What, Exactly, is a Mexican? - We Took a DNA Test
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2022
- These are our 23andMe DNA test results. This is not necessarily representative of all Mexicans, but it goes to show the great diversity of Mexico and its people.
Hang onto your hats, everybody, because we're about to go into what makes up a Mexican... Or at least, what makes up THESE TWO particular Mexicans. No joke, I have NEVER seen a more insane DNA test video.
Just for the record: The Phillipines' archipelago was discovered, conquered, and ruled by the Spaniards (mostly comed from the Viceroyalty of the New Spain, based in Mexico) since 1543 (during the times of Phillip the 2nd, King of Spain and the Western Indies) until 1898 when the Americans replaced them after the Spanish-American War. But the funny fact is their political, legal and religious administration was, until 1821, directed from Mexico City because Manila was the Trans-Pacific hub between the Imperial China and the imperial metropole in the Iberian Peninsula. So, folks with Phillipino, Mexican, Italian and Spaniard ancestry has, at least, 278 years of history shared. Other data; the Slave trade wasn't managed by the Spaniards (because they have prohibited to do it by the 1494 Tordesillas Treaty's clauses) so their providers were mainly Portugueses and later French and English (through the 1713 Asiento de Negros). Southern Italy, with has a lot o people with Greek ancestry, by the way, was also ruled by the Spanish from 1535 until 1706 and even they rescued a lot of Christian captives (from the Berberian pirates (based in nowadays Algeria and Tunis) through the Mercedarian Order. Lastly, many "Spanish" conquistadors and colonizers were, in fact, Italians (mostly Genoveses, Sicilians and Neapolitans) and Greeks (from Athens, Negroponte, Crete and Cyprus) who came to the New World in the 16th and 17th Century.
Correct, my family CIOLINOS straight out of Sicily
All of this historical information was taught in the FIFTH GRADE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM in Texas. The Age of Exploration affected the entire world 🌎 . Shocking so many don’t realize how we are connected in one way or another. ❤
The Spanish also made use of the indigenous population of modern day Mexico, the Aztecs in particular come to mind. I'm not sure there was a need for slaves from Africa in Mexico but certainly throughout the Caribbean.
THANK YOUUUU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS BIT OF HISTORY LESSON! I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED READING !❤
"Italians" in a geographic sense, since Italy was not a unified nation back then, but a collection of states and territories, some of which belonged to the Aragonese crown in Spain.
You get 50/50 from the parents but it's a random 50%, that explains the differences.
You get more than 50% from your dad.
@barbaravyse660 you get more dna from your maternal side actually.
the small east asian percentages are also your native american ancestry. Native Americans originally came from Siberia (Asia) over 15k years ago to the Americas. That means native americans share some ancestry with east asians, hence the small percentages.
Also, Ashkenazi Jewish is in reality sephardic Jewish from spain, many went to the americas after being kicked out of spain and assimilated with the locals.
Also 0.2% NW european is in reality spanish, so is the italian. 100% Spanish people will not show up most of the time as 100% Iberian. Iberia is filled with Celtic/Roman ancestry so it makes sense you show up with those percentages.
Or she could also just have an East Asian ancestor not that far back as well. My family is also from Jalisco as hers are, and we DO have a great great grandmother who was from China. We even have a photograph of her.
Sephardic Jewish ancestry shouldn't show up as Ashkenazi on a DNA test.
@@janso7979 it does very often if there is no sephardic reference. All Jewish people share large amounts of dna, its not uncommon for this to happen
Ashkenazi is not Sephardic.
@@VodkaRose Yes Chinese immigrated to Mexico from China at the end of the 1880s in northern Mexico when the US kicked them out, they al immigrated direcly from China to mexico city in Chiapas mexico many of the Cemeteries in Chiapas have old tombs with chinese inscriptions from those immigrants who came to Chiapas, they marry local indigenous women and they had absolutely beautiful children big almond shape eyes with small pointed noses, pearl like fair skin and shiny silky hair. but in these case, the Chinese percentage would be way much higher from a greatgrandparent it would not be .2 and .3% like in these siblings
Sabías tu, que en la conquista de Filipinas por parte de España, llevaron Tlaxcaltecas a luchar contra los naturales de esas latitudes, conquistaron y muchos se quedaron a vivir en Filipinas junto con los españoles.
x pen de jos 😂 aya estan mucho peores las cosas 💯
The Black delegation would like to trade baseball player Sammy Sosa for Marisol. :) lol....cool results Marisol (Steve, from your Korea days).
Hey, Steve!! Thanks! Glad to know I made the draft. 😁
First calling us Blacks is very degrading it’s like saying the N word or calling a woman of color a B very racist.
I liked this ancestry breakdown. I didn't skip. It was fun from start to finish.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😊
Same I usually skip thru but didn’t with this one 🥺
@@ms.tenatravels2067 male and female do not have anything to do with your mixes. Think of it like this. You throw 100% of mom’s mix in one bowl. Throw 100% of dad’s mix in another. Use different colors for each region. If you grab a handful, and any sibling grabs a handful, no two handfuls will be exactly the same.
Males from the same line will share the same halogroup. Females from the same line share mitochondria.
I just watched a comedian, Jo Koy's special called "Coming In Hot" and he talked about the similarities between filipino and mexicans.. and how they constantly get mistaken for the other.
The only similarity is that we were both colonized by Spain that’s pretty much it.
Jo Koy is freaking hilarious!!! 😂
He said he his mom would always mistake Mexicans for Filipino 😂😂😂
umm not really, only when were real tired 😂
I lived in Morelia Michoacán for two years in the 90s!!! My best friend married a man with the last name Tena while we were living there. Great channel! Subscribed
Cool! We might be related to him. Lol. I do know we have some relatives in Morelia.
You’re both 100% adorable! I was all smiles watching this . Thank you for sharing this so candidly. Best to you both!
It doesn't matter if you're a male or female. Siblings will have slight variations in dna. I have 2 daughters and they're variations are similar to you and your brothers. Some regions vary by up to 3% and some trace regions show up in one but not the other. Foe example, 1 daughter has trace regions of Phillipines and Austronesian and the other has trace regions of Italy. The Italy comes from my mother but that trace regions doesn't show up in me.🤷🏽♀️
Then you probably should take it with a grain of salt. Also traces do not matter.
@@lauraboor6440 My comment was to the sister in this video who mentioned that male and females siblings show different trace regions. I was explaining that it doesn't matter if you're male and female (brother and sister) or sister and sister or brother and brother. Sibling will have very similar dna a but pick up varied trace regions. They will not have the same exact dna. That was my purpose of the comment if you didn't understand.
@@kikilicious99 yes, my comment stands. It is you who is not understanding it.
@@lauraboor6440 You're correct. I don't understand. Your comment has no relevance to the topic discussed but thanks for sharing.
@@kikilicious99 Explain how it does not. Who the h do you think you are that you can decide that? Get over yourself. You have been schooled
I like how you guys get along, some siblings don't get along unfortunately. My birthplace is Uganda, (waiting on my own DNA test), so you are invited to the cook out lol. Your brother could pass for Afghani as well.
My brother and I have always gotten along really well. And we're very goofy people, in my family, so any time we hang out it's a lot of goofing around and laughing loudly. 🙂
And thank you! It's an honor to be invited to the cookout. 😁
Good luck with your own DNA results! I hope you post them, as well.
@@ms.tenatravels2067 I will try post my results, stay tuned lol.
It’s crazy cause I’m Afghan and yes he really could pass for being Afghan 😂
@@ms.tenatravels2067 So...I got my results back from ancestry; 65% Eastern Bantu peoples, 35% Cameroon, Congo and Western Bantu peoples.
@@rcafmaintainer3723 Woohoo!! That's so cool! Are you going to make a video for it? You totally should. 🙂
This was a really good DNA ancestry result video.
You got right to the point, made it interesting & real.
Enjoyed watching you and your brother looking at your DNA results!
Thanks for sharing your results. It was interesting to see the differences and similarities between you and your brother. I also enjoyed the interactions between you two. It was fun to watch you both. I was also entertained by the captions on the side when you were comparing because I was saying the exact words “yes it did” each time. Thanks again for sharing!
Like your video I’m from Gambia 🇬🇲 👍🏾
So interesting y’all anticipated most of it!
Thanks for sharing 😊❤️ Very interesting how genetic dna can be different in siblings!!
Great sense of humor young man! This was interesting and enjoyable. It just goes to show that all the racial and ethnic animosity out there is illogical as we're all made of so many different pieces and parts and who knows even how much more throughout time as current DNA tests only go back for a certain amount of years. We don't know all our history, it would be impossible to know it all. Nowadays we think the ancients all stayed put but there were many travelers and traders throughout history, and they got around.
Thank you for sharing your results. Lots of fun listening and watching your reactions.
I love watching these ancestry video's! Hii from New Zealand
I love these kids; thank you for posting your results. I'm proud of you and your family. :)
When he did the Italian gesture, I laughed and then hit subscribe!
Thanks for sharing! Quite interesting!
Thank you 🙂
The East Asian is connected to the Indigenous I believe.
Tony Martin video lectures on history are excellent 👌
This is so cool! I love it ^^
I’m so glad I stumbled on your channel. Your genealogies are so interesting and you are both entertaining 👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏻👍👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿👍🏻
Watching this in amazement. I have brother’s results and similar to your brother. Except no Italian nor Asian, which was disappointing since we have been asked if I am Filipino, Hawaiian,Korean or Polynesian.
Also had Levantine and 9% African come up Congo. My dad think possibly from his side of the family. My daughter during covid cut/donated her hair and hair type changed drastically from 2c type to 3c. This is after frantically researching on how to take care of her hair.
My dad’s from Chihuahua, but my paternal grandfather was born in California and his family moved to Mexico as a young child. My mom’s parents were from Torreón México. What’s interesting on her side is her father was 6’3” with green eyes and more Indigenous facial features, however he had curly hair.
I have the testing kit to do mine next.
If your DNA shows indigenous dna, that's asian.
A few things to note
Build your tree while you have your elder’s around if you haven’t already. You seemed surprised where your grandparents were from. Pick their brains now.
You can upload your 23&me results to MyHeritage and FTDNA and your ethnicity results will actually be a little different ;) Just depends how the companies interpret the results.
If you test your parents and even grandparents, you will be able to get closer to where you inherit the regions from and you might be able to find others who match your elder’s results and might be able to unravel more of your history (Genetic Genealogy).
If you take Ancestry DNA you will also get slightly different results AND you could build your tree there - they also have a lot of records in Mexico if you get the ‘world’ subscription.
I tested my parents and I received SO much more information from their tests.
Thanks for posting, it was fun to watch your unboxing so to speak.
Good for doing this! It’s important for so many reasons, peace of mind, historically, heritage, etc.
You two cracked me up and definitely show a very close sibling bond. DNA markers come jn at different amounts even for siblings of same parents. Boys get y chromosome from dad and girls get specific mitochondrial DNA passed only through mothers. Although you two and I share ancestral DNA from regions, it is in massively different quantities, such as, I am 89% Western/Northern European (mostly French, Italian, Spanish, Iberian, German and Russian) and a mixture of other cultures including, Peruvian, Columbian, Mexican and Puerto Rican but all combined those percentages make up just over 4% with one Peruvian ancestor who lived about 450 AD. Southeast and Eastern is about 4%. My African/African American DNA only shows .2% combined. I'm glad to see young people like yourselves interested in finding out about ancestral history and hope that your research for the fun of it to see how we're all related. Enjoy.
We crack each other up all the time, too! Lol.
Thanks! 😊
Thank you....love it.
Ah Jalisco!
Remember all the Asian fishing floats that are VERY old found along Mexico's western shores? The natural currents and winds brought Asian fleets across the Pacific in ancient times.... snd some never left.
Just found your video and you guys are so funny. Funniest moment the pizza comment with the mustache lol.
Alot of people were born in there homes in Mex. Like My Dad. No one kept strict records of that kinda thing
Yep that’s true for my mom and her family.
Just by looking at you guys I knew you would be predominantly or at least 50% native
Beautiful reading.......
Like you guys I didn’t know what all these small percentages were and what they meant when I first got my results. Later you learn to tie them to a specific group of people.
So the Italian, Coptic Egyptian, Cypriot, Levantine, Ashkenazi Jewish, and the rest of you Western Asian and North African percentages are connected to Sephardic Jewish people from Spain and Portugal.
They don’t have a category for Sephardic Jewish people so they split it into categories because they are mixed people themselves, since their original migration from the Middle East. They left Spain for North Africa, Turkey, Netherlands, Germany, and the Americas after the Inquisition. Later in the late 1800s from the Ottoman Empire.
I think you also mentioned the Northern Indian and Pakistani. That might be Romani Gypsy(Gitanos) dna from Spain. They are removed hundreds of years or more from their original migration from Northern India.
Your results make sense. It’s a complicated history for Mexican descendants and all of Latin America. Very cool! Thanks for sharing your results.
People also joke that, “no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.” But it had a real life effect on our ancestry. We descend from many groups in the Iberian Peninsula and territories. Basques, Spaniards, Canarian Islanders, Sephardic Jewish, Romani, etc. It’s reflected in your 23andme results.
Yes! Thank you for this. The only way I made sense of Northern India was of course the history of gitanos. You are the first person I've seen comment on this.
I can guarantee that when they do an update for them these will be taken away. They do them at least once a year. They basically just throw stuff in there depending on what your major ethnicity or race is,
@@lauraboor6440 yeah in the beginning of 23&me I used to have 0.4% ashkenazi jewish & northern african, now I don't have none. Also now I got Cypriot & northern India, which I didn't have before. Anyways all these ethnicities were less than 1% so I don't given them much importance and people shouldn't either since like you said they change/disappear later on. The more real & accurate are your larger percentages ethnicities anyways.
@@olg06 yes!. I did both them and Ancestry and they never match. They both have changed over the past few years too. This year's ancestry is okay, but last year's was so messed up. Hahaha. Everyone was complaining. They can't even agree on the percentage of roman and northern Italian I am, one says none. The other 25 percent. Do you upload you info to TrueAncestry?
@@lauraboor6440 Yeah I did Ancestry too. In 23&me my euro is mostly all Spanish [& Portuguese] with very little "broadly" euro & south euro, but in Ancestry I have very little Spain! Instead getting surrounding neighbor countries/ethnicities like Portugal, Basque, Northern Italy, France and then Northern Africa pops up! And then I got northern european that switched from 3% England & northwestern europe to 1% Sweden & Denmark and my 1% France disappeared with the recent update...
So yeah... anyways my known ethnicity is Spanish & native mexican so I'm sticking with the 23&me
True Filipinos were dark
They looked like the aboriginal people.
Filipinos now are mixed race, like Brazilians, Australians.
Some Filipinos look Mexican because of Asian mixed.
Origins of native Americans were from Asian Indians.
You look more Indians to me.
You both look beautiful.
how fun now you can go to a chart that shows you what parts of the Dna you each got from parent 1 and parent 2 even sisters can have differences in what they got from parents. Its easier to look at a chart to explain it.
Nice video guys! I enjoyed it! You guys were entertaining! I got 45% european
44% Native
5% SSA
2% Middle eastern
Cool, Just wondering, Where are your parents from?
@@bello8652 Guanajuato
SSA?
@@negombo36degrees SSA means sub-saharan african
i’m puerto rican my results are similar to you except i have more spanish and african and no asian you have asian african and native american although i have native american my results are 5 % native and idk which tribe it would be. Also it’s funny because I literally grow a crazy beard and can’t get rid of it no matter what😂
You guys are funny!
You're all 100% human. Congratulations.
Learning what makes you, you is always awesome to learn! My dna is;
Indigenous Americas- Mexico 52%
Spain- 28%
France- 6%
Basque- 3%
Portugal- 3%
Aegean Islands- 1%
European Jewish- 1%
Germanic European- 1%
Cameroon, Congo & western Bantu peoples- 3%
Benin & Togo- 1%
Northern Africa- 1%
I’m Indigenous Americas
Scottish
Spain
Basque
English
Jesse we have a lot of similarities
Which test did you take ?
@@omgiam2hot - I took the Ancestry DNA test
I wish I could participate in something that would let me get my DNA results for free, because I’d love to know but am in way too vulnerable of a position to spend the money... I do actually get to know what about half of my DNA should be, though, because both of my paternal grandparents have done DNA tests and shared their results with me, and some of his ancestors have been traced back to Scotland via paper trail as well.
My grandfather’s (MyHeritage) results are:
- 44.2% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
- 35.3% Scandinavian
- 17.4% Iberian
- 1.9% North African
- 1.2% Nigerian
And my grandmother’s (Ancestry) results are:
- 50.23% England and Northwestern Europe
- 39.52% Scotland
- 7.18% Ireland
- 1.9% Wales
- 0.97% Baltics
- 0.15% Northern Asia
- 0.05% Nigeria
My mother’s DNA is a total mystery, though, so about half of me could be pretty much anything. I try to see those open possibilities as a good thing and just focus on enjoying what I already know, so I won’t be tempted to spend the money on a test, lol...
Cant wait to watch
I have a sister and we tested our DNA. I am more Polish and Indigenous American compared to her DNA results. It is interesting how DNA can be. I have recent Mexico and Central America traces also. The regions that popped up where, Nuevo Leon, Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Michoacán, Mexico City, Chihuahua and Durango.
Jews in Spain pretended to be Catholic to avoid death. When Mexico opened up to Spanish migration, Jews and Muslims were eager to leave Spain. That's where your Poland comes from: Ashkenazi diaspora.
Thats a lot of regions lol
I'm starting to do researching into it because we just adopted a son that is half Cuban so we wanted to know more about his lineage
Cubans are mostly white, and with a third of black and little of native cuban
@@manurr5287 no one wants to be white, God never created any white humans. I'm just saying lol
The fact that you have ancestry from Michoacan and Guerrero is where your Subsaharan African ancestry, likely, comes from. Great discoveries!
Right! I wonder what results their mother would get, being from Jalisco could be slight difference
My husbands grandparents are from Guanajuato and Jalisco. He also got the 3% Sub-Saharan.
Most mexican mestizos no matter what part of Mexico get black african lol you'd be lucky to find one without any
Jalisco-Nayarit (colonial Nueva Galicia) and Colima-Michoacán-Guanajuato (Nueva España) had a numerically important population of African descent, especially in cities, towns and haciendas.
@@07androctonus Very true!
80% comedian, 100% brother to the world
He cracks me up every time we see or talk to each other. 😊
Wow 23andme is super in depth, all those 0. something results! It's amazing they can pinpoint it at those small levels.
They actually can't pinpoint ethnicity that well in DNA. It is educated guesses. Oftentimes they change the results and the small percentages disappear. They have changed one of my ethnicities by almost 30%. That is a big change!
@@Catlily5 depends where your ancestors are from, they have the most information about Europeans because its mostly westerners doing these tests, mine is very accurate the only mistake is they seem to confuse Irish and Scottish a lot, my Scottish result is way too high and my Irish is way too low.
@@OpinionatedChicken59 The ethnicity they changed of mine was German. From 30+% to 60+%. The 60+% is
ridiculous considering that the same company tested my mother as having 4% German blood. And the same company says my brother has 70+% German blood when our mother has 4%. Obviously it is wrong. Their original estimates made much more sense mathematically and per family history.
@@Catlily5 sometimes I wonder if its change for the sake of change, I know they have a hard time determining north and west European ethnicities because there is a lot of genetic crossover, particularly with England, Netherlands and Germany and because DNA tests are illegal on France its like a big blind spot.
@@OpinionatedChicken59 They are confused about German, Swedish, and English blood in my case, I think. So yeah.
The Levant (/ləˈvænt/ or /ləˈvɑnt/) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia.Coptic Christians, known as Copts, are the largest ethno-religious minority in Egypt, constituting roughly 10 per cent of the country's 95 million people.
Although many now identify as Arabs, Copts do not historically believe themselves to be of Arab origin, but are instead acknowledged as the remaining descendants of the civilisation of the Ancient Egyptians, with Pharaonic origins.
The word Coptic is derived from the ancient Greek word for Egyptian.
Sounds like you had Mediterranean sailors in your ancestry, that would explain the results. Actually it sounds like you had Spanish Sailors in your ancestry, a lot of those places were Spanish sailing ports around the world. Plus a few forced migrations from those ports to the Americas.
Y'all are charming. That was fun.
That was so cool
I recommend a second test from a different company, not that there is anything wrong with 23 and me. I had two different tests done; one through myheritage and one through UCSF. I got different results from both.
The Italian part may be from Roman occupation of Iberia/Hispania.
And Scandinavian may be from the Visigoths, Suebi, Vandals, Alans etc. The Germanic peoples who settled/passed through Iberia/Hispania during/after the fall of Rome. The Germanic peoples migrated from Scandinavia and eventually settled in former Roman provinces forming Germanic Kingdoms.
Glad you guys have Portuguese blood welcome to our family,we love you all
HELLO!! My name is BRIAN MCGEE SERRANO from CHICAGO. I LOVE THIS!! So are you keeping track of your Family Tree as well?? It would great to see you and your Brother the younger generations working together to Trace your Family Tree and keep all of Your Family History & Family together. I am tracing my Family History & Cousins WORLDWIDE, from Africa to EVERY PART of the WORLD, and also in various parts of Mexico & in the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations that also once lived in Mexico. Everyone in the world is a Cousin and Our Ancestors all originally came from AFRICA. A lot of Our ELDERS named their children to remember their ancestors So multiple people in many generations had the same names, and they also named their children to remember the places that their Ancestors migrated and came from, like in the case of Your Grandmother DONA APOLONIA her Sisters your Aunts Dona MACEDONIA y Dona PETRA etc. I was just doing some family history research for a couple of days on Cousins from Sicily, ITALY. My head was spinning from the repeat names from 1722 to 1994 Some of my Cousins were name CALOGERIO OCCHIPINTI like 14 times, and VINCENTE OCCHIPINTI 10 times, LOL. I was like If I run across one more CALOGERIO Y VINCENTE I am gonna need a vacation from this family history research. That's why it is so important to keep track of dates and birth locations in our family history research, because there may be a lot of repeated names in each generation. I took the ANCESTRY DNA Test and initially they sent me a list of 15,000 DNA COUSINS from every part of the world. The worldwide DNA Cousins list keeps growing everyday.
The percentage differ because of birth order as well. The 1st child born from their parents get a greater percentage of strongest genes. Then the percentages go down per next child & so forth. Even if you have the same parents. All these extra Italian, European traits come from previous ancestors. If you start doing an extensive ancestor search you will find all of these other countries will come into play. Because Europe is so small all our ancestors did was travel over boarders. The past was not like it is today. Most families grew because they needed the extra hands to survive. It is interesting to search your heritage. I've been doing this for over 30 yrs. I am also Latina. So we have the big families & we live generationally (3 to 4 generations) in one house.
Italians and Spanish are really mixed. Many Italian places belonged to Hispanic Monarchy(Aragon) for centuries during the Spanish Empire same as New Spain(Mexico), many settlers were actually from Italian regions.
@Chicken Madness mixed with other european, since Roman Empire, Spanish and Italians share a lot of their DNA
@@luisrvazquez3461
Almost! 😊They were separate monarchies. Not under the empire.
They were independently ruled by Houses of recent Spanish descent (Aragonese/Bourbon). But indeed, the people/cultural connections, as you say, are huge.😁
Amazingly awesome ♥️🇨🇦🌏
Scientific theory :American Indians came from Asia through "Bering Strait" long time ago.
Kazakh people (central asian) look a lot like native Americans. So do Sakha people from Siberia.
@@pyrovania yep , sometimes u see Asians with the same features as some Latinos
That's not a theory, it's a fact.
@@ashenone3050 los latinos no son una raza.
I love you two, it's always more fun to do emotional things with a little humor. I am considered "white," but I know better. We are a mix of so many different peoples. I believe we are all from the same family if we could trace our lives back to the beginning. Big hug to you both. Gramma Pam
I love this content! I've had endless convos with friends (I'm a guerra living in New Mexico) and these are so lively, with endless speculation.
Levintine means levite, like ethnic Jewish, Semitic.
There are populations of people here that have been living on the same piece of land since the Spanish Conquistadors, with last names of Espinosa, Vigil, etc.
I had a coworker who was struggling on the "race" question at the last census. She asked her mom, who told her, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us."
Another Latina friend, originally from Cali, now living here in the Land of Enchantment, knows of a grandfather or great-grandfather on her father's side who immigrated from Ireland to Mexico, and just changed his last name to "Garcia". I call her "O'Garcia" lol.
Another interesting historical fact is a lot of Jews left Spain to come here during the Inquisition.
I also want to say, you guys are more 'Merican than all the 'Murica mofos!
Unfortunately, there's ugliness on both sides. I've straight up been told that I'm not allowed to speak Spanish because it's not my culture. I'm guessing that comes from feelings of a couple generations ago, Hispanic, Latino, Mestizo, etc were forced to abandon their language and culture and assimilate (much like all ethnic groups were forced to do) into
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture.
I am intrigued and interested in the cultures and traditions (music & food 🤗) of all my homo sapiens fellows.
How horrible it would be to homogenize this wide and fascinating world. There are also too few humans for us all to not be related in some way, considering there was an evolutionary bottleneck not too long ago. We could've gone the way of other hominids!
Anyway, that you for sharing your experience of investigating your genetic histories👍🏻
Lots of the land that belong to Spaniards that are now the USA states. Sold off to the Americans. Weren’t populated much by Spaniards or Mexicans. Seem like they gravitate there after the Americans started to settle there. I guess because of more opportunities. So the border didn’t move on the mexican population. That’s all sour grapes. Interesting they don’t grip about losing Guatemala and Belize. Those who told you not to speak Spanish because it’s not your culture. That’s so stupid because they’re not from Spain. If they feel that strongly why go illegally to the USA instead of Spain. Who they have so much in common with.
Hispanics told you in English not to speak Spanish?
I am from New Mexico too. It is an interesting place!
De que parte de Guanajuato eres? Hice mi arbol y me aparecen parientes con apellido Tena. Tambien de Durango y Michoacán.
Ask your parents to do a DNA test to see their DNA results is
I had a couple of people thought I was Philipeno or part Philipeno too! Have the both of you tried the SOMOS Dna test? It goes deeper and more specific as far as Central, North and South America indigenous dna. The Ancestry and 23andme are more European Centric. I know my knew my European admixture in detail but nothing on my indigenous side. I am only 40% European and I thought I was missing out on a big chunk out of my ethnicity make up. I found out I am 38% from the Nahuas which is the ethnic group in the Jaslico area I believe. Then an additional 13% mixture of tribes from Chile, Peru and Ecuador! Cool right?! My grandmother was born in Guanajuato. We could be related lol. So I know more about my make up and can see every admixture I have that make me... me. So interesting. I have Spanish/Basque,Italian, North African, British, Irish and European Jewish on my European side and now Nahuas. Then 3.7 percent West African. So ous results are similar with the exception of Egyptian, Vietnamese and south Asian! I think the small results lower than 2 percent are almost ancient DNA like someone at least 8-10 generations back.
I'm going to have to look into SOMOS DNA. Thanks for that! :)
Your brother has those Native cheekbones and bone structure.
Mexico has nearly as much diveese waves of immigration as the US- but so many just think Mexican is a race.
My son in law turned up 75% European of Spanish with just traces of ME, French and German ancestry and 25% indigenous from north Mexico...
...my EurAsian daughter laughed so hard he is whiter than she is!
Funny part is SHE is often mistaken for Latina.
Yes. A Mexican is just a person who lives in Mexico just as an American is a person who lives in the USA.
The sea-faring traders known as the Phonecians had a presence on Cyprus: I'm told that there's now archeological evidence of Phonecian ships reaching the Americas before Columbus or even the Vikings.
The Phonecians also had a presence along the coastline of the Middle-East in places like Tyre & Sidon. They are a sea-faring branch of Caananites.
Apparently the Phonecians were highly skilled shipbuilders, sailors, & navigators who might have helped others with basic sailing skills (such as the tribe of Dan), but closely guarded their highest sea-faring knowledge (especially their navigation skills).
Phonecians were well known for red-purple dyed fabric that was a favorite among many rulers of various countries; so, they were widely welcomed as merchant traders.
I hope this helps you some.
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My sisters and I all have different DNA results. It’s not just male and female get different DNA from their parents all the children will have a different makeup.
It is because we inherit ethnicities different from each siblings one can get an ethnicity that the other doesn’t have or get more than the other.. it is all randomly inherited
Watch 'Finding Your Roots'. It is amazing to see how much we are the same. While Dr. Gates does celebrities (it is a TV show), it still shows how much we all share. Too bad humans still want to judge each on the exterior colour of the package.
The amount of DNA we inherit is Random.
I was watching Matt Baker this morning explaining the percentages for your ancestry tests, and he said one percent could reflect five or six generations back. He also explained why your sibling results could be different. Basically it is based on what section of your DNA they cut to test. If they tested two different sections from the same person and they could get similar but different results
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Coptic: think Greek + Egyptian mix since around 325 B.C. (late antiquity vs early antiqity) [late antiquity starts around the time of Alexander the Great's occupation of Egypt: one of his generals (Ptolomy [sp?]) along with many of that general's troops remained in Egypt & bred a society that used a new version of Common-Greek language based hyrogliphics (sp?) known as Coptic writing (as part of Alexander the Great's Helenization* of 'the known world'). BTW: "Mark" was actually the first gospel written of the 4 gospels in the New Testament (of the Holy Bible); & it was originally written in Egypt, in Coptic. Mark was martyred - dragged along through the streets - in Egypt which may explain why his gospel ends quite suddenly as if it's an unfinished work].
* = Hellenistic essentially means Greek (at least ancient Greek). And Common-Greek (koine-Greek) was the Greek language as used during Alexander the Great's time through the time of the Christ, Jesus ('though there was some additions to the language by then, a few centuries later; likewise, it's different from today's modern Greek thousands of years later). Alexander the Great tried spreading Greek culture (& Greek DNA) over every area that he conquered. After he died, his generals divided the conquered areas between Greece & Egypt (inclusive) amongst themselves [I believe it was 4 major divisions: Greece's area, Egypt's area, Persia's (Iran's) area, & the area remaining (today's Turkey, Lebanon, Israel)]...
I have memory issues, so double-check all of this: consider this as possible clues to help start your research & discovery.
Anywhere in coastal Mexico would have a lot of transport of sailors from all over the world over historical time. My profile is boring compared to yours but have the Spain/Portuguese, N. African and very small Native American percentages. My family history always indicated far more Native American which was disappointing to learn.
Germanic Tribes from Northwestern Europe invaded and settled in Iberia when the Roman Empire declined. Therefore most Latinos have Northwestern European ancestry.
Oh, wow!! That's so interesting! I had no idea. That Northwestern European DNA really took me by surprise because all of the other groups of people that showed up in our results were groups of people who, at one point or another, I had already thought might potentially be linked to us. I usually know a little bit about the migrant or slave groups that went or were taken into Mexico, so the only ones which truly surprised me were Northwestern European and Cypriot (until I realized that one of the languages in Cyprus is Greek).
However, a little while after we stopped making this video, I did remember that there is also a history of German and French migration into Mexico, so it made sense. I figured that might be where that tiny percentage comes from. But I had no idea about the Germanic Tribes which settled in Iberia.
Thanks for that information!
You're talking about the Visigoths... commercial DNA tests can't detect that, they go back to the late middle ages only (about the year 1000) when the Visigoths were already part of Spain. So their DNA is detected as Spanish.
The Northwestern European she is getting is more recent, she probably has a French ancestor on her tree.
@@ntl5983 Incorrect. Since the Visigoths, Vandals, and other Germanic Tribes are foundational populations that contributed to the genetics of modern Iberians, you would still see genetic matches to other populations with Germanic Lineages aka most Northwestern Europeans. The same logic applies to Celtic Tribes who colonized the Iberian Peninsula pre-Roman period. That’s why many Latinos have matches to the British Isles in this DNA Ancestry tests.
@@nerdlarge4691 Nope. the ethnic breakdown shows you where your ancestos were around the year 1000, that is explained by Ancestry when your results arrive... 23andMe should have the same timeframe.
Ancestry also has "communities" which show you where your ancestors were around the year 1700.
If it was as you suggest there wouldn't be Spanish or Irish ethnicities, they would both show up as Celtic since they both share the same Celtic origin in what is now northern Spain. Also, there was a French occupation of Mexico in the1860s, many French soldiers had children with Mexican women, so many Mexicans from central Mexico (like her) have some French ancestry. I'm Mexican so I know what I'm talking about.
@@ntl5983 These ancestry predictions by these companies are just that predictions. And the further they go back like for instance "year 1000", the more inaccurate the predictions are. Also, these companies often have have trouble differentiating between certain Western European populations because there is so much genetic similarity due to shared historical lineages. That's why there is a such thing as "Northwestern European" ancestry in the 1st place. Unless there is some genealogical evidence like census or marriage records that confirm a fairly recent French ancestor then any Northwestern European matches in a Mexican is just as likely trace genomic carryover from the medieval populations of Iberia.
I know what you mean about pizza (as I likewise have a little bit of southern Italian DNA - & a love of good pizza*).
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* = American pizza, that is; for, I hear that Italian pizza is merely a way that they prepare their leftovers, whereas here in the U.S.A. pizza is often made with fresh ingredients (& it makes good leftovers as well).
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Since Mexico is a country, anyone who is born there is a Mexican even if thier parents were Swiss. Same with the USA, they are American if they were born here, regardless of where thier family was from. Nationality is different from ethnicity.
Basically dna is chosen at random so you can be full siblings and not have all of the same ethnicity. One sibling can inherit Italian and one probably won’t.
Hi there! What about your haplogroups? This information tells you about your patrilineal and matrilineal lineages.
And from a biblical sense, will determine which of Noah's sons one is related to. R1b for example, can be traced to Seth's line as can Q (most Native Americans)
I might make another video about this. 🙂
Not sure if you’ve heard about a scientist taking ancestry all the way back to Shem, Ham and Japheth. His name is Nathaniel Jeanson and there is a series on the CZcams channel Answers in Genesis. His latest book is Traced. Fascinating stuff. Check it out.
I RELATE SO MUCH TO JONATHAN & feel his pain about not being able to grow a beard lol the hairs just get longer and the cheeks just get longer fuzz that makes me look darker/like my face is dirty lol 😂🤣😭 I have never heard someone else describe it the same way lol 😂
Men and Women don't get different autosomal genes it is just that you inherit 50/50 approx from your parents but you might get slightly different results because the inheritance is random. Also some of the trace regions don't take too literally as they are just misread i.e. the Asian results are most likely just misread Native American and things like Northwestern Europe are just from your Spanish ancestry as well as the Italian. Also with updates these trace regions are likely to change or just disappear.
I grew up in California with a lot of Mexicans and Filipinos. There are resemblances but I can tell a Mexican from a Filipino 99% of the time.
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Hello 👋 I'm from New Jersey, I have a question I don't have a laptop computer do they send the DNA results through postal service mail.??
look up the vice video where they tell you everyone doing these swabs are automatically entered in a crime database without knowing it
Northwest European likely came from the 80 Years War involving Spain and the Netherlands... Males have a Y chromosome and an X....females have 2 x's... During recombination the genes split and recombine but they never do it exactly the same way so sibling get different bits of DNA from each parents everytime... Really interesting results!
Foreigners assigned the label "Negritos" to the native people of the Philippines. They were about three feet tall and looked exactly like black Africans -- very dark skin and very curly hair. There aren't very many of them alive today. I don't know if they're still so short. The rest of the Filipinos are offspring whose ancestors migrated there from nearby lands -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. At some point, foreigners from further away intermixed with them.
maybe they descents of ancients africans
0.3% Vietnamese and 0.3% Italian are pretty insignificant amounts. Johnathan is basically native Mexican and Spanish. I'd really ignore any percentages under 1.0%.
The differences have nothing to do with the fact that one is male and one if female - it's just that all siblings will inherit different DNA from their father and different DNA from their mother.
They say to ignore anything under 8 percent. He got the tiny bit of Italian from the Spanish, if it is even correct. Ancestry and 23 and me have different results for me.
And don't forget the black, because colonial slavery was a very real thing and more recent historical event. These less than 1% ethnicities ended up disappearing or changing for me BUT the native, spanish, and black ended up still being there even through all the "updates" so those are accurate I'd say.
@@olg06 less than 1 percent owned slaves. Most did not have money
@@lauraboor6440 Idk how many owned slaves but the freed black slaves dissolved into the mayority mestizo population. I believe the average mexican has 3-5% black, i'm on the high end with 7% but even then I still don't look black.
@@olg06 Take it with a grain of salt. You are saying all Mexicans had sex with black people. Hahahaha
Sooo basically both of you are Mexican-Indigenous-Mestizos. I on the other hand-am Euro-Castizo because my DNA is 70% is European & the rest Jewish, Middle-Eastern, Turkish, & Native-Mexican 😃!
I'd never heard the term "Euro-Castizo" or even just "Castizo" before. I learned something new. But yeah, we're Mestizos, which we already knew. We grew up hearing, "Nosotros somos indígenas" ("We are indigenous") from our mom, even though we knew that we obviously had some European blood in us.
When I was in elementary school, I used to do Aztec dancing, as well as Flamenco and Folclórico. But honestly, even though I did dance Spanish Flamenco music, I never identified with my European descent. It was fun to dance and I loved using the castanetes, but I never thought of myself as Spanish or in any way European. I've always identified as Mexican, Mexican-American, Chicana, Indígena, or Latina. So the way I identify doesn't change. But it's interesting to know that we have so many tiny sprinkles from other places all over the world. Especially the ones for which we had strong gut feelings. 🙂
You both would be mestizo in Mexico 🇲🇽
Hi, have you checked other DNA sites like “Ancestry “ or “My Heritage?” Have you checked back with “23 and Me “ again after you posted this video? I noticed I was getting different results, and “23 and Me” kept sending me updates and changes to my DNA results.
Nice results I'm Mexican I got ancestry results - 38% native Mexico 1% native Peru Bolivia, 19% Spanish, 12% Portuguese, 14% french , 7% basque, 2% Scotland, 1% Jewish people of Europe, 1% Senegal, 1% Cameroon congo, 3% north African, 1% Levantine! I was surprised if the French lol
BTW: The Egyptian queen, Cleopatra known as a great beauty that got the attention of more than one important Roman, was from Macedonia: she was a princess from there, sent to Egypt by her father, a Macedonian king, to marry Egypt's ruler (a common practice among royal families, as it was a way to help ensure peace between countries for a little while, gather prestige, & gain/retain wealth).
Not many folk know this: many just assume that she was born in Egypt.
My 23andme test indicated that I was 51.2 percent Spanish and around 15 percent northwestern European which most likely comes from my great grandmother who was French/Irish. Overall my European ancestry is 75.5 percent. The rest of my ancestry is 13 percent African and 10 percent Native American. Also I’m Puerto Rican.
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Cyprus is an island whose residents were part of ancient Greece but today is an individual country they speak a dilect who originated from ancient Greek but it's not modern Greek and have the same names with the Greeks that's explain your family names. What I mean is they are neither Greeks nor Turks but individual.
As other close relatives take the test the lower ones will go down, some of the lower ones will go away. If you have a older relative that is a direct blood line and they take it the lower ones will change, mine did.
I hope that’s not true because I like being one percent from Finland