White Americans DNA results

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Are these the true faces of White Americans? In this video, we'll delve into genetic data, challenging traditional stereotypes and exploring the complex tapestry of heritage that forms White American identity. From surprising African echoes to diverse European roots, we'll question what 'whiteness' truly signifies. Join us as we decode DNA and reveal the rich and often surprising ancestry of White America. This is much more than a journey through our genes; it's a quest to understand our shared history and identity!
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES:
The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States
Katarzyna Bryc
Eric Y. Durand
J. Michael Macpherson
David Reich
Joanna L. Mountain
Open AccessPublished:December 18, 2014DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.1...
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0...
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[@nytn]

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[@rogerdogger6969]

I don't know if it escaped you or if it was just something you chose to ignore possibly but most of those people in that chart of white faces look like celebrities

[@nytn]

I didnt notice! I'll have to go back and look.@@rogerdogger6969

[@darrellm9915]

British & Irish are lumped together because they're usually mixed with one another. Similar genetically.

[@darrellm9915]

6:18 The bottom right are part of the ''Atlantid" phenotype. Same as the top right, except they are "North" Atlantid, sometimes known as the "superman look" like that Henry Cavill actor. The main differences in them are usually eye color (blue // brown) but very similar facial features. Dark hair and dark eyes doesn't always mean "non-white" lol. This is common in British people as well, ironically.

[@HandOfDoom007]

@nytn I asked you a question about Southern Europeans, can you please answer it?

[@strengthandbulkMadness]

Im White-American but for DNA purposes I’m mixed with Germanic, Slavic and Mediterranean. That makes it easier. I wouldn’t go by European countries because they all got invaded by each other at some point. You still find Irish and Brits with Celtic features the same way you find Mediterraneans with Germanic traits.

[@nattoralikk]

Irish are Celts so I'd say the vast majority of them have Celtic features lol

[@12tanuha21]

@@IeremiasMoore-El the border between Europe and Asia is an invention of the Ancient Greek, who divided the known world in 3 parts with Greece in the center.

[@strengthandbulkMadness]

@@IeremiasMoore-ElI’m a proud mongrel but my white skin and English surname makes me white. I’m Germanic through English ancestry; Slavic through Polish ancestry; Mediterranean through Italian ancestry. There is a possibility of having “drops” of Mongolian DNA from my Polish heritage but it’s all good. Poland did get invaded by them. My father was Polish/English with black hair and tan skin so maybe. His father/my grandfather was from Britain but definitely pure white. My mother was full Italian with blonde hair and blue eyes; whiter than everyone in the family, even the English ones so very doubtful there is any Moor/Arab genes floating. Supposedly, we had some Dutch ancestors that lived in Italy way back but I wouldn’t mind a “drop” of Moor/Arab DNA. We all evolved from Neanderthal mixing.

[@babyboy562]

@@strengthandbulkMadnessaborigine Americans and Africans have no Neanderthal DNA and there’s no such thing as “white” you are a pink recessive Asian who is literally a mutant period……no shame in the truth ✊🏾

[@relicpathfinder2800]

​@@IeremiasMoore-El Go explain that to the hard core black community and tell me how it works out for you.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Why America is so obsessed with race. Both sides, racists and tolerant ones, eager to put everyone in the box.... Well, there is similar system in the UK, so maybe it is overall Anglophone shenanigans....

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@fortunatomartino8549 why?

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@oleksandrbyelyenko435, “race” and skin color fixation has long been a feature of both Anglo-America and Latin-America. In both cases it probably mostly has its roots in slavery and the various caste systems that flowed from it during the colonial period.

[@BALASTE]

It's a multiracial country lol, it's not natural for different races to live together.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 thanks

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@fortunatomartino8549 me? When did I say something like that?

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

I have an Italian coworker who did a DNA test. Turns out she is only 4% Italian and 96% French...she was not happy lol

[@mississippigod3938]

French and Italian are the same people they both are Latin and speak a Latin language

[@jackieblue1267]

Possibly her ancestry is mostly from Northern Italy who are more similar to French and Spanish genetically. It will depend on dna tests what samples they use for their Italian population panels. If Southern Italian then a Northern Italian is not going to match that a lot.

[@arandomperson899]

​@mississippigod3938 that is a COMPLETE lie😂😂 Only north italians are related to French and Spanish

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

​@@mississippigod3938 There were huge xénophobia in France tower Italians during their migration and at the end XIX century, There were a massacre with many victim in Aigue Mortes.

[@erichamilton3373]

While the dna data does not lie, the countries assigned are based on interpretation and subjectivity. My mom was from.Germany yet 23andme has me as 0% German.

[@MsMaureen1975]

Very interesting, you always present new thought provoking information.

[@nytn]

I try!

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

Another thing to keep in mind when using DNA data (23andme, etc.), is that people frequently have an ancestor for whom they carry no genetic markers. For example, my family has specific markers for French ancestry of which I inherited none. Amongst my mother and her siblings, 2/3 have Nigerian genetic markers (meaning one show no genetic proof of African ancestry even though she has an African antecedent).

[@findingbeautyinthepain8965]

That’s so interesting! I had no idea that could happen. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂 If you don’t mind me asking, does your sibling that doesn’t have African ancestry show up in their DNA have any African phenotypes?

[@rocketreindeer]

That's interesting. My friend and his kids are Greek on one side, and mixed on another (the friend's parents I mean). One of his kids has always felt Native. But their DNA shows no Indigenous/Native American DNA in their own, but also shows that they are descended from a Native ancestor several generations back. I'm not sure what that means. But I guess as time goes by, they'll unlock deeper understanding of how all that works.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@findingbeautyinthepain8965, It’s less than 2% African admixture and I don’t think any of them necessarily express an African phenotype (but that’s often in the eye of the beholder). One branch of my family arrived in the US from England in the late 1600’s and settled in Maryland. I suspect one of them married someone that was “passing” for white. I haven’t found the identity of this ancestor yet, but I’m searching and hopeful to know something of their story.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@rocketreindeer, If the paper trail is accurate that really only leaves three possibilities: 1) They have an Indigenous ancestor but the testing company doesn’t have their particular Indigenous American genetic markers listed in their reference database. 2) They have an Indigenous ancestor but didn’t inherit any of those genes. 3) The relative in the paper trail wasn’t actually Amerindian and paid to get on the Dawes Rolls (a so-called “$5 Indian”). Easiest next step is probably to upload the raw test data to Gedmatch or some other similar website to see what reference population matches they find, or order another test from another company.

[@rocketreindeer]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 That's interesting, thanks. Apparently the ancestor was unknown so it must be one of the first two. I told them to try another company to see what it shows. They don't identify as Indigenous but the daughter has always felt connected to it. I'm partly Indigenous and their kid feels deeply connected to the drum and stuff like that, which is something elders take note of.

[@drislady]

Thank you for educating us. Please continue to do so 👏

[@e.urbach7780]

This is so interesting!

[@Omn203]

Good information are you going to make a video on melungeons

[@verlan3293]

To clarify, the "American" category for White Americans is, like the rest of the ancestry reports, based on self-identification in the census. People who self-identify their ancestry as being "American" have been found to be overwhelmingly if not entirely of colonial American stock which is basically British (excluding Irish, but including Scots-Irish) ancestry. These people mostly occupy WASP families that have deep colonial roots and have had no recent immigrant ancestors, particularly found in the south and the north. This is a phenomena you can find in other British colonies as well. White Canadians who self identify as Canadian are of British stock, and same with White Australians who self identify as Australian. Another thing to add as well is that it's been reported that British ancestry is heavily underreported in the US as White Americans are most likely to identify with their most recent immigrant ancestor rather than identify with colonial ancestry (i.e. British) unless it's very recent like a parent or grandparent. This is why it's still very common to meet White Americans who are basically purely British in ancestry but it's a lot more rare/not nearly as numerous to find white Americans who are purely of other European ancestries except in certain regions but definitely not nation wide. For example you'd be very hard pressed to find someone of pure Italian ancestry outside of the Northeast/purely Scandinavian or German outside of the Midwest, but it would be pretty easy to find someone who's purely British (English+Scottish+Welsh) all over the country. And even in those aforementioned regions British ancestry is still commonplace, whereas the other European ancestries are rare if not non-existent outside of those regions. I would also like to add that "including Irish" is probably also inclusive of Scots-Irish. Many people do not differentiate the two and will say Irish for both as both Irish and Scots-Irish were more or less the same culturally, but Scots-Irish are ancestrally Scottish people who inhabited Northern Ireland and also parts of Ireland as well and culturally assimilated into that ethnicity.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

I feel like half of Americans might be anglos.

[@harrykezelian8009]

The main difference between Irish and Scots-Irish is that Irish are usually Roman Catholics and Scots-Irish are usually Protestants (Presbyterians in particular). In other words, Northern Irish, so just as Northern Ireland is still in the UK, we could basically refer to "American" ancestry as being "mostly British."

[@trademisconception9816]

Are you implying that the Scots Irish culturally assimilated into the Irish ethnicity?

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@verlan3293, Good comment. On the other side of the pond Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) are usually known as Ulster Scots (as they descend from Scottish migrants that settled in Ulster).

[@brian_Austin27]

Theirs Americans then white Americans and the white Americans think they run things, but run things to the ground

[@Myraisins1]

I would be very interested in all the findings of Ancestry, 23 and Me and various DNA sites.

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

Love your videos. Some of my relatives could definitely be in the photos but not me.

[@Savadorason1]

-I Love your channel.

[@shaunsteele6926]

as a "white American" whose family has been in North America for at least 200 years, I took a DNA test (two actually) expecting to find some small percentage of Native American, or perhaps even African mixed in. Nope... I'm 99% NW European, and a small percentage of Egyptian.

[@christiantaylor1495]

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@strengthandbulkMadness]

This is good news as Western Europe falls to mongrelism, White-Americans will continue.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@13anjowizard There is way more demoralization of non-white people in the USA. White is still the norm.

[@ursilaminor6447]

I guarantee if your sibling or cousins took the dna test you would find those numbers to be off.

[@shaunsteele6926]

@@ursilaminor6447 all three of my siblings have been tested with similar results

[@josephstorm6093]

With 3 different ancestry testing companies including 23 & me as one of them we were it looks like one of the percentages with Zero AA and 2 of the tests included Scottish with the British while only one included Irish with the British. We really have to look into these subjective tests to get the over all best reading we can but at least it's available and facinates at the same time. We were also one of the percetages with a higher than average American Indian amount but we knew that going in and these scientific abilities today still captivates.

[@cathjj840]

US history being what it is (and males in general being what they are), I'd wager that white's have far fewer African Y haplogroups than mitochondrial dna (passed unchanged from mother to child, whence the females pass it along to their own offspring).@@IeremiasMoore-El

[@philwachel8308]

Keep uploading these great videos!

[@brenkelly8163]

More great stuff. Wow, only 3.5 percent have African ancestry-that puts me in with a good group. Actually I have about 4 percent African and 4 percent non European other, that I never knew and was ‘hidden’. But I took the Ancestry test and they definitely distinguish between English and Irish. However, many English started invading and occupying Ireland long ago, so some people that have Irish and a bit of English may get it by intermarriage from Irish and English in Ireland. That’s what happened to me, as the Irish and English were invited to Louisiana under Spanish control starting in 1763, and an Irish/English ancestor came.

[@cathjj840]

Louisiana was under French control until Napoleon sold it to the US in the early 1800's to pay for his European wars (stupid emperor). Some time before that, it was under Spanish control so I think your date is off (1863 was in the middle of the Civil War!).

[@brenkelly8163]

@@cathjj840 You’re correct, it was a typo. 1763 not 1863.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Danielle, thank for continuing to research and inform us of our diverse history. ❤

[@cinnamonstar808]

this is actual about white immigration; not diversity. JACKSON JOHNSON, SMITH WILLIAMS, WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON are not just for 🇺🇸 President's Day ; they are also consider the blackest surnames in America. Michelle Obama prior Michelle Williams family was here in the 1776 Donald Trump mom is an immigrant; Donald Trump wife (2 of them) all came to America on a plane they had 'green cards' = and that is the TRUE story. THE NATIVE AMERICANS - GONE FOUNDING FATHER WHITES - GONE BLACK AMERICANS = 🇺🇸 TRUE AMERICANS they did not come to America on✈ TWA

[@micmic9410]

So did the Spanish completely get erased off your history? I’m amazed. Also, Spain is also from Europe and Spanish is also a European language. Just in case you are selecting your facts based on your opinions.

[@nytn]

I didnt share my ancestry in this video, but yes I personally do have Spanish ancestry

[@ronsampsons5thchannel711]

funny, I wrote about this indirectly , using Africa as an example. regarding Acient Egypt. there is plenty of evidence of it being of black origin. but for most people, especially in the West, Black means West African. what is mostly seen in Hollywood, NBA, or 100 metres sprint, musicians, and politicians in the west. which isn't correct, Africa is way more diverse than most people know. here is where I use Europe as an example. Greek / Mediterranean looks different to a Norwegian yet still considered white. in short, there's a variety of black phenotypes as well as a variety of white phenotypes. likewise with Asia Acient Egyptians blacks had a different look to West Africans despite having full lips, etc, like the sphinx , Narmer, Huni tutankhamen ( golden bust) Queen T.

[@bircruz555]

Half of the world's gene pool is in Africa. And all humans originated in Africa. "White" has been around a mere 6,000 years, according to geneticists, the result of the genetic mutations of the Mesolithic Era.

[@ronsampsons5thchannel711]

@bircruz555 Oh, definitely I thought it was a little longer than that, but then I remember the Cheddar man here in the UK 🇬🇧 was of black of skin, There were 2 reactions to this discovery 1. some white folks had no problem with it 2 some were absolutely outraged by it. also, I watched a documentary about Africans being in the UK since the roman era and the Elizabethan era . they featured a dependant of one of the known Africans of the Elizabethan period. He is as white as Donald trump. its believed 5% of the UK whites are dependants of those Africans

[@bircruz555]

We know now that color is only skin deep. Race is a construct. The world has yet to know about cultural origins. There are even more surprises there. Language has been the big unexplored jungle. It writes its own volumes. @@ronsampsons5thchannel711

[@davidholland1334]

Here is a shocker. It's hidden and not taught on purpose in schools, but many West African tribes are originally from the Middle East or the Levant and have migrated back to Africa. If you want proof, look at the ancient depiction of the Elamites. Those Persian Gulf brothers had corn rolls and negro features. Of course, the modern-day fake depictions will try to make them look lighter in appearance, with straight hair and a modern Middle Eastern appearance. Anyways, when the massive migration of Middle Easterners to West Africa occurred, the phenotype changed as dark-skinned wooly-haired negroes (formerly referred to as Israelites or Shemites) mixed with the native West Africans. At this point, the hair texture became more kinky, and the features widened. So, not only were the ancient Egyptians Hametic black, but the true Israelites were Shemetic blacks, of which I am a descendant. To your point, there is variety within phenotypes.

[@darrellm9915]

Most people from Northern Ireland are actually Scottish descendants. Conversely, those from the Republic part of Ireland, are truly Irish. As a result of the complex mix of ancestry in certain regions, genetic testing can sometimes show a person as having "Irish DNA" when in reality, the root of their DNA is from England & Scotland.

[@purplepanther2771]

Both groups are Celtic, though. I exclude people from the *Eastern* Lowlands. You find both Irish and Scottish in Ulster. Many people are combinations of both.

[@prioritytarget7157]

@@purplepanther2771 Scots Irish are largely the descendants of Somerled, like the MacDonalds. Norse-Gaels, from Somerled's marriage to Norwegian Vikings.

[@Cedricbennettjr]

Which one one do you suggest to take for a DNA ancestry test?

[@nytn]

I just left a link in the comments for the ancestryDNA test on amazon!I used ancestryDNA for genealogy research (awesome for finding extended family through DNA). I did 23andme at first, and the only thing I liked about that was the hapolgroup (which ancestry doesnt have). No matter what the test, they're kind of "best guesses that change"

[@Cedricbennettjr]

@@nytn I've done through a place called Arc point labs. They did the whole cheek swab. Was I amazed at the results.

[@sr2291]

All of them that you can afford including CRIGenetics.

[@Andy-ix2ox]

I’m Irish by tradition but my dna is c. 33 percent Irish, 33 percent Scottish and 33 percent English/ welsh , so I’m pretty much from the islands Of Ireland and GB however I would be fairly sure that most Irish people would have a bone to pick with whoever decided to lump the two islands together, even though most of us are not remotely 100 percent from the island of Ireland. At least from a dna perspective.😊

[@cathjj840]

Well, geography has named them the British Isles for a very long time, so there's that. The English, however, often have Saxon ancestry whereas the Irish do not, as well as some Scandinavian. The Irish also have a big dose of the latter (mostly Norwegian?). Swedish influence is more common in northern England (and Scotland?), while England proper more Danish.

[@olavmortensen7175]

As an Irishman wouldn't you agree that this phenotype: (ariets.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/nordic-mediterrean-type-of-e-a-hooton-c-w-dupertius-from-physicial-anthropology-of-ireland/), is the phenotype which also represent a variation of the thumbnail phenotype?

[@vm1776]

Your videos are always interesting and often pop up in a very timely way. I was told that my family was Pennsylvania German and despite occasionally seing men speaking Italian at my grandmother's house, I didn't realize at the time who they were (wasn't a secret exactly, but I couldn't understand them so as a little kid I just played in the other room with my dolls). I didn't know that my grandmother was first generation Italian American until I had to do a report in 7th grade. Once I knew my grandmother, told me she didn't know much about her heritage other than to stress that her family was white and from Northern Italy. I've been tracing my grandmother's family and since I can't trace very far beyond immigration, I've been looking at that immigrating generation including origins of siblings and marriages of siblings. Their city of origin is a name that is located 4 places in northern Italy and one in southern and until last night every one of the relatives was labeled as white (including reports that were not self reported), but last night I saw a report that was listed as not self reported, labeled as southern Italy and swarthy complection. I sent in a dna test weeks ago but don't have it back yet. It will be interesting to see if it can tell me where in Italy and whether it lists me as 25% Italian. I expect 25% Italian but won't be surprised if there's African or other regions there. I am estimating 35% to 75% German as well, since I can confirm a percentage of my German speaking ancestry came from current day Germany, but there's a portion that was German speaking but lived outside of current day Germany. I was surprised to see that your chart listed Italians as white, while I view them that way, I know that the community I grew up in didn't see them that way and definately othered them.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

Italians are not Africans. Are Europeans. And Hitler was swarthy.

[@elleanna5869]

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 he actually didn't fit "Aryan" whiteness as compiled by his US Idol , Madison Grant . How ironic. Probably the US due to their history and foundation and a sort of cult for positivism ended up with welcoming and empowering (as science , innovations and "new Frontier for humankind evolution) strictest views on racism. Irony in irony: defeating Hitler the world skipped totally their pivotal contribution to alarming race rants. We remember European pseudoscientists but hardly learn about US enthusiastic reception.

[@BrendanTripp]

I don't know ... I have three Mayflower ancestors, so we've been here a long time, and the "most ethnic" I get is some Welsh great-grandparents (OK, there's a great-grandmother who was fresh off the boat from Germany as well). I was kind of amazed that my Ancestry DNA results has 0 black, native, hispanic, or other non-WASP folks for the hundreds of years we've been in America.

[@hollywoodpotato5289]

Those who call their heritage “American” are usually those who immigrated to North America before it was the US. And were usually descendants of indentured servants of southern colonies (coming from Northern Ireland and Northern border territories of England ie Scotch Irish) If you see where they historically cluster it is basically the Hillbilly Nation from Appalachia (WV, VA, NC) through TN, KY, MO, AR, OK. They reside north of where ADOS are located also known as the Cotton Belt. The Cotton Belt sits north of where the Cherokee and other tribes were pushed to Florida to make room for poor white settlements and large scale plantations. Basically, the “Americans” (poor whites/hillbillies aka: Scotch Irish) acted as a buffer zone of expendables between the money up north and east and slaves (and Cherokee) down south.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

This channel is fascinating.

[@jdee3421]

4:45 - The source is "U.S Census Data", so it probably means that 7% of the census respondents that selected 'White' for race wrote in "American" for specific ancestry/ethnic group.

[@devJOE-Man]

Aliens looking at humans = "Wow a bunch of Skittles. They all taste the same" 😋

[@nytn]

Lol! Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”

[@starventure]

@@nytnI was thinking more of the remake of War of the Worlds. That scene where the hand grenades are used to blow up the walker ship…I know it is a derogatory thought, but aliens would not stand a chance trying to ingest a Palestinian teenager. It would be certain death.

[@jaeboston9228]

​@@starventure you lost me with that comparison. explain, please.

[@starventure]

@@jaeboston9228 A group of people who have a history of using suicidal attacks to harm their enemy is a people who you don't want to invite inside your spaceship if you are an alien species trying to conquer Earth. A motivated Palestinian teen with a dynamite chest pack would be the last human a alien spaceship would take in. Actually, as in the film, just even a really dirty human whose body is teeming with nasty viruses and bacteria would be just as dangerous for some alien to try to fool around with...it would be like the Andromeda Strain, but in reverse.

[@Bob-gq8dy]

aliens are too smart to ever think this, anyone with eyes to see can tell that negro neighborhoods are more dangerous than asian ones.

[@cyn7869]

I love how these percentages just come out of nowhere. Let’s get this correct. These figures are guesstimates at best. The only way to have these figures is if every single American had a dna test. Since that isn’t so, these figures are sketchy.

[@nytn]

exactly, and my tests (like most people's) change CONSTANTLY.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@mikejones-wn1swIt doesn't mean it is fake. It means it is their best guess. Their best guess is just not very good.

[@johnnyearp52]

@@mikejones-wn1sw The doctor's give out their best guesses all the time. It is called an educated guess and has more weight than a non-doctor's opinion. Yes, I would take a doctor's opinion over average Joe's opinion on the street if I have a health problem. That is common sense.

[@JohnSmith-ct5jd]

No surprise here. I look the way I do because by ancestry I am a fricken mick. "Top of the mornin' to ya!" LOL.

[@FedUpSista]

You might find the comments of Shahid Bolsen, of Middle Nation, in his “The American Condition” segment interesting.

[@BadgerCheese94]

I am white Hispanic and I always find it weird we are often excluded from "whiteness" despite being predominantly European. I have 1% Native American, 7% North African, and 5% West African. The rest is European. I identify as white. My phenotype is very white. I bet you if you include Hispanics, "Spanish" would be a sizeable European ancestry but its rarely mentioned.

[@Ivan-xk4uy]

“White” is not about how you appear in skin tone, it’s political. To be white you typically have to be a Anglo-Saxon white protestant. Meaning from the British isles and Christian. It’s all about power not actual ethnicity. But you can still achieve “whiteness” by hiding things about yourself that seems not of that category. Like last name, traditions, accent, and then you have achieved “whiteness”. Keep in mind Irish immigrants was not considered white last than a 100 years ago.

[@Ibrahim-gm2bo]

@@Ivan-xk4uythat’s wrong. It’s not just British isles . It’s all of Northwestern Europe. Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Switzerland are “white nations”.

[@cookie22100]

Well race is literally a social construct. It’s not founded in science at all. It’s all based on appearances and is not found in the DNA strand.

[@jbrown8601]

Maybe you are white in the Latin world but not in the USA, different rules here

[@BadgerCheese94]

@jbrown8601 Sounds pretty retarded. Most people see me as a white until they find out I was born in Cuba then its "Oh but you look white" or "If you are from Cuba, why do you look so white?" Same reason you are from Alabama and you dont look Choctaw.

[@edwinlucianofrias1643]

It's important to note that just because you have x% DNA from a particular group it doesn't mean that you *are* x% that group. I can have no DNA associated from Sweden, for example, and still have Swedish ancestors. You can have 59% African DNA while you brother (who shares both parents) has 67% African DNA. It doesn't mean your brother is more African than you, it just means he has more African DNA. Ancestry is one thing and DNA is another, albeit related, thing.

[@stephenwright133]

I remember seeing this study and I thought it was strange to see some people below 28% African DNA only reporting as "White." I have ~75% NW European ancestry (U.K., Ireland, Germany), and ~25% African (Nigeria, Angola), but consider myself mixed. My phenotype is ambiguous to most people. So, I suspect many others with a similar mix maybe present as what people expect a white person might look like? I'm guessing here. What is interesting to me as I travel to other countries people see themselves in me even if I don't have their particular ancestry. Not everywhere, but in many countries. In various countries in Latin America and Spain everyone immediately spoke Spanish to me. I had one lady ask me for directions in Madrid and I had to break out Google Maps. In Japan, many peopled asked if I was half Japanese. I've been asked similar questions in Vietnam, Thailand, India, etc. When I say no, they look confused. I had one person from Puerto Rico telling to stop denying my heritage. I could not convince them that I didn't have ancestors from there in my broken Spanish. In any case, people see what they want to see.

[@Bob-gq8dy]

I was raised to believe that I was part indian, it was a huge relief for me to find out that I am just NW european.

[@baby.nay.]

6:15 interesting there is not one with a positive canthal tilt. In a lot of studies , human beings find a positive canthal tilt more attractive for males and females. I just find it interesting because often beauty standards seem to be your a centric.

[@Cedricbennettjr]

Look into LULAC in the 1930s...

[@Ama94947]

What I learned in my DNA journey is that if you do more tests not only through 23andMe or for example with RawDNA data you can make a conclusion, of your total etnicity background. Its not really accurate if u only depend on 1 result. So I dont get why they investigate something only depending on 23andMe

[@gazoontight]

I grew up in an area with lots of Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, and pretty much nobody looked like those composite photos. Keep making these videos.

[@Ariapeithes_]

They are not northwestern European that's why. Only those with Yamnaya DNA would look like that.

[@brian_Austin27]

Yeah they have similar blk features due to mixers but mostly European DNA i have a friend whose Italian and Puerto Rican and he looks he has some blk features/ancestors like a wider nose, bigger lips, larger ears, and hes very good looking too, but he dosen't not look like the anyone in the picture's just has the similar skin color

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@brian_Austin27 A mixed person (Italian/Portorican) is not an Italian, nor an european. He is an American person of mixed ancestry. Probably with some African and Indian American origin too. The important thing, however, is that he is healthy .

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@Ariapeithes_ You never seen a true Italian in Italy. Only mixed persons in America. Italian and Greeks, however could be very different...and Levantines (like Lebaneses) they are not even Europeans.

[@darrellm9915]

How? lol. A lot of British people look Mediterranean.

[@alfredfleming5354]

The wonders of phenotype is that it sends the idea of race to the garbage heap. Eye color, hair color, skin tone, ethnicity etc. can flow to a person's child or it can skip altogether a particular child leaving one to look much differently than the rest of the family.

[@darrellm9915]

"Race" has always been much more deeper than hair, eye and skin color. That's why an Albino African looks nothing like a European.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

I never really looked into my European side, but according to DNA tests, old family pictures, extended family knowledge, I'm about 40% European, breaking it down more, I am of Germen, English, Spanish and French ancestry. Having strong ancestry from the Choctaw and Lakota, they of course had contact, trade and mingling with various Europeans. To me, they are all European. I may have some looks from my Euro bloodlines, but personally, I only identity and associate with being Native American, my identity and cultural background is Lakota and Choctaw. It's a choice, and how you were raised, which usually decides people's identity. However, I don't see anything wrong with any White American reconnecting to their ancient roots or identity, I would encourage anyone to reconnect to their ancestral roots.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

The US has generally pressed people to check “one box” for generations. Also, English lacks a word to express Mestizo as an ethnic/cultural group. I didn’t begin to see myself as Mestizo until I spent time living in Latin America, and of course genetics and cultural identity are two different things. By the way, I have a friend that is a Lakota descendant. Through Iron Cloud (Mahpeyamaza). There are some amazing photos of him in his traditional regalia, and he toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show along with Good Horse.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@giorgiodifrancesco4590, Recommend you stop eating crayons 🖍. Ahahaha.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

Giorgio, perhaps English isn’t your native language, so allow me to clarify. “Crayon eater” is not an implication that you are a child. It is an implication that your mental capacity falls into a measurable range two standard deviations below the mean, bless your heart. Se hai bisogno di una comunicazione in italiano per capire posso provare a superare la tua carenza.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 No, grazie. Sei troppo gentile, fiorellino.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

Va bene. Ciao.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

I had another coworker who claimed to be Italian but he looked half black and denied any African ancestry hmm I think he was in denial

[@GoGetFree]

What I find most fascinating is those perceived as black aren’t granted the social grace to pick and choose nationalities as their predominant identity. Place-identity has always confused me, especially those who self-identity with cities. Where do we go with all of this? What does self-identification mean within the larger context when it’s not socially accepted for everyone to do so? Lastly, consider what emoji skin tone you’d self-elect and reflect on that?

[@elleanna5869]

In the US maybe, but outside black people doesn't "self identify" , we have national , tribal, language, religion , tradition , habits and culture identity . I could never think of myself just like my melanin. I found "race" for the first time in US forms (never happened living in Africa and Europe) and it was weird. A cultural shock. I think that US should re-think their peculiar take on race because it's smouldering racism.

[@Black_Adam911]

Very true. It's because of white supremacy and America's history of anti-Black racism and slavery that all Black people, mixed people are grouped into this nonexistent monolithic group called the "Black people". There is no ethnicity called "Black". "Black" and "Blackness" are social constructs, usually negative, created by racist white people. Everyone on the planet has an ethnicity, multiple in fact, regardless of skin tone.

[@cathjj840]

The US needs race as a divider because class is a no-no. As our country is officially a classless society with equality and opportunity for all, the people who actually have taken over and wield power actively work on dividing the population because their numbers acting democratically and in their commun human interests would overwhelm and eliminate the elites' abusive privilege. Martin Luther King knew that, unions know that and it's why they were/are so violently opposed by the establishment and the state it controls. @@elleanna5869

[@patriciataylor1386]

It's not the truth! Black or Melanated People All around the globe have various Names as in Africa their are different tribes as the Nigerians, Congolese, Ghanians, Kenyans etc; Africa has 54 Countries. You aren't Granted anyone but a Construct that is made up. All racial Groups came from the Afican's whose DNA everyone carries. Take a sip on that

[@nba2kaii12]

You dont pick and choose you are your genetic make up there is no choosing its normal to be proud of where your from real men used to bleed for just that

[@Smokey348]

I don't get why they put ''american*'' as 3rd . What do they mean with british isles then

[@naithngr81-jh2bb]

They might put "American" because that's all they can think of. They are probably colonial descendants of the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, Scots-Irish and Irish)

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

Genetic studies have shown that the British Isles possess the greatest genetic affinity to the ancient Celts over any other group. The Irish are more Celtic than the British, however the British are a mixture of Anglo-Saxons with Celts, although the Anglo-Saxons spoke Germanic languages ​​they were actually a mixture of Germanic with Celtic. The Vikings were almost pure Germanic, but a small trace of Asian Siberian and Native American was found, probably the Siberian dna came from the Finno-Ugric of Scandinavia, the Native American dna was obtained from Viking raids in North America 1000 years ago

[@sandrasmith7091]

Somehow I've been blessed with the thought everyone is an individual. Color , race, ethnicity doesn't factor in for me. I think we're all different, unique. People's actions are what I look for. I'm also interested in my heritage, Appalachian probably scotch, irish, then german n dutch.. And your channel. I admire you for the task you've taken on.

[@Ariapeithes_]

Americans are Anglo-Celtic. Anglo-Brits are predominantly descended from Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norwegians Goidelic and Brittonic Celts. That is the heritage of white Americans. Biracial people are not white, does not matter what they self identify as, they only have white ancestry.

[@nytn]

Can you explain the last line? Thank you!

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@nytn Biracial and monoracial are two different things. In order for one to be white... that means they have to be predominantly monoracial. When someone refers to themselves as white the implication is that their homogeneity has been maintained over several generations. Charles B. Davenport founded the Laboratory for Eugenics in Colds Springs Harbor New York to proactively help put measures in place to keep the white race pure in America. Madison Grant and his pupil Lothrop Stoddard also wrote two very influential books on race and believed the Anglo-Saxon race should maintain it's purity to maintain dominance in America. Hope that helps.

[@nytn]

I did a video on eugenics, it is fascinating and frightening to me (and touched on Madison Grant as well). I am assuming I would not count as white (according to your first comment,) which also fascinates me. @@Ariapeithes_

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@nytn You clearly have a more Caucasian cranio-facial skeletal structure if you want my honesty, but you look a little Mestizo as well: you are part Hispanic right? But I wouldn't call you full white. Plus your ancestry seems more southern European, like many Cubans such as Castro who was of Galician descent or Francisco Franco who was the dictator of Spain, and of Castilian heritage I believe. You almost look a little like Sarah Silverman who is Jewish, so I'm wondering if you have any Jewish ancestry like Sephardic perhaps. The actor who plays Raymond's(Ray Romano) brother on _Everybody Hates Raymond_ is a Sephardic Jew.

[@nytn]

You're pretty accurate. No Jewish (except a 1% Sephardic that sometimes shows up on my Grandma's distant Mexican side). Most DNA tests I am about 85% European. Raised "White" and "Italian/Irish"

[@xdfghdfghj-he3rt]

Why amazing

[@The1ByTheSea]

So your average American tends to be predominantly British Isles : English,Scot and Irish :lot of Gaelic and Celtic ancestry with many having a substancial amount of German: Germanic .7% American:these tend to be Southern people who tend to identify as :I guess they are also predominantly British Isles ancestry : Irish with maybe specks of African and Amerindian in them

[@Ariapeithes_]

Gaelic is a subset of Celtic.

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

My family has lived in the same city in SA since the 1680's. I did a few genetic tests and they all could be broken down by West European, North European and a small percentage Southern European. The remaining percentage couldn't be reliably attributed to any specific region/ethnic group. One of my friends, who's descended from the slave population of the country had his results be a pretty even break between West European, South Asian and West African.

[@Hlafdige1]

I look like the averaged phenotype, myself. I have a number of Egyptian friends and you really look a lot like their average phenotype. I'm sure not that's not accidental---it's probably a similar genetic mix.

[@cathjj840]

North Africa was populated by Eastern Mediterranean farmers, as was Western Europe, many thousands of years ago, probably as a result of disastrous climate change and degradation of their original habitat around the fertile crescent.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

it depends where their ancestors are from mine for example are from Sicily Northern Ireland Sweeden etc. though there is some distant native American though I don't remember which tribe at the moment

[@angelosedacca1940]

One needs to make the distinction between being WHITE and being CAUCASIAN. These words are not synonymous and interchangeable. A CAUCASIAN can have very light skin much or darker skin color; there is a spectrum. The term traditionally refers more to facial features and hair type and texture. Although they now self-identify as ASIAN-using geography rather than biology-Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Indians, and many Middle Easterners are CAUCASIAN but are not generally seen or considered as WHITE

[@Ariapeithes_]

White and Caucasian are interchangable because most Caucasians are fair skinned at least.

[@angelosedacca1940]

@@Ariapeithes_ the terms have become that way, but it is not accurate. Not all Whites are Anglo-Saxon-not all very fair. Gandhi was considered Caucasian, yet he was not “White”. Most persons from the Middle East and Northern Africa are Caucasian but have tan or olive skin.

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@angelosedacca1940 Gandhi is not nor has he ever been Caucasian buddy. That dude is Indian. Indians are racially heterogeneous. They are not pure Indo-Aryans any more.

[@ivyd5485]

Indians from the south would have a hard time being considered white anywhere in the world. They’re darker than me and I wouldn’t be considered white.

[@angelosedacca1940]

@@Ariapeithes_ I was just using him as an example of an Indian-someone with darker skin who might be considered CAUCASIAN-and was so prior to the creation and use of the category of ASIAN by the US Census. As Danielle’s videos covering the SCOTUS cases of the 1920s show us: MANY Caucasian immigrants from Europe were not considered WHITE by SCOTUS nor by the “average person”. At that time, Whiteness was just as much as a legal, social status as it was a racial designation. Not so anymore.

[@arturohull14161]

I’m mostly European with some Asian and distant Mohawk ancestors.

[@jeremeybuckley]

German, Italian, English

[@ansac3000]

I think the Scots would have a bone to pick too.

[@mrsandmom5947]

I am Northern European, Portuguese, Scottish/Irish and American Indian. My features are mostly Indian, my color is Northern European

[@miscalotastuff733]

My mothers side has the native american. I am the only one who shows it. I get confused for a light skinned hispanic quite often.

[@shreksnow1918]

@miscalotastuff733 Latinx

[@miscalotastuff733]

@@shreksnow1918 I work with several people who are hispanic and they hate that term with a passion. Was told to please say latino or hispanic. You might want ask first before using that word.

[@The1ByTheSea]

The Average White American phenotype or common North-West European phenotype. Even though there are different hair colors and textures :from straight to wavy and eye colors .The frontal view of the tip of the nose is almost identical to all the photos ,also the shape of the lips and the proportion gap between the tip of the nose and upper lip is almost identical .The foreheads are very similar and the fullness of the eye brows and the separation of the eye brows and the eyes set in deep the socket

[@Ariapeithes_]

But it's accurate. Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds both look like that. They are both Anglo-Saxons therefore Nordic. While Mel Gibson on the other is clearly more North Atlantid.

[@cristianp.9469]

​@@Ariapeithes_could you mention more examples of people who look North Atlantid?

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@cristianp.9469 Well there are a few different North Atlantid subtypes mixed with Brünn and Nordic. There are blue-eyed North Atlantid types and brown-eyed North Atlantid types. Gerard Butler Jennifer Connelly Eva Green Courtney Cox Giulio Berruti Eoin Macken Lynda Carter Henry Cavill Tom Selleck James McAvoy Alexandra Daddario Kat Dennings Eric McCormick Those are all the best examples I can think of.

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@cristianp.9469 I forgot two... Cillian Murphy and Lily Tomlin...

[@cristianp.9469]

@@Ariapeithes_ thanks! I get what you mean. They certainly have characteristics that sets them apart from Anglo-Saxons. Jennifer Connelly falls into the category of what some may call "Black Irish". Some of them have a Mediterranean look.

[@Truthseeker7771000]

Im black afro American or afro Descending, predominantly but honestly dna says west African - Nigerian -Ghanian - Gambian-Malian - Bene and Togo, Yemeni Jewish, Scandavian an Native American, Portuguese and British. However in my experience most people tell me to accept one drop rule. I choose to listen to my heart an an look at all my ancestors especially native tribes an middle eastern tribes I come from in addition to west african tribes. Most ppl look at me an because im so black or African looking which makes sense that i look more aftican which is perfectly fine by me ...many react negatively preferring i simply accept that im just black" i am not just onething i am many

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

I have a friend who looks half Asian and half Mexican. She has 0% Asian blood and all Mexican lol.

[@shreksnow1918]

Latinx

[@miguelenriquebeltre8882]

A vast majority of Mexican people are native Americans. If you look at the Native American phenotype, it resembles extremely the “Asian” look. There are hundreds of millions of non-Asian people with an “Asian” appearance spanning from Mexico & Central American to South America. The difference is that Native Americans those who are native to North and South America are never taken as a point of reference in broader culture. They are always considered in reference to something else (Asian, black, white etc.)

[@tragicallyhoney]

The obsession with race is weird lol. Eventually you'll get tired of making things complicated

[@nytn]

This was regarding research Harvard did, if you feel like it's complicated, you'll have to take it up with them. ☺

[@jrutt2675]

​@@nytnI think she meant white people as a whole doing this. But people Have no clue to the orgins of this phenomenon and why it's revelant.

[@borginburkes1819]

@@jrutt2675it’s because of slavery. Race is paramount in this country thanks to slavery and Jim Crow. There are still Jim Crow laws that haven’t been repealed.

[@nytn]

What are they? Would love to dig into that

[@borginburkes1819]

@@nytn most of them are super obscure and aren’t enforced. But there’s one that stipulates that black men aren’t allowed to “talk back” to white folk. And there’s another one where black and white men aren’t allowed to smoke cigarettes around each other.

[@jamesotisjr2322]

Have you noticed that old white guys tend to gravitate to a standard old white guy look? James Woods looks like Dennis Quaid looks like Kurt Rusell.

[@darrellm9915]

Lol Seen that in other races too.

[@pipeflush]

Most white Americans i know usually have a mix of Irish & German. Im not including the Cherokee and Black Foot Indian they claim to have 😅.

[@kimwalter8753]

If they have any Indian blood , it's $5 Indian blood, most likely.

[@nytn]

Since when can you “buy” your DNA?

[@SeasideDetective2]

I'm no physical anthropologist. However, based on what I do know, I can recognize the racial makeup of some of the people in the photo-montage at 6:03. The man at the top left corner, for example, looks very Irish ethnically (thin face, aquiline nose), and is probably from the northeastern United States. On the other hand, the woman at the bottom right has some classically Slavic features (pale skin, dark hair, high cheekbones), and is most likely from the Great Lakes region (Ohio, perhaps). I also see quite a bit of Nordic in there (so, Midwestern and Southern American).

[@starventure]

@@nytnI believe they are referring to the Oklahoma land scam that encouraged whites/quantum native americans to declare themselves native in order to obtain land in the territory.

[@pipeflush]

@@kimwalter8753 😂 i thought the term was "2 dollar indian". Your most likely right about that and the term.

[@zigm7420]

It would be interesting to know the percentage of “white” Americans who have both African AND Native American ancestry as you and I do.

[@JTScott1988]

She still looks white as fuck. So she won’t be treated as a black personality. So she’s not black. I have French and German in me. Do u think I ever got treated like it? Nope not One single time.

[@cathjj840]

Doesn't absolutely everyone the planet have some African DNA?

[@Mista_Terrific81]

​@@cathjj840Accroding to Richard Spencer, David Duke, and Jared Taylor, no!

[@darrellm9915]

​@@cathjj840 No. I'm not sure why you would think that.

[@nicolelewis6312]

​@@cathjj840Not remotely true. I'm apprehensive to ask why you assume this.

[@tmcaleer50]

You have hit on a topic that I have been contemplating and ‘have words’ about it for some time. I get so ruffled when a document asks for my ethnic background. 1) we all are of the human race 2) if they are accurately collecting precise genetic data, my IRISH/SCOTCH/Polish ethnicity is left off of all lists. 3) I do realize some medical issues are specific to genetic makeup of those practicing certain religions and that is not asked either. Who is utilizing this data they have been collecting on all of us these years? Where are these statistics that we can review? How accurate is this data when various ethnicities inter marry watering down the statistics anyhow?

[@desertdc123]

I fully agree with you @tmcaleer starting with your #1. I wish "we the people" could review how well their statistics and archaic classifications compare to reality. As you're not mentioned on lists, imagine us from S Europe / N Africa ancestry! Or how it is to see an immigrant from Spain or Italy speaking their Latin-based language called White, but a Hispanic person with Spanish mixed with Native American who can barely speak any Spanish called Latino (or per academia, Latinx). Someone is still unable to connect dots.

[@cathjj840]

The real reason is political: divide and conquer - it's as old as the hills. The US being a so-called classless, egaliltarian society, those who crave power at all costs (to others - no cost to them) need race as a divider. That's why the melting pot had to crack, the most underprivileged group (ex-slaves) had to be kept down and all others were given better status so they'd learn to climb on that ladder towards the top at the expense of others.

[@brett6239]

Yeah they lumped Scottish, Irish, and English together. You know I don't think US historians appreciate how different these groups were. Both in the old world and the new. There was still a lot of bad blood up to 200 years after they all arrived in the states. Sherman considered the Civil War a race war between the English and Scots-Irish. Suspect many people did back then.

[@bircruz555]

WWI was also a war between Germans and Brits. German Americans went through hell in those days.

[@cathjj840]

Civil wars are always the most vehement and vile. They are all very closely related genetically. It's the different admixtures from other groups that distinguish them from their common celtic base.

[@bircruz555]

Being British is a national affiliation. Anglo Saxon is an ethnic definition. In any case, Britain touts Anglo Saxon heritage. @@13anjowizard

[@Galidorquest]

Are they really that different? You wouldn't be able to tell if someone is Scottish, Irish or English unless they tell you or make it obvious.

[@brett6239]

@@Galidorquest Go back 1,000 years and you would find them speaking different languages and being different religions. All hating and at constant war with each other.

[@The1ByTheSea]

The last woman on the bottom right can pass for Latina /Hispanic .Many castizos:mestizo and white admixture look like that

[@Galidorquest]

Exactly my thoughts. A lot of Latinos identify as Caucasian.

[@leg414]

I think a very good video process here but i take what is said from other people of other nations, that "White" Americans are always perceived in Asia for example, are blond and blue-eyed and very fair to pale and this is America...Though there are many Black African tyupes, either immigrants or indigenous and other races of people, unlike their places which are mostly [ to them as they do not recognize!] homogeneous populations. I can tell what a person is considered "white" by their answers to me.....As ethnics like Italians and Irish and Germans go by their country of birth or residing and their clans or family designation, but Americans, British, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders...Most Always say "white" as they identify from the British-American view of themselves, even with their various mix of European names as to where they could have come from originally. Now they all just lump themselves as a monolithic group and class despite the differences they say or think about what they and their families are. Peace

[@The1ByTheSea]

You can see that those whites that have some African ancestro and those having Iberian ancestry are in Louisiana

[@darrellm9915]

Big lips, dark hair & olive skin doesn't mean you have African ancestry lol.

[@darrellm9915]

I have similar traits, and no African/Arab DNA.

[@iagas9]

I know this is an old video but I’ve been interested in family history and came across this. I am 50% White American and 50% European (my dad was born in the UK and is a mix of English, Irish, etc) and I am curious why British people or German people often look so different from white Americans when most of us have ancestry from these countries. I genuinely think that anyone could tell my dad was born in Europe just by looking at him

[@scottyrobot]

all those faces look like stock hallmark movie actors

[@richierichpalmer9924]

This is all a bunch of bs. It is not valid past your grandparents. And siblings are given different DNA results. As well, different companies show different results.

[@carolinezervan6301]

I already made a comment so please look at that. I am adding some details the o forgot to mention. My nat. American ancestors were Canadian indigenous. They were lumped with my French Canadian ancestry. I also had some English Canadian ancestry too. I am 66. My French Canadian ancestors came to Michigan some where in the mid 1800s where they settled.

[@mitchyoung93]

Funny that after I saw your video on Richard B Spencer I did a search for how European white Americans are but I did it by mistake in the KZbin search bar...and this came up. I can't see how you can deny our existence in November 2023 when you post a video confirming our existence in September 2023.

[@nytn]

That video talks about the actual ethnic breakdown typical for "White Americans". I question the color category 100%, but obviously, Americans are of mostly European stock

[@SeasideDetective2]

This is very interesting. I, myself, look very much like the man at the left at the beginning of this video, except that my face is more triangular and my skin a bit lighter. My sister, however, looks very different from the woman on the right: thinner face, thinner lips, lighter skin, and a more aquiline nose. According to the most recent census results, U.S. citizens in the aggregate are made up of (to use the terms common in the ethnographic studies of 100 years ago) the Nordic, Alpine, Niger-Congo, Mediterranean, Aztec, and Mayan racial stocks (in roughly that order). That's at least three geographic races and several distinct gene pools - more diversity than most European, Asian, and African nations. Ironically, the lighter the skin is on a White American, the more likely they are to possess African or Native DNA. This is because "Anglo-Saxon" people were the very first to arrive in what would become the eastern USA over 400 years ago, and they were thus afforded many more years to mix with (larger populations of) Americans of color. (It helped that interracial marriage did not start to become taboo in the English colonies until the last decades of the 17th century.) I have very fair skin (except in the summer) and can trace my father's mother's ancestry back to the very early settling of Jamestown, Virginia, and so I have marginal amounts of Algonquin (or perhaps Cherokee) and Senegambian ancestry. (By the way, the White population of the USA is higher than people think according to some metrics, since Mexican-Americans were counted as White until about the 1970s, and even today many of them can "pass" for White - and miscegenation with Anglo-Americans is furthering this trend.)

[@tknows470]

Except that there are a lot of light skinned Mexicans due to the Spanish heritage. Spaniards are Europeans and many are light.

[@johnnyearp52]

I don't agree that paler skin = more native blood

[@SeasideDetective2]

@@johnnyearp52 Not categorically, no. But in the USA, the paler you are the longer you've been here, so the more Native genetic material your ancestors had with which to breed - AND the more time they've had to breed the Native phenotype out of your gene pool again. There's a reason why the majority of "Native Americans" look white.

[@dexkato7329]

Makes me wonder how accurate DNA test results really are? When will Americans obsession with race end?

[@nytn]

I hope that once we can understand how silly it all is, "racial divides" can stop being used to manipulate people into voting a certain way or another.

[@MichaelHeinen-qk6gg]

​​​​​​​@@nytnMost white North Americans came from the immigration systems less the 200 years ago compared to the Europeans who's ancestors came here to North America more then 200 years ago , so they would more likely to be mixed with native and African American because those 3 groups were living here together since the 15 and 1600s .

[@naithngr81-jh2bb]

Ahhhh, colorblind racism. To answer the first part of your question, there is still a lot of work to be done for the ethnicity part of the tests to get better.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@nytnThen they will use Ethnic divides. Or rural/urban divides. Or male/female divides. Or even better yet (sarcasm) religious divides. That is how politics seem to work.

[@toddbefield1100]

99.8% euro ancestry here with 0.1% sub-saharan african...assuming that is just background noise since only a tenth of a percent?

[@prioritytarget7157]

It probably means that it comes from waaaaaay back. Euro father and an African mother, and then that child mixed into Europe for the remainder of the ride.

[@vcab6875]

British and Irish belong together. They share Celtic, Viking, Norman English, Scot Irish blood.

[@darrellm9915]

Yeah, thought that would be kind of obvious to her.

[@gemmaarmstrong1404]

No way they belong together!

[@Bob-gq8dy]

ok except that american anglos and british people look nothing alike. Britsh goblins are not anglo saxon or vikings. lol.

[@vcab6875]

@@Bob-gq8dy thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@Bob-gq8dy]

@@vcab6875 yw

[@deellaboe437]

My family came from Norway they didn't become white until they were baptized Christian. They described them as ruddy lol! but not white. They did the same for German at least in Minnesota they did especially around 1857 and later. My mom did her dna she has 12% Ghanaian, so somebody has some explaining to do lol!! only jokes but obviously someone was African.

[@dietlindvonhohenwald448]

Ruddy just meant red-faced, it did not mean dark.

[@evanbeery3619]

I’m a white American just took a test I am 21% welsh or Scottish 30%French 36% Iberian and southern Italian and 12% mesoamerican didn’t have any clue about the Spanish or native till now but I have gotten mistaken for Latino before

[@larsedik]

I look a lot like the phenotype Average White American, but a lot of my family and relatives have red or blond hair and are paler than the phenotype. According to 23&Me, I am 52% German, 34% British & Irish (mostly English in that), 4% Scandinavian, and the rest is broadly NW European. I am 99.4% NW European overall, and I have zero Mediterranean and zero African or Native American. I was unaware of my English heritage until recently, when I found some genealogical research that some of my cousins have done. My English ancestors came to American mostly between 1630 and 1660, and so they are probably what people would consider "American" heritage. My German ancestors came much more recently and immigrated directly to Texas, some when Texas was an independent country, but some in the late 19th Century. I know I have ancestors from France and Switzerland, but 23&Me did not find them. A lot of people think I look like I am from northern Italy (especially people in Italy), but many of my relatives look Scandinavian or Celtic, including my brother and sister, who both have red hair.

[@johnnyearp52]

​​@@13anjowizard Not only. Anglos and Saxons are specific Germanic tribes. Her German blood from Germany wouldn't necessarily include that.

[@sean864]

Im from ireland, and looking at ur profile picture and complexion. U would pass for an irish (celtic person) person.

[@joebarnett5358]

white is a legal term.

[@christiantaylor1495]

I'm metaphysically White.

[@dottiscamprunamuck2830]

European and white are/were considered different things, but it can be enterchanging today. I have been told by my dad who he didn't considered "white", he never said it in a disrespectful way, just how he had been told. My uncle married a Native woman in the 1950s and it was never shunned. My N American cousin lived on the reservation and is the only male carrying on my family's name, it dies/lives with them. Western white people have a different culture than Southern Europeans. Much like Northern N Americans have different cultures than N Mexicanos, & native S Americans.

[@Culpeppered]

I am mostly of European descent and am 1/8 Cherokee from Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. I am one of the 2.7% “white” Americans who is ACTUALLY Cherokee and who is not just repeating a bullshit Cherokee Princess story my granny told me. I am naturally blonde and blue eyed, so nobody who isn’t Cherokee and from our communities knows that I am Cherokee. I wish everyone would take a DNA test since they won’t educate themselves enough to realize that if they’re not apart of the tribe and their families aren’t known by the tribe, they aren’t Cherokee. We are a community who knows who our people are.

[@ernietbone4168]

Indeed. It's not a matter of whom you claim, but who claims you!

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

I think the white American's are German, British/Irish descent

[@kjl6039]

My greatest percentage in my DNA is from Sweden. I also have Czech, German, Scottish, Italian and English. However, I have ancestors from all over Europe that did not show up in my DNA, like Spain. My ancestors were royalty in England and other European countries for centuries, so they intermixed with each other. I call myself a mutt. I have no DNA or ancestors from Africa or Native American. I am all European.

[@dierreadkins5781]

The most interesting part of this is that white people that be saying yo I got native or black in my family they be lyiiiiiiiiiiiiin

[@nytn]

LOL😂 well I think a lot of people really believe it

[@Bob-gq8dy]

@@nytn its because they were raised to think that through racial humilaition, something you are taking part in now. Just wait until the day that white people are proud, happy and ready to defend their whiteness again. You will be left with not much. LOL. Who will be laughing then?

[@nytn]

Well I was raised White so why would I be laughing 😬

[@aaronaverheart4567]

If I half to be called African American then y'all should be called European American. Doesn't feel to good does it

[@johnnyearp52]

I prefer European American to Anglo. Anglo sounds like a floor cleaning product. I probably prefer European American to white as well. No one is actually the color white. The only problem is that European American is so many syllables. Too long.

[@Thorkildzen]

I would never be a part of a group that would have me as a member

[@aaronfagerstrom34]

$8 says you're "popularr" bc youre pretty

[@purplepanther2771]

"British and Irish" really means Celtic, which is why Irish people score the highest while English people, especially in the eastern region, score the lowest. Eastern English people often score more "German". One look at a map will show why this is the case. I'm referring to 23andMe, by the way.

[@jackieblue1267]

It's more Insular Celtic not Celtic as populations like the Irish and Scots actually have less Continental Celtic than southern English. In short there is not much Continental Celtic dna in Irish, Scots and Welsh so it is not really accurate to label Irish, Scottish and Welsh dna as Celtic. It is why all Irish, Scots, Welsh and English cluster genetically together and they are primarily Northwestern European populations.

[@purplepanther2771]

@@jackieblue1267 I know. I use "Celtic" as shorthand because most people know what I mean when I use it. They don't think of Austrians. They think of the Native Isles populations.

[@PCOCPA]

OK, it is what it is. I'm Italian. My wife is Mexican (with a little Italian, too!). We check the 'white' box. What's the point?

[@stevenjames6830]

Mexican isn’t a race that just means mestizo

[@justsaying653]

2:53: "So, most people who are walking around the United States identifying as white, or see themselves that way, most of them do not have American Indian or African-American DNA". What a strange statement to make. DNA investigations are genotype-based , not some kind of psycho-feeling-type. What people 'identify as' or as you tautologically affirm "see themselves that way" is for sure NOT a conclusion you can draw. 'Identifying as' is an arbitrary non-defined fantasy that has no bearing at all in this. Being British, Dutch, Russian does not imply any genetic type because these are politically defined nationalities which do not share any specific genetic demographic, as is the US. They are paperwork identities not racial. Russia has borders with Norway, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. Also .19% is pronounced "point one nine percent".

[@nytn]

Thanks for clarifying!

[@carolinezervan6301]

I took 23 and me in sure of nat. American DNA. I wasn't going to be surprised if i found African dna and i did. But also found Filipino dna and boy was that a surprise. But were less then one percent. I didn't get any n.a. dna. I seemed to be getting it from my maternal grandfather who had two wives. Most of my close relatives who share him got pretty much the same results but not all.

[@stephenmccagg]

Digging into making that racial division greater, good job Ms. Amalgam.

[@nytn]

LOL

[@Joe-xj2tb]

WELL I AM 99.99% EUROPEAN AND HAVE 15 POSSIBLE RELATIVES FIGURE THAT OUT!!!!

[@dvbibbs192]

I think white Americans have different admixtures depending on what state their ancestors grew up in. A white American from Montana most likely would have less African ancestry than a white American from the South. A white American from the West Coast or Southwest probably would have more native ancestry than someone in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Who knows really? I hate making general assumptions. We don't know for sure just by looking at someone.

[@Bob-gq8dy]

its not white people from the south with mixed ancestry, its black people from the south. Most white people from the south are heritage americans with no indian or african dna.

[@dvbibbs192]

@@Bob-gq8dy yes I believe that there are white southerners that try to claim that they are 100% European in their genome for heritage talk but let's face it... if your ancestors were here during or prior to the Civil War, it's next to impossible to not have any African or Indigenous blood. Proximity and the history of each States genome tells you a different story. I would argue that the average white southerner from Louisiana has at least 3% West African in their genome. Probably more. The average black Southerner has significantly more european in their genome about 25%.

[@bricktwo5849]

@@dvbibbs192 Most white americans in real life have recent african admixture and native american/asian. So if you combine white americans and white latino americans then the non europeans dna for white americans is higher.

[@bricktwo5849]

Admixture in non-Hispanic whites According to a 2015 study, white Americans have 98.6% European ancestry.

[@bricktwo5849]

The same study found that White Americans carried a high percentage of Native American maternal haplogroups.

[@kathleenmann7311]

We all came from NE Africa and their skin color is different shades of brown 🙄 (archaeological research).

[@Bob-gq8dy]

its not about skin color, its about skull shape and behavioral patterns.

[@sallyintucson]

Two of my siblings married tall, blonde haired, blue eyed spouses. Their children look the same. My guess is that they unconsciously (or otherwise since those two siblings are racists) wanted to keep the super white stereotype.

[@Bob-gq8dy]

blue jays are attracted to blue jays.