Do you have African blood in you?

[baby.jane.begins]

There is a DNA test you can have done which tells you what percentage of what race you have in you - I won't give the name of the company I sent my test to but they are a reputable place. I received the results last week but I have been too shocked to tell anyone, even my own family but have to write this down or I'll burst:

48% African

26% Asian

13% Native American

13% Caucasian

How on earth is it possible to be only 13% white when I have skin like Lily Munster and in my youth had red hair? My parents look white and even though I never met by mother's mother, I believe she looked Caucasian too. My other three grandparents had either blond hair in their youth or sandy-coloured.

Do you believe the company made a mistake? Should I get a second opinion? My husband's family are very traditional Australians - in other words, they grew up under the White Australia policy and have no complaints. My father n' law also said he'll be voting for Pauline Hanson if she runs in the next election, so you get the idea. I've never really discussed my husband's view on race other than him telling me in our dating years that he is not attracted to non-whites. He also doesn't like immigrants to this country, illegal or no. He accepts our daughter marrying a Japanese man but told me: "It's not me who has to sleep with him so what do I care?" If he divorces me over this I'll be shattered...

[poddster]

How does one get emails for posts on threads that are no longer here?

Just lucky I guess

[the_great_she_elephant]

🙂

Or maybe it was on TV. I'm sure we have discussed it before? TGSE ??? Do you remember? If that's the case then of course we will all have the same result, won't we?

Scientists believe that everyone on earth today can trace their mitochondrial DNA back to a single female ancestor who lived about 200,000 years ago. 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/female-ancestor.htm

[*notatroll]

Scientists believe that everyone on earth today can trace their mitochondrial DNA back to a single female ancestor who lived about 200,000 years ago.

You'd think bit of info would make the whole race issue go away, but it isn't just about race; it's about culture.

[*notatroll]

What am I going to do? Go and study African tribal culture and language and then identify myself as African? Though I was born in another country, I came here at a young enough age to absorb the Australian culture fairly easily so that I would feel out of place should I ever go back "home".

If we look past the colour of skins, people are not very different; it's the cuture which really defines people and their differences from others.

[*notatroll]

I have obvious Celtic heritage. What do I do? Start building large wicker baskets?

Today's culture is fast becoming as globalised as our trade. McDonald's in Mongolia, Mongolian hotpot in Adelaide. What is our culture and does it really matter what our race is?

Is it of any value to pursue an affiliation to an obscure  culture in an attempt to keep it relevant just for the sake of it?

Is it that the pursuit of difference, the identification with a particular culture (and here comes the crunch) and not with another one, is the problem?

[poddster]

Very well put,

I hope it is not casting pearls........

[*notatroll]

Not pearls poddster, I was hoping for magic beans.;)

[poddster]

Not pearls poddster, I was hoping for magic beans.;)

Unfortunately they only germinate in fertile minds 🙂

Slim pickings here

[**meep**]

:^O:^O:^O

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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