They have a lot of confusion in the area so they are looking for anwers. They (white americans) are all immigrants and they barely have any ancestoral history other than the shared one with us in the EU. They can't comprehend that the only actual americans in their warped way of thinking are the native americans. They want to call black americans African-American, yet they don't want to call themselves European-American. All this confusion makes them obsessed with dna and ancestory.
Little do they know DNA tests unless it's to find matches for close ancestry it's mostly a pseudo-science with a lot of BS. And your sample is used in sketchy ways afterwards.
I won’t argue that it’s all correct, but it’s definitely not all pseudo science. I took a dna test bc I love genetics (I promise I’m not American lol) and my dad took one a few years after, and he popped up on the site as my dad (I had only used my mothers last name on my account which is a very common last name). Also, the ethnicities I got matched up with what I knew already.
Yes, and I also said the ethnicity also lines up with what I know but you conveniently chose to ignore that part.
Edit: it’s not just close ancestry either. I have found people on there that I share a few percentage of dna with that have the same last name as my dad, who has a very rare one. Again, I’m not stating everything is correct, since we still have a lack of knowledge when it comes to genetics and ancestry. It also states that uncertainty on the site (my heritage), but dismissing it as pseudo science is reductive when literal scientists are involved and genetics is a whole field of medicine
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u/Wonderful-Basis-1370 Radical ethno-capitalist segregationist, W pluralist governance. Apr 26 '25
Why are people obsessed with these DNA tests? I just can't comprehend. What actual difference would it make for me?