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Who knows how those tests work. I've considered getting them.

I have the same story with my grandfather. And similar background. On my dads side, both his parents don't talk about where their family is from, but what I've gathered is I'm probably italian, irish, scottish, german, english.

I wouldn't do that.

Do you really want to send off your DNA to a company? Think about it.

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especially considering everything we know about the nature of DNA, was taught to us by our captors.

I could shrug and say "who cares what they do with it, its not part of me anymore"

and upon what massive knowledgebase of fact do I base this assumption?

Wikipedia? Snopes? Bill Nye? Donald Marshall? David Icke? Walter Cronkite? imdb?

The mythology of "Everyone knows"

Thought about it for years, that's clearly why I haven't done it.

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I’ve heard from my mom that a friend of hers took three tests from three different companies, and got three different results.

I don’t think they necessarily know what they’re talking about - the gene information doesn’t actually say “Irish” or whatever - it’s data that has to be interpreted.

Yea.. that's why I question the 2%. Some Italians went to scotland recently, but if it was recent it would be more than 2%

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Last year at some point, someone on VOAT said they sometimes even try to tell people they’re 1% “African” of some sort - ostensibly for anti-racism purposes ...