Comments by "" (@artstation707) on "I REACT: Italian American 23andMe Results" video.

She doesn't have thousands of ancestors. She derives from pairs of ancestors numbered at or around a hundred.
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@chet1921 I suppose its something people feel when they realize they're not who they pretend to be.
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What is Sub-Saharan African? Did you know that back in day the British rounded up black London natives and deported them to the African west coast? No such thing as Sub-Saharan African exists. You're naming a place, not a race.
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Respectfully, I feel the need to offer you (or readers) a comprehension. DNA profiling is a confidence trick: a con. First of all, people do not derive from soil. Therefore one cannot be 88% North Western European or 11% West African. If you say they have an 88% resemblance to the current inhabitants of North Western Europe, this would be more accurate, knowing present populations migrated from elsewhere. Suppose your DNA results come back as 19% Australian. Does this mean 19% pre-colonized Australian, or 19% Modern Australian, and if the latter, isn't that 19% Modern (white) European, which differs from previous (non-white) European? Thus the labels given are by default false. Secondly: corporations producing these results could offer deceitful or invented information. How can you check its validity? My suggestion is that you dispense with this sophistry and concentrate instead on historical familial lineages, investigating what they actually looked like.
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@elleanna5869 What is African DNA?
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That's all a waste of time. At some point you'll run into made up facts. Consider DNA services and online surname searches specious. They're just the latest ways to control the narrative. For example, no such thing as "African" genes exist. The people who live in Africa derive ultimately from Eurasia. The whole "Out of Africa theory" is completely disingenuous. Furthermore the words, Africa, Europe and Asia are Greek! Truth be told, your best bet is to research family name origins from old documents.
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People are kept back by this nonsense usage. Do you know what the word Africa means? Land of heat. It's based upon the Magna Grecian southwesterly wind deity Africus, a corruption of Aphrike, or hot. When you say West African roots, you describe nothing. The people of West Africa are migrant populations; they all came from some place else. The same way North America and Australia, with other notable regions, became white, so did Africa become black. You see, Africa would never be the first destination for those seeking fertile lands. All you need do is look at an image of the world at night, with all the city lights showing. You'll see where the first people in our epoch migrated to. When you call black people African, or say phrases like African genes, you mask true history and heritage. It's akin to calling all white people American. The truth is, the original black homeland was Europe / Asia. European populations were never admixtures of people moving north, and out of Africa theory is nonsense. The opposite is true.
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@scaringclaring5240 If it's a toponym (place name) then it can't be a mark of heritage. It has to be a patronym, or ancestral name.
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BTW. If I had to guess, I'd say your ancestors settled somewhere in Eastern Europe at some point.
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@nytn I don't consider Russia to be Eastern Europe. I suppose it is, but, avoiding association with the EU, it's in a category of its own. "Eastern Europe" is Poland and a few adjacent affected territories.
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@tundakyat457 No. I don't mean replacing it with another version. I mean abolishing it. Instead people should be called Israelites, or Gentiles.
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That's interesting, but you need to look more closely. The majority of West Indians derive not from Africa, but from Britain and Ireland, and even from France. Those supposed slave names turn out to be actual family names derived from clans, and tribes from Ireland and Scotland, transported "political prisoners" and indentured servants. During the English Civil War period and after that, native black Irish and Scots, as well as black Englishmen, were systematically rounded up and deported to North America and the Caribbean. The same thing happened during the French Revolution. We even have evidence of their surnames and complexions written in shipping logs. People from Africa are more prevalent in South America, and while some might have arrived in the Caribbean and the North, they make up only a tiny percentage there. Consider for example that of the 50+ million blacks in North America, only 894,499, less than one million (according to the 2015 census) speak an African language. The rest speak mainly English, some Spanish and French. Where is the memory of so called African languages which should have developed over the past several hundred years in North America?
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@MsJay-cr1id Cut what out?
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@lillybart-s9i We have records of native British, Scottish and Irish blacks shipped directly to the Americas and the Caribbean as slaves in slave ships, records of black Portuguese, and Spanish blacks, shipped from those nations TO Africa, and records of French blacks exiled to French territories, again in the Americas, and Africa. We have proof that native black Germans, and others, ended up in America. Furthermore, those records you're speaking about are not as trustworthy as you think. Out of 50 million black Americans, only 1% speak the languages of African nations. Their native tongue is English.
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@lillybart-s9i You can't beat a language out of someone. Language develops early. It's much more difficult for an adult to acquire a language to replace their mother tongue. If MILLIONS of people from African nations arrived in the Americas over a short period of time, they'd speak the language in secret and teach it to their children. I think you've been deceived. FYI, a community of blacks, from Sierra Leone, were transplanted to America. About 300,000 exist today. They preserved their language and customs: the Gullah Geechee. Now. This is very strange. These were African slaves, but guess what! The language they preserved (Kriyo) contains previous broken English! Turns out these people derived from 18th century London!
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@lillybart-s9i Everything I said is true. Seek out a book entitled Jacobite Gleanings, to begin with. We can go through the rest when you're ready to pay attention.
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@lillybart-s9i I'm not saying no African slave trade westward existed, only that it's exaggerated and mainly affected South America. You're missing the likelihood that the transatlantic slave trade narrative is mainly a cover for the enslavement of European and North American aborigines.
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@lillybart-s9i You're also not thinking properly. The transportation of millions of people in 18th century slave ships would take a very long time.
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@lillybart-s9i J a c o b i t e G l e a n i n g s.
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@lillybart-s9i M e m o i r s o f t h e S e c r e t S e r v i c e s o f J o h n M a c k y , E s q . , D u r i n g t h e R e i g n s . . .
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@lillybart-s9i ::snip references::
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You'll be lucky to find out who your ancestors were. Some populations adopted the names and lineages of others, relegating entire groups of people to meaningless labels such as "African heritage." In some cases, children got taken from their parents and shipped off to unwanted lands and regions, losing their identities in the process. People have returned to their homelands as unwitting immigrants, believing they derive from some place else.
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