Jump to content

Type keyword(s) to search

Traiasio

Member
  • Posts

    3
  • Joined

Reputation

2 Neutral

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. It seems a lot of people find their results confusing. These articles provide some explanations. http://www.legalgenealogist.com/2016/05/01/those-percentages-revisited/ http://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/03/23/your-ancestry-inference-is-precise-and-accurateish/ https://dna-explained.com/2016/02/10/ethnicity-testing-a-conundrum/ https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2012/06/19/problems-with-ancestrydnas-genetic-ethnicity-prediction/ That sounds more like heightism/weightism/lookism to me than colorism, and I doubt anyone would ever be denied a job for any of those reasons, much less based on hair color (except maybe in show business, which can be shallow). As for your second comment, Italian Americans rarely changed their names - just a few in show biz but that's different. And they never faced any systemic discrimination in jobs or anywhere else either. http://italianthro.blogspot.com/2015/02/white-on-arrival.html
  2. It's not your self that's boring, it's the tests. Northern Europe also has Middle East and Caucasus, as well as other interesting things like North Eurasian - lots of it too, and southern Europe has way more than 8% and 15% - but home DNA testing is too basic and imprecise to get all that. To learn about that stuff you have to read published work by scientists using cutting-edge methods and analyzing ancient DNA. I recommend starting with this study that reviews the most recent findings. I'm pretty sure none of those amounts are high enough to represent anything real, especially the Asian/Native American ones.
  3. The prejudice against Sicilians as being "part black" comes from a stupid old myth about Moorish invaders from Africa raping all of the native women on the island which was repeated in this scene from the movie True Romance. But in reality Sicilians are no different than other Italians, in either their looks or their DNA profile, because the Moors were not really black and they didn't stay for very long. Regarding your results, the North African and Sub-Saharan African (usually less than 4% and 1% respectively) are what the short Moorish occupation actually left behind in Sicily. The Middle Eastern is usually higher but represents an excess of ancient ancestry that all Europeans have (early farmers were from the Middle East, and more settled in southern Europe than in northern Europe). The East Asian and East Indian are weird. Never seen that before in any studies on Italians. If the percentages are significant, maybe it's some Gypsy heritage in your family? But if they're really low it could just be noise. Links: http://italianthro.altervista.org/sicilians.html http://italianthro.altervista.org/italians.html
×
×
  • Create New...