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After years of being told I was part Cherokee, someone was mad that I wasn't. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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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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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Curious on how they separate between Norway and "Sweden & Denmark". Seems like an odd grouping as arguably Norway have closer ties to both Sweden and Denmark than they do together.

[–] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know, right? How odd. I guess Sweden and Denmark must share some genetics that other countries don’t share.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev -4 points 7 months ago

The worse parts of the Scandinavian genetics no doubt (no bias)