Revealing my ANCESTRY results??? I’m 25% WHAT? Afro Latina // Results are unexpected… // AncestryDNA

[@jessiecee6564]

Is it upsetting cos your ancestors are colonists and it’s apart of your family? I have asd & I struggle to understand

[@giannakelis]

That was my initial reaction based on what I’ve been taught growing up. In a more recent video, I talk more about how I feel now. Yes, it is a part of history, but if it never happened I probably wouldn’t be here, so i have to be grateful for that. I hope that helps😊

[@jessiecee6564]

@@giannakelis thank you for letting me know I just get very confused. My cousin had a class at uni and they were doing ancestry & genetic genealogy. She said a student was very angry when he found out he had a plantation slave owner as his ancestor and 42% European in his dna his African ancestors were also enslaved by Native Americans so that made him really mad as he thought he was part Native American. She said what made him madder was none of the white kids in their class except for one had plantation/ slave owners in their family tree. She said he used to call white ppl colonisers all the time but now he doesn’t. I was very confused and didn’t understand. Ppl can’t help their ancestors it’s not their fault. I found in my ancestry I had relatives who were children sent to Australia as convicts for stealing food, most of them died from hard labour, one died in his 30s from being a homeless alcoholic apparently he wanted to go home after he finished his sentence but could never afford to go back. Very interesting.

[@shawnebradley6542]

I just got 23andMe results 3 days ago. I just bought AncestryDNA today should get it soon so I can compare the two. African Americans such as myself, we took a alot of hits too 😂 I got some not so prouds in my dna as well lol. I wasn't surprised of the having it cuz I knew it would pop up, I was shocked at the amount! 😡 It's all good, cuz at end of day, I wouldn't be me today without it frfr 😂 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@giannakelis]

Amen to that !

[@shawnebradley6542]

@@giannakelis You already! Same to you and good luck in your Adventures 🤙🏾

[@carolynsteele1465]

People who are always trying to tell other people who they are and who they are not need to take a seat. Don't let anyone define you. Take charge of your own identity.

[@YKDATRUTH]

You can't take in charge of your own identity. You are who you are because of your ancestry.

[@giannakelis]

Lots of people commenting on the part about the Spaniards committing genocide on the Taino people. The history I learned was that the Spanish landed on Boriken, attempted to take over the land, mass murdered the men and r*ped or murdered the women. If you learned something different, feel free to let me know!

[@valentinr.dominguez2892]

What you stated about Spain is called the Black Legend of Spain. This is anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda that the English and later the Americans created and spread around to make Spain look bad. This started 500 years ago. The English and Americans used this to also divide the Spanish speaking countries in the Americas from Spain. It is also a type of divide and conquer action. This Black Legend started because Spain was the first European power to acquire a worldwide empire where the sun never set. It was created in part out of jealousy.

[@degabreta]

She has too much Spanish DNA to reflect these old events. It is a recent influence.

[@KentPetersonmoney]

Thanks for not spitting on camera. I hate when people show themselves doing it. Ain't nobody want to see that.

[@giannakelis]

😂😂😂 Yeah I don’t like that either

[@DonovanDun]

Jamaican. 78% African, 15% European, 6% East Asians. I noticed most Spanish caribbean blacks average between 25%-50% African

[@ninpobudo3876]

I'm Afro Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Blanco and Im about 85% African

[@TheCynicalOne_]

@@ninpobudo3876I’m the product of two ADOS and I’m 77% African

[@HispaniolaHistoryChannel]

It always interesting how Spanish history and identity gets limited to what they allegedly did to the native Americans, but hardly ever any pride for the Spanish presence and history in the Americas. The Spanish weren't all bad, and all natives and africans were saints. Be proud of your Spanish history, genetics and culture.

[@nunyabidness3363]

Boy bye. The Spaniards were cruel vicious murdering rapist who decimated entire groups of people colonized groups of people and took over their land. Try to make this seem like something romantic or try to downplay it

[@ce7133]

You are 50%African 42%European 8%Indigenous nice mix I’m Half Irish Half Puerto Rican and I’m 79%European 11%African and 10% Indigenous.

[@giannakelis]

Awesome thank you for breaking it down and watching my video!!

[@ce7133]

@@giannakelis No problem lovely results by the way and have a blessed night!

[@ce7133]

@@giannakelis I’m so sorry about that lmao I think I did your break down wrong.

[@giannakelis]

@@ce7133 What would it be?

[@ce7133]

@@giannakelis your euro would be almost equaling your african.

[@mendozagriffith2720]

so you re basically half white and half black with also some native american ancestry from puerto rico. great results!!!

[@chandleryoung9515]

You should also try 23andme! They are very detailed and matched my ancestry perfectly, even down to the regions/cities/counties my ancestors immigrated from

[@JamisonJohnson-bn9mi]

I love your results and love your glasses btw

[@giannakelis]

Thank you 😊

[@peregrinefalcon6747]

I am Mexican. I have Spanish, French, Italian, British, Northern European, and lots of Native American (i.e. Olmec, Maya, Aztec/Mexica, and Purepecha) DNA. I have a lot of Native American DNA from my blonde/blue-eyed Mexican ancestors. Three of my great grandparents had blue or green eyes. My grandmother has Anne Coulter coloring, and one can't get whiter than that yet she has 45% Native American DNA. DNA tests don't lie. I think my Native American DNA is awesome!

[@tobimichigan]

Hope u visit Nigeria someday n learn the languages there.

[@giannakelis]

I will definitely be planning a trip soon!!! ☺️

[@tobimichigan]

@@giannakelis u can start by watching Nollywood movies n singing Afrobeats

[@giannakelis]

@@tobimichigan Thank you!! Any specific recommendations?

[@tobimichigan]

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[@littypeterson2273]

Mali was the richest kingdom in Africa at once. the richest man to ever exist was the king of Mali. Also Mali has the most gold under there lands

[@sputnikone6281]

Yet nobody in Africa was smart enough to invent the wheel

[@Ibraishim544]

@@sputnikone6281 wheels weren’t created by Europeans neither Africans made most of the earliest inventions.

[@sputnikone6281]

@@Ibraishim544 They invented nothing but the Cannibal cooking pot & welfare fraud

[@cheesecakehoe5920]

Do people ever call you racially ambiguous or try to guess your background? You definitely look heavily mixed/multiracial but I would’ve guessed part South Asian (like Indian) because you kinda look (part) Indian to me idk why but I can definitely see the European and African in your features as well.

[@giannakelis]

I get Indian/Middle eastern all the time. Largely because of my nose side-profile and thick eyebrows/hair!

[@keithbaucum7156]

Slavery and genocide happened. You're a beautiful person. Stay strong.

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for the kind words :)

[@AycherBeats]

Definitely bouta grab a kit, cool vid ✊🏽💯

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for watching !!!!!!

[@ivamcole2304]

What are all of your genetic communties? That's my favorite part

[@giannakelis]

My communities are southwestern Puerto Rico, south central Puerto Rico, Delmarva peninsula African Americans, and North Carolina blue ridge mountains African Americans!

[@ivamcole2304]

@@giannakelis oh!! So is your dad a Black American?! I was thinking u was a Afro Latino on both sides, my ignorance 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@giannakelis]

@@ivamcole2304 Lol a lot of comments are! That’s okay

[@aldofromsf]

Be proud of being a third Iberian, 25% Spanish and 7% Portuguese. Their bravery took them around the world and effectively created the first global economy.

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for this insight!

[@kevintroy4329]

Bravery my ass! They were not exploring, they were lost and Columbus's Spanish crew was crying out to their saints to save them because they thought they would fall off the end of the earth or be eaten by giant fish. They even were planning mutiny because they were so scared. Brave my ass, they didn't do anything but invent globalism and globalization, Mass immigration into someone elses indigenous homelands, mass genocide of the true ethnic American race, forced multiculturalism on the indigenous American race, unchecked capitalism on indigenous American inventions, crops, medicine and their very bodies, chattel slavery on Sub Saharan Africans, and open borders, chain migration, and foreign diseases, and the largest mass illegal immigration into a indigenous Western Hemisphere. Where is Spain now. And what happen to all the gold they stole from the American indigenous Nations!? Why are they nobodies still living in the past like it was something good, when all they did was stumble into a whole Hemisphere populated by one homogeneous racial American people.

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

Ikr i hate it when ppl shit on their european heritage. Every race did slavery and conquest the europeans were just the best at it.

[@25oxendine]

Right... people are clamoring to get over the US Southern Border not because they feel wronged, but because of the empire that Europeans built and have extended to all. They were selfish at first, but they were empathetic enough to see the errors in their ways as an institution. Not many countries outside of the Western countries can say the same

[@Furienna]

Besides, you are you and not your ancestors and shouldn't be judged by what some of them maybe did centuries ago.

[@larrsan]

Read history, real one, before talk.

[@Judith-p2o]

My mother once told me that when slaves arrived in P R and escaped their captors, they were hidden and taken into the forests by the native people. She claimed to be a descendant of those people.

[@giannakelis]

that's amazing! i didn't know this :)

[@curtis1415]

What are your DNA communities? Besides Puerto Rico

[@giannakelis]

Delmarva Peninsula African Americans and North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains African Americans

[@AishaLaDon]

Congrats on your results. Have you done African Ancestry yet ?

[@giannakelis]

I haven’t! I’ll have to look it up!

[@buntingy]

very nice,juust seeing

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for watching!

[@neverknowsbest.]

I never done one of these but I'm mixed with black Mexican and Dominican so I'm curious as to what it'd say for me 😳

[@giannakelis]

Try it!!!

[@25oxendine]

Black Mexicans tend to have a HIGH amount of Indigena

[@baddestbuilt6534]

@@25oxendine I just got mine back and Im 9% indigenous with only 2% spain and 72% African

[@25oxendine]

@@baddestbuilt6534 Great! Where are you from?

[@baddestbuilt6534]

@@25oxendine I'm from America Ohio but on my dad side he is from Belize and my mom side my grandmother is adopted but I have a theory she's Mexican because of her features.

[@jo100]

You Should Try 23andMe DNA 🧬 Test, so You Know about your Family History to.

[@giannakelis]

Definitely will do that!

[@Noface-j3o]

I’m 50/50 and I loved the vid

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for watching 💖

[@Bori-Domi-24]

Boricua Morena

[@salvatoresalernatano5964]

I love how the white literally melts you !!! Bahahahaahahahahaah !!!!!!!!!! Its fkng hilarious! You shouldn't hate yourself btw ! Its ok to be descended from Espania !!!

[@KINGMAYABZE]

Well those of you who are brown Hispanic have African in you,and I'm from Belize next to you

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for watching!!! And yess I’m proud of my African roots 🥰

[@KINGMAYABZE]

@@giannakelis here's some history related to your history kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqi7l3yumdOWipo

[@travelingva]

The brown comes from the african and Indian...in Belize too

[@KINGMAYABZE]

@@travelingva I am brown y'all ain't whitey(Blanco)

[@Mope333]

No matter the complexion lol, African is in them regardless

[@jabu1591]

Spaniards didn’t almost commit genocide, they did commit genocide. The Natives were able to survive regardless which is a testament to their resilience

[@giannakelis]

Totally agree. Sorry, I should’ve worded it better!

[@minfamilie4319]

Source: my mind

[@aryanyudha9264]

U a fool if Spaniards did alot of killing most of Latin america would be pure European but guess what latinos have huge native American DNA. But the north america lands the Brits and their ancestors did commit genocide cos very little natives left.

[@jabu1591]

@@aryanyudha9264 it’s not up for debate, the Spanish killed millions. Look up Latinos doing dna tests a bunch (not all) have more European than Native. The Spanish committed genocide on the Guanches as well except there are no longer pure Guanches

[@aryanyudha9264]

@@jabu1591 What percentage of natives are present in USA/Canada near zero whereas very large population of natives in latin america plus high DNA percentage in most latinos in those areas that tells us the brits killed many natives whereas it seems the spanish were more interested in having sex with them and converting them to catholicism. This is kinda obvious, plus the native population in those times were barbarians sacrificing hundreds of thousands in stupid human sacrifice rituals to please the RAIN GODS and such wtf.

[@Rey_Lacosta]

Cool!

[@breh7661]

how are u able to share your results in the video

[@giannakelis]

Screen record on mac + capcut overlay

[@sputnikone6281]

Gianna it is your 1% Jewish DNA that contributes 99% of your high IQ, sense of humour and confidence

[@giannakelis]

Lol I love this!

[@sputnikone6281]

@@giannakelis As you should because it is a gift from your ancestors that you in turn will gift to your descendants

[@doubleutee2100]

What are your genetic communities?

[@giannakelis]

My genetic communities are Southwestern Puerto Rico, South Central Puerto Rico, Mid-Atlantic Coastal African Americans and The Carolinas, Maryland and Virginia African Americans

[@doubleutee2100]

@@giannakelis Wepaa! So, I am Black American and my fiance is Puerto Rican. Her genetic communities are in Northwestern Puerto Rico. A year after she took her test, I took one and found some shocking results. I took it with MH. I had three genetic groups: 1) South Carolina Black Americans; 3) Southern and Northeastern Black Americans (The southern regions of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. Also, NY, NJ, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Northern FL, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Eastern Texas). And then there's my second strongest genetic group: CENTRAL PUERTO RICO. That came as one of the biggest shocks of my life. Before I met my fiance I had no idea about that, but now I see how God can bring genetics back together. Ha! The main regional concentration where they found my DNA seems to be Utuado, PR. I look like any Black American, but for a PR phenotype think Joseline Hernandez, or more like those from Loiza. Anyway, thanks for posting your results and sharing the video. Good job! Peace!

[@giannakelis]

@@doubleutee2100 Wow, that is TRULY amazing!!!!!!

[@doubleutee2100]

@@giannakelis Yes! I agree. The only explanation I have for that genetic group, and my affiliation is either 1800's inter-American (between the differing New World nations) slave trading, or immigration from PR into the US where Afro-Puertorriquenos and Black Americans came together in the southern regions of the US. Apparently, the genetic connection is still in my DNA, and clusters me as a member of that gene pool. Well, if one goes digging deep enough sooner or later I guess they'll find something. Anyway, thanks again for sharing your results. Peace!

[@JuanJelesS]

I also took the DNA test and I have ancestors who were invaders of Spain, Visigoths and Romans. Should I also hate these cultures?

[@giannakelis]

Let me clarify I don’t hate anyone. They’re all important to who makes me, me. This video is old and might include some controversial language. You should do your own research and feel how you want to feel. :)

[@_KVibes]

I’m in Tyne 🧡🌐

[@giannakelis]

I appreciate you 💖

[@millionairemaine8901]

"likely a slave/slave master relationship" ...very politically correct!

[@dski8097]

Africans sold their slaves so cheap to the Spanish, crazy.

[@arianaarcoiris474]

The Tainos from Puerto Rico, the Original come from Sur America they did migrated in Puerto Rico.

[@valentinr.dominguez2892]

Puerto Rico and Spain were united for more than 400 years, which was amazing. There was hardly any independence movement in Puerto Rico. Before the United States took Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans had representation in the Congress of Deputies in Spain. By that time, it was not a colony. It was an overseas province.

[@kevintroy4329]

You mean Spain colonized and invaded the ethnic American Tainos and committed mass genocide and rape, and brought African slaves to replace the indigenous population with non indigenous Afro-Latino colonizer descendants who nothing but brown European cultured replacement population.

[@kevintroy4329]

8 percent is nothing compared to Mexicans who have anywhere between 100 to 50 percent indigenous ancestry.

[@Mope333]

@@kevintroy4329Puerto ricans can also go much higher lol

[@yusefnegao]

@@Mope333not as high as non Caribbean Latinos

[@Mope333]

@@yusefnegao Used to be.

[@cangrejitamora]

Los españoles NO cometieron un genocidio en Puerto Rico, de hecho era una provincia española hasta 1898 y sus ciudadanos eran españoles de pleno derecho. A ver si investigas mejor tu historia porque de quien te estás avergonzando es de tus ancestros. El hecho de tener sangre taina ya te indica que no murieron los indígenas. Los que si cometieron atrocidades con los puerto riqueños fueron los estadounidenses que incluso utilizaron a sus mujeres en experimentos. No consumas ni transmitas leyenda negra. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4nCmGmrhadmY9E

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

You’re tall

[@cashlindontv7293]

She's cute

[@giannakelis]

Thanks 🥰

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

There is no such thing as a afro latino/Latina/criollo/creole. Being Latino/Latina/Criollo/Creole has absolutely nothing to do with race its all about who you descend from

[@ninpobudo3876]

Afto Latino is a real thing (more currently. ) But the other things that you said was spot on

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

@@ninpobudo3876 It's some made up nonsense pushed mainly by Anglo black americans. They are doing the same thing with Tyla a coloured of South Africa forcing her to choose between black and white when the reality is she is mixed. Are there some black people in Latin America yes but the majority are mixed race. It's important to understating we have our own way of identifying. Further more the USA itself has mulatto documented since the 1600s and it officially went on census in the late 1700s. It wasn't until the racial integrity act of 1924 that the racist "one drop rule" went into law. It only lasted for 43 years ending in 1947. I'm not sure why black americans continue to utilize this racist system and even spread lies.

[@MoisePicard-mk1nt]

​@@ninpobudo3876 He never said Afro Latino/a wasn't a thing.

[@ninpobudo3876]

@MoisePicard-mk1nt Reread what he wrote! You're joking right?

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

@@ninpobudo3876 It's only a thing to anglos. Latino/Latina is exactly that.

[@misssilencedogood5968]

Your Spanish is very, very LOW for Latin America. So you are really African-Puerto Rican and do not have strong genetic ties to Spain. So you are mostly African and Taino really. In Latin America there are no "Afro-Latinos" that is a new American thing. In Latin America you are just Puerto Rican which is a nationality not an ethnic group so like I said your ethnicity is African-Taino, your nationality if you were born in America is African-Taino-American. Remember it is DNA that makes someone of Latin descent not culture not birthplace language etc.. So in other words you can most definitely say you are really African-Taino Puerto Rican or just African-Puerto-Rican if you are from Puerto Rico. This is true especially since your Spanish is so incredibly low. Most Latin Americans have between 40-90% Spanish and other European DNA which varies upon regions of course. Dominicans have some of the lowest Spanish DNA profiles in this grouping. This was interesting.

[@giannakelis]

Thank you for breaking it down for me!! And thanks for watching! 🙏🏽 I’ll make sure to say I’m African-Taino Puerto Rican because it explains my DNA better than Afro latina.

[@Quitumbe954]

She's way more European/Spanish than she is Taino wym 😂 she's Triracial like any Puerto Rican, her European is low for a Puerto Rican her family's probably from Loiza or something

[@giannakelis]

@@Quitumbe954 Thanks for watching!! If I did my ancestry family tree right, I actually trace my family to be more from Mayaguez/Florída. But thank you for the clarification!!

[@Quitumbe954]

@@giannakelis nice you still have really high African for a Puerto Rican I've only seen a few Puerto Ricans as African as you and My stepdads 100% boricua too so I've looked through hundreds of Puerto Rican DNA results

[@giannakelis]

@@Quitumbe954 Yeah true! My dad is actually 100% black so most of my African comes from my paternal side ☺️

[@Josetoocut]

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