Who Exactly is "Mixed Race"?

Who exactly is mixed race or multiracial, and just what percentage of the world's population can be considered mixed race? Although it can sometimes be quite difficult to quantify just exactly who is mixed race and who is not, for today's video, I will be attempting to quantify this metric with objective standards.
We will be going over the various regions of the world and discussing and enumerating people groups and individuals who could be considered mixed race, even if the definition is quite loose and near impossible to pin down. Be sure to check out my previous videos where I go in depth into each of the extended regionalized ancestral continuums. Thanks for watching!
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[@mindrealminsights6517]

Wherever borders between countries or ethnic groups are easily passed, mixing usually occurs near those borders. Central Asia is a good example

[@janetmaria9314]

You look euro Asian

[@some156]

You look Samoan.

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Lynx I’ve been mistaken for many different ethnicities before but this is the first time someone said Samoan. Are you Samoan?

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Janet Maria I am sort of, 50% South Asian, 25% East Asian, 25% European

[@mindrealminsights6517]

etienne zhou No doubt that occurred as well. Genghis Khan comes to mind

[@Caleb.Brockie]

I’m part Native American and white. I’ll say no one has EVER asked “are you Native American?” In the US (except Hawaii) I get Latino or people assume I speak Spanish. In Hawaii they thought I was Polynesian/white mix. When I lived in France or traveled in Europe, people thought I was Arab (specifically Lebanese). When I traveled to Asia. I got half white and half Thai, Filipino, or Japanese

[@michael-bz5qz]

I'm mixed with black and Indian from the island Trinidad. They call us "dougla" which is due to historical racial tensions. My gf is Chinese and I always think about how my family tree in the future is going to look so crazy lol.

[@kbelmar]

trini to de bone

[@sparksfly6149]

You’re right lol! Still together?

[@nonplayercharacterbot155]

That's awesome!!!

[@sparksfly6149]

@Green Scenery Well you see, there’s this country called China…

[@BrandonshanesProductions]

Same

[@gustavog.hasegawa5360]

I'm born in Brazil, my father family is from Japan and my mom's family is Portuguese-Croatian Edit: Ppl are questioning if I can be considered white, just ?????? The point of the video is about how mixed we are and that's the point of my comment

[@svilexprdnutex8389]

Greetings from Croatia :)!

[@svilexprdnutex8389]

@Tube Tube taking nationalities. And if his parents are pure that means from his dads side hes asian (japanese) and from portugese side hes celtic (indo european). Of course if hes pure.

[@gustavog.hasegawa5360]

@Tube Tube Well since my Father family is not a mix family they are 100% Japanese from Hokkaido, my Mother family is mixed Portuguese( Latin European, Lusitanian ), with Croatian ( Slav ), maybe i have other's but i don't know...

[@hugosoareslemos1638]

I was born in Brazil also, my father's family is of Portuguese, Italian, African and Native American descent, my mother's family is of Portuguese descent

[@mangaanime17]

Cool

[@julianshepherd2038]

I grew up in Scotland and a mixed marriage was a Protestant wedding a Catholic. Offspring were then referred to as half Catholic. The brown people were Italian! Nonsense on top of nonsense.

[@bloodsportdebates1995]

@House of Savoy That's because Sub-Race and Ethnicity aren't the same thing many south Europeans are Nordic and some North and West Europeans are Mediterranean and Alpine.

[@houseofzuma1033]

@@bloodsportdebates1995 Whats a sub-race?

[@bloodsportdebates1995]

@@houseofzuma1033 it's a category below race, it's a group who share some common features like a race but more fine gained, for example Caucasoids can be sub divided into at leats three major sub-races Nordic , Alpine, and Mediterranean, a good website to learn more is humanphenotypes dot net.

[@xenomorphexidious9102]

@House of Savoy Im swedish, but my ancestors are mixture between this nation, estonians and saami tribe.

[@areez22]

@@Just_another_Euro_dude Many Italians have Nordid influence. So do many in the Balkans.

[@MrGurushit]

That might explain my mixed feelings

[@momo-cchi5978]

😂😂😂

[@Ocidad]

😂😂 you got me

[@socktier6334]

I think everyone is “mixed” to varying degrees.

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

Indeed my brotha. But identity politically we are not

[@KamiTenchi]

@Ian Miles Nope.

[@gothmamasylvia462]

I agree. I took a DNA test, and came out to be 89% English, 11% Scottish and Irish, but having researched my family's genealogy for over 40 years, I know we also have Native American, and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry. That is many generations ago, so doesn't contribute significantly to my DNA now.

[@kivloli8385]

A lot of Bantus are still pure.

[@awareyah6146]

Are you saying that EVERY "black" person in America was a victim of rap*

[@alovioanidio9770]

Not even Icelanders are homogenous. For what I know, they're a population of mixed viking sailor fathers and celtic mothers taken from the British isles.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

norse gael men also settled there, it wasnt just gaelic and british women

[@belstar1128]

Yea and also in the last 50 years many migrants entered Iceland who have mixed over the years.

[@Lukvader9]

@The Nova renaissance Celts and Germans are two diffrent races, so Iceland isn't homogenous.

[@williambuck5617]

they have found native american now too in some familys it seems a native girl came to iceland on one of the early north american voyages

[@brightblackgrouse6236]

We do have some celtic blood in us (which is cool, im fine with that) but its not like its 50/50

[@dajanarahaseth9809]

I did the Dna test, and apparently I"m 28,4 % Nigerian. 23.7 Scandinavian and 46.9% Meso american. Blew my mind. What I knew was on my Father side, my Grandmother is Venezuelan and my Grandfather was mixed caribean, On my Mother side, my Grandmother was half white half black and so was my grandfather,.....But the Scandinavian part blew me away..

[@heem8814]

der viking

[@jewishspacelaseroperator5410]

The Swedish had a colony for over a hundred years on Saint Barthélemy. Probably has something to do with that!

[@raydark.]

African dna distort facial features.

[@Kznlu]

wait what dna test did you use? i wanna find my accurate results lol

[@dajanarahaseth9809]

@@Kznlu My Heritage Dna.

[@estevaocasimira539]

Black+White= "Mixed race" but they say "Black".

[@kevindasilvagoncalves468]

Yes. The pro-black movements claim mixed race people black+white are black just to increase their numbers. This is the same logic of american racist "one drop rule". Doesn't work for calling people white/european though.

[@selendriamuganogo7077]

kevin da silva gonçalves to increase our numbers? lol black women do not have problems getting pregnant, we are very fertile women... if we wanted to increase our numbers we’d just have more babies than we abort... we claim mixed race as black because that’s the way the world is gonna see them.. the police don’t put black in categories we’re all just black to them

[@belstar1128]

@Estevão Casimira Being black is cool these days

[@avigailaarons1187]

@Star of Europa So my man who is White loves me [ im kurdish Jew + Ashkenazi mixed]

[@Agustin-zg5wk]

lol that's just not true my man

[@Someonesomewhere5112]

My AncestryDNA results said that I’m 60% European, 21% African, 12% Native American and 7% Berber northern African. I’m carribbean.

[@Someonesomewhere5112]

@Hawra Ahmed thank you 😊

[@floridaman6572]

@@Gabriel-gm9ee personally I consider myself white because I’m 3/4 white however my family says I’m mixed and it’s rly been bothering me. Would you consider me white or mixed.

[@floridaman6572]

@@Gabriel-gm9ee that’s why the us is shit. The whites here are too inbred to see me as one of their own. If I’m three times more white than Asian then I am white, end of story!

[@rosasmith9835]

@@floridaman6572 I believe that. You are basically over 70% w h t . Why not just say you are? I consider you that.

[@floridaman6572]

@@rosasmith9835 I do say I am white. My comment clearly stated I claim European.

[@farhanazaman8938]

You cover such complex information with simplicity when explaining making it easy for rest of us to understand 😊

[@nikolaosaggelopoulos8113]

Everyone is of mixed race if you go far back enough.

[@frorrygaming5451]

U smart as shit huh that is why he diveded mixed to being atleast 25% something else

[@timuruntopalayagi4282]

LET THAT SINK IN!

[@frorrygaming5451]

@@timuruntopalayagi4282 why wtf u weird

[@kaydenprice3737]

Ya, true, but I hate it when people use that argument cause only real mixed race people that have like at least 1/16 or more of another race know what it feels like, completely different

[@GoldenBoyDims]

I don't think I'm mixed race maybe mixed species from like a 100 thousand years ago

[@Sam-fz3mx]

Being Puertorican, you can bet the house I'm mixed 😂

[@canelaboriqua2003]

Conqueror of all the chippies worry about wiping your own shithole😏

[@lorenzomerollazara4257]

@@Fyrdman razman kadyrov type beat

[@trulyblessed5254]

Conqueror of all the chippies -Nature wont allow it.

[@preciosa8574]

Sam Rodz being Dominican, you can bet i’m mixed 10000%

[@trulyblessed5254]

Conqueror of all the chippies -Famine, diseases and floods isn’t natural but due to the unethical activities of man.

[@rayspencer5025]

Best show yet! Truly excellent.

[@FidjuDomi]

Thanks for highlighting Cabo Verde proud to be from there.I am 60/40 African/European.

[@thebrocialist8300]

That’s a poor ratio imo

[@FidjuDomi]

You are free to have your opinion. It won't change my history and who I am.

[@user-ti4dl8tw7h]

How do you get 60/40 not 50/50?

[@caimccray7]

かんぐちあき most likely both parents had some level of african admixture

[@FidjuDomi]

Yes we are mix.multigenerational mix .Both parents.

[@rb5519]

I was intrigued by the discovery that there is a "Sardinian" language, distinct from Italian and closer to its Latin roots than Italian. Do you have a video about the Sardinian language/people?

[@guilhermehx7159]

The most intriguing language for me is pepekese

[@guilhermehx7159]

@David Miller weren't they part of the "sea peoples" too?

[@guilhermehx7159]

@David Miller cool

[@rebekahsquires2073]

I absolutely loved this video! 🥰thank you 🥳

[@mistressofstones]

I told a Korean friend once I was Scottish and English and he said "I didn't know you were mixed" such a weird moment for me. What is mixed is a matter of opinion only I think.

[@alex-sv8ru]

East Asians like the Koreans and Japanese are supposed to be very homogenous

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

Its because he’s stupid. They’re both wight its not a mix.

[@Ix-.-xI]

so you're changing identity into a Korean now after a couple of years? 😭

[@KrispyKitty66]

@@Ix-.-xI LMAOO

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Some people say I look like a Turk, or Turkic, but I'm not. I'm South Asian mixed with east Asian and Euro

[@some156]

You looks Samoan.

[@m.b.e.2334]

You dont look turkish maybe turkic turks here have round eyes

[@mindrealminsights6517]

MBE Mapping yeah I agree, I don’t think I look Turkish either. I think the people actually meant Turkic or Central Asian. My eyes are more round than Asian looking though

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Lynx Haha yes you said that before I think. First time someone said that! You must be Samoan, right?

[@r.m2192]

MindRealm Insights Look Kazakh if anything

[@erinstoner7817]

I was born in America However my father was born in Sicily his mother’s mom was Greek and Sicilian my fathers father was a black Moore sub Saharan Africa . My skin is brown my hair extremely curly but I have green eyes. I’m always asked “what are you?” Do you tan? Or are you black and white? Now I absolutely love my mixture. There’s only one race however, human We have different color shades, melanin or lack of. Sicilian people were most conquered bringing a very vast mix of people’s. I’ve not heard you talk about this as of yet. When I was born I had to be tested for sickle cell. I’m considered a mixed person but I do know not all Sicilian people are.

[@Mr.Nichan]

I think these "mixed" populations are kind of an artifact of where you decided to draw the lines between races. Perhaps a more sociologically useful definition would be to say that races, while fundamentally genetic, are defined by culture. Thus, a population that is a distinct group (including if it's the majority) is by definition a race, and thus not mixed race. Basically, "mixed race" is what happens when the race boundaries that a culture sets up are broken. I'm not really sure how this fits into continuum racism like "colorism", though. I think it doesn't. The whole idea of "mixed" race implies that there is such a thing as non-"mixed" race. That requires there to be hard boundaries, unless there's some kind of continuum between "more mixed" and "less mixed".

[@jmgonzales7701]

tbh we need to drop white, black or color in general as a racial classification.

[@riverfire6357]

Now i know why your so intrigued, love the work.

[@LynxRhyme]

I'm a Brazilian My results on Genera *58% Europe* 👇 *41% Ocidental Europe:* Includes Germany, Netherlands, France, and British Isles. *9% Iberian* *4% Italy* *>3% Sardinian* *>2% Finn-Uralic* *>2% Basque* *23% Africa* 👇 *10% Africa East* *8% Maine Coast* *4% Africa West* *>2% Horn Of Africa* *12% Americas* 👇 *8% Amazonia* *3% Andes* *>2% Patagonia* *Middle East and Maghreb 7%* 👇 *6% Maghreb* *>2% Syria*

[@lorancegaming7316]

if you are less than 2 percent syrian, then you are syrian, welcome my brother

[@R1BV88MIXED]

My results between various DNA sites with Raw Data. Ancestry: Central Africa, Bantu Kenyan( Matched in 3 sites), South ern Africa( Matched in 3 sites), Yoruba( several sites), Mundo DNA: Kenya( 42%), Gambia, Mandenka, Mozabite( North Africa) 1.3%, Italy 2.88%, Sardegna 1.3% , Iberia Spain 1.3%, France 1.2% , England and Scotland 0.59, Finland 0.49, South Asia 1.10 % and East Asia. America 0.92.

[@Strylover]

Throughout history, any time that there are two groups of people next to each other (over some period of time) there is going to be some mixing....always happens. Depending on how the groups get along, could be a little mixing, or could be a lot of mixing.....but there will always be some mixing going on. Thanks for the video. As usual, your work is very good.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

not in india

[@Strylover]

@@Tomas-ml9nv I have never been to India myself, so I can't speak from personal knowledge, but it was mentioned in the video that there has been quite a lot of group mixing in India (and the sub continent region) over thousands of years).....with lots of different groups moving in and moving through.

[@hughmanetti1908]

I'm trying to get mixing with my neighbor. 😁

[@maxis2k]

I think the whole mixed race thing is based on subjective links to nations, regions and cultures. Not really ethnicity at all. Because as the video said, you could say everyone is mixed race if you go back far enough. These days, we consider people of ancestry coming from the British Isles to be one of the most homogenized in the world. But in reality, they're one of the most mixed, as they were mixed in with the French, Celtic, Norse, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Russians, Indians, Africans, Middle Eastern and pretty much every group outside of East Asia. You just need to go back more than a few generations to find it. But again, notice how almost every label I just used was based on a regional or national identity. That's not really a good basis for grouping people together. At best, it's confusing since a group like "Brazilian" or "South American" is not one homogenized group. It's as big of a melting pot as the USA or UK. The point I'm trying to make with all this is, I feel like ethnicity is kind of a pointless distinction these days. I know in many parts of the world it's still a big deal. Heck, it's becoming a big deal again in the USA with some people. But I just choose not to be one of those people.

[@Prima_Al]

Cape Verdean here! 🇨🇻Thanks for the shout out lol.

[@ness249]

The euro-african girl straight up looks moroccan

[@kivloli8385]

Cause of the barbary slave trade

[@bigsouth010]

You wouldn't believe how many African Americans look like north Africans. I mean I'm light brown but my mom is light skinned with green eyes and both her parents are black Americans.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

Meh, not really. Some sure, but by no means the majority.

[@tajneeley]

It’s literally just because we have similar phenotypical traits

[@ragamuffinhooligan4019]

Aint 80% of African-Americans have white blood. Precisely, why they are lighter than Afro-Caribbeans & Continental Africans! Full stop.

[@conmara6492]

Most people would label me as "exotic" or Mediterranean looking. I was often confused for a local when I was in Greece rather than just a tourist, like I was. Thing is, I'm not Mediterranean, not even close to that region. I'm mixed race Sinhalese/Gaelic Irish, knowing both regions probably some other stuff mixed in. So yeah

[@hanyu_dada]

irish have a higher iberian dna than english

[@conmara6492]

@@hanyu_dada depends on what you mean by Iberian. Whether that mean Iberian Celts that sailed over to Ireland in the Iron Age, or the Spanish survivors of the Wreck of the Armada in 1688 who intermixed with the locals

[@jmgonzales7701]

Same, would get labeled as mexican, arab or indian. however I'm filipino of Chinese descent.

[@FirstLast-hz8ut]

Even people of Punjab are mixed race. Many groups of people invaded and settled in Punjab like: -Scythian’s (Kambojas and other groups) - Huna people (Nezak Huns, Alchon Huns) -Hepthelites - Sindhis -Kashmiris -Pashtuns -Rajashtanis -Persians -Arabs -Tocharian’s -Kushans -Wusuns -Turks -Mongols -Greeks -Qarmatians -Bactrians -Parthians And Various other groups. That’s why Punjabi’s have a variety of different phenotypes.

[@user-ll6pr5cw1f]

Bro whole India is mixed race of four indegenious people hunter gatherers, Iranian farmers , mongaloid ,Aryans , iam tamil in Kerala , my relative look like middle easterners but I look like streotype south indian , even Punjabi is mix of Aryan,Iranian farmers,hunter gatherers

[@FirstLast-hz8ut]

S I know. But Punjab is more mixed than India. We are the Gatekeepers of India.

[@ariel5341]

I would love for you to do a video on the British Afro Caribbean people of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Belize!! It's a very interesting mixed race group. My father is from the Bay Islands, Honduras and many people do not know about this culture and I always find myself having to explain how I am Honduran but not Spanish.

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

LOVE IT MASON!!

[@joyelias6975]

Interesting video. By the way, mixing as a result of colonialism in Africa did not just happen in the Cape. It happened throughout the continent. In fact, in Southern Africa, "colored" (as in cape-colored) is a term used to identify people of mixed race. Moreover, people of mixed race have formed communities to the point where some consider it a race on its own. I am one of them - Malawi, Southern Africa. I'm mixed with African Bantu, Indian, and Scottish.

[@nickb3345]

I’d probably put you in the Black category.

[@joyelias6975]

@@nickb3345 That's okay. People have different opinions about what they think I look like. Like I said, I'm mixed so I accept what people say. I find it interesting.

[@lanawallace2964]

I am mixed race and proud 😊 White English mummy and a black/Indian/Carib mixed Caribbean daddy. To me it’s beautiful how diverse our planet is 💓

[@pensatoreseneca]

Caribbean is not a race !.. what is Caribbean in terms of race ?

[@wolth8584]

no one gone see u as mixed 💀

[@vanousisi8112]

Lol

[@vanousisi8112]

@@wolth8584 why?

[@vanousisi8112]

@@wolth8584 why ? Just because of her facial features ??

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

I'm a Filipino, my mom has mixed Chinese ancestry while my dad's side has a mix of Spanish and Jewish ancestry.

[@prudencel1652]

Interesting

[@jmgonzales7701]

@@prudencel1652 yeah maybe he or she was an descendant of those "manilaners" during ww2 Manuel quezon president of commonwealth Philippines took in jewish refugees that escaped against Austrian painter. Some of them did mix with the natives. Maybe that's the same case? thou i do not know.

[@janedoe1146]

Love your videos! This one is excellent, thank you!

[@NothinginMind503]

Race is a social construction and it changes over time and defined by who is in charge of the Census. Even defined differently in different Nations.

[@DeepHouse79]

I really liked your explanation here of what it is to be of mixed race. As a Latino of Mexican and Honduran descent, I grew up using the term mestizo to identify myself. The term literally means mixed in Spanish. My DNA test that I took a few years back clearly substantiates it: 37% Mexican Indigenous, 37% Spanish and the rest made up of many other ethnic groups including sub-Saharan African and Ancient Alien! #RazaCosmica

[@manwith85iqattemptstounder97]

Basado

[@itssbba9627]

Nice! My dad’s Honduran and my moms Irish and some middle eastern I did a dna test and got 69% European 15% Native 10% Asain and North African and middle eastern and 6% sub Saharan African

[@reddotsxul8166]

I’m a bit late but yeah, you described pretty much why Hispanics/Latinos are mixed raced. A combination of western/southern European, Native American/indigenous, and a little bit of African. Just like myself

[@jew331]

Ew

[@wavstudionet]

I met a person in uni with Spanish first and last names whose skin was dark brown, but with spiky straight hair- he looked like a very dark Mexican. It turns out he is Honduran and a pretty easy going guy. The point is appearances don't tell you who a person is or how he is she identifies in the world. A person gets to do that for themselves. If society labels someone, it's up to that person to at least make the effort to correct that society in some way. As a tiny bit of that society, I usually view people with a multicultural lens anyway. A woman and I once shared our ancestry backgrounds in conversation, and remarked hers (German +Norwegian) was "rather boring." I remarked that the cultures - despite both being European - were quite diverse, noting the foods (staying away from the lutefisk, mind you) special to each.

[@arielgaray302]

Mestizo here! 🙋‍♂️ From Ecuador 🇪🇨

[@user-qv5cs4lc9t]

Masaman, can you do a video about the *BaiYue* *(Hundred Yue Tribes)?* _Are they, Austronesian or Viet? or Tai-Austronesian?_

[@YusufNasihi]

Masaman, as your viewers, we are fortunate that you happen to come from such a mixed background and were therefore potentially more inclined to read and go on to educate others about human genetics. There are humbling lessons for humanity in learning about the history of migration. As for myself, I am a descendant of Turkish and western European parents. So based on your 25% criterion, it is possible the Western Eurasian part of me exceeds 75% and I am not mixed race. The current (anti-climactic?) predictions (eg. "White Shift", Eric Kaufmann) of integration of 'brown' immigrants into the white sociocultural group may be supported your 25% threshold.

[@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980]

Is that 25% threshold true? Is it real?

[@e.m.p.3394]

Well comments section. You've got an interesting one today. I'm Afro-Indian(india)-white-Chinese-native American Cept I'm I'm Jamaican-Americn by nationality.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

What a gwaan yaadie. Just ignore dem, dem ignorant and clueless about how genetics work.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

That's why we in the Caribbean who know our family tree just call ourselves by our nationality race thing don't make any sense. Don't understand at all why so many keep feeding this retarded unscientific idea that humans can just be grouped into a stupid box and call it a day. Doctors have to treat every patient individually even in families so it baffles me how people claim this and this race is stupid and that and that is prettier and better than everyone else.

[@e.m.p.3394]

@@hainleysimpson1507 I KNOW!! That's what I love about our general carribean cultures. We don't honestly care

[@hainleysimpson1507]

@Nyarlathotep You sound like you are clueless. No such thing as race it's made up bullshit.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

@Nyarlathotep It's far more sensible an accurate to group people based on their culture than appearance.

[@rayspencer5025]

I am heavily of Nordic stock (directly and indirectly) with tiny bits of Roman, Balkan, Turkic, Spanish (though some sources show it as Basque), Yakut, and Haudenosaunee. The Native American side of my family (Mother) has a considerable history of interracial breeding with Europeans (at least mostly from England, Scotland, Ireland). My Grandmother was a Seneca on the Reservation, but could not look more Scottish, even had a very Scottish name. My Grandfather was acknowledged as a "half-breed" ( actually Mohawk, French, England, Dutch, maybe more), but looked very Native American, kind of like a skinny Sitting Bull. I am especially fascinated by the totally unexpected Yakut part of my ancestry.

[@janetmaria9314]

Love your videos you really do intensive research along with exact illustrations I was wondering could you do a video of the people of South Africa how the Europeans obtained high amounts of outside race dna and how they Yet they maintained most of their European dna also on the “colored “Mixed History and of their is any mixture among the black people

[@lefse2278]

I’m all sorts of interested. I did a dna heritage test and I’m mostly Norwegian/Swede then the shock I found 1% Native American. I where my fourth great grandpa was Pierre vital (Pedro). He had at-least one child with my 4thgrandmother of the pawnee tribe. It’s so cool!

[@pagani9742]

I am half Han chinese and half Dravidian indian but i mostly look like polynesian or native amerindian or austroasiatic

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Are you from Malaysia or Singapore? I believe people of that mix are known as 'Chindian' there

[@pagani9742]

@@mindrealminsights6517 I am actually from Reunion Island, a French island (and born near Paris).

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Pagani 974 I had to google where Reunion Island is. Very interesting! I have friends from Mauritius so maybe it is a bit similar?

[@pagani9742]

@@mindrealminsights6517 Yes we are very close, Reunion people often go to Mauritius, and my mother is actually Mauritian by nationality, being Han by ethnicity. They are both amazing islands, i recommend travelling there. Masaman did a video on people of Reunion and Mauritius (Indian Ocean people more widely). It's in fact not so similar, the big difference being the french touch of Reunion island.

[@mindrealminsights6517]

Pagani 974 ok thanks for the info, I’ll look into it. Cheers

[@fallingeast4601]

I'm half English and half Pakistani, and I grew up in the UK. When I did a DNA test, I found that I had SIX separate "ethnicities" with none having the majority!

[@user-ti4dl8tw7h]

I'm half Korean/Italian (south), I'm afraid I'll get similar results from DNA like you too (especially since south Italians/Sicilian may have many mixed heritage) 😨

[@ZarzenLetsPlay]

I like how in the graphic at 4:43 Quebec is considred as part of Latin America beceause of the French language

[@idaviolasimensen4624]

I recently took a DNA test, and I'm a mix (even if it doesn't look like it) of Japanese / Korean, Chinese / Vietnamese, some Central Asians, like the Kazakhs (and maybe the kyrgyz) and a tiny bit of Finnish. Never thought of that. I'm only 47% Korean / Japanese, and I guessed maybe like 50-70 % Korean.. :) I'm adopted.

[@personofnoimportance5590]

Really interesting! I know one asian girl who surprisingly had Finland in small percentage too there.

[@traaotuong6107]

You got the whole Asians in you, girl.

[@hollyharvey1986]

I have Finnish in me!

[@grantmourning189]

Finland language is an unknown origin. Its not germanic like all of northern europe. Finland actually closest tries to Japanese language. Thats what i've heard. Funny thing is there is also a conspiracy theory that japanese were doing illegal Whaling near Finland and had to cover up their activity by creating a language unknown to those in the region. Doesnt make any sense to me. Also a conspiracy tying to the finnish language is that Finland doesnt actually exist but is instead just part of sweden.

[@casanova8762]

I am 87'5% Iberian, the rest north african, am I mixed race?

[@tc6592]

Many thanks Masaman, really love your videos. Totally agree we all have racial mixture somewhere along the line. Can you do a video on the possible origin of the Kurds?

[@jokegajr2748]

Hello masaman wow interesting video first one here

[@rodneyoneal8428]

Thank you very much for explaining this it is very confusing.👍👍👍👍👍

[@latamhistoryco.9650]

so I am from Venezuela, both my parents are from Venezuela, my mom is white (in aspect at least, but her parents have portuguese, african and amerindian ancestry) and my dad is black (once again just in aspect as he has spanish and amerindian ancestry) most of that intermixing probably took place during the colonial era, that means hundreads of years ago, so could I consider myself mixed?

[@valen.b.2364]

Obviamente 🙄🙄🙄

[@Unwavering_Baka]

I was born Yakutia, Russia. I have an Russian/Polish/Evenks/Yakutian ancestry from my father's side and Chukchis/Yukaghirian/Evens/Cossacks ancestry from my mother's side. Interesting part is that older and younger sisters of my maternal grandmother has light skin and grey/blue eyes despite asian looks, probably because their grandfather was of cossack origin.

[@mrjamila88]

Wonderful informative video. We all mixed. The human race very beautiful and diverse ❤️

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

The fact that you have a grandparent of West Iranian descent somewhat surprised me and in a touching way.

[@yeahaboutthatthough3656]

I'm African American. Purchased a DNA kit from 23 and me and my mix is almost exactly what Masaman shows here for us. 20% European, 2% Native American, 73% African, 5% they aren't able to say. My guess is that it's likely Native American since they are one of the few populations that haven't been widely sampled compared to other groups of people in the world. Thanks for doing this video!

[@VAswang]

Similar for me per 23andMe and Ancestry: 75% West/Central African and 24% Western European. 1% “trace/unassigned”. But the region of your African ancestry can vary depending on what part of the South you’re from.

[@lnyawilliamsmoore4380]

It's been exposed that DNA ancestry tests are for "entertainment purposes only"-@DaneCalloway channel. Gen 3:20;Gen 10

[@lnyawilliamsmoore4380]

@@yeahaboutthatthough3656 The DNA tests like 23and Me are for "entertainment purposes only". and it has been proven on various media that results changes from one DNA tests to another to find where a person's ancestry origins are. The best results to find one's true ancestry is from the Creator of all mankind Jah who will resurrect those in His memory back to life in paradise on earth under heavenly kingdom rule coming at anytime Now! (Psalm 83:18;Gen 1:27-29;Rev 4:11;Matt 6:9,10;Matt 24:14,42,44;John 5:28,29;Rev 20:12-14)

[@yeahaboutthatthough3656]

@@lnyawilliamsmoore4380 No thanks. Mapping the human genome was the cornerstone achievement for mankind. The Human Genome Project was an INTERNATIONAL scientific research project that identified all the base pairs that make up human DNA. It mapped all human genes, what physical things they are responsible for and what functions they have. It is the world's largest biological, collab in the history of mankind. It started in 1984 and wrapped up in 2003. No one who is serious believes that DNA is for "entertainment purposes only." I'm sure as hell not going to be lectured to about whether or not DNA is important by the random KZbinr you mentioned.

[@lnyawilliamsmoore4380]

@@yeahaboutthatthough3656 All mankind are descendants of Adam and Noah (Gen 3:20;Gen 10). Jah the Creator knows more about His human creation than anyone and even can count the hairs on our head(Gen 1:27-30;Psalm 83:18;Psalm 139:13-16;Rev 4:11;Matt 10:30). So He knows everyone's DNA and bloodlines.

[@andres6868]

to say that everyone is mixed as some do, might be true in a very long term, but it confuses the issue. Some populations have been quite isolated through centuries if not millenia from intercourse with other populations so that they have developed their own phenotype characteristics. You can call them ethnicities if you do not like the word race. For instance, there is no believable offspring between Native Americans and people of other parts of the world between around 10,000 BC and 1492.

[@lusciouslocks8790]

I understand what you’re saying but the example you gave is a tad misleading. There was admixture in Arctic America between those dates with Inuit and Aleutian groups coming from far northeast Asia, and there was regular contact across the Bering Strait with Inuit-Aleutian and northeast Asian groups for quite some time. Admittedly this didn’t have a noticeable effect outside the far North in both North America and Asia, but there was still a tiny bit of contact and the Greenlandic Inuit DNA mixture shown in the video attests to that. You are right though, it’s very unlikely you’d find someone in 1300s Peru with any ancestors who migrated to the Americas from before 10,000 BC.

[@nejolo9563]

Weren’t the Easter islands populated by Southeast pacific people who had interactions with the Native Americans?

[@andres6868]

@@nejolo9563 the Easter Islanders are polynesians. There was no proven contact between them and Native Americans - some people have speculated of that but no proof

[@xenomorphexidious9102]

Most of my ancestors are estonians and swedes with smaller part of saami tribe. But since im the 3rd generation without that major rate of mixing, i can say that i'm native swedish.

[@kaynedavis9535]

Andres Karel Polynesians had early contact with South Americans, as that was how they came across the Kumara or sweet potato.

[@waynewilliams3574]

Being a Cape Coloured from South Africa u couldnt have said it better ... We still suffer prejudice in our country decades after Apartheid have been abolished and labeled peoples without culture or heritage due to our complex mix race genetic make up and the world dont know about it coz if you look at South Africa u only see black or white but we have been an integral part of this country for millennia and is always overlooked. Having Indonesion, Dutch and Khio-San heritage makes me unique in my own right and proud to be called a Cape Coloured

[@jenniferakyiem980]

I am mixed indian Spanish and north african. I am also part sudanese cause i was sold into slavery in yemen for a few years

[@williampercival7662]

You look gorgeous anyway. William Percival New Zealand Gardenia Band 🇨🇰 Kia Orana.

[@spherica1438]

You were sold into slavery? What?!

[@vanousisi8112]

@@williampercival7662 I am curious How do you know what she looks like? Please

[@totaldramaisland1173]

Im from Cuba and according to my Ancestrydna results I'm 41% Spanish, 32% Portuguese, 5% Nigerian, 3% Cameroonian, 3% North African, 2% Chinese, 2% Scottish&Irish, 2% Ghanian, 2% Senegalese, and 2% Malian. I would consider myself mixed race, but most people don't think I am based off of my appearance.

[@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967]

I am from south India, according to me , I thought that I would be 100% dravidian, because our ancestors were isolated for centuries and practiced strict endogamy , but in one of my cousin's DNA test he was 3% east European, and 14% south east Asian and 83% south Indian, I was shocked , and my anxiety to take a DNA test is growing day by day

[@anshdeepsingh2763]

Bro come to central and west india here people are mixed dravidian and indo aryans We are one Dravidian and aryans have mixed very well except some northern parts of india like punjab haryana kashmir

[@mindrealminsights6517]

that must have been a suprise for you, take a test bro and share your results!

[@emptytoiletpaperroll9112]

I'm from Southeast Asia in the southern part of the Philippines, our family have South Asian features (such as thick eyebrows, the nose shape, eye shape) which makes sence cause our people used to be Hindus and people from South Asia migrated to our islands in the past before becoming Islam.

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

@@anshdeepsingh2763 Dravidian indo aryan mix 🤮

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

@@anshdeepsingh2763 Dravidian 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@gabrmarquez1786]

I'm from Brazil and I've Portuguese, indigenous, Arab, Italian and black ancestors

[@spartanboi1029]

why is your quality only available up to 480p?

[@ogolow570]

Maybe his GPU is ass or he just doesn't care for HD lol

[@ErikNilsen1337]

I love explorations of race and ethnicity like this. It's a travesty that this field began in a climate of pseudoscience and superiority complexes. I just want to learn where different peoples come from. To answer some of your concluding questions, my immediate family has almost entirely Anglo-Irish and Norwegian ancestry. We are very, very white Americans. My mom's siblings, however, married non-European spouses, so we have cousins with partly Filipino or Lebanese backgrounds. On top of that, our religious expressions range from Quaker to Roman Catholic. But we're united in Christ, and that is sufficient.

[@ErikNilsen1337]

@@agh6250 I'm not suggesting that the white "race" is any kind of objective, homogeneous category. I'm merely using a commonly accepted term describing the complexion of Northern and Western European peoples.

[@mortezamiri9861]

Hazaras and Uighurs are around 50% east and 50% west-eurasian. Yet most of the time Hazaras are counsiderd east-eurasian and uyghurs as more west-eurasian.

[@xenomorphexidious9102]

Can't say much good about them uyghurs when china does whatever they want with them.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I always call them bough mongoloid, problem solved.

[@Tr4sh_can34]

I was today years old when I found out that I was "mixed"

[@xenomorphexidious9102]

@@Tr4sh_can34 with who?

[@Tr4sh_can34]

@@xenomorphexidious9102 good question. I'm Hazara

[@rilluma]

what that finnish thing about 3:33 was. i dont get it. pls, someone explain?

[@Lebanese-Breeze]

Amazing knowledge

[@breezeeasy1064]

I'm mixed with black, black and BLACKERRRR

[@zamorapakalolo1389]

Helz yeah!😂

[@thebrocialist8300]

Blacker than the ace of spades

[@migukmoonpark4312]

N-word with one G, N-word with two Gs, and N-word that ends in "grow".

[@Brett-yq7pj]

@@migukmoonpark4312 wussy

[@user-qv5cs4lc9t]

You are the Ultimate N-Word!

[@mynameliza2702]

Well some people think that I'm Asian, but I'm pure and proudly Ethiopia.

[@Doctor_Manhattan777]

this is a great video in combination with the recent atlantean gardens video

[@topcatseriosblack8396]

Impressive feat wow massaman

[@sebastonix]

I was born in a peranakan Chinese family in Indonesia, which is Chinese decent who has immigrated to the Malay Archipelago for centuries and has already intermarriage with indigenous people. Most of us might still consider ourself as ethnically Chinese even though we don't look way too Chinese (but neither we look like fully indigenous Indonesian). There's a saying that "we are too Chinese for Indonesian, yet we are too Indonesian for Chinese"

[@loetfiehakim4477]

Orang mana bro?

[@Lrxxx321]

So true Im Afro Carribean I have some of South Asian and some native in my blood I came out with a straight nose and some predominantly south Asian features only two people in my extended family look alot like me

[@mindrealminsights6517]

very interesting and diverse region for sure bro!

[@rogerman65]

I am mixed! Yes, I am two percent Neanderthal.

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

yeah thank GOD I am 0% neanderthal

[@some156]

Lol

[@rogerman65]

Deanna joseph or she is a black African.

[@rogerman65]

@d puski Ok.

[@divestedkonservativekarame4269]

@d puski nah just lucky 100% human here. I saw on 23andme.

[@Demographiaanthropology]

YES! I'M FINALLY EARLY!

[@underarock9447]

das rite

[@Mr.Nichan]

That is the wrong click you're doing btw in "Xhosa". I know there's lots of other words you don't pronounce as in they're origin languages, but I thought I should mention it since you're trying. EDIT: THE FOLLOWING TEXT MAY INCLUDE A MISHEARING OF YOUR PRONUNCIATION. YOU MAY HAVE SAID "XOSA" RATHER THAN "COSA". I'M NOT AS GOOD AT DISTINGUISHING THESE THINGS IN RECORDINGS AS I THOUGHT. What you're doing now would probably be spelled "Cosa" with the "c" probably being called a "plain dental click" (although I suspect a more accurate description of you're pronunciation would be "affricated palatal click"). This is done with the center of the top of your tounge, near the front of your mouth. To make the "x" sound you need to do a similar movement (i.e., touching the tongue to the gums then pulling back*) with the sides of your tongue (or the top of the sides) further back in your mouth.** Mastering this should enable you to say "Xosa". Also, the "h" in "Xhosa" must be pronounced. Technically, this is "aspiration"*** on the click, but it can also be thought of as a short "h" sound without any real difference in pronunciation. *Actually, there are sort of 3 parts to pronouncing a click (or "lingual ingressive stop/plosive"). (Steps 1 and 2 actually happen at the same time.) (1) there must be a closure in the back of the mouth, stopping air from moving back down your throat or up your nose. In "Xhosa" I believe this is usually done with the back of the tongue against the gums, similar to the "k" sound (or rather lack of sound) at the end of "sick", if you don't finish the "k". (If you finish the "k", the last sound you will hear the sound of this stop being blown threw by a burst of air, the familiar "k" sound.) Since you made one click, you obviously know how to do this even if you don't realize you're doing it. (2) There must be a closure in the front of the the mouth, preventing air from escaping out the mouth. This, combined with step 1, seals in a little bubble of air. In both the "c" sound you made and the "x" sound in "Xhosa", this front closure is made with the front of the toungue. In fact, you can make it exactly the same way. (3) Thus, the only important difference (other than the "h") between the click you made and the correct one is the last step. In this step, the front closure is pulled back, making the air bubble smaller in volume and thus higher in air-pressure, which then naturally causes the air to blast open the seal between the tongue and the gums and escape, creating the "click" sound. In the Xhosa "c" sound, the center/tip of the tongue pulls back, while the sides stay more or less in place. In the Xhosa "x" sound, the center/tip of the tongue stays in place while the sides of the tongue pull back. **The easiest click for you to make with the side of your tongue may be a sharp popping sound (almost like knocking on wood). This sound is made in a very similar way to the "x" sound, but is not used in Southern African languages. The sound should instead be be a soft, saliva-y, "affricated" click made with the root of the tongue pulked further back. ***Aspiration is very common in English with the "p", "t" and "k" sounds. It is the puff of air that occurs after the first consonant in the words "pill", "till", and "kill", but not in the words "spill", "still", and "skill".

[@spiscold50]

Being South Indian🇮🇳🌴🥥, I'M MIXED ASF😭

[@fatimaalnaz6115]

Dear you are doing amazing job . please make a video on difference between turk Mongol and tataar

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

That map you showed of Chinese “dialects”is extremely inaccurate. It’s all over the internet, but anyone who knows Sinic **languages**(not dialects) would understand the extremely flawed nature. The problem is, according to the common attitude of Chinese people, English, French, German, and Spanish would all be considered closely related“dialects”of one another - they have different colloquial standards of differentiating “language & dialect” that 99% of Westerners would disagree with

[@timurermolenko2013]

Absolutely! I like this guy's videos, but when it comes to these nuances, he's just like all other people.

[@BETOETE]

for me Chinese and Vietnamese sound the same.

[@jmgonzales7701]

@@BETOETE Its because the vietnamese have a lot of mixture with the Chinese. Just like in southeast Asia Malaysian and Indonesian and Philippines have the similar language family and genetics. Its due to geography, in Europe there are a lot of germanic sounding and slavic sounding languages. So basically what I'm saying is that some areas will have similarities in language, culture and genetics.

[@leaode_cafe]

I'm Brazilian i have a little bit of everything

[@lisabullock7461]

Well I say some were here already, some came by choice, some against their will.....

[@lorenozolollis793]

Very interesting.

[@sdwp91]

I'm Brazilian, my dna results: 70% European (43% Iberian, 8% Italian, 7% Croatian, 7% German, 5% French) 12% Amerindian 9% Northwest African (I was not expecting this, maybe some of my Iberian ancestors were mixed. Idk) 9% Sub Saharan African. Ydna r1b Mdna h

[@andrewgomez235]

Is that you in the profile picture?

[@AD-yq8rl]

I think Middle-East is the most mixed region in the world because of invades,migrations and intermarriages. And of course the second region, or let’s say continent is America with north and south.

[@spiscold50]

No, Brazil is followed by India, trust me

[@nickb3345]

A lot of people will look at the real mixed with hate and contempt. SPiscold they don’t care about the facts Bro and if they’re Brazilian then it’s Brazil all the way. Indian is a race.

[@fernathebest414]

On 0:10 most people I know including my self look like the second or third person, a few people that I know look like the forth or like the first one. But nobody looks like the fifth.

[@guilhermehx7159]

The most intriguing language for me is pepekese

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

I look like the second but flatter and taller nose

[@dreamposibleig8095]

Wait you said if you're only ⅛ of another race you're not mixed, but what if you're each 1/16 of other races are you still mixed Like 1/16 East Asian+ 1/16 middle Eastern +1/16 European and one or two morr

[@nagwagi2000]

So we've established that there are a lot of mixed races within so-called distinct ethnic groups within different nationalities which I agree with. Now I'm curious as to which ethnic groups of specific nationalities are actually pure races 100% or with just up to 25% admixture? I'm thinking of certain isolated tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Amazon forest, Australian Aboriginals without Caucasian admixture and Scandinavians in Europe?

[@thenobleone-3384]

Some people are mixed Ethnicity more so than mixed race. I'm mixed race due to my parents how ever a lot of Europeans and Africans have different ethnicities that make them up. Genetics is a great thing to know.

[@SeasideDetective2]

Going by your ten-part chart, I am Northwest Eurasian, West African, and Amerindian. (Although I suppose only the Northwest Eurasian counts, since having a Senegambian great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother and an Algonquin great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother does not allow me to meet the threshold. Funny thing is, I am actually LESS multiracial than the average U.S. citizen!)

[@kanyekubrick5391]

I’m Cape Verdian 🇨🇻 i have ancestors from Iberia, France, Algeria and obviously some non Maghreb African. But I don’t know where from.

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

2:15, Dennis Rodman returns! 😨

[@ellakara6824]

At 3:40 "Sorry Finns, you don't make the cut" ? I don't get it. I am a Finn and I'm pretty sure the only people to ever call us "mixed" were Swedes when they oppressed us and justified it by saying that we're half "mongoloids" and hence not racially as good as them. Finns themselves have never claimed to be "mixed".

[@mmmabo3094]

i’m Tuareg i could pass as Moroccan or Egyptian and i’d love to do a dna test to know my admixture

[@CNGCYoutube]

I’m 7/8ths African being Ghanaian, Togolese, Beninian, Malian, and Nigerian, 10% European, Dutch, Scottish, Italian, Spanaird, and Ashkenazi Jewish, a little bit of East Indian and middle eastern, and a tad of Native American

[@theopedro3710]

I'm Portuguese on my father's side and British on my mother's side, does this count as being mixed race?

[@jonathanprime1507]

No countries aren't a race🤦

[@YungPrince2k16]

Native American, European, African, Middle eastern.. I did my dna testing

[@leuris_khan2]

I'm a mixed of Jewish, Luso-Brazilian And WaiWai Indigenous.

[@bot.1238]

Nicolas Ariel I im pure white 💪🏻

[@ninjatodd123]

Latino and black myself

[@leuris_khan2]

@@bot.1238 I am like a indigeneous with a white skin

[@MegaYoyoCraft]

My mums Brazilian. I was birn in the USA my dads Angolan my grandmas dad dad is Portuguese i haven't taken a DNA test yet rn i know im EURO AFRO LATINO

[@lucas9269]

@@MegaYoyoCraft Latino is NOT a race, it's the same as saying North American is a race. If you have Brazilian DNA you are most likely white, black, or pardo.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Thank you Very interesting

[@katipohl2431]

Sharp divisions have to be made for some medications and #medical treatments because the races react different and it might be more difficult but life saving to categorize mixed people properly.

[@Timbo5000]

@Alexnder90 F That race lines are useful in medicine is a fact. Certain clusters of ethnicities can for example take eachother's blood better than other clusters. Race as we commonly know it is largely just a social construct, true, but certain parts of it are actually true.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

@@Timbo5000 what is constructed about race? group selection has existed since time immorial. Races will evolve to exist as a act of nature.

[@Timbo5000]

@Alexnder90 F If you put it that way then yeah I agree. Ethnicities are a much better point of reference for medical issues, as that more specifically refers to the specific genetic mix we are instead of the more broad and diffuse term of "race". Skin colour and such factors are absolutely meaningless.

[@Timbo5000]

@@Tomas-ml9nv Race is a vastly outdated concept that dates back to late 17th century theories on how to divide and categorise humanity. In those times, people mostly focused on visual (and social) differences rather than actual meaningful differences in genes. Race, insofar it divides humans along the lines of "black" and "white", is largely no more than a construct. It makes absolutely no sense to group West African ethnicities and Australoid Aboriginals together as "black", even though they are completely different ethnicities with different genes, different history, different culture and an altogether separate identity. They share nothing but their skin colour. The only correct way of distinguishing between peoples is ethnicity. So genes, but also culture. Anything that goes beyond the genes is not founded in science and therefore nothing other than a social construct made up to divide humanity along certain lines. It's not in line with reality insofar it isn't based on scientific knowledge on genes. In short: the common usage of "race" is vastly outdated and way more complex and nuanced than just "white"/"black" or European/African/etc.

[@lilahdog568]

@@Timbo5000 it's much more complicated than we say it is though. Certain groups genetically cluster but by that we mean like Spaniards cluster with Italians, chinese cluster with mongols, japanese cluster with no one because they refuse to mix and think they're better than everybody, Filipinos cluster with Malaysians and Ethiopians cluster with yemenites. Defined racial lines are still hard to draw though