Karl.;8817393 said:
Only American claim to be 7% Indian 3% polish 32% Spanish and so on. Shit is dumb.
What's wrong with that or people being interested in their genealogy? I don't personally think there's any reason why people
should be interested in their (biological) family heritage and my identity isn't based on who my ancestors were, I don't feel connected to people just because we share blood, but if people are (interested in their heritage) then DNA testing and family history research can be fun and it can better people's lives by strengthening their sense of identity, belonging etc. It might be kind of pointless for me to do it since I'm African but I would actually want to take the test (mostly the autosomal test but the Y-chromosomal/mitochondria test could be interesting, too) if I had the money, it's always possible that I share ancestry with ethnic groups I wouldn't think that I did. I'm curious about what it would show.
I hate when people say 'we're all mixed' (many people who take the test show 100% African, European etc. ) but I like the idea of a world with no borders where all future humans are racially and ethnically mixed (not necessarily 50/50, they could be mostly European with some African and Asian ancestry or mostly Middle Eastern with some Native American and Papua New Guinean ancestry etc., even if they're mostly European, Middle Eastern etc. they are mixed by definition if they aren't 100%), it would help to break down racial and ethnic prejudice if people realized how ironic it would be to discriminate against people (on the basis of ethnicity and race - which are heritable group identities) whom they share ('recent') ancestry with. It's one thing to discriminate against people because of culture, lifestyle, sexual orientation, world view or religion etc. but it makes
no sense for a white person with some black ancestry to discriminate against black people (because they're black) when they have black people in their family somewhere down the line, in terms of heritage they have more in common with their black ancestors and the black people they are distantly related to (above and beyond the common heritage that all humans share) than they do with white people they do not share more relatively recent ancestry with (and that goes for black people with Asian, white, Native etc. ancestry discriminating against Asians, whites, Natives etc.). For indirect reasons I think more racial/ethnic mixing could be a very good thing. Even though I don't want children, I like the idea of having descendants who can say "I'm this percentage African, that % European, this percentage Asian, Indian, Fijian, Samoan etc." ; it could help them to feel connected to human beings generally in a way that might be harder for pure-breeds.