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He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…

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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm struggling to process that this is so common... Also had this in my family growing up

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm up in northern Ontario in Canada and I had a French Canadian neighbor who loved watching John Wayne movies. He often told me that he had Cherokee ancestry too.

I told him a hundred times that this wasn't Cherokee territory because I was full blooded Ojibwe Cree from this area and we had never heard of Cherokee. I kept telling him that he was probably part Ojibwe or Algonquin which is who the French mixed with in our area .... but he really wanted to be a John Wayne movie Indian.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

That's hilarious!

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mixed race / olive skinned people trying to find something more acceptable in order to avoid being outcast. Also, edgelords.