If a person is upset it's due being brainwashed, lied to, or can't comprehend what they are told based on their outlook on race and culture.

@@IVY-jr7io That's quite true and it's very sad. I've seen people show disappointment for whatever they've heard is in their lineage and I would simply be happy to know more. They get a gift and undervalue it.

there upset because it invalidates there ideologies they force onto people reality is sometimes hard to believe: take me and my wife for example me: my ancestor is a white women sold to an arab merchant by muslim pirates but was freed and married the merchant my black wife: her ancestor is black man who owned black slaves including a historical document that states he took immense pride in owning his own daughters as slaves people tell us were lying, but we have the documents to prove it, to make fun of the whole reparations my wife jokingly wrote a cheque to herself

She’s part jewish.

always knew she was a Jew lol..

Why do you comment if you don't?​@@marvinnashwheresmyear

Native American can show up as pacific islander or Asian

These tests are not conclusive. If they don't have a sample swab from a political/ethnic group then they won't show a match. That's why so many people have been told they have native blood but the tests don't (ie, the whole tribe has been wiped out).

How this works is the smaller the percentage the further back in history your relative was Samoan.

Or it was a mistake. These tests aren’t perfect.

Well what an you expect from someone like her? She feels she has to have that reaction.

It makes her less credible as liberal minority...

She was clearly kidding around. Rich black people especially love white people. Who do they marry?

58 percent of slaves were raped and 100 percent of them were non consent. If I could flush my whiteness I would

@@ffjsbYour comment makes you less credible as a thinking human being. Political opinions do not have to be tied to one’s race.

This is a great observation, Claudine. Indeed, our DNA results can sometimes be at odds with family history that is passed down to us. It's important to bear in mind that even with a perfect knowledge of the history of your ancestors, DNA can still show some unexpected results. We each inherit 50% of our DNA from both our mother and father but exactly what 50% we inherit is random. This is known as genetic recombination and can cause unexpected DNA results for many members who do not inherit a region that they know their parent(s) has. Please see the article we've linked here which delves into inheritance and how it works: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Understanding-Inheritance?language=en_US. Remember that your DNA is only one element of a much larger picture, and your family history and relatives will play an important role in your genetic make-up, even if they are not specifically reflected in your ethnicity results. Check out the linked here for more information on the factors that can caused unexpected results: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results. We hope this article helps!

Absolutely. A lifetime of being told you were descended from Italian ancestors only to discover your DNA is mostly made up of Irish can really do a number on a person's self-identity.

Why would they not accept it whats wrong with having punjab/Indian?

No Company that can sell the DNA data you give to them will get mine volantarily.

@@kmjkmjkmj Lol - Yes, I am very diverse! I'm cool

@@kmjkmjkmjNordics are literally *Northern Germanics lol

I always wondered why my my relatives on my mothers side of the family have alot of German sounding names, and Spanish

​@@George-zd6rbbut his blood is

@mariabop Depends on how many ancestors are German! I have a interesting story,my stepfather was born in 1939 " Beecher Illinois " his D.N.A,blood is almost pure German. I am myself was born and spent most of my childhood in Germany " Iam fluent in German" Mother is german,my father is Hungarian jewish.but since my stepfather has not that much German culture in him ,opposed to me,I and most Germans would consider me more German! Experiences that are in your psyche are more important that your D.N.A to truly identify you culturally!

Oh that is exciting, The Wandering Wilsons! We wish you all the best with your research.

Given some of the reactions I'd say DNA did actually tell us who they are.

It was literally just the one girl and she's a middle aged woman being told for the first time in in her life that she's a third white. Not just an ancestor, an entire third. No one is gonna be happy having that monkey wrench thrown in their identity at that age. Look up "John Hurt finds out he isn't Irish."

I didn't catch that or it's not true.

​@@brokemono "You are 1/3d white Gail!" --- "Noooooo, you take that back. I am not white!"

They're not ashamed; they're surprised.

@@DanBrown96 No, she was clearly ashamed. It cuts her cred as a liberal minority...

Good luck! Hope to get an update!

Start your search on Familysearch( 1 word) It's free and it's database is larger than ancestry

Beautiful mix!!

And best of luck!!

Good luck. Sounds very interesting.

If your brand and your career are based on one thing and something else turns out to be the case, it could be frightening. What impact will the news have on other people's opinions of you ? Will you lose your job because you are too White ? I totally understand her fear. Either way, she is a lovely lady.

Only the black people when they hear they are part white. They don't like that.

@OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy Fear is not from the Lord. More important to be right with Christ than right with the world.

It was shocking, she wasn't being rude she just said no I'm not and take that back since those are common responses to being shocked

My 26th Great grandfather was William the Conqueror, perhaps we have someone in common. More than 25% of the English population are his descendants. I’m grateful for the historical documentation of the British Empire.

@@donnahibbard1774it’s fascinating stuff! As he was 35-37 generations ago, just about everyone in England with English ancestry will be descended from him ( not all traceable or legitimate of course) and from anyone else alive at that time. So that also stretches out across the world for lots of people too.

I used to think she was European because she looks so Swedish or Danish.

If her ancestors were from Skåne, then she might still be danish :-)

Her grandparents on her father's side are/were Swedish, but her father was born and grew up in Denmark, became an architect in Denmark, and then immigrated to NYC and opened a design studio, married a New Yorker and got little Scarlett.

I was gonna say, could've asked me that lmao. Johansson is a Swedish name, not Danish. Even so, her family lived in Denmark for a while so they were still Danes who later moved to the US. 😊

She’s also Jewish

My thoughts too on her reaction. I guess that tells us all we need to know about how things are going.

yeah it's not cute...i mean look at yourself gail

Well good for you and your husband

she's clearly being facetious

@@dallassukerkin6878do you think it’s surprising that the immediate reaction a black person would have to finding out they’re a 1/3 white is shock and denial? Are you unaware of history?

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In Norway we have very dark haired and skin people in the saami communities. They stem from the Sibirians travelling along the northern coast of Russia and Scandinavia. They don`t look Scandinavian at all. You see, american people... we are all just one big blend that has evolved from tribes emigrating all over, blending with other tribes creating new tribes. Etc etc.. There is not several "races". There are only difference in background, appearances, cultures and characters. ONE RACE. Until you get that, you will probably just keep on thinking your ancestry has anything to do with your behavior. It doesn`t. It`s all culture.

​@@eltoro969 you put this so eloquently 💕

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You really should do it, it's very easy now because you can find most records online. When I started mine, back in 1970, you had to spend a lot of time driving from town to town and visiting court houses and libraries and historical societies, and spending hours and hours scouring through old records, and maybe make several trips to each one to find the things we were looking for. And the DNA tests will give you lots of leads and clues. I will warn you, though, most of the people who match your DNA will not communicate with you, but just going thru their online trees and their other matches is a big help.

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Congratulations Regulations your heritage is filled with people who make terrible food

Yep, I'm 80% English, 18% European (Norman Conquest I'm guessing) and 2% Finnish (no idea, unless it's a stray Finnish Viking!) Of my 80% it all points to the north of England which is where my family line has been since at least the 1300s. DNA is fascinating.

@@grievousangel7742 Finnish could be from trade comming in from the Baltic Sea same probably with the 18% European you got to remember Hanseatic League was a huge trade confederation that stretched across Northern Europe. So cool tho makes you think did you ancestors live and work near a port city.

@@user-zo1uj2lo8k really good point, thanks for the nudge. We live (and always have) about 40 miles from a port called Whitby, which was a hugely important fishing and trading port, plus l was born in York which was the capital of the north and hosted people from around the known world. This stuff fascinates me!

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For hundreds of years the Swedish provinces of Scania, Blekinge and Halland were actually part of Denmark.

@@andyleighton6969 wow, the history that flows from this show is incredible.

I know - potato-potahto!

No it wasn't. Go cry and be sensitive somewhere else.

No it wasn’t.

Yes, it was.

Simmer down. It was not disturbing. You’re melodramatic. 😂

@@carrington2949 you might want to take your own advice there, Bud 🤣

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@@donnahibbard1774 not in Germany

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Imagine the German equivalent Abstammung punkt kom: "You are one foursh Naz| from your fassers side"

You don't understand the racial history of this country then. "Race" is a "social construct", invented by whites.. Africans were, and to some, still are, considered to be only 3/5 human. White people created the 'N-word'. You can find that history right here on KZfaq.

She wasn’t being serious dude.

There is serious in joking.

You dont know much about black history in the US obvi!

@@Notturnoiryou obviously don’t either. 😂

Agree 💯❗

My Heritage Dna is quite inexpensive

@@Notturnoir is it? But Im from chile... 😞

Sure but not when it was the product of 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇

omg she was joking around

Maybe one day we’ll actually start acting like it.

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Nobody's supposed to know you're a dog on the Internet.

If you are white….same if you’re black, orange or indigo. That’s not a one size fit all statement you know..

@@joesmith5247 Obviously Joe.

@@Daron7181 is it obvious tho? Why keep including color at all? Its irrelevant.

I think it's because we assume that only white people have a problem with other races. So that's the general assumption. However in the last 10 years we have learned all too well that everybody has a problem with everybody else. Maybe more people should take these tests and realize you're a part of everybody else, so get over yourself. Wouldn't that be a great step forward for humanity?

Of all the sad incoherent derp on the internet this is the most incoherent.

Only one thing: one of my female ancestors was a "fille de roi." Also, my brother's wife has TWO fille de roi in her line, AND we share one of them. My brother and wife are like 12th cousins. Not sure how much was DNA results or how much was research.

Yes, that I’m part Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian and Scandinavian.

I got a whole new (and much improved) Dad! Plus a grandma and aunt and uncles and cousins and they’re all really great! I was Métis before I did my test, so that was kind of weird and now I’m Italian and Acadian. That was kind of weird; being suddenly not indigenous. Also, similarly to a couple of these people, we thought we were Croatian and we’re actually Slovenian.

That my parents were third cousins sharing a hillbilly ancestor.

@@siobhan28483You can’t be part of a religion. Jewish isn’t a race.

For real. All these people have no idea about the grapes perpetrated by white men against Black women from the days of chattel slavery through, well, now. I am faintly concerned a missing ancestor might've done that to my great-great-grandmother, and the combination was at worst work supervisor on entry-level employee. Imagine the moment of concern she had...

In that actor's case in particular, his grandfather claimed to be Japanese after emigrating from Korea to Japan to keep his show business career going. He'd have had issues otherwise.

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So you believe that the sins of ones ancestors should mark them forever? Even though their actions were not new, but had been accepted for thousands of years?

@@reginalemaster9726 You don't understand the racial history of this country then. "Race" is a "social construct", invented by whites.. Africans were, and to some, still are, considered to be only 3/5 human. White people created the 'N-word'. You can find that history right here on KZfaq.

Ty Burrell. He was on the show Modern Family

If you think about how the 'white' got there for a lot of Black people in the new world the story is oftentimes not a good one. Lots of these relationships were not consensual, so you would feel torn. Also you know exactly why if the shoe was on the other foot why there would be outrage.

@@hickyxnicky411 point is......be proud to be white if that's what you are. Be proud to be black if that's what you are. Have a great day.

no disrespect but you're a nobody, so no one would care

she can have that reaction because she was clearly joking lol she was just surprised by what she saw up to that point

@camillejames9966 sure she CAN. And I had that same reaction when I found out by DNA that I'm slightly African. So yeah I know the shame. Have a great day.

That's exactly the issue. There's no 100% sure way of testing these things, and it won't ever be completely accurate. All DNA tests have different libraries to base their results on, and therefore the percentages will be different depending on which one you get.

@@thespankmyfrank Yeah, how long have we been collecting those libraries? They are very young data sets, I would have to imagine, as we only recently had the capabilities to reliably collect DNA. Even more recently, we have been able to parse through it on such an international level. To my layman eyes, it seems all we can do is find people who are most similar, which isn't that affirming of the idea of race? Like your dna cant say anything about your culture so its not like oh see ur irish no its just oh see you are most closely matched to this group of people.

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She is 1/3 European not white

@@peacehappyb237 Tell that to Gayle King "

It is not surprising to black people either. The only thing that I ask is was it a positive union in the family tree? Was it consensual? Was the relationship respected? Just don’t tell people that you have a white ancestor and they owned slaves. That means the slaves were your ancestors from the white relative who kept his children as slaves. 🤣🤣🤣

@@peacehappyb237 which is white. have you never been to this continent? it's white.

All european ethnic groups mean white dna i dont know how some can disagree with that but you should leave them alone​@@biegebythesea6775

There's a major difference between being magyar or cigány...

That's not how ancestry works but okay.

It's not weird to not want to have the DNA of your people's enslavers.

That's because the European DNA was acquired in a horrible way and not from love during slavery 😢

​@@reedthis Exactly!

​@reedthis not always. According to some of the shows, blacks and whites married. Some as far back as colonial times. Even bought farms together. It was NOT easy in the South where it was illegal.😢

@@pkmcnett5649 That one alien abductee interracial couple were unusual even in 60s or whatever it was.

I noticed that. What a laugh.

I love the way you watched this whole video and then proceeded to lie about it and make exaggerated claims. Gives me a a feeling of deja vu.

It. Was. A. JOKE. Get over it.

It's the European politics part that I'm sure she's distancing herself from, colonizing and oppressing so many around the world

@@miriamh2551 you mean like every other country, in the entire world, since the begin of time? It’s not just Europeans.

@@Dontneedahandle0 majority Europeans as of late, including right now in Palestine.

@@miriamh2551 no. Nice try

@@miriamh2551keep lying to yourself.

It’s almost like we’re all human beings or something. 🤔

@@Daron7181 I know we’re human beings, I was saying this goes to show just how crazy the possibilities are with reproduction with us humans

@@Daron7181Only to white people. 😂😂😂

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If a white person had black ancestry it usually means that their African ancestors was raped for a few generations, the guy from modern family is an example.

Right?

Spot on I just commented the same

And Fred Armisen's Korean decendent was really cool. He was a dancer and there is a museum dedicated to him in Japan Kuni Institute of Creative Dance

@@KristineMaitland Looking back on his Asian roots with his grandfather who was Korean and why Fred thought he Japanese. His grandfather took a Japanese name to protect himself as when he was a high school student in Japan The Japanese massacued anyone they thought was Korean and Chinese and even killed some Japanese just because they thought they looked Korean. in 1923. So glad that Fred was able to find a lost part of his history.

It's a tongue-in-cheek joke. Many people who are raised as members of visible communities are taught to draw strength from that identity, as well as to protect that identity. It's a literally immature reflex but it's one that many people have about many different things. Her responding that way is precisely why the interviewer laughed along with her.

Look at the reaction of these people to being white it's so sad ;(

No, lots of people featured were present in the 1600s, especially the African American guests.

Well 666, your daddy has to be the devil.