Thread: Your Ethnicity?

Oh no, we'll have Ant gamboling in going on about white blokes, clouds, boomers .... because Ant loves the attention, he was raised by kiwi birds and nursed on the tears of moaris crying over tree ferns.

so mendip,,, ur dna shows Caucasian, at a guess id of guessed that by observation, for free.

^ Lob... you could have probably guessed I'm a Caucasian for free by observation alone... but could you have guessed the Scandinavian, English, Celtic etc etc proportions?

That is what this is all about.

Originally Posted by lob

so mendip,,, ur dna shows Caucasian, at a guess id of guessed that by observation, for free.

'Caucasian'?
From the Caucasus?

The Caucasus is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse regions on Earth. The nation states that comprise the Caucasus today are the post-Soviet states Georgia (including Adjara and Abkhazia), Azerbaijan (including Nakhchivan), Armenia, and the Russian Federation.

Me? I'm a post war mix of Dutch and Swiss.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I'm hoping for a Western/Asian mix to be honest!

To be honest, I'd be surprised if it doesn't show at least 30% peas.

^ That's his daughter who is 30%. Mendip is around 60% peas (40% garden and 20% mushy).

What a thing to say! (I'm at least 30% Leo... that doesn't leave room for much else)

We shall see what myheritage.com comes up with.

I know one thing... if they say my daughter is 30% legume I'll be asking for me money back!

Originally Posted by Mendip

if they say my daughter is 30% legume I'll be asking for me money back!

Shouldn't that depend on which legume? Tamarind and clover would be quite cool . . . but carob and lupins

Well... what can I say... my daughter's DNA results have come back.

I guess first and foremost, there was no mention of any plant DNA, so that puts those rumours to bed... no pea DNA in my daughter and therefore no pea DNA in me... garden or mushy!

As I mentioned before, there is no way myheritage.com could have inferred any Asian background from my daughter's name or where the DNA kit was sent to or posted from (UK).

And... drum roll...

She has 50.4% Asian DNA!

Broken down as 36.3% Thai and Cambodian; 10.2% Chinese and Vietnamese; 3.9% South Asian.

This seems spot on from what I can see... my wife had already mentioned some Indian and Chinese blood from her father's side.

So all good!

Well... it's the other 49.6% of her DNA that I'm not so happy about, presumably donated by my good self.

My daughter has 43.4% European DNA... broken down as 18.1% Irish, Scottish and Welsh; 12.9% Scandinavian; 10.8% English and 1.6% Eastern European.

FFS, she has more Celtic DNA and Scandinavian DNA than English!

A sharp mathematician will have noticed there is still 6.2% of her DNA unaccounted for...



Thread closed.

Originally Posted by Mendip

A sharp mathematician will have noticed there is still 6.2% of her DNA unaccounted for...

They did so much fucking....

...... and a bit of gippo and nigerian lurking in the background too.

^^ Makes me feel a bit better!

Maybe I should get my DNA checked next... yet again, just like the car audio... I wish i'd never started!

Originally Posted by taxexile

...... and a bit of gippo and nigerian lurking in the background too.

I guess this could put me at around 2.5% Nigerian... well, that may explain one thing I guess!

Your compulsive e-mail scamming?

^ Nope!

Try again!

Originally Posted by Latindancer

If you go back 200 years you will have about 64 ancestors, and it just expands after that, by doubling every generation.

It does not actually double every generation.

There is necessarily substantial inter-breeding due to historical population immobility and size constraints.

If it did double every generation then going back 30 generations (or 600 years) would give you a billion ancestors.

Your true number of ancestors if you go back 30 generations is likely to be several orders of magnitude lower, meaning that inter-breeding has occurred many many times in every individual's relatively recent past.

True. But it's more likely to double in more recent ancestors, and lessens the further back you go.........unless your parents were cousins, which was the (unusual, these days) case with one of my first Caucasian girlfriends.