Unlike U.S.A ,Dominicans free their slave earlier and didn't have an Issue with the people of color.This is why now most Dominicans are mixed and come in all shades and every color.And Dominicans can look like their ancestors,typical Italian or Spaniard depending on what region you from.Today day there are some brainwashed Dominicans that are being taught to hate or deny their white ancestors when instead they should be glad and proud of their white ancestors.If it wasn't for our white ancestors Dominican Republic would have never gained independence and would be in miseries rn.First Government of D.R were white aswell as most of our heroes and individuals who help D.R rise.And once again yes also Criollo people were involved in the movement aswell but my whole point is to not stop embracing your white ancestors neither your black ancestors of course but to regconize our ancestors bravery and courage for what they have done to our beautiful
Awesome!! Liked and suscribed!
Thanks so much! I just got my fathers ancestry DNA results and i will be doing a video revealing them.
Headchampion yeeeey I was just thinking in doing in my parents before they deceased. 😀 great idea!!! Cant wait for your video!
Yeah they need to tell you guys the truth ... The Spanish conquerors raped the native (Taino) women they try to ignore than and there were some natives who intermingled with Africans as well.
jamal deslandes exactly
jamal deslandes they only have traces of taino through the women who were raped..... they killed all the men
+jamal deslandes
You are correct that is a bit of information that certain people omit (you know those people who chant "make America white again") that live here in the United States and claim that the country is theirs) regarding the Native Americans Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
+jamal deslandes sorry....who is trying to ignore the truth?. It is pretty well know Spaniards raped native american been. It is on history text books.
I just ordered my kit, I cannot wait to receive it, I thnk we may be cousins (primo) lol love this video, you're soooooo friggin cute!!!!
LOL thank you so much!!! will you be making a video showing your results????
I think so, I've never done it before, and I don't film well, lol I'll be in touch tho 🤗
DD OOOO
thank you
wow!! schooling in Cameroon we are told almost all countries in the Caribbeans Came from Central and West Africa. even though they Claim they are Latinos(Latino or Spanish is a Language not a race) y'all blacks . Respect From Cameroon
Ndonue Takwi thank you so much
I really want to do this but it's so expensive. I'm Dominican and Mexican
+lala0413 AncestryDNA test is the least expensive one on the market. its about 89 dollars. I actually bought my kit with the money i made from selling tshirts i created on spreadshirt.com. If you can save up for it for a few months just put away 5 here, 10 there, and before u know it u have 89 to 100 bucks that u can spend on this. I think its totally worth it!!
On black friday its $59
Check during holidays but black friday/cyber monday is the best time
We all r mixed. The beautiful human race. Im waiting on my results
Lots of ancient Jews in Morocco/Senegal. (Remember these countries have recently been broken up) Look at some family customs. That is how I found my Hebrew roots. I have taken 4 DNA tests and they are all fairly different. I wanted to be Ghanaian. I don't have it, but my brother does. So, I am Ghanian on my father's side. I named a couple of my children Ghanaian names and I love Kwame Nkrumah. I hold on to the widdy bit of Ghanaian DNA. :-)
+Jiji Solomon One time for Ghana!!!!!!
Always be proud to be african!
+ANTPHRESSH Always and forever!!
Headchampion Dope!
Thank you so much!!!
I'm Greek, and I can't wait to get my results! I am not expecting ANYTHING lol because Greeks, along the same timespan as Africans, were taken over by the Turks (400 so years) and so there are barely any records of my family because they were never recorded :/ I'm so nervous, but excited to share with the world what a Greek person's DNA is made up of
+00Indeedibly00 Wow! i am excited for you as well! I am now subscribing to your channel so i am updated when you upload your video!!!!!!!!!!
headchampion i didn't think anyone would be excited about that xD well then I can't wait to share it with someone, even if it's only one. I hope I don't disappoint!
00Indeedibly00
trust me, many people are going to be interested!! please keep me updated when you receive your results and make your video!!
headchampion ok :) i haven't gotten the kit itself yet so they'll be some waiting
00Indeedibly00
Its okay! just try not to forget about me when you make t, but either way i am subscribed to you, so when u upload it, youtube will notify me!!
My ancestry video is slightly different if u want to check it out again and leave a like, I figured out how to block those trump trolls
okay definitely will do that!!!
I always find the reaction from those in the Latinx community when they find out they are part Sub-Saharan African very interesting, particularly Dominicans. The only question is, does it change how they look at themselves and those who identify with their African ancestry i. e. Haitians.
I’m not latinX. I don’t identify with that word. Before I took this test years ago, I knew I had African ancestry, I just wanted to know how much percentage I had. So that’s not what i was surprised about. And I identified as black before the test and I identify as black after the test.
@@OriginalMaster16 👍
Great video, thanks for posting!
+Christine Manczuk Thank you so much for watching!!!
Oh wao I see now. I thought your European was going to be more, you look pretty light skin, I guess skin color get anyone confused. Thts pretty good to know your roots
+Leonel Logrono The reason i am this light is cuz i stay out of the sun, but if i were to be in the sun, i could get brown skinned. But i did think my European was gona be more, cuz i dont come from a black parent and a white parent. Both of my parents are mixed and so are their parents and so are their parents, most dominicans are deeply mixed by hundreds of years. so im sure the 45% comes from both my parents and not just one of them. And yea i am happy as hell to finally know
Dominicanita Linda i didnt see dominican republic in that lineup in the link you posted. And i mean i think the results are pretty accurate. the african and european is alomost half and half. I'm just this light skinned because i protect my self from the sun.
+Dominicanita Linda I do agree with you on that!!! the "west Asian" is the Caucasus area and that is definitely an ancient migration, and in my opinion, the people of west Asia are like proto Europeans..they are like the half and half between Arabs and norther Europeans. they are the bridge between Europe and the middle east
I re-uploaded my video, I got to stop arguing with trump supporters because too many of them kept trolling my video and leaving dislikes
LOL yea just block their ass! and will check your vid out!
Awesome, can't wait to see my results.
+Angirson Lopez Keep me posted!! will you do a video??
+headchampion Yes.
Angirson Lopez
i will subscribe to you so i know when u post it
+headchampion Ok
+Micheal Jackson I'll take my DNA test on 23andme.com in the future.
Awesome! I'm half Dominican (cibao) and half Honduran born here in the States, and sent in my mom and dad's ancestry kits! We decided to to my parents results instead. Let me tell you, we are mixed as it all gets, so it will be interesting to find out where our ancestors originated from! I get it all, some people think I'm East Indian, others think I'm Polynesian, or Phillipino, or mixed with black which I definitely am! I can't wait!!!!
+Neri Rojas WOW!! are you going to make a video of your parents results???
Hello, I should but I've never done a RUclips video before, I guess I will post the info here!! Thanks for sharing your information! I've been doing lots of genealogy research and I can find my dad's mother side from DR all way up to 1730!!
+Neri Rojas I think you should do a video! If you phone has a camera, you can make a video!!!
Welcome my Dominican African Warrior !!!
+Lorraine Hawkins Thank you sooooooooooooooo much!!!
Lorraine Hawkins European/native American African warrior not just african
45% doesn't makes an African.... sorry, Stop trying to apply the racist (and stupid) one drop rule to people...
the Middle eastern/west Asian could be from the Moorish empire that conquered spain. congratulation on your results.
+jamil shabazz I think so. And i think its the reason why my last name is Morillo. hence the word "Mor" signifying "moore" and then the word "illo" is a spanish word that is added. Does that make sense?
+Headchampion , Makes sense to me bro
Actually the Majority of muslims in Spain were native Iberian converts to Islam mainly of Celtiberian,Hispano Romano, & Visigoth Origin.
The Few Thousand foreign muslims who did settle in Iberia were mainly Moroccan Berbers
& this has been demonstrated by Genetic testing in which the results show up as Africa
North.
Africa North results show up in Highest percentages in people from the Spanish Canary Islands who are of Native Guanche Origin...
ranges for canary islanders is about 8-15%.
André Valdés
So do you think that this north African moroccan DNA is the same as the west asia DNA that you find in iran, iraq, caucasus, lebanon etc?
Headchampion North African
Berbers are definitely related somewhat to Western Asians because Berbers came from the middle east about 7000-5000 years ago so yes they do share DNA but North Africans are mainly Haplogroup E1b1b while West Asians aka Middle Eastern folk are mainly Haplogroup J1.
Europeans came from the Middle East about 45,000 years ago.
Spain France UK Ireland are the most closely related Western Europeans & all 4 nations are between 60-80 % Haplogroup R1b
Which is the majority Haplogroup of all Western Europe.
having west asian that is because some people in spain were arabs some escape like moors and jews...most southern spanish have some mix to that. not surprising
+Stacil Yonan Yea i came to that conclusion as well
lol yep
But their were some Lebanese Christians that migrated to Dominican Republic as well. The 47th president of the Dominican Republic who is Lebanese: Jacobo Majluta Azar.
+Stacil Yonan That is true as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just dont know which one it is. Does my west Asian come from spain back when the moors took control, which means its an ancient DNA from a very long time ago, or if it is more recent and from a lebanese migration to DR. wish i knew which one!!
+Headchampion LOL Who knows....I think this is pretty cool lol
thats whats up im learning now i use duo lingo app and i have a dictionary. i just wush it wasnt so many ways to say simple words like that. i swear its 5 ways to say that and 2 ways to say was and informal spanish its like 3 ways to say you. thats whats difficult for me
+Lorenzo migo lol yea i understand what you are saying!!! Im glad i learned it before i learned English!!!
Both my parents are also Dominicans. It cool too see how similar results can be.
i am
55% European
30% Alberian Peninsula
25% Italy/Greece
30% African-
12% Benin/Togo
22%- A bunch of trace regions but mainly West Africa
15% Native American- Most like Tieno
Should i post a video?
+thesmartguy964 Damn! 15% native american tho????!!!! thats alot!!! PLEEEEASE make a video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As many dominicans need to make these videos as possible!! it needs to be a movement! please do it!!! i am subscribing to u so when u post it i know!
Have you done any research on your family history? Omg, it's amazing!!! I've found out so much by using my dna matches on ancestry and if you really start digging into your family history, you can upload your raw dna to gedmatch for free and ftdna first 20 matches free, 39.00 for all matches using their family finder tool...ok GOD BLESS
+Nique Starpg Thank you so much!!! i actually did upload them to gedmatch and was blow away!!!!!!
Beautiful! You have the typical mix of a Dominican person, the native Am, African and Europe! It always confuses me that dominicans are surprised how African they are. Lol I can see that in the texture of your hair! YALL ARE BLACK TOO CONGRATILATIONS!
My results were
94% African
4 % Scandanavian
Less than 1% Great Brit
Less than 1% middle east
So SUPER BLACK lol
You must not take these results as totally accurate. The results are to be taken as a bit of fun, and especially the areas of Africa given are not an accurate reflection of reality.
Y'all ain't nothing but triracial , I'm black with both black parents I am 75 percent east and west African , 5 percent Asian afganistan and 20 percent Scandinavian and Great Britain , French, combined
I thought you had a lot of north native american in your dna before you revealed your results
+cherrylipschick awwwww!!!!! yea, only 7%. lol at least its something, right!!
Very nice results.
+ladynefertitibk Thank you so much!!!!
Omg thanks for explaining the range!!!!!!!!
Yup Benin! Where 98 of Haitians are from. Welcome home😌.
great video! Very nicely done....:)
Thank you so much!!!
quick question if i wanna say we like should i say gustamos or nosotros gusto or something else
+Lorenzo migo "Nos gusta" is "We like".
I did the test and I'm 98% Taino, 2% Iberian
+UrbanFashionTrendsTV WOw! what nationality are you?
+UrbanFashionTrendsTV WOW AHO IM A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME TO THE CLUB , ARE YOU RICAN
Wait can someone explain to me what Taino is?
+Jayla Brown Tainos are basically Arawak Indians who lived in the Caribbean. The taino are the natives of the Caribbean . thought to be extinct, but many people today carry taino DNA in their blood.
😂😂😂 this is such a lie but ok 😂😂😂
Thats such a mix! Mine is boring it came back 100% European
+SJ Thank youu!!!
West Asian (Asia Minor) might come over Spain / North African Sephardic Jewish ancestry :-)
+Monica Schmidt truuuueee
the native people of America are originally from Asia if that helps
+yasmine lewis Yes!!! that is very true!!!!!!
+yasmine Lewis that's a theory not a fact, no has proven that the native American or indigenous came from Asia.
Alfonso Vargas it is a fact do your research
Like I did
+yasmine lewis the native Americans have never said they came from Asia, don't believe in lies.
me gusta senor jordan en en youtube tambien él me ayuda mucho, porque él explica razones detras de ciertas palabras
there are north Africans who are light and be proud of all of your stuff
+Gryphon Word Thats great!!!!!! thank you so much!
Not sure if anyone else has commented on this but your Malian & Africa North, combined with your West Asian heritage suggests at least some of your Hispanic ancestors were Moriscos. These were former Arabic Moors who converted (nominally) to Christianity in the 1500's but then fled to Spain's colonies to avoid the attentions of the Inquisition.
Yea and its not a coincidence that my last name is MORILLO...it has "MOR" in the front of it which i think comes from my ancestors being moors!!!!