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Does anyone else identify with a culture due to upbringing that doesn't show up significantly on an ancestry test? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 day ago by may_be@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm like 0.01% Senegalese or something, but I wasn't raised by Senegalese people or by the culture, nor do I consider the percentage to be significant enough, so I would not consider myself to be Senegalese.

My dad says our ancestry test used to say he was ~48-50% Norwegian, but now my ancestry says it is around 3-4%. However, another test I paid for with my raw data detected Swedish ancestry around 22%. We were raised more with Norwegian stuff and Norwegian learning videos, though, so I consider myself and my dad Norwegian-American for sure, no matter what it says on the ancestry test because 1) IDK how true, but I heard ancestry tests can be bullshit and just estimate from regions. 2) Culture and identity is more than just a number percentage on a test. 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

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[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this weirdo dude in college who had family issues and clung to every single random ethnicity from his test. Starting wearing Native American jewelry and such.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

Makes sense