The Heritage Thread

There was no chattel slavery in Africa. Duh. Every culture has it's brutal history. When your entire culture is brutal/warlike there's a problem. When a culture circumvents the globe with its warlike/brutality. Problem. When genocide against indigenous population is common first contact behavior. Problem.

So you're one of those Yank tourists that might visit Africa to see your cultural heritage - without knowing what it is - and complains when they can't find a Burger King. Fair enough, as long as I know.

That's ignoring a lot of nasty shit done in Africa, Asia and Eurasia but anyway.

I mean just going by the history of early Islam alone you can name off half a dozen wars before the 8th century AD...all instigated by guess who invaders of the European continent.

Was it published by the Black Panthers or something?

Typical academic racism. *yawn*

Who is this N7? I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else. But nice talking to ya.

Yeah, that guy is indeed N7. Meh. 

For commoners, in the past 400 years we're researched, my family have been more English than the people who've held the throne.

Given that my surname is Old English, that doesn't really surprise me all that much, we've been seemingly mulling around here forever.

I'm a mutt.

A mix of Irish, English, German, Cossack, and Czech. The English side of my family has a Norman surname, so if you go back far enough I suppose I have some French ancestry as well.

Right, so, I finally took an autosomal DNA test.  

This is my results:

54 % Scandinavian
30,8 % Finnish
5,3 % Eskimo/Inuit
5,2 % Central Asian
3,7 % East European
1 % Indigenous Amazonian

54 % Scandinavian was about what I expected. Also, the high amount of finnish can be explained by the Sami. There is no specific category for Sami, so it falls under that, I think. Eskimo/Inuit and Central Asian could also have something to do with the Sami? East European - not sure where that's from, but it's not impossible. But then... Indigenous Amazonian??? How did that happen?   Weird. I'm born and raised in Norway, and you have to go back to the 1600s to find ancestors who were born outside of Scandinavia. 


My boyfriend's results were also a bit surprising. He is northern norwegian, like me. We guessed that he would turn out to be about 96 % scandinavian, and about 2 % finnish/sami. Based on many years of genealogy research. We knew there were smaller amounts of scottish, german, french. 

Turns out he is 24,4 % Scottish, Irish and Welsh! 

I have to search around a bit about how I'm supposed to read these results, because this was mostly confusing.