Black Culture Discussion Thread

[Nouss]

Good question, I read the title and stopped immediately.

 

[atlsfinest]

I got my 23andMe DNA results back. It came out just about what I expected. Both of my parents are native Liberian. I wasn't expecting to have that higher percentage of European ancestry to be honest.

I wonder who those white people were and the circumstances under which they interacted with my ancestors.

 

[Nouss]

Yo I'd love to do one of those. What was the process?

Where does the east Asian genes even come from lol?

 

[atlsfinest]

Yo I'd love to do one of those. What was the process?

Where does the east Asian genes even come from lol?

It's a pretty simple process. They mail the kit to your house you fill out one piece of paper and you send them a saliva sample and then you wait for the results. I got my results back in about a month.

Yeah I was really surprised about the Asian jeans as well. Maybe the Europeans in my background had some Filipino in them

 

[tokes99]

It's a pretty simple process. They mail the kit to your house you fill out one piece of paper and you send them a saliva sample and then you wait for the results. I got my results back in about a month.

Yeah I was really surprised about the Asian jeans as well. Maybe the Europeans in my background had some Filipino in them

just a theory, though i would suppose such test do have some control sort of control group for this...given the genetic diversity inside of africa, it could be that one/some of your distant ancestors was among those that eventually went on to migrate out of africa & pass their genes into those other populations/spots, so it may not exactly be that your background actually includes asians & europeans just that you share a set of genes that is typically found in those populations...

 

[gry60]

I got my 23andMe DNA results back. It came out just about what I expected. Both of my parents are native Liberian. I wasn't expecting to have that higher percentage of European ancestry to be honest.

I wonder who those white people were and the circumstances under which they interacted with my ancestors.

Could be that at least one of your ancestors was one of those former slaves who came back and settled there too.

It could also be that the European ancestry is derived from those European traders who set up shop along the coastline of West Africa centuries ago and interacted with the locals. I watched a short report about the Souza family in Benin (or Togo, can't remember) that covered such a scenario.

 

[SupremeBeing5]

I got my 23andMe DNA results back. It came out just about what I expected. Both of my parents are native Liberian. I wasn't expecting to have that higher percentage of European ancestry to be honest.

I wonder who those white people were and the circumstances under which they interacted with my ancestors.

This is a scam. Leave this BS alone.

People still getting got. Smh.

 

[atlsfinest]

This is a scam. Leave this BS alone.

People still getting got. Smh.

Explain.

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

23 and me doesn't go far enough. If you're Black American you can pretty much guestimate where your ancestors are from. Telling a Black person they are majority sub Saharan is a waste of money lol Also heard they keep your DNA or something so that's a no go.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Nouss]

just a theory, though i would suppose such test do have some control sort of control group for this...given the genetic diversity inside of africa, it could be that one/some of your distant ancestors was among those that eventually went on to migrate out of africa & pass their genes into those other populations/spots, so it may not exactly be that your background actually includes asians & europeans just that you share a set of genes that is typically found in those populations...

Doesn't work that way. It wouldn't back track into telling a black person that he has Asian genes, it would most likely tell thousands if not millions of Asian folk that they have black genes.

EDIT: I worded this wrong. But wouldnt this lead to almost all Asians having African ancestry? Since all humans came from africa, wouldn't humans from every continent have African DNA? I

 

[Nouss]

Could be that at least one of your ancestors was one of those former slaves who came back and settled there too.

It could also be that the European ancestry is derived from those European traders who set up shop along the coastline of West Africa centuries ago and interacted with the locals. I watched a short report about the Souza family in Benin (or Togo, can't remember) that covered such a scenario.

This is another scenario that leads me to believe my genetic makeup might be entirely different from a Liberians, even though guinea and Liberia are frontier countries.

First, you'd have to take into account if your ancestors were African slaves that were liberated or if they were Africans who were on the continent and mixed with the newly arrived ex slaves.

That could change your genetic makeup drastically, and could explain your Asian ancestry.

In EG we have the Combe people. They are entirely coastal and more than 80% of them are mixed. The Spanish actually resided there well after independence because they themselves had family and ancestors who lived and died there.

Kinda like apartheid but legit mixing.

 

[wr]

23 and me doesn't go far enough. If you're Black American you can pretty much guestimate where your ancestors are from. Telling a Black person they are majority sub Saharan is a waste of money lol Also heard they keep your DNA or something so that's a no go.

they consider the gentics you submit to them as their intellectual property.

 

[tay1]

they consider the gentics you submit to them as their intellectual property.

Next thing you know, your prints at a crime scene

 

[gry60]

In EG we have the Combe people. They are entirely coastal and more than 80% of them are mixed. The Spanish actually resided there well after independence because they themselves had family and ancestors who lived and died there.

Didn't realize it was that widespread.

Now that makes me wonder whether there are some hidden half Germans around Douala/Limbe.

 

[Nouss]

Didn't realize it was that widespread.

Now that makes me wonder whether there are some hidden half Germans around Douala/Limbe.

Wouldnt surprise me, you know white folk were shook to venture inland. Wherever they could lay their hat was their home.

On islands like Cape Verde and Sao Tome, have you seen non mixed individuals? To make a comparison by colonizer, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Angola are full of black folks.

I think the theme here is direct, island and coastal lands. Continental interior was judged off limits.

 

[tokes99]

somewhat unrelated, the statistic that something like 90% of chinese are ethnically han, i've read that is something of a misnomer because obviously there has been much mixing but it has become more like a cultural /goverment mandate type thing...

Doesn't work that way. It wouldn't back track into telling a black person that he has Asian genes, it would most likely tell thousands if not millions of Asian folk that they have black genes.

EDIT: I worded this wrong. But wouldnt this lead to almost all Asians having African ancestry? Since all humans came from africa, wouldn't humans from every continent have African DNA? I

i could definitely be, and probably am, wrong because for sure there has been a lot of mixing historically...just seems like a somewhat plausible theory because humanity arose out of africa, africans have more genetic diversity (such that, at least as i understand it, africans have more genetic similarity to other non african populations than to other african populations which also may apply more or less to similarities in between african ethnic groups compared to within african ethnic groups) and it wouldn't necessarily be the case that it could or would show that all asians had african ancestry; it could be that only few of those africans remained in africa (such that it may not be able for the research to significantly identify those africans as a unique group, if that were even possible) of that group that split off and eventually 'became asian.'

the way i understand it, 23andme (and most of the services like it) only can tell you with what populations it has found genes to be prevalent in, it isn't as direct as people think to be and has limitations for groups of people that may be outside of the groups it has more extensive samples for (which is why they need to keep the data, the ominous implications aside, it does help them be more accurate/make more links)

 

[DCAllAfrican]

EDIT: I worded this wrong. But wouldnt this lead to almost all Asians having African ancestry? Since all humans came from africa, wouldn't humans from every continent have African DNA? I

If you have time, this question is answered here.

 

[wr]

Next thing you know, your prints at a crime scene

And also a DNA/genetics search engine/ database. Imagine being able to track ppl down by their relatives dna even if you personally haven't submitted dna.
Imagine the child support implications.
Or how much the web will know about humans. Dna genome already mapped. Brain genome mapping almost done.
It was nice being a regular human for a while.

 

[layziegunts]

Here is mine, I did it on ancestry.com a couple years ago.

A lot of y’all in here don’t seem black to me, so post your results

 

[130122]

just got my results in. damn, you caught me b

 

[goledensilence]

I might give that ancestry test a try just for the heck of it.

 

[Mark Antony]

Here is mine, I did it on ancestry.com a couple years ago.

A lot of y’all in here don’t seem black to me, so post your results

How you live with yourself being 20% European? you can't talk that "pro black" **** and be that much European. FOH.


Jokes aside, my one little conspiracy paranoia is i've heard enough people say they save and possibly sell your dna info, pass.

 

[atlsfinest]

Next thing you know, your prints at a crime scene

This is how the police found the Golden State killer after all these years.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/g...website-officials-say/N27nonZCBihxxfaHErc16I/

Steve Grippi, chief deputy district attorney for Sacramento County, confirmed Thursday that DeAngelo was tracked down using a genealogy website similar to Ancestry.com and 23andMe. The Sacramento Bee reported that investigators in the DA’s office and crime lab technicians pored over online family trees, looking for profiles that were similar to the one obtained from DNA left behind by the East Area Rapist.

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

How you live with yourself being 20% European? you can't talk that "pro black" **** and be that much European. FOH.


Jokes aside, my one little conspiracy paranoia is i've heard enough people say they save and possibly sell your dna info, pass.

Ain't no one tryin to clone anybody