What is your ancestry?

Irish potato farmer with a dash of German sausage thrown in. Always a good mix. Rumour has it there's Slavic cabbage in there somewhere too but looking at my family I think the cabbage is pretty much a given, Slavic or not.
 
All over fucking Europe and Middle East from Russia (the ones that write books about how to beat your wife properly) to Spain and down to sandniggers tribes, but worth noting that my last name has Iraqi roots, which is odd since my oldest ancestors had a lot of gruesome "souvenirs" from mudslims and there's no records from anyone in my family living near there, and it's hard to follow a family tree as old as mine, it's over 500 years old.
 
By paternal ancestry, Welsh. Only reason I know that is because my dad shelled out the cash for ancestry.com and promptly forgot about it till mom called me up one day asking me why the shit was her credit card getting dinged every month and blamed me.

I dragged my heels cancelling the subscription and just traced my dad's side.

Oh, yeah, I ain't payin' no goddamn DNA website to lie to me to tell me I have kike/nigger blood running through my veins. And so on, and so forth.
 
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Ohh boy. I'm Irish, Welsh, English, Swiss, Dutch, Southern Italian, Sicilian, German, Scandinavian, Slavic and a tiny bit of Arab. I'm basically half of Europe lol. Though I identify more with my Italian side, seeing thats what I'm most of. I would like to get in touch with my German and Dutch side though.
 
Scandinavian, Irish, mixed European and some European Jew, a sprinkling of Greek/Italian, and a touch of North West African for flavor. I had one of those ancestry DNA things. Pretty stunned at the results but cool nonetheless.
 
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What I wonder most about those ancestry tests which show that basically everyone is poly-ethnic is how they define "Italians", "Scandinavians", "Turks", "Eastern Europeans", "Chinese" etc. if "full" ones don't exist since everybody's a world citizen? If no native inhabitant of Ireland is 100% Irish, then what is a "true" Irishman? And how can any person native to Scotland or Wales be XX% Irish if "truely 100% Irish people" don't even exist as an accurately defined genetic group to compare them against?
 
The all three the islanders who aren't Welsh and the entire stretch of Europe between France and Poland, spread between my Mom's side and my Dad's side, making a grand union of 'mostly Scottish' and 'mostly Germanic' that somehow combines to look 'mostly Slavic'.

What I wonder most about those ancestry tests which show that basically everyone is poly-ethnic is how they define "Italians", "Scandinavians", "Turks", "Eastern Europeans", "Chinese" etc. if "full" ones don't exist since everybody's a world citizen? If no native inhabitant of Ireland is 100% Irish, then what is a "true" Irishman? And how can any person native to Scotland or Wales be XX% Irish if "truely 100% Irish people" don't even exist as a genetic group to compare oneself against?
These tests compare basic and relatively stable originating allele frequencies and haplogroups and then fill in the gaps with other info from other people taking the test. For this reason and in places like Ireland with extremely varied haplos/alleles, they're going to be much fuzzier on the results. It's more of a weighted average than anything else.
On the other hand, you can be fully Chinese if you live in Gansu because:
  • no one's actually raped their way through Gansu in millennia,
  • a person migrating from Shaanxi is most likely from the exact same haplogroup/allele set because that's how the Chinese are.
while for much of Europe there's many varying origins, many historical migrations and invaders to contend with, and several extinction events that opened up for a lot of not-so-picky banging at opportune times that have prevented stagnation/essential homogeneity of haplogroups in that manner.
 
All I know is that I'm German (most of that side of the family moved to the United States before WWII, so uh, don't make nazi jokes about me... or do if you want :P) , and Italian, with the possibility of having at least a couple of Ethiopian ancestors (I mean, I am Sicilian, which means my ancestry might be a clusterfuck of African origins).

I really want to get a proper test, I find this stuff interesting. I don't know too much about my Sicilian side due to my mother being distant from her family.
 
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