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I guess those of us from the British Isles have no Asian genes cause I doubt they made their way over to the British Isles. My dentist always told me I had a "Neanderthal" jaw, because I have room for more wisdom teeth in my mouth. I think a fair number of Western Europeans have some Neanderthal genes.
I'm predominantly Spanish. I estimate no less than 60%, and that's being very conservative. My dad's side is only Spanish and Arab (AFAIK). Mother's side is the grab bag. She has German, Spanish, and Indigenous American. But, apparently nobody inherits exactly 50/50 genes. Whatever Native and Spanish ancestry my mother has, was totally lost because she looks like Angela Merkel. Most of the people (99%) around here thinks she's from Germany or Poland. That's why for simplicity's sake if people ask me what my origin is, I just say American. But if they say no I mean your actual origin, I just answer Puerto Rican, even if I look absolutely nothing like a typical Puerto Rican
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Originally Posted by snj90
Well, of course you have "Asian" genes because all Europeans have Ancient North Eurasian admixture, especially Northern Europeans. However, it is uncertain whether ANEs were basically Caucasoid, Mongoloid, or somewhere in-between. Native Americans also have substantial ANE ancestry, as well as indigenous Siberians. My best guess is they were somewhere in-between. The archetypical (Northern) European look basically comes from the prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations of Europe. ANE was a relatively recent introduction to the European gene pool (could be at least partly from the Indo-Europeans, in my opinion), so they were a distinct population, clearly, with a somewhat intermediate position along a Eurasian genetic cline.
And all Europeans have Neanderthal genes. In fact, all races do, except for sub-Saharan Africans.
I was talking to my mom the other day, and she revealed that the Native in me is Mongoloid. Well I think I told you already, my great grandmother basically looked Southeast Asian. I don't believe I'm like most Puerto Ricans and tri-racial. AFAIK, nobody in my immediate family has any African ancestry. If we do, it's so diluted and distant. I always have to laugh though, despite both my parents looking like Europeans, I look racially ambiguous. Depending on who I'm talking to, I'm either Italian, white Mexican, white Cuban, or part Japanese.
Obviously cause you do seem to have a slight obsession with ethnicity. Are you an Identitarian by any chance?
Identitarian? Not a term I was familiar with. I had to look that one up, so the obvious answer is no.
I am a Slavic pagan, so this forms the basis of my identity. At one time, I would have said the opposite, but I don't even care to think of myself as 'white' anymore. There are loads of issues with the concept, to say the least, so I can no longer see it as the basis of an identity.
I do, however, believe that my religion is an ancestral one - without an ancestral connection, there's no basis to consider oneself connected to the religion. It should follow from that that I am no universalist.
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