Does My Chinese Family Have Caucasian Ancestors? | On The Red Dot: Family Mysteries | Full Episode

[@ymhktravel]

Almost every Chinese who took this test will have varying amount of Finnish in their dna. This is not because they ae related to modern Caucasian Finns, rather through the connection between ancient Siberians and the Sami of Finland.

[@tianm1m160]

Even Malays (at least the ones who upload their results on KZbin) appear to have some sort of Finnish dna. It might just be a glitch or not enough sample size.

[@MrJermson]

That's what I thought. Jack still have a colonial mindset.

[@Devilishlybenevolent]

@@MrJermson It was so cringe, he wanted to be part white so badly lmao

[@leesiewoo5116]

Ya what so great to be white ​@@Devilishlybenevolent

[@paullai1583]

Exactly

[@Nussbaum981]

Actually many Germans were sailing on Dutch ships to Indonesia as a kind of contract labourers or soldiers. I am Dutch but partly from German decent. My german ancestors came from Hessen Germany as mercenaries. And these mercenaries often went to Indonesia.

[@Dhekem]

True, I read many were from the niedersachsen region. I have one German ancestor from year 1745 in the VOC records he was registered as a person from Dusseldorf..it is also said that the Indonesian spekkoek or Kue Lapis was created by German Eurasian after the Baumkuchen. It's in a previous CNA episode on kuihs.

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

Lol, german and dutch is like hokkien and tiocheow

[@listri8694]

@@mantapdjiwa9768 the english king is german😂😂

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

​@@Dhekemgenetically we are basically the same people😂

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

The Germans also had colonies in the Pacific, including the now Solomon Islands and parts of Papua New Guinea. These were surrendered when WWI ended. So there would have been plenty of them around. A German from one of the colonies holidaying in the Dutch East Indies or on their way out to the colonies from Europe. Having the ancestor in this case being female makes things a little less likely, but not impossible.

[@migspeculates]

Well Dutch and Germans are close cousins. It is possible there were Germans among the "Dutch" colonists from Indonesia as it also included Portuguese Jews and French Huguenots.The Dutch East India Company was a multinational corporation that is onlybased on the Netherlands. Kind of like Microsoft is a Seattle-based big tech corporation with offices all over the globe

[@danaodanao4591]

It is weird hearing of this marriage act in 1889. I have my European and Chinese Indonesian ancestors marriage certificate from 1826 already. So the interracial marriages couldn't be forbidden or illegal.

[@vivienbaker9684]

The laws regarding Chinese people weren't always in place in America & Europe. But mid to late 19th century the USA placed a ban on Chinese immigrants. So for your ancestors they married before it became illegal.

[@danaodanao4591]

@@vivienbaker9684 the episode is not about USA dear. I also not in USA. This is DEI we're talking about. In DEI there wasn't such a thing of illegal or banning interracial marriages. I don't think in Europe either because lots of Asian and European (wo)men gotten married in 19th century..But in USA there was different laws. Even in Australia there was the white only policy until mid 20th century.

[@bernardlokman5442]

People assume that Dutch East Indies were all Dutch, but even in North Sumatra the plantations were owned by international investors: Arnhermia (Dutch), Polonia (Polish), Marelan/Maryland (American), Helvetia (Swiss), etc.

[@Djiejejdj]

I have one Chinese greatx4 grandmother who's family name Moey, married a Dutchman in 1850. So, this 1898 reference doesn’t align with my family history. In fact, the majority of Dutch Eurasians I know can trace their family records back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of them were either legally married or engaged. I tried posting the link here, but it doesn’t work.

[@sonnymak6707]

The family has peranakan mixed lah no caucasian. The Finnish is the Siberian link shared with Finns that almost all Chinese even Malays have with the Sami and all the West Northern Artic people. If the auntie has 7 % Nusantaran it means her mother was 14 %. Most Western Nusantarans have 40 to 60 % of that gene so I surmised that the the great great grand mother of Fankie was either Malay Orang Laut Lampung or Javanese .b

[@lolalil1346]

Almost by every Asian there are would be some ' Finnish ' DNA found. It is because Finnish DNA is related to Siberia. Search for DNA results, especially Siberian Asians from Russia etc. And you will see that almost everybody is ' Finnish '. It doesn't mean Causasian DNA.

[@NCM-xy8ow]

You have it the wrong way...many Finnish have Siberian and even Mongolian blood.

[@TLCTLC-cg6cm]

Doesn't make sense..Finnish Haplogroup not Siberian.

[@NCM-xy8ow]

@youfu-qm3hx Finnish aren't Vikings. Lol

[@NCM-xy8ow]

@youfu-qm3hx nope. Swedes mostly

[@josephbelov6212]

@@TLCTLC-cg6cm Lol, do your research. The dominant Y haplogroup among Finns is N, and N is the brother haplogroup to the Chinese Y haplogroup O, and both of them originated in Southern China.

[@forallyouknow]

11:32 There's something weirdly consistent about Chinese people not asking their parents about their pasts. Whenever I ask my mom something about her now-deceased father's mysterious origins, her response is invariably "we never asked him about those things", as if it's abnormal to be curious. What gives?

[@aaaduccs6667]

same, i never really knew more about the stories of my ancestors besides where which part of china we vaguely came from, i only know alot about my maternal greatx3 grandma because she was a hell of a lady and my mum had a close relationship with her

[@alphabetagamma12]

Would have been a bit more interesting if a few more members of the family had taken the test.

[@johanchen3485]

Jaudi = Yahudi = Jews Tek Kok = Germany (Fujian dialect) During the colonial time, Indonesia was being ruled by Dutch but there were a lot of European that came to Indonesia and invested in plantation such as rubber, tobacco, tea, coffee, etc. I am from Medan, North Sumatra, and that's what we've heard here.

[@YummYakitori]

Some Southern Chinese have 'pseudo-European' features like deeper set eyes and obvious double eyelids because of Southeast Asian ancestry. Finnish ancestry appears quite frequently among Northeast Asians because as another comment here mentioned the Finns are of part Siberian ancestry. In fact the Uralic language family they belong to originated in eastern Siberia and the Nganasan people who live in northern Siberia today who are of complete Northeast Asian ancestry are the 'purest', best modern-day representatives of the proto-Uralic people group. Other very Asian looking Uralic peoples are the Nenets, Enets, Khanty, Mansi. Others like the Udmurts, Mari, Komi, Saami etc look a mix of East Asian and European. Majority of Finns belong to Y-DNA Haplogroup N-M231 which originated in northern China about 10,000 years ago which makes them different from other Europeans. The only other Uralic-speaking Europeans are the Estonians, Hungarians and the Saami in northern Scandinavia. DNA tests only show how many % of your genome is shared with the ethnicity in the database, does not literally mean you have an ancestor of said ethnicity. It's more like Finns have Asian ancestry, rather than Jack's family having European ancestry. In fact some Saami score 'Chinese & Vietnamese' on MyHeritage, its not surprising.

[@verolly31]

Woah!!!

[@susanaaragorn8606]

Also the japanese Korean may be Iniu which have quite white features

[@Gabriel-bu6ln]

It's almost as if deeper set eyes and double eyelids are in fact naturally occuring among Asians in general and there is no 'one look' - despite what Westerners who don't know anything about Asia tell you.

[@sabbyd1832]

This was fun, thanks CNA

[@DYT2]

He doesn't have European DNA (aside from the Finnish DNA which is misleading). His great-grandmother looks Indonesian. The thing is, the phenotype varies greatly across Indonesia. With some Indonesians have much more "European" features even when they don't have any European DNA. I.e. round eyes, boxy shaped skulls etc. Comes from the mixture of Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Melanesian etc. mixing.

[@Djiejejdj]

I know what you mean, but those are again different features. And the woman on that picture really does look Eurasian. But after 7 generations, it would not show up in the test. They need to get her DNA in order to know. But she doesn't look the typical round eye (Eastern) Indonesian type. She has some real big bones, especially the cheek. And straight high bridge nose for the woman. Which is not present in any " full Indonesian" types. Not even with the round eye Moluccan type. The woman actually look like my Eurasian aunt.

[@DYT2]

@@Djiejejdj Which woman are you talking about the? The Grand Aunt (Ho Kim Neo)? Yes she looks Eurasian, and her brother the grandfather (Ho Koon Toon) looks Eurasian too. BUT they have a photo of the great grandmother (Leong Ah Fa) at @5:08. And she looks typically Indonesian. She doesn't even look like she's part Chinese. Another possibility is that the great grandfather isn't really the father. That might be controversial thing to say, but it was a reality that it's possible she had children from a different man before they married.

[@csking6377]

Many Indonesians have Dutch ancestry, being colonized for more than a hundred years. Inter-racial marriages and more commonly, affairs, were nothing unusual.

[@DYT2]

@@csking6377 wouldn't say many. Would be extremely extremely few now.

[@motorola9956]

​@@DjiejejdjThere is no "generic/full Indonesian look"

[@ShaunNgKF]

I am actually (DNA verified) a descendant of a European and Asian as described in the programme. That part of the family was not well documented, probably because it wasn’t something to be proud of in those days. I imagine it wasn’t easy for my ancestors either.

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

Taking a Single DNA test from One company is insufficient. There should be a few tests done with different companies per individual for CROSS REFERENCE of their results. Sort of like a Second Opinion.

[@andrewcorrell5000]

Agree! Try a couple more and take at least one deep ancestry test too because these popular ancestry test companies can go as far back as 5 generations but deep ancestry test can go as far back beyond 1000 years

[@Historian212]

I've had tests done by all the major companies except 23andMe. There are overlapping results but huge discrepancies, also. My grandfather and his ancestors back into the 1600s were all born in England, yet several companies don't show England on my ethnicity map; my brother was also tested, and England shows up in his results, but in different companies. He took the Y-DNA test via FamilyTreeDNA, which shows he has a relationship to several Medieval and Early Medieval skeletal remains in England. Yet, some companies don't show that in his testing. These tests are literally all over the map. The results depend on which reference populations each company uses, which chromosomes they test (only the super-expensive ones do the full genome), and on what phase of the moon you were born under (kidding/not kidding). Studies have shown that these tests inadequately account for migrations and other social factors, even though ethnicity is socio-cultural, not biological. And any result under about 15% (last I checked among real geneticists) should just be disregarded, or at least shrugged off. Bottom line: do these for fun, don't take them seriously, and define yourself. Don't let some testing company do it for you.

[@Mikketamakulo]

yes use services from all DNA companies and when you finally find that trace 0.1% European DNA you can rejoice and say you are part white.

[@lindc1070]

In Singapore what is the most reliable test to find out our ancestry? My grandfather was adopted and looks Eurasian so I want to look into it.

[@kitty_s23456]

Hi. If you have Chinese ancestry, I've heard that 23mofang and Circle DNA are good.

[@lindc1070]

@@kitty_s23456 thanks. I wonder how to trace his European ancestry though.

[@engelutterback2540]

My grandpa is a quarter Dutch and three quarter Chinese. The rest of our ancestry is Chinese . We were all born in Indonesia. Grandpa’s Dutch ancestry is from his mother who is the daughter of a Dutch man and a Chinese woman. The Dutch man worked for the Dutch East Indies government

[@haraldtorsten8746]

Could he be more exaggerated in his manner of speech?

[@raolhooley]

Mmmm too much...like he's on a children's program...should town itt down

[@huijie88]

CNA's videos are very educational and interesting! Kudos to the team behind for always making high quality content! 🎉🎉

[@pinkknight9]

Jack's cheek is pinkish. I do too, being a Filipino/Chinese/Spanish. Great story, Jack!

[@alanie8555]

6:40 "he looks like a caucasian boy" am i blind or the kid looks has the most asian-like features? 😅 why are they trying so hard to prove that they look like caucasians? such a hard watch

[@weifan9533]

Even some pure blooded South Chinese and SE Asians can look mixed, that's likely because of their Austronesian, Tai-Kradai, and Austroasiatic admixtures. And these peoples in turn got that mixed look from the Hoabinhians or related groups, who were the indgenous hunter-gatherers of South China and SE Asia, and who belonged to an early East Eurasian lineage.

[@maxim3830]

Let this be a lesson for all. People travel. Blood cannot be nationalized. And "pure" this or that does not exist.

[@luluxolola]

Jaudi is a slang, shortened from Yahudi in the Malay language, which means a Jew.

[@4Beats4Me]

And all this time I thought it was Yiddish...

[@philliparieff7862]

It actually is originally Hebrew יהודי "Yehudi" "Judean/Jew"

[@willkrummeck]

Wow

[@danaodanao4591]

I'm Eurasian my ancestor, Great Great grandfather was a Dutch soldier married to a Peranakan Chinese woman in Batavia 1826. I believe the concubinage was only allowed for the Elites like Regent and Governors and not for KNIL soldier or government workers. At least the Eurasian community I known was very strict, almost ridiculous, monogamous protestant Christians. Wearing long sleaves and high collar to cover body even in tropics.

[@hermitcrabinavan7244]

There are a few books written about those times, but they are in Dutch. Like “lichter dan ik” or “lighter than me” docs.letterenfonds.nl/frag/Unedited-English-Michielsen-Lichter.pdf

[@danaodanao4591]

​@@hermitcrabinavan7244 seriously I know Dido Michielsen and her books are actually fictional novels. Unfortunately she's a sad Indonesian propagandist who gets sponsored by Jakarta propaganda institutions. She also wrote a really bizarre book called Engel en Kinnari. In which she describes her Eurasian grandmothers hate for her own "kind" while talking in details about her sexual affairs with a Javanese pribumi. Dido Michielsen is a rather sick self hating woman and not credible within the Dutch Eurasian community. She only caters to the sentiments of Indonesian Ultranationalists and propagandists. Similar to Reggie Baay who wrote a fictional novel about a Nyai. Both get so much attention because Jakarta propaganda institutions sponsor them. These people earn their money with propaganda. Similar to that movie De Oost made by a drug addict DJ/director called Jim Taihuttu. Google him and you will see what I mean. Which is also why I mention it. Because a lot can be debunked instantly looking at my own ancestors marriage certificate from 1826 already. (Plus those of other Dutch Eurasians from the Federation Indische Nederlanders.) Example of another Hoax that has been debunked by Dr Rosalind Hewett at ANU, was about the alleged sign that stated "Dilarang masuk anjing dan pribumi". It was even used as a prop in the movie Bumi Manusia.. facts are the signs never existed as Dr Hewett describes in her paper "Eurasians in post colonial Indonesia" page 126. The sign was used as a propaganda during the New Order regime. It was copied from a similar sign in Hong Kong that the British had allegedly placed in a park. All this is is described page 129 of this paper. scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=_2nXnUwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=_2nXnUwAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC Seriously Indonesia is one total hoax culture with so much fake history, not just on this topic. They also cover up the fact their so-called National Heros are mass murderers. Then they pay/sponsor people, sometimes even academics, to promote their hoaxes.

[@Dhekem]

​​make no illusions, even CNA and NUS are sponsored by Indonesian propaganda institutions 🤫🤐@danaodanao4591

[@cheongla]

Take a 23 and me test at the start and lol question answered.

[@HarakaRepresents]

yes😂

[@jo5128]

Ikr

[@kreteknl8575]

Interesting you mentioned 23andme test- is this brand more accurate and reliable in people of predominant east asian heritage?

[@s._3560]

What do you think they do with your dna data after they have obtain it?

[@kitty_s23456]

​@@kreteknl8575hi. I've heard/ read from other forums that 23andme is not a reliable company for those with Asian ancestry since they have a small database for Asians. I've heard that 23mofang (a Chinese genetic company) and Circle DNA are better. 23mofang is good if you have Chinese ancestry, as it will give you different Chinese ethnicities.

[@halimrahman]

We were once in a similar situation. Malays from the northern state in modern-day Malaysia. Unlike other families who have almost similar shades, mine has quite a broad spectrum. Curly locks, brown hairs, hazel eyes with specks of greens. We always thought that we had Arab lineage, common for Muslims in the northern states. So, we took DNA tests. We identify as Malays, but the Malay proportion was small, despite it being the highest proportion. In order, after Malay is Taiwanese (20%+), Indian (20%+) and followed by French-Italian, which carved a bit over 1/8th. A tiny bit of Turkish but NO Arab at all. Unfortunately, we don't have proper records beyond our grandparents as some of their parents migrated from different Malay states (which are now part of Thailand) and no trail of documents to follow.

[@dr.donroccolahti7312]

I am from Finnish Ancestry. I remember my great grandfather and great grandmother looking very much Asian. The origin of Finnish people was from the Ural Region of Russia, which is basically Mongolian and Eastern Chinese. Finland was ruled by Sweden for 500 years and by Russia for another 100 years and durung that time period the Swedes and Russians mixed with the Finns so our Asian DNA has become diluted. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Finns could not immigrate to the USA since at that time we were considered Asian and Asians were not allowed to become citizens of America until the late 19th century. Many Finns that were mixed with Swedish claimed their white heritage and eventually the US Supreme Court allowed those Finns of Swedish blood to migrate to the USA. Our people were called "China Swedes" by the Americans when we were first allowed to immigrate. I, as well as my children were all born with the "Mongolian Spot," which shows our direct ancestry to Siberia and Mongolia. So, it is not uncommon for many Chinese people to have a small perccentage on Finnish DNA.

[@willkrummeck]

I wonder how much is recent and how much is from much older movements.

[@kitarvin770]

DNA test can help to trace your ancestral lineage up to 7 generations or so for certain people. You still got to gather info from the paper records and oral history from relatives to fully understand your ancestral heritage. For instance, you might not be able to guess that some modern day Koreans have Tamil ancestry. This is so because more than a thousand years ago, a Tamil princess from the Kingdom of Ayutha was married to a Korean Prince of the Gaya kingdom.

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

Martial Arts Legend Bruce Lee is actually biologically Eurasian from his mum’s side. Not so called “pure Chinese” as many people with Han chauvinism beliefs has claimed.

[@xtr.7662]

He was discriminated in hong kong because his mom looked white

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

@@xtr.7662 Yup and he turned up to be More Successful than those in Hong Kong whom discriminated him ever will be. Funny thing is, those whom discriminated young Bruce Lee due to his Eurasian heritage has the cheek to associate his World Wide success with the so called “Chinese Pride”… 🤣

[@TLCTLC-cg6cm]

Peranakan not pure Chinese either..does it make them discriminated too? I'm asking I genuinely do not know

[@paulyeou5687]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip3clWSYft-XpdEsi=o_Rp6eDp-PWsW_de Bruce Lee's mother's interviewed by Geraldo Rivera

[@tuppenceworth5485]

Bruce Lee's mum is half German, half Chinese, so Bruce Lee would be three-quarter Han Chinese.

[@beese2559]

the gong gong looks Eurasian i agree, but the ahma looks typically indonesian. knew the aunty was reaching when they talked about the baby son photo, the baby so did not look Caucasian so i fastforwarded the video.

[@ajmosqueda6698]

so they're like what we called "mestizo" in the Philippines

[@migspeculates]

Yes, in fact the Philippines "mestizo" community and "Iberian" heritage is not so special. There are Eurasian descendants all over Southeast Asia including Thailand, and Poetuguese colonial architecture from Eastern Indonesia all the way to India and Macau.

[@monikam9069]

@@migspeculates Plus Blacks. I work with a Filipino and he is quite Black. He married a white woman. His kid looks I like he is from South of India

[@listri8694]

@@migspeculates mulattos in Brazil?

[@migspeculates]

@@listri8694 Wrong video, wrong topic, wrong continent.

[@cinajawa]

"Jaudi" probably came from the Malay "Yahudi" (Jew).

[@philliparieff7862]

source is Hebrew יהודי Yehudi "Judean, Jew"

[@tuppenceworth5485]

On the flip side, some very famous "Caucasians" are half-Chinese. Examples are Olivia Munn, Chloe Bennet, Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly, Kristin Kreuk, Brandon Lee, Nancy Kwan

[@chdk55christidonny6]

❤ TQVM I REALLY ENJOYED YOUR SHOW, HA HA HA, SO HAPPY, MAYBE I WILL DO THIS TYPE OF CHECK TOO,

[@anonymouscritter]

The acting’s terrible and cringe but I enjoyed the clip lmao

[@shensahib]

I too enjoyed but turned very DISAPPOINTED in the end because they did not reveal if it was a FULLBLOOD Caucasian WOMAN ancestor. The *Mitochondrial DNA* result from the aunt should tell us that, because the mtDNA passes from mother to daughters, then to their daughters through a purely matrilineal line. In the middle of the video when they took the test, he particularly mentioned this matrilineal line of his aunt. All DNA tests nowadays can tell you your patrilineal/matrilineal line. And it was the single most big suspense before the reveal, whether it was a FULLBLOOD Caucasian WOMAN/MAN. The answer is so within reach but the video failed to reveal it. Instead they chose to tell us the unimportant Finnish part. Finns were racial-slurred as "China Swedes" in USA because they are an Arctic people with North Asian ancestry. They don't even speak the Indo-European language like their neighbours. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE.

[@GeeWhizzzz]

yeah a little over the top but still entertaining / interesting pleasant backstory

[@sr2291]

shensahib All DNA tests don't give the male and female Haplogroups.

[@huijie88]

Ha the talent was very enthusiastic

[@baldwin9180]

As an Eurasian from dutch and javanese ancestry I like your story a lot!

[@bernardlokman5442]

People assume that Dutch East Indies were all Dutch, but even in North Sumatra the plantations were owned by international investors: Arnhermia (Dutch), Polonia (Polish), Marelan/Maryland (American), etc. funny that all Singaporean Chinese wishes for an old ancestry to claim Peranakan identity lol.

[@desray2k]

oh my god...the acting is really 😂😂😂 the guy is too animated and exaggerated expressions, making this nice little documentary so hard to watch 😅

[@rosariolarion9319]

Very, very interesting and so mysterious. Thank you for sharing.❤

[@danaodanao4591]

19:35 ok so they put Indonesian Philippines and Malay all into one group. This test is bodoh

[@aaronhaydeneddyherman]

indonesians, filipinos and malays are related and come from indigenous taiwan tribe

[@coinvestnet]

They're all Austronesian

[@traceytrent904]

You are the bodoh one! Indonesian, Filipino, Brunei and Malay people all have the same Austronesian DNA, making it difficult to distinguish between them because they descended from the same ancestor. They are only separated by Western powers.

[@queen84sasha]

​​​@@traceytrent904 then why separate them and not have one proper name for all of them..look at the test. Also Indonesia comprises the Melanesian too. So yeah very DUMB test indeed.. should just go by the precise DNA haplogroup instead of country name.. Really really REALLY STOOPID

[@queen84sasha]

​​​@@traceytrent904separated by Western powers oh give me a break..If anything the Dutch united Indonesia..since the country is just a colonial successor territory of HINDIA BELANDA.. before that there were MANY MANY different Kingdoms rivaling eachother. Even Aceh has attacked Johor waging wars for many centuries.

[@mariahung2946]

It’s not that strange during the time when the 8 great countries coming to Asia and colonizing in Asia countries, businesses and trades , so a lot of western families moved with the man.

[@finmarx]

Fake news…Finnish have Asian ancestory…it’s more that Asian share a common ancestor with our Finns from asia not that they have a European dna

[@chermainechio8329]

Why are you bummed? 🤨

[@cooliipie]

They were looked down on in the past, now it's something special

[@bobwang2837]

I think the DNA test companies in China now will do a much better job at this, like 23魔方. They can even track which part of China (north/south) or Chinese minority groups (like Yi, Miao, Zhuang, etc.) you inherit, while this western company put Chinese and Vietnamese in the same catagory. In this way, most culturally Chinese people will have the same result, which is not informative at all.

[@warriorprincessphl]

Very nice to see the generational name book is still around for your family! ❤

[@dannybenfield]

my grandmother was born in Holland but her dad and brothers were born in Java Indonesia. her grandfather was Dutch, her grandmother was Indonesian, and from what we know, Chinese-Indonesian.

[@kskhew3377]

Ancestry tests are not reliable lah. In fact, they can even be misleading. Do a search and read up why. As for the great great grandmother being purely German/caucasoid..... she was likely the result from an "illegitimate pairing" between a soldier and a local which happened to produce a very European looking woman who in turn married a Mr Leong to produce Leong Ah Fa. The caucasoid looks skipped Ah Fa but turned up in her children she had with Mr Ho.

[@vegemitegirl1971]

I have German Indonesian family, on my mother's side. My 2xgreat grandmother came to Australia. At the same time her brother and his family left Germany and settled in Jakarta as Lutheran missionaries. My dad, brother and sister all have Eurasian eyes (not me but I wanted them) and are blue eyed with either blond or red hair. My grandfather was from Kazakhstan. My dad's mother is part Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.

[@charlestonchanming9251]

Proud Samoan 🇼🇸🏝️ Chinese 🇨🇳here 🙏

[@angeliquemolgr26]

I love your energy!

[@drl_324]

Very interesting, thank-you. May I know which DNA company you used for your information?

[@mouseisbroken]

My family came from the Mars many millions ago, we have been working very hard to keep this secret. With modern techs like this getting more popular, we are now increasingly worried that one day people are going to find out that we came from Mars.

[@listri8694]

nah this video is by chinese ashamed of Chinese

[@juliejohnson7207]

Very interesting. You look Filipino, Indonesian , malay or Singaporean. Amazing ancestors history.

[@aaronhaydeneddyherman]

singaporean isnt an ethnicity

[@anuarsuhor7183]

In the olden days many chinese families gave away Chinese baby girls to other communites eg malay and tamil families!!!

[@UBoy17]

No those are Peranakan Chinese of Malay maternal ancestry gave away Chinese of Malay ancestry baby girls to the malays and the tamils. Most burmese and chinese hate the tamils.

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

@@UBoy17 Not really, didn’t you realised that there seemed to be many local Chinese women pairing with Tamil Indian Men these days… 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣 I think they have a fetish…

[@jacku8304]

That is why some Malays look Chinese and always compared their fairness. Tamil always asked to adopt Chinese girls too. Those days long gone already.

[@csong9940]

My mom was given away as a baby but then her older brother went and got her back so their family decided to keep her lol

[@monikam9069]

And in the last 30 years to Whites

[@blckbrr7884]

Cringe. Dying to be Caucasian.

[@migovasquez0303]

Im Filipino. The whole family grew up thinking we are just plain filipino folks but days before Christmas there was a promotion of 23&me and I was only interested at first in the medical side because I want to know if I have G6PD, a blood protein disorder. Little that I know I would find that that I am 42% European. Mainly from Spain/Portugal and Italy. Haha. It didn't matter to me because for me my curiosity about my health is far more important , the heritage or ancestry are just an added on. Please do DNA test if you guys have questions with your ancestry. Its fun. Haha

[@monikam9069]

I hope you are not surprised. American soldiers and colonizers were not "monks"

[@migovasquez0303]

@@monikam9069 Oh I am not surprised at all. In our family we have this doubt about our origin but nobody wants to do it. And I found the record of my great great grandmother all the way to Cervon , Bourgogne France. She’s a tough cookie to raise a family outside of her native France. Which I think was awesome .

[@pollyannaprinciple5860]

What a wonderful genealogy documentary on your family. This was such an interesting presentation. Loved your interviews with your Uncle Frankie and your Aunt Myna and Cousin Marianne, and like now you used the DNA test to prove your genealogy story. This was beautiful.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

I'm 9mins in & thoroughly enjoying this video. 😎👍 The people of the Netherlands (aka: Holland) & of Germany (aka: Deutschland) share much ancestral heritage as they're both Germanic - & both stem from up north in Scandinavia (where the Germanic People originated - culturally). I hope that this information is helpful.

[@MDroid-bn6eb]

Instead of Jaudi, it is more likely to be Joden which is the Dutch word for Jews la. Jews was used as a slang for Caucasian to how we use Angmoh nowadays.

[@geofflecren8827]

Am I watching a children's program? Or is this representative of how Singaporeans communicate?

[@badlooz]

Or perhaps his descendants refered to themselves as "Deutsche" which the Germans use identify themselves and it sounds very much like "Dutch"

[@lucasjames7524]

I love the dramatized interactions. Enjoyable documentary, as always.

[@headlesschicken111]

chinese guy is so happy he has white ancestry

[@craakhun]

Some people in Singapore do have Eurasian or English family name but are not Eurasians at all. These family names were actually adopted from the missionaries or the pastor's back in the days.

[@listri8694]

bananas? white on the inside?

[@stargazeronesixseven]

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[@Adrian-ju7cm]

My father was Dutch and DNA results some Finish about five percent, likely from earlier migration

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

It depends on what part of the Netherlands they came from North Holland/ Friesland generally shows Scandinavian/ Finland/ England While southern Netherlands generally shows Western European. My nephews results showed Finland/England Remember all results are different even amongst siblings because we all inherited different DNA

[@listri8694]

@@Adrian-ju7cm Netherlands is a country not race

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

@@listri8694 I paid $80 for a DNA test and a predictable result of North West European

[@IdeasForSuccess]

You do have Caucasian in your ancestry. These DNA tests are not fully accurate. They require family tree AND DNA.

[@user-ft9tf5tw6l]

my heritage gives funky results should have gone with Ancestry DNA or 23 and me.

[@jjjadedx]

what i am confused by is why is the rai in jack and rai pronounced as ray not rye. how is rai ray??

[@camycamJah]

Would rape and not concubineship played a part in the European ancestry?

[@tinateh]

I’ve run my test on several databases as the initial results were confusing listing Italian in my admixture. Like this family, one of my great greats it was said had a Dutch parent because she came from The Dutch Indies. I read up that the Dutch Indies weren’t all Dutch but many European nationalities and races came and settled in the region attracted by the opportunities. After running through the databases I was even more confused, I got Iberian, East European, and the Near East but not Tuscany. But I figured it made sense that that ancestor could have been a South Italian which might explain the Iberian/East European, which also accounts for the fact that I also have Native American DNA. I read Italian navigators went on the discovery voyages to America. The Native American DNA stuck out like a sore thumb and I even got links to an ancient Native American DNA in North America. So I can’t dispute that. Anyway, we don’t know this person was. If you really want to know your ethnic heritage, you have to get whole generations to do the DNA test to get a complete picture of what happened up to 10 generations ago. The older the generation the closer you get to your ancestors’ “activities.” My sister had all Chinese DNA, not even a smidgeon of Austronesian DNA which we know is in our heritage.

[@tinateh]

Yes, I also tend to think that the European ancestor of mine was a soldier because the Sumatran territory where my great great is from was unconquered until the early 1900s. She was born in the 1860s and she had both Christian and Chinese dialect names. She likely grew up in a fairly well to do family with western influences having European skills of refinement. I therefore speculate that she was a product of rape, and was eventually adopted by a fairly well to do Chinese family in Penang. She had a good life, her sons were very devoted to her.

[@Dhekem]

​@tinateh huh..so who were her/his parents. Do you know who was this assumed soldier then. So many fairytales going around. Was she put to adoption or something. How on earth would you say she was a raped.

[@TLCTLC-cg6cm]

Dude, so many hoaxes about Dutch colonialism are spread in Indonesian nationalist PROPAGANDA movies nowadays. We are to believe that natives were all raped when, in fact, they got married into monogamous relationships. Even Muslim women. This reminded me of the true story of Nyai Dasimah, who escapes her polygamous Muslim husband and gets involved with a British man who loves her dearly. Only to get murdered and extorted by her Muslim ex-husband (a bandit).

[@Djiejejdj]

​​​@@DhekemNo, the native priboomi were doing all the RAPE. Like what they did in 1998, in Aceh and in East Timor. Just to name a few. ​@TLCTLC-cg6cm

[@anawkwardsweetpotato4728]

What a sweet journey! I love these kinds of family mysteries, as I have quite a few in my own lineage myself. To be honest though, MyHeritage has crap ethnicity estimate if you're not mostly European. I'm an Afro-Bermudian/American and my European ancestry is of predominantly English, Portuguese, Scottish and Irish descent. Tell me why MyHeritage always puts me at 21% Scandinavian after every update? My Scandinavian ancestry is traced back to the 11th Century. It's still very likely Jack's 2nd great grandmother was Eurasian by way of the Netherlands or Germany. It's also likely that the Finnish ancestry was a misread of ancient Siberian ancestry like another commenter mentioned.

[@john_carter_of_earth]

Why is no mention made of the fact that his father's cousin Myna's European DNA could have come from her *father's* side rather than her mother's (Jack's great-aunt) side? Myna's father would have no biological connection to Jack at all, and not enough testing was done to rule out his side of the family as being the source of the European DNA.

[@samshenanigans]

This felt like a drama! 😂 He said, she said!

[@Iflie]

My mother's side is Indo (indo-european) , aand my brother and I also have the few percent Finnish. I just thought it came from the dutch side as we have a frisian ancestor and they used to have a viking king. But it's interesting to read it may come from our asian side instead. Among the Dutch Indo line there are actually names that could be german, the family lore said we're part german jewish and the jewish showed up in my brother's test so that may have been true. You need to test more of your family to see if any of the european dna is there but dutch is not a super distinct difference from german a lot of the time. After all it's a small country, dutch people even get german in school and so loads of contact. So many european men made children with native women and those children were mixing with eachother. There was a class system in which the mixed children were made equal to the europeans, unlike the native population. So you'd probably socialize and marry those. The english were very against mixing but the dutch comparatively were not. Indo women are deemed very beautiful to the dutch to this day.

[@cengizaltinveturkturanlilartar]

Ce Peuplade Ce Sont Originaire Grand Familles Tourque Touranienne. La Familles Tourque Touranienne, Ce Sont Montagnaire, Nomade, Et Amazonienne. Voila La Familles Tourque Touranienne, Tatares, Scyhtes, La Sibèrie, Sarmates, Ougro Finnios, Lapon, Odin, Mongol, Mançour, Tounguz, Ainu, Guril , Kore, Maori, Assam, Caucase, Basque, Dravidienne, Bengal, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Birman, Siam, Laos, Khmer, Malez, Huns, Avar, Khazar, Alan, Celtique, Suryas ou Tourcoman, Etc. La Familles Tourque Touranienne Ce Sont Parentè Et Mix. Merci Beaucoup.

[@Leif208]

if asians show "Finnish" dna (usually just a couple percetage) it's actually a result of just being related to the same asian ancestors. Many Finnish people have a little siberian asian ancestry, so it just means you might be related to the same asian ancestors.

[@Iflie]

@@Leif208 There is no way to know if you are very mixed, the finnish is so close other countries my dna shows. Like frisian and eastern european. The frisians went viking with the scandinavians. So it makes sense they'd mix. If you have no european in you and you are just asian you know for sure the finnish is from the asian side though.

[@Leif208]

@@Iflie Frisian ancestry does not show Finnish. Finns aren't Scandinavian and were never Vikings. And again, you don't have Finnish ancestry anyway. You're just descended from other Asians who might be distantly related to the Sami (or Lapp) people living in Finland some of whom also have small amounts of Siberian ancestry. Btw, I'm mostly Scandinavian and my wife is largely Dutch/Frisian/German. Neither of us have any Finnish dna.

[@Iflie]

@@Leif208 Friesland had a viking king what do you mean they had no contact? They went and traveled to england, resulting in that DNA showing up as Frisian. You can google it, Friese Vikingen. Anyone could go Viking , there is more finnish dna in the netherlands than in Indonesia. But of course a ton more in sweden and norway

[@alexl4617]

I think most of the Peranakans/Mixed came from Java or Eastern Indonesia. Chinese from Sumatra and West Kalimantan are mostly Totok/Pure

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

Nope, Singapore has them too. The offsprings of Peranakan and European Unions.

[@nostaligia4021]

No need to feel excited about one's "European" ancestry but "bummed" when told it is not. It is who they think you are when they look at you especially in multiracial societies like the USA and Singapore

[@Jyoo609]

I was thinking these Caucasian looking grandparents looked more south Asian/ Filipino and indeed she has some Filipino.

[@joept333]

I have mix European blood line as well due to the time when Portuguese colonized Macau in China centuries ago.

[@teresatagle4427]

Just because it doesnt show in test like ancestry does not mean its not there. Sometimes the test wont show in every person. Like for sure i know i have spanish blood and India blood. It never showed on my test. What showed was Wales😂😂😂 snd laos and wow 30 percent chinese for me

[@1xyz6992]

As a real caucasian from the Caucasus, I hate it when people use the word caucasian as a synonym for european ancestry.

[@terryparker1694]

The Caucasus Mountains are the division between the continents of Europe and Asia, soooo.... Cry more.

[@lalakuma9]

Actually this makes me wonder if one of my ancestors is European. I'm Chinese Indonesian, but my dad and sister's eyes look kind of European (no ephichantic fold/not almond-shaped). My sister also had rather light-colored hair when she was little, and people would ask if she's Eurasian. My dad is from a Chinese family that was in Java/Indonesia for many generations. He doesn't know much about his family history, but I won't be too surprised if there's one Dutch person somewhere up in the family tree. But I also won't be surprised if I were 90% East Asian and 10% Southeast Asian or something 🤣🤣🤣

[@User.k3431]

Do a test!

[@reyse1973]

wow so interesting, this is completely my family ! i have a very Eurasian last name but grew up culturally Chinese turns out my paternal grandmothers mother was dutch Indonesian and my paternal grandfather is mixed too. that being said i often get asked if im eurasian in Singapore lol

[@BridLong-y7g]

Well my ancestrydna test said I'm 97% Irish and only 3% Faroe Island. The 3% hardly counts tbh. I was so disappointed with my results . Growing up I thought it was just this rural community not connected to the wider world. But as an adult I started finding out about local history which we weren't school in growing up. So many nationalities came to our area for different reasons that I expected a more varied dna result. Some of my siblings look more continential and others have very fair features.

[@going1917]

Im from Malaysia but my great grandparents x2 were from Ireland, specifically Wexford. A soldier who settled in the straits settlements after defeating napolean according to family records. I dont look one bit irish except my eyes and an insufferable amount of body hair ahaha 😂

[@michaeltaylor8501]

I had a similar experience, but on the flip-side; for, my dad was adopted & he was raised as European-decent White who in turn married a woman thought to be White & I their son & my older sister by them were raised as a European-decent White family; but, I mentioned that dad looked a bit Asian & perhaps American Indian & my mom would get upset & say he looks Germanic; so, after my parents - who didn't want to take any DNA tests - passed away, I took some from various companies, & a few from CRI Genetics, including a typical Recent Ancestry Analysis & a not so typical Advanced Ancestry Analysis which traces back in time much further than the more common/popular tests that only trace back a few hundred years); &, I found out that in addition to recent Nordic, Germanic, & Mediterreanean ancestry, further back & in addition to the above ancestry I also had various Asian ancestry, plus American Indian ancestry; so, both me & my mom were at least partially correct in our guesswork. My dad, sister, & I are of Eurasian ancestry. And when I look at those photos of yours I see Eurasian as well (& quite especially in your aunt whose head shape is similar to my dad's head shape). It's all good. ✝️😎👍

[@listri8694]

red indians or black indians?

[@michaeltaylor8501]

@@listri8694 Red, but with Black AdMix (Luhya of Kenya - though the number of generations back is unknown, it's most likely from a very distant generation as the amount that I've inherited is extremely low, being at only 0.1%, & noting that both Y-DNA & mtDNA analyses place some of my ancestors in this area of Africa very early on... More recent generations of my ancestors have stemmed from South Asian Indian, the earliest being from 19 generations back at 80% accuracy, & the latest South Asian input being Sri Lankan Tamil within the last few hundred years; & there's also Chinese Dai, Southern Han Chinese, & Japanese ancestry in the tree along with North African & much recent - & distant - European ancestry). On the Red side is Puerto Rican Taino (Classic Taino) - exact Tiano tribe unknown (with 99% certainty from 10 generations back, & 95% certainty from 12 generations back). Taino were the first Indigenous folk that Columbus & his men encountered & the Taino generally wore little or no clothing back then & they covered their bodies with a red-colored mosquito repellent - & this might be the origin of Indigenous Peoples being referred to as Redskins, just as the misnomer "Indian" carried over to describe all Indigenous folk. While my exact tribes of direct ancestry remain unknown - though I share Genotypes with many tribes - other Amerindian Admix in my family tree stems from some tribes in &/or around Mexico, Columbia, & Peru (Mexican-area generations are unknown; Columbian-area: latest was 11 generations back, & earliest was 18 generations back, both at 95% certainty, plus one ancestor 15 generations back with 90% certainty; & my Peruvian-area generations are also unknown as any ethnic marker reading with less than 80% certainty on the generation wasn't assigned a specific generation in the analysis report; & the oldest generation meeting this criteria that was found in my inherited DNA is Chinese Dai from 73 generations back at 99% certainty: guesstimated year 175 A.D.).* * = I was fortunate in that my results went back almost twice as far as what's commonly expected with CRI Genetics' Advanced Ancestry Analysis (which is approximately 1,000 years back - & I came close to getting decent ethnic marker readings from nearly 2,000 years back).

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

​​@@michaeltaylor8501americans are mixed to begin with because of the past. Europeans generally not so much. Unless its newly immigrated Europeans in America like my aunt. She moved to Canada after WW2 and she is not mixed

[@hermelinotusi957]

The ending is disappointing, the acting is terrible, and their accent is so annoying...

[@zzollyy]

I mean it's in the name Asian and Caucasian we are more closely related compared to a Caucasian and African.

[@jeromefitzroy]

Most overseas Chinese are not pure Chinese if they aren’t first generation immigrants

[@csking6377]

Most are still pure Chinese but many are not. The younger generations have more inter-racial marriages now than 40 years ago.

[@jeromefitzroy]

@@csking6377 Well, not in my extended family, we are all mutts.

[@karendebruyne9592]

My Heritage doesn't separate Dutch and German, put in Western European pot. Each DNA company has different ethnicity profiles depending on who are in their testing panel to compare. Ethnicity goes back 500 to a 1,000 years and we loose some of our ancestors with each generation because of the random pattern of DNA inheritance.

[@eviezheng1]

When the first male chinese came to Indonesia, many of them are required to assimilate to Indonesian wife. Indonesian Chinese has a large mongolian blood, which explains 2% finnish ancestry which is of mongolian/Chinese descent 6 gens back from The Aunt. A 7% malay means 5 gens back is married to a malay woman. So my guess is... Jack Ho finnish ancestry related to mongols.

[@Kuko2984]

This is ridiculous, imagine a Caucasian American or European searching for Chinese roots and feeling proud of it? Right! Nope, you should be proud of being Chinese. China has continuously existed for ten thousands years. China has survived invasions, wars, attempts to be colonized and conquered, and still survives today. Be proud of who you are and your heritage. My God, this video is embarrassing!

[@charlescg3904]

There’s tons of Causasians who go on quests to find their ‘native’ ‘asian’ or ‘African’ ancestry. Plenty of half Asians also do journeys to Asia. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that… if anything you seem to be projecting your own insecurities and strange way of viewing things. No where did he say he was not proud of his Chinese heritage.

[@Kuko2984]

@@charlescg3904Insecurity? Honey you are not a psychologist to analyze anyone. I’m not Chinese but if I were I wouldn’t embarrassed myself by acting so proud of even a minute European blood! England invaded China and cause de opium war, Japan invaded China, raped hundreds of women, and the US kept China isolated during the cold war! Chinese immigrants built the pacific railroad and yet they faced racial hatred and deportation once the railroad was completed. Read your history!

[@Kuko2984]

@@charlescg3904I doubt whites of any country are searching for Chinese or African ancestry. You have no evidence. Show your proof! Whites are proud to be white and they do not apologize for being white! Read world history, educate yourself! This is embarrassing!

[@JT-yj3tr]

Charles CG is correct. There are Caucasians that search for their Chinese roots. A famous writer in USA is Lisa See, she is red hair fully Caucasian looking, but writes fiction books based on Chinese families, and she speaks Mandarin and talks about her Chinese family side a lot.

[@AlphaCookies]

Yes, the caucasian was the barbarian.. Chinese are Chung Kuo ie the "middle" kingdom, the center of the universe.. angmoh is barbaric, can still see how they conduct the imperialism everywhere, very barbaric and no moral

[@blueshirt26]

Tbh they look more like Malay rather than European

[@Thailandnature]

I am Dutch with a Nordic Y-line common in Sweden, Danmark, Germany and Finland.

[@dianapulido1807]

I would have tested more family members because different members will get different amounts of DNA from each ancestor. Also I would have tested with a company that test for Haplogroups. That would give them a better idea since the male haplogroup is passed down the male line and the female haplogroup is passed down the maternal line.

[@leohidayat6811]

The German and Dutch are of Arian bloodlines.

[@michaelthompson1846]

I'm not sure why this is so puzzling for this guy. Dutch are just swamp Germans. Dutch means German, and up until quite recently, there was no Germany or the Netherlands, just a bunch of separate independent regions, all of which were Deutsch. The Netherlands and Germany are modern inventions and didn't exist before the 1800's. Both are deutsch, and the only difference between a deutsch and a dutch in the 1800's was spelling and a border everyone ignored. I have a small amount of Flemmish DNA, which today is in Belgium, but I get it through a 4x great grandmother who was born in Copenhagen but who's family immigrated from Prussia, which isn't a country anymore. For most of European history, these tidy little borders and distinct nationalities didn't exist.

[@traceytrent904]

Jack Ho interpreted his MyHeritage results incorrectly. Because of the ancient East Asian exodus to Europe, this Finnish DNA was not Caucasian, but rather Asian. If he wants to look for German or Dutch DNA, he should look for North and West Europe, and Scandinavian DNA breakdown. Because this would be the closest DNA he could find for that ethnic group. It appears that his great grandmother did not pass on those European DNA to his family.

[@lydiat5819]

Our bro has Chinese face but ang moh physique :-)

[@Dhekem]

Western eating and other habits perhaps

[@etomliw7765]

what does ang moh physique mean

[@kitty_s23456]

​@@etomliw7765based on context, I'd guess that it means white/ Caucasian/ European physique.