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Hey Reina. So during a bit of Elden Ring Lore research, I started doing a little bit of study on Sengoku Jidai. After Hideyoshi shut down all the ports and tried to isolate Japan, apparently the Dutch from 1640-1854 were the only people trading with them from a post on Dejima. Although the Netherlands is on the other side of Denmark that at least gets you to Europe, and I've seen at least one map that has the Dutch trading in 1665 with routes all the way from Dejima to the Baltic Sea near Finland and even on the other side of Scandinavia, in a Russian city called Arkhangelsk. Shot in the dark, but I'd bet that's where the link would be. It's a big world and a long history tho, so who knows. Hope you're feeling better!
Hi Scully San, I am half Japanese and both my parents did the My Heritage test as well, and you should know that My Heritage does not have a good coverage of Asia. Nothing bad said about My Heritage, but to make these estimates, they need alot of DNA from each region, to estimate the mixture of "race" in your specific region ex. Japan. It is a myth that each country is made out of pure race, obviously we are mixed, borders are man made not natural. This whole DNA thing was started by the Mormons in the US because they believe that it's possible to find your ancestors and baptise them into their religion, this is why the My Heritage "database" already has a lot of Western, especially European DNA. My Mothers results looked something like yours, although instead of Inuit, it she had Inca (South American) DNA. She also had 2-3% Finish in her, and I believe that the indigenous people of that area called the Sami is the reason. They are an indigenous group of north of the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland. They are a travelling people and they do look like they have mongolian heritage. You can find language videos on youtube, where you can listen to Sami and Ainu language, and there is a lot of similarities. When assessing your DNA it's easy to say, oh well it must have been because this Hablo group moved from this area to this area 10.000 years ago, but remember, these DNA kits can only measure back around 500 years, meaning only six-seven incestores back (if they live to around 70 years old). So someone in your recent ancestry was full Inuit, and someone even further back was full Finish. Now having said all this, the test kit also includes that the only assessments that is 100% correct is the first line, meaning that you are 98% Japanese. The rest is an estimate, and if you do another test from another test kit that has a different database, your answer will be different. As a Japanese person I would advise you to get an asian based or Japanese based DNA test kit. I know that they exist because I wanted to find one for my mother. I hope this helped just a little...thank you for this video! Kind regards Ken
There are Japanese DNA companies which are apparently more detailed when it comes to Asian ancestry. Bigger sample sets. You may be able to upload results for analysis.
Can we go under the assumption that you haven't undergone any cosmetic procedures? A lot of Asians who have had surgeries often get assumed to be part white.
No, because many Koreans and Chinese people have them too. Besides, all these simple DNA tests say that Ainu people are about 80％ Japanese and 15% South Asian and that the rest of their genome comes from random places including Europe and North Africa. It also says Inuit but not all the time, and even when it shows up it's always a tiny bit. On the other hand, South Asia shows up all the time. If she had Ainu ancestry, she would be more South Asian than Inuit. But she isn't, meaning that her Inuit ancestry doesn't come from Ainu people.
@@mfreak1126 The Ainu are native to northern Honshu, Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and Sakalin. Are you thinking of the indigenous people from the Ryukyu Islands that are located to the south of mainland Japan?
Note that these DNA tests primarily expose DNA add mixture. In this case, the Inuit and Finnish DNA is just shared DNA with these groups. It doesn't mean there is a specific ancestor that came from these people groups. For example, as humans we all share common DNA by definition , but we cannot necessarily show ancestor relationships with this knowledge. In this case, the Finnish people also share Sammi (a nomadic group of reindeer herders that spans all of northern Europe and Asia). This doesn't mean you have Finnish DNA, it just means Reina shares DNA with Finnish people who shared DNA with Sammi and Inuit. Also, the DNA testing database probably doesn't have enough data to discretely resolve the difference between Finnish, Sammi and Inuit DNA, and so reports Finnish and Inuit as broad categories. The subtleties of DNA haplogroups is complicated especially when many haplogroups and markers are shared across many different peoples, and then these peoples are separated by relatively recent national borders.
It makes sense. Very common to get small percentages of japanese/korean for finnish people in dna tests too. Long time ago the origin is same in siberia. Finnic people moved from the east to the west and west and northern russia used to be region of finnic tribes which have many lost in history or are in small numbers nowadays. Finns still carry rare haplogroup which makes them ancestry very unique. There is a saying that finns are the most and least europeans of european ethnic groups. 15:44 this man has features that are quite common in Finland. Super interesting guys. But your husband definitely has no idea about it because of his weird theory of finns going with scandinavians in viking boats 😂 its just small sea and bit if land between finland and japan. During long periods of time its not weird that there is this root.
It must’ve been a great feeling when you’re mix. I’m glad your mom is happy with your heritage. It’s scary but I’m always wanting to try it out myself. I am Cambodian mix with euro. But then again, people assume I’m Hawaiian or Samoan for a Cambodian. Or Filipino. I need to start trying this now! ❤
I'm not surprised by the Finnish bit. You somehow look a bit like my aunt. 😂 I'm Finnish, btw. DNA tests often show a tiny bit East Asian or Arctic or even Amerindian for Finns. It's complicated. No, I'm no viking. No, Finland technically isn't in Scandinavia. Look up Uralic peoples. Finns were called China Swedes in the US back in the day. Yeah, an old German map even shows Finland as yellow for mongoloid. Anyways, AMA.
Yeah they even had laws banning the China Finns because they decided they weren't white they were closer to Siberians. They were only very partly right because the DNA does cross over a lot. Considering how much the Inuit move around the world over the past few thousand years, it makes since that the rest of the northern peoples would do a lot of the same, being nomadic.
Finns don't look like japanese a bit. or any other Asian countries . I used to live in other countries and everybody asked if I came from Sweden , Norway etc The same with other Finns as well. . Watch the video " Coding Ambassador &the Finnish Double flip -Education in Finland."
@@cinderellaandstepsisters No-one said that Finns in general look Japanese. Too tired to write a long reply on my phone but read the Eurogenes blog if you're interested in population genomics.
@@SuviTuuliAllan don't believe everything you hear or read. Trust what you see. Use your brains. Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. The other European countries have got asian dna even more than Finland by the way.
@@zagrizena Google it Korean language is not related to Finnish at all. Finnish and Estonian languages are related.Nobody said that Norwegian , danish etc. are related. The loan words occur in every language. If you have loan words it doesn't mean the language is related. What do you learn at school?
@@cinderellaandstepsisters you're such a troll 🤣 A lot of people said Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German are related. Linguists, not commenters. And of course there are some loanwords between even unrelated neighbouring languages, but claiming one language has mostly the same words as some other language, implies those are related somehow. Hence my question. As for the supposed Finnish-Korean loanwords that is a bit of a stretch. Either they are false cognates with separate etymology or those are loanwords from some other language related to Finnish (maybe some Mongolian or Russian ugro-finnic steppe language, if they are spoken that far East).
@@zagrizena For heaven's sake. Finnish Has A LOT OF LOAN WORDS FROM SWEDISH. Finland was directly a part of Sweden for over 600 years so it should not be so weird. I am a Finn and I know the history of my country. Don't even try to know more about Finland than Finnish ppl. Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Educate yourself. You are a troll!
Watching the video, I could tell being 100% Japanese really meant a lot to you. I found your recent short post on UA-cam. You are correct, it does not matter and I’m glad it does not bother you as such. Look at it this way. Many of us on UA-cam started to learn Japanese because of your videos. Sugoi! I am glad your facial injury is healing. :)
OMGosh!! Your mother is so adorable!! You are lucky to take after her, she isn't just beautiful, she seems like such a lovely woman as well...and a very caring mother who truly enjoys and loves her daughter. Most all mothers love their children, but they don't all really and truly ENJOY them.
How have I followed you since source fed days and I just now realized that Scully isn’t your actual last name!?! Duh!!! You’re a huge xfiles fan of course that’s your stage name.
Reina, it doesn’t matter what the results are (there’s definitely room for error in the ‘results’). You’re an amazing person, have an amazing family. Your UA-cam channel is one of my favorite channels and always look forward to your videos. All the best to you and your family in the future.
This segment was very interesting to watch. Especially when you said you had some Korean ancestry and a certain percentage of Finnish. I remembered a conversation I had with a friend of mine at the University of Hawaii back in the 70s. He had an interest in linguistics, as a hobby, so he was telling me about how there had been discovered some elements of a language that was in common with some people in Northern Korea as well as people in Finland, and apparently it was surmised that there had been some tribe in the Urals (in Russia) thousands of years ago that had split up with some of them going east and some of them going west. I wonder if others from E ast Asia have found Finnish in the DNA report 🤔 Thank you for sharing your story!
So, I think I can add to some of this. Not at all a genealogist but I took these tests and my family came back with similar results. I did 23andme for my mom, brother, and myself. When I first loaded my results, 23andme said I was almost all Cambodian but my brother had Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian, with a trace of Spanish/Portuguese. I loaded 23andme results to MyHeritage and they contrastingly had results that accounted for the Chinese and South Asian DNA. When they did an update after receiving more reference samples with East Asian DNA, my results uploaded and appeared similar to my brother's. When I tested my mom with 23andme, she had very little Chinese even though her mother was mostly Teochew with her Grandfather leaving China to escape communism, and that's where most of the East Asian DNA comes from. Her result has stayed the same despite the update. Moreover, all of the results change and are more reflective of family history when changing the confidence level, which puts my brother and me at about a quarter East/Broad Asian with a mix of Bengali/Indian and unknown. All of that makes sense as my Dad's paternal haplogroup is R2a (started likely in Central Asia and went into India) and my mom's is B5. Loading my mom's and brother's DNA into MyHeritage they both got Finnish/Inuit with mom having a bit of Filipino (I did not get any on Inuit/Finnish on MyHeritage). So depending what site you use especially for Asian DNA (since the reference population is low), they will interpret your DNA differently. For me, MyHeritage caught my Indian and Chinese/Vietnamese heritage first while 23andme did not until later. 23andme broke down my East Asian which also has me at a bit broadly EA and I assume that's where my Inuit/Finnish probably is (since it is the same percentage as my brother's Inuit DNA on MyHeritage). My maternal grandma had very Northern East Asian features and everyone in my fam, especially the men, are especially tall (women 5'7 and men 6' and over). I suppose the best way to cross reference some of these results yourself is to see if you also have DNA relatives from those regions they give you. I had many (South)East Asian relatives, a few Indigenous American relatives (they had traces of Asian), and a bit of Indian with 1 Bengali relative, and 1 mostly Siberian/East Asian relative. On other sites my family is related to a couple of Finnish people. (But I take all of these interpretations with a grain of salt). Lastly, one of the reasons I ran it through MyHeritage was because for 6 days, I dreamt that I had Inuit heritage. I thought those dreams were weird because of my 23andme results until I loaded my mom's and bro's through MyHeritage. Some people also say that MyHeritage is not great, that 23andme is the best. However for me, MyHeritage had my DNA composition pretty spot on, and with 23andme, they eventually updated their reference populations pretty much the same, except they categorize my family's possible Inuit as broadly East Asian. It doesn't matter to me nonetheless, for me it's in the haplogroups and we are very much Cambodians :) Good luck anyone looking to find out about your origins and long live the ancestors!
The Sami people, which is the Scandinavian equivalent of the inuit, has lived across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia for thousands of years, so the likelihood that some of them came across the inuits isn't far fetched at all. So most likely that's the explanation for the Finnish in your DNA test.
Sami ppl are not Finns. Sami ppl are a different race with a completely different culture. Finland has not even got very many of them. Mostly Norway has them Sweden is the second Finland is the third and Russia has the smallest number of Sami ppl. Very often Sami ppl are represented as finns, but they are different ppl.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters You are partially wrong on all counts there. While most Sami are not Finns, most Finns are part Sami. Finland used to have many now blended tribes with their own Finno-Ugric dialects of 'Suomi/Sami' language with shared cultural roots in Asia.
@@Nuihc88 You are wrong . Sami ppl themselves say they have a completely different culture to all Nordic nations. They are very strict with it. For instance they don't want any finn or any other Nordic ppl to wear their national costume. Do you think other Nordic countries have not got dna of other nations? Little you know. All the ppl everywhere are mixed. By the way watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. Percentually Finland has the most ppl with blue eyes and blond hair and they are tall.
My mom is from Sakhalin Island before WWII. It is now Russia. I was born in Sapporo. My DNA test showed Japan and Ryukyu Islands. You never know how it’s going to go with DNA.
Okinawa people are related to Ainu. I guess the Ainu were all over Japan originally and when people from Korea and China entered Japan Ainu population ended up only on the extremities.
I just found your channel today. What an interesting video to start off with! Finnish people weren't always restricted to the area of where Finland is today. They were part of a much larger group of people comprised of clusters of family groups in Scandinavia, upper Russia, and further south approximately where Hungary is today, along with some islands in the Baltic inlet. This historical major tribe of Native Scandinavian people are referred to as Sámi. I am proud to know that my oldest ancestry is Native Scandinavian Sámi as well as Native American, Lenni Lenape Tukwsit (wolf clan) and Scottish Highlander Suðrland (named by my Norse ancestors, today is spelled Sutherland). Ancestry & cultural backgrounds are fascinating!!! ❤ So glad you both decided to find out your ancestral history so one day your child will know for sure the ancestors standing behind her. 😇 Edited to add... your mom is so sweet & funny! I love the relationship between you two! Her photo with the flower crown & dress is so pretty!!!
A friend of mine did one of those ancestry things on herself and her dad. She wanted her mom's DNA too, but her mom refused, and indeed seemed to be alarmed that she was doing it for herself and her dad. She learned why her mom was alarmed when she got the results. She called her mom and said they needed to talk, and talk outside the hearing ranger of her father. When she asked why she was not related to her dad, her mother started to cry. What she learned was horrifying. Her mom had been raped but had never said anything about it to anyone because she was so ashamed. There is a song with a line, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." That's exactly how my friend felt. She told no one about this until both of her parents had passed away.
I just randomly came across your video, but it’s super interesting. You do look a tiny bit European. My sister did 1 and our family’s from the Philippines. We’re actually east and central Asian, and 1/4 Polynesian. We have Chinese ancestors, but many people came into the region from Indonesia, Malaysia and southeast China.
Every family has a "wandering" ancestor. Good you embraced the distant line. There may be an update from Heritage as more results with similar lines are found. I enjoy seeing you with your husband. He seems good for you. Take care 🙂
I love watching DNA reaction videos, but it's not so often we see Japanese ones. Your high energy and fun (all of you) make this engaging. Omoshiroi desu ne.
Turkey was a big center of trade and they often went to Italy and the European continent. Very classic story of intermingling going to England and Ireland and likely a little Scottish too.
Hi, I'm Sri Lankan living in Australia. Last year I got my DNA tested through Ancestry and mine came out as 100% Southern Indian even though I don't know anything about when my ancestors moved to Sri Lanka from India or I don't have any Indian relatives. :)
I remember watching Conan O’Brien was joking about taking a DNA test and his doctor calling him because he was 100% Irish. His doctor claimed the only way you can be 100% is through inc3st! I don’t know if that is true, but when my husband’s DNA was tested, the results were 96% Polish (he is from Poland), but the results stated that he is more Polish than 99% of the people living in Poland.
I got a little Finnish, too...I am very Asian. I tested with Ancestry, 23andme, and FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage. Only MyHeritage has a little Finnish. The others are 100% Asian. I don't believe the "little Finnish" bit.
I think Sami Finns should be listed as European as they are in Europe. Other genetic testing companies don’t put them in the Asian category. But it is good to know. I thought maybe their test sample were East Asians that have lived in Finland for 5-6 generations and had a white great great grandpa.
I have been told that when doing these DNA tests that any percentage under 2% is not statistically significant. And that it becomes very hard to determine with any accuracy what that result means. So, I would take the "Finish" thing with a grain of salt. ;)
Its really so interesting to get the dna test result, because you realize that you are a mix of so much more than you actually know. That is how I felt and my mom as well, when we got our results from My Heritage.
As for your hubby's west Asian origins. One thought that popped in my head was the moorish invasions of Iberia around 711 AD. The moors invaded the peninsula from Northern Africa and had an Islamic state in Europe for about 800 years or so. At some point those ancestors probably mingled with other ancestors in what's now Italy. I think the English/Welsh/Irish aspect were more mingled over time isolated in the UK until his ancestors met in the US. My personal thoughts, I could be wrong.
I love these kind of vids. Your mum kinda looks like Japanese mixed with south-east asian to me. For me it's the shape of her nose, it's very similar to my own, which I inherited from my Indo dad. In her graduation picture, she really reminds me of my aunt when she was young as well. Based on your results, there shouldn't be big surprises though.
you can test specifically for ainu or jomon (an ancient japanese hunter-gatherer group) haplogroups, which are commonly found in japan, especially in hokkaido and sakhalin and parts of northern japan, and somewhat in other parts of northern asia. i am not sure about inuit (which can have various haplogroups) or sami haplogroups.
Hi, I'd just mention that in Finland the Finns and Sami people who are kind of genetically intermixed. The Sami and Inuit may have shared a common ancestry. So, your Finnish and Inuit ancestry might be connected. Another interesting factoid is that Finnish and Japanese, both belong to the Ural-Altaic language family.
Very fun. I'm from the US and lived for many years in the Seattle area, where there are many immigrant people from Asia: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc. Also Inuit, Pacific Islanders, etc. If I were to see your mom at a bus stop or walking down the street (before seeing this video), at first glance, I would assume she was a lovely Filipina.
@@28gire-jp1tw i find that hard to believe. since the dawn of modern humans, that person's entire ancestry from their moms side and dads side never once dipped their toes into other cultures/races? I know people who have taken tests and gotten as high as 97-98% something, but never a full 100%
I got 100% Scandinavian on the same test. But when lookin at the map online, it was also northern Germany (but that was danish at a time) and if going back to 1600s (I think it was a slider), also some british, so not sure. But it said 100% scandinavian.
Finnish people are related to Siberian people. Ainu of northern Japan and Inuit are related. It totally makes sense, especially based on those small percentages.
Fenno-Ugric peoples are related to Siberians who are in turn related to the people who walked over the Behring Strait when there was a landbridge between it and North America. And I'm guessing they came to the northern islands with the Ainu maybe.
I am half Japanese but was wondering about my family origin. A lot of nomadic peoples sailed across the bering strait from Asia to Alaska to fish and gather food, so being Inuk (Inuit) makes sense. I live in BC and look a lot like I'm Coast Salish.
some really good questions: how exactly do these DNA kits come up with those percentages? what do they even mean? can these really indicate anything substantial about any individual's ancestry? how far back does it go? what's the difference between saying one person's DNA is 96% japanese vs saying japanese DNA can be traced back to the chinese from X centuries/millennia ago? would've been nice to hear an expert talk about this, instead of yet another blase ad for these DNA kit companies, which may be building giant databases of DNA without informing the participants of their actual intent, while marketing it as some sorta dubious product with limited value.
I think you look like the photo of your great-aunt that you showed us, and I think your mom looks like Shii-Chun. This was super cool to watch (even though I agree with your mom the moving pictures are also scary). And yes that photo of your mom is so cute!!!! Mashallah, thank you for sharing with us!
He looks more than half white. Various members of her family look like various Non-Japanese peoples. Kind of like Ainu's. Different Ainus look like all different peoples.
You said that sometimes grandma doesn't look fully Japanese, I feel the same for you. I assumed you from a full front view I see northern Russian, but from a more side angle I see more Japanese
Of course there's also the unique results that can vary between testing sites. MyHeritage would like people to think I'm 12% Italian. I'd say I average 2-3% on other sites. FamilyTree DNA would say 7% Magyar. Non-existant elsewhere. Most of the sites would say I'm 4% Indigenous North American, but MyHeritage doesn't have enough samples from that according to the part of the site I was on, so I get Mesoamerican & Andean in my results instead. Also the only place that gives me any Inuit.
I am >95% Chinese but I also have that 1.7% Finnish. From what I read, they categorizes Finnish as people from Siberia which is huge swath of lands from Eastern Europe to sea of Japan.
Hey, your video just recommended so I watched and found out that our stories are similar! I have been told that I might have Russian blood while our ancestors lived in Hokkaido so I took the same test couple of years ago ago and my result came back that I have 2.4% Finnish! The calculation tells me that I have a Finnish ancestor 5 generation back! I am happy that my family rumors came out kinda true! Oh, I am “Japanese “ btw😊
When Finland was under Russian rule some people moved to eastern Russia near Japan either forcibly or voluntarily. There are still few old people speaking finnish around there. You could serve your prison sentence in Siberia, this is why we still say something like "he should be sent to Siberia" when someone does something you don't like. This is one possible case. Then there is of course larger thing that a lot of Finnish genealogy originates from somewhere around Ural mountains at first place.
But why don't they distinguish between Japanese and Korean? Other tests will give you at least a percentage of each rather than just lumping it like that
When you go back to the last ice age, sea levels were hundreds of feet lower than today. Japanese islands were physically part of the Asian mainland. Ancient people walked to what is now Japan. They also walked across the land bridge connecting Asia and the American continents. That can explain how you can have a bit of Inuit and perhaps also the Finish DNA.
the answer is traders, probably just one finish trader settled in japan because the cost of going back was too much their children would know japanese and would be more likely to have children with japanese locals. same with your Inuit dna, you probablyjust had more inuit traders that are ancestors that kept having children with mixed inuit japanese citizens making you more inuit.
Just based on Reina's looks, I was expecting even more Finnish percentage heritage. I know several half Japanese, half Finns, and she looks more Finnish than those guys. Greetings from Finland and Thank You for a nice video!
A portion of Finns belong to Haplogroup NC1, and the Jomon culture belongs to NC9, arguing for a common origin in central Asia. I do not have any idea about the Inuit.
Great video, genetic-genealogically speaking. MyHeritage in Eurasia tends toward thousands-of-year scales, while Ancestry in America tends toward hundreds-of-years scale. Your husband may get better granularity there, but still probably not "to Cousin Tony's home village". :) Both are getting better by the year. Good luck if you go further!
Your results totally make sense. The northern people were all hunter-gatherers. Nomads. Where those groups are now isn't always (or only) where they've been. Your distant Innuit ancestor likely came from a subgroup in extremely Northeastern Russia. Your distant Finnish ancestor likely was from a group that wandered or traded through the Arctic when it was passable. Seems to all compute.
Ever since I was a kid people would always think i was at least part Japanese, which I am not but it is odd how ideas can get in someones mind based just on looks.
My parents adopted me and my brother from South Korea (not blood related). I was always told that I looked more like I was from the Philippines. We both took a dna test and I was 100 percent Korean where as he was a giant mash of nationalities. You never know!!
😂 Color of skin does not dictate ethnicity. This gives me some hope. Because want some Asian and African in mine … I know I will be at least 30 Spanish and 40 Native. And I wanna know exactly what tribe/ empire I belonged to.
to help with the iberian thing.... there is an old folktale i read about where the people of ireland came from. the story goes that originally ireland was inhabited by gods and fae and banshees and kelpies and whatnot (so like mythic creatures). there was this warlord named Mil that got exiled from someplace in the middle east and so he and some of his people sailed to iberia (modern spain and portugal). Mil's grandson is this guy Ith who sailed to ireland where he met 3 kings of the tuatha de danann (the um.. gods, fae and whatnot). while he was there somehow Ith got killed and so his brothers assembled a fleet to invade ireland. the kings called for a 3 day truce before ith's brothers can land and then they conjured a big storm to kill them, but it ends up that the men wash up on shore and it's agreed that they will split ireland amongst them. The invading fleet can have the world above land and the tuatha de danann will claim the world below, hence the weird faerie mounds dotted around ireland. the men married local women that were of the tuatha de danann and that's why to this day the descendants of those people have just a spark of magic in them and it's why so many irish women are beautiful and wise and why so many irish men are fierce warriors and the best lovers. as for the actual historical record....at some point the gaels of iberia colonized ireland. the former story is way better than the latter and so that's the story i choose to believe.
1.3% Finnish gang. 👋🏻 I’m 1.3% Finnish as well, but it didn’t come as that much of a surprise to me, considering I’m Norwegian and my maternal great grandma came from Sweden.
She's not "mixed" people. The sami people in Finland mixed with the inuit people to a small degree, who are asian. She's just related to the Inuit (as probably most asians are, since they're all asian).
The cool thing with MyHeritage is they constantly update your percentages the more people test. The percentage breakdowns for my ancestry have changed multiple over the last several years, so it will be interesting to look at them a year or two later.
Yeah, I'm Korean and used 23andme. At the beginning it said Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian. It tightened up over a year and ended up like 100% Korean.
@@wuverrabbit Being extremely mixed and having my brother show very similar results means I know MyHeritage is very accurate with their predictions, they could even point out the small places the mix of my ethnicities was most common and that was the island my father came from. My DNA comes from all over the world so it's very much not random.
"@JSN723 Yeah, I'm Korean and used 23andme. . . it said Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian. It tightened up over a year and ended up like 100% Korean." It's a racket. This lady and her family look way more than a few percent non Japanese. Not believing those results.
This is so coo! I'm mixed race (Chinese immigrant and midwestern Scandianvian American) and I think both sides have taken DNA tests, but I haven't. I don't feel like I look like any of my ancestors.
Finno-Ugric speaking groups of people are living through big parts of Russia; they were in Russia before speakers of Slavic languages spread to Russia ... Finno-Ugric peoples are very often by Y DNA haplogroup belonging to the group N ... and people from Near East (Turkiye and Caucasus region) were arriving to Italy during the Roman times and later as a part of Great migration during and after Hunic invasion ... (4th to 5th century AD) . Greetings ... from Croatia ...
I just came across your channel. Are you living in Japan? Sorry. I don't know anything about your channel, but this topic is so interesting as I always thought if you aren't 100% Japanese, you cannot have a Japanese passport and are considered a foreigner. Can you comment on this? I have a sister in law who was born and raised in Japan, but her dad was part German, so she is a German national and holds a German passport. She also had to go to a "Foreigners" school in Japan .
The Iberian Peninsula includes other countries, not just Spain. Portugal, France, Gibraltar, and Andorra are Iberian countries. I'm Brazilian of Portuguese descent, so I'm also Iberian.
My mom is Irish and I am 55% Irish 12% Welsh and they finally got the 9% German correct and there’s 9% Scottish, 7% Sweden and Denmark (probably where I got my paternal haplogroup of I1 M253 from), 7% English and Northwestern Europe (again) and 1% Iberian from my Irish mother. Now if only we could define these categories, that would be something. I guess it’s just autosomal admixture.
There has been a hypothesis among language scholars that Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian, all the way to Turkish belong to a "Turko-Altaic Language Family" that includes Finnish. Reina's DNA might lend credence to that idea.
I was watching something the other day that said (if I am remembering correctly) that a number of the Finnish people may have migrated eastward, and that apparently the Finnish were related to the Ainu people. Which come from the north of Japan where I believe you said part of your family was from? And certainly if they had migrated through the extreme northern parts of Siberia, they could have interacted with the Inuit. So that might explain the 4%.
I just watched a video on the Ainu and yeah, I can see that in you. All you need is that Joker lipstick that the women wear. Maybe when you gramma thought there was Russian in her background she meant Finish? All I can say is people love to mingle!
I love genetics and where we all came from. We all are mixed up somewhere and got surprising ancestors 😂 There are people with a different skincolor to yours and they can still be genetically closer related than people with the same skincolor/'race'😊 Thanks for showing us the results! Appreciate it! Very interesting 👍 I could be wrong, but as a mix your grandpa looks half indeed to me:) And your mom seems like a lovely person!^^ Have a nice day!
Inuit and Finnish makes sense . Specially if there’s a part of you family is from northern Japan. It’s not impossible that Finnish and inuit natives had made it all the way to northern japan long longbtime ago.
Hi Reina, this is the first time I have one of your videos. in the recommended videos on the right side is one from ancestrove talking about a connection between finish and east Asian people. so it seems like at sometime in the past there were connections and so maybe that accounts for your finish portion.
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Hey Reina. So during a bit of Elden Ring Lore research, I started doing a little bit of study on Sengoku Jidai. After Hideyoshi shut down all the ports and tried to isolate Japan, apparently the Dutch from 1640-1854 were the only people trading with them from a post on Dejima. Although the Netherlands is on the other side of Denmark that at least gets you to Europe, and I've seen at least one map that has the Dutch trading in 1665 with routes all the way from Dejima to the Baltic Sea near Finland and even on the other side of Scandinavia, in a Russian city called Arkhangelsk.
Shot in the dark, but I'd bet that's where the link would be. It's a big world and a long history tho, so who knows.
Hope you're feeling better!
Hi Scully San,
I am half Japanese and both my parents did the My Heritage test as well, and you should know that My Heritage does not have a good coverage of Asia. Nothing bad said about My Heritage, but to make these estimates, they need alot of DNA from each region, to estimate the mixture of "race" in your specific region ex. Japan. It is a myth that each country is made out of pure race, obviously we are mixed, borders are man made not natural. This whole DNA thing was started by the Mormons in the US because they believe that it's possible to find your ancestors and baptise them into their religion, this is why the My Heritage "database" already has a lot of Western, especially European DNA.
My Mothers results looked something like yours, although instead of Inuit, it she had Inca (South American) DNA. She also had 2-3% Finish in her, and I believe that the indigenous people of that area called the Sami is the reason. They are an indigenous group of north of the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland. They are a travelling people and they do look like they have mongolian heritage. You can find language videos on youtube, where you can listen to Sami and Ainu language, and there is a lot of similarities.
When assessing your DNA it's easy to say, oh well it must have been because this Hablo group moved from this area to this area 10.000 years ago, but remember, these DNA kits can only measure back around 500 years, meaning only six-seven incestores back (if they live to around 70 years old). So someone in your recent ancestry was full Inuit, and someone even further back was full Finish.
Now having said all this, the test kit also includes that the only assessments that is 100% correct is the first line, meaning that you are 98% Japanese. The rest is an estimate, and if you do another test from another test kit that has a different database, your answer will be different. As a Japanese person I would advise you to get an asian based or Japanese based DNA test kit. I know that they exist because I wanted to find one for my mother.
I hope this helped just a little...thank you for this video!
Kind regards
Ken
There are Japanese DNA companies which are apparently more detailed when it comes to Asian ancestry. Bigger sample sets. You may be able to upload results for analysis.
Aren't these a total scam? Is this a scientifically proven method? xD
Can we go under the assumption that you haven't undergone any cosmetic procedures? A lot of Asians who have had surgeries often get assumed to be part white.
The Inuit and Finnish DNA is probably through Ainu. So a single Ainu ancestor 7-8 generations back sounds pretty realistic...
No, because many Koreans and Chinese people have them too. Besides, all these simple DNA tests say that Ainu people are about 80％ Japanese and 15% South Asian and that the rest of their genome comes from random places including Europe and North Africa. It also says Inuit but not all the time, and even when it shows up it's always a tiny bit. On the other hand, South Asia shows up all the time. If she had Ainu ancestry, she would be more South Asian than Inuit. But she isn't, meaning that her Inuit ancestry doesn't come from Ainu people.
@@mfreak1126 The Ainu are native to northern Honshu, Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and Sakalin. Are you thinking of the indigenous people from the Ryukyu Islands that are located to the south of mainland Japan?
@@Stringbean0000 I clearly said Ainu people.
Note that these DNA tests primarily expose DNA add mixture. In this case, the Inuit and Finnish DNA is just shared DNA with these groups. It doesn't mean there is a specific ancestor that came from these people groups. For example, as humans we all share common DNA by definition , but we cannot necessarily show ancestor relationships with this knowledge.
In this case, the Finnish people also share Sammi (a nomadic group of reindeer herders that spans all of northern Europe and Asia). This doesn't mean you have Finnish DNA, it just means Reina shares DNA with Finnish people who shared DNA with Sammi and Inuit. Also, the DNA testing database probably doesn't have enough data to discretely resolve the difference between Finnish, Sammi and Inuit DNA, and so reports Finnish and Inuit as broad categories.
The subtleties of DNA haplogroups is complicated especially when many haplogroups and markers are shared across many different peoples, and then these peoples are separated by relatively recent national borders.
@@mfreak1126 I’m confused by your comment because the Ainu people are not South Asian and are most likely descendants of people from the Jomon period
It makes sense. Very common to get small percentages of japanese/korean for finnish people in dna tests too. Long time ago the origin is same in siberia. Finnic people moved from the east to the west and west and northern russia used to be region of finnic tribes which have many lost in history or are in small numbers nowadays. Finns still carry rare haplogroup which makes them ancestry very unique. There is a saying that finns are the most and least europeans of european ethnic groups. 15:44 this man has features that are quite common in Finland. Super interesting guys. But your husband definitely has no idea about it because of his weird theory of finns going with scandinavians in viking boats 😂 its just small sea and bit if land between finland and japan. During long periods of time its not weird that there is this root.
It must’ve been a great feeling when you’re mix. I’m glad your mom is happy with your heritage. It’s scary but I’m always wanting to try it out myself. I am Cambodian mix with euro. But then again, people assume I’m Hawaiian or Samoan for a Cambodian. Or Filipino. I need to start trying this now! ❤
I'm not surprised by the Finnish bit. You somehow look a bit like my aunt. 😂 I'm Finnish, btw. DNA tests often show a tiny bit East Asian or Arctic or even Amerindian for Finns. It's complicated. No, I'm no viking. No, Finland technically isn't in Scandinavia. Look up Uralic peoples. Finns were called China Swedes in the US back in the day. Yeah, an old German map even shows Finland as yellow for mongoloid. Anyways, AMA.
Yeah they even had laws banning the China Finns because they decided they weren't white they were closer to Siberians. They were only very partly right because the DNA does cross over a lot. Considering how much the Inuit move around the world over the past few thousand years, it makes since that the rest of the northern peoples would do a lot of the same, being nomadic.
Finns don't look like japanese a bit. or any other Asian countries . I used to live in other countries and everybody asked if I came from Sweden , Norway etc The same with other Finns as well. .
Watch the video " Coding Ambassador &the Finnish Double flip -Education in Finland."
@@cinderellaandstepsisters No-one said that Finns in general look Japanese. Too tired to write a long reply on my phone but read the Eurogenes blog if you're interested in population genomics.
@@SuviTuuliAllan don't believe everything you hear or read. Trust what you see. Use your brains.
Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland.
The other European countries have got asian dna even more than Finland by the way.
@@butterflies655 Yeah? Which ones? Btw is this your sock-puppet?
Actualy the Korean language and Finnish language have similar words and there was emigration from the Korean region towards Finland a long time ago 😊
Very very little. The Finnish language has mostly the same words as the swedish language.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters really? Isn't Finnish like a whole different language family from Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German?
@@zagrizena Google it Korean language is not related to Finnish at all.
Finnish and Estonian languages are related.Nobody said that Norwegian , danish etc. are related.
The loan words occur in every language. If you have loan words it doesn't mean the language is related. What do you learn at school?
@@cinderellaandstepsisters you're such a troll 🤣 A lot of people said Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German are related. Linguists, not commenters. And of course there are some loanwords between even unrelated neighbouring languages, but claiming one language has mostly the same words as some other language, implies those are related somehow. Hence my question.
As for the supposed Finnish-Korean loanwords that is a bit of a stretch. Either they are false cognates with separate etymology or those are loanwords from some other language related to Finnish (maybe some Mongolian or Russian ugro-finnic steppe language, if they are spoken that far East).
@@zagrizena For heaven's sake. Finnish Has A LOT OF LOAN WORDS FROM SWEDISH.
Finland was directly a part of Sweden for over 600 years so it should not be so weird.
I am a Finn and I know the history of my country. Don't even try to know more about Finland than Finnish ppl. Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Educate yourself. You are a troll!
Ooh we got a Reina's mom cameo? Blessed! She's so cute!! She looks like New Jeans Hyein in her throwback photo - soooo pretty!
Oh my gosh I love how similar your laugh is to your moms, and what lovely laughs!!! ❤❤
Watching the video, I could tell being 100% Japanese really meant a lot to you. I found your recent short post on UA-cam. You are correct, it does not matter and I’m glad it does not bother you as such. Look at it this way. Many of us on UA-cam started to learn Japanese because of your videos. Sugoi!
I am glad your facial injury is healing. :)
OMGosh!! Your mother is so adorable!! You are lucky to take after her, she isn't just beautiful, she seems like such a lovely woman as well...and a very caring mother who truly enjoys and loves her daughter. Most all mothers love their children, but they don't all really and truly ENJOY them.
Husband does test: "you're 10% eagle" 🤣
How have I followed you since source fed days and I just now realized that Scully isn’t your actual last name!?! Duh!!! You’re a huge xfiles fan of course that’s your stage name.
I fully assumed it was her stepdad's last name for all these years 🫣
My Japanese friends scored Mongolian, Central Asian, Inuit/Eskimo, Andean/Mesoamerican, and Finnish in their DNA test result.
Reina, it doesn’t matter what the results are (there’s definitely room for error in the ‘results’). You’re an amazing person, have an amazing family. Your UA-cam channel is one of my favorite channels and always look forward to your videos. All the best to you and your family in the future.
@AntiXtoxiC I never said there was. Why are you responding to what I said with your reply???? Smh
This segment was very interesting to watch. Especially when you said you had some Korean ancestry and a certain percentage of Finnish.
I remembered a conversation I had with a friend of mine at the University of Hawaii back in the 70s. He had an interest in linguistics, as a hobby, so he was telling me about how there had been discovered some elements of a language that was in common with some people in Northern Korea as well as people in Finland, and apparently it was surmised that there had been some tribe in the Urals (in Russia) thousands of years ago that had split up with some of them going east and some of them going west. I wonder if others from E
ast Asia have found Finnish in the DNA report 🤔
Thank you for sharing your story!
So, I think I can add to some of this. Not at all a genealogist but I took these tests and my family came back with similar results.
I did 23andme for my mom, brother, and myself. When I first loaded my results, 23andme said I was almost all Cambodian but my brother had Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian, with a trace of Spanish/Portuguese. I loaded 23andme results to MyHeritage and they contrastingly had results that accounted for the Chinese and South Asian DNA.
When they did an update after receiving more reference samples with East Asian DNA, my results uploaded and appeared similar to my brother's. When I tested my mom with 23andme, she had very little Chinese even though her mother was mostly Teochew with her Grandfather leaving China to escape communism, and that's where most of the East Asian DNA comes from. Her result has stayed the same despite the update.
Moreover, all of the results change and are more reflective of family history when changing the confidence level, which puts my brother and me at about a quarter East/Broad Asian with a mix of Bengali/Indian and unknown. All of that makes sense as my Dad's paternal haplogroup is R2a (started likely in Central Asia and went into India) and my mom's is B5.
Loading my mom's and brother's DNA into MyHeritage they both got Finnish/Inuit with mom having a bit of Filipino (I did not get any on Inuit/Finnish on MyHeritage). So depending what site you use especially for Asian DNA (since the reference population is low), they will interpret your DNA differently. For me, MyHeritage caught my Indian and Chinese/Vietnamese heritage first while 23andme did not until later. 23andme broke down my East Asian which also has me at a bit broadly EA and I assume that's where my Inuit/Finnish probably is (since it is the same percentage as my brother's Inuit DNA on MyHeritage). My maternal grandma had very Northern East Asian features and everyone in my fam, especially the men, are especially tall (women 5'7 and men 6' and over).
I suppose the best way to cross reference some of these results yourself is to see if you also have DNA relatives from those regions they give you. I had many (South)East Asian relatives, a few Indigenous American relatives (they had traces of Asian), and a bit of Indian with 1 Bengali relative, and 1 mostly Siberian/East Asian relative. On other sites my family is related to a couple of Finnish people. (But I take all of these interpretations with a grain of salt).
Lastly, one of the reasons I ran it through MyHeritage was because for 6 days, I dreamt that I had Inuit heritage. I thought those dreams were weird because of my 23andme results until I loaded my mom's and bro's through MyHeritage. Some people also say that MyHeritage is not great, that 23andme is the best. However for me, MyHeritage had my DNA composition pretty spot on, and with 23andme, they eventually updated their reference populations pretty much the same, except they categorize my family's possible Inuit as broadly East Asian. It doesn't matter to me nonetheless, for me it's in the haplogroups and we are very much Cambodians :)
Good luck anyone looking to find out about your origins and long live the ancestors!
The Sami people, which is the Scandinavian equivalent of the inuit, has lived across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia for thousands of years, so the likelihood that some of them came across the inuits isn't far fetched at all. So most likely that's the explanation for the Finnish in your DNA test.
And the Sami migrated from Siberia to Scandinavia about 3000 years ago
Not really. I've got both in my test.
Sami ppl are not Finns. Sami ppl are a different race with a completely different culture. Finland has not even got very many of them. Mostly Norway has them Sweden is the second Finland is the third and Russia has the smallest number of Sami ppl. Very often Sami ppl are represented as finns, but they are different ppl.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters You are partially wrong on all counts there. While most Sami are not Finns, most Finns are part Sami. Finland used to have many now blended tribes with their own Finno-Ugric dialects of 'Suomi/Sami' language with shared cultural roots in Asia.
@@Nuihc88 You are wrong . Sami ppl themselves say they have a completely different culture to all Nordic nations. They are very strict with it. For instance they don't want any finn or any other Nordic ppl to wear their national costume. Do you think other Nordic countries have not got dna of other nations? Little you know.
All the ppl everywhere are mixed.
By the way watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. Percentually Finland has the most ppl with blue eyes and blond hair and they are tall.
I have noticed that peoples expressions and face changes when speaking a different languages also confidence makes a difference to.
My mom is from Sakhalin Island before WWII. It is now Russia. I was born in Sapporo. My DNA test showed Japan and Ryukyu Islands. You never know how it’s going to go with DNA.
Okinawa people are related to Ainu. I guess the Ainu were all over Japan originally and when people from Korea and China entered Japan Ainu population ended up only on the extremities.
I just found your channel today. What an interesting video to start off with! Finnish people weren't always restricted to the area of where Finland is today. They were part of a much larger group of people comprised of clusters of family groups in Scandinavia, upper Russia, and further south approximately where Hungary is today, along with some islands in the Baltic inlet. This historical major tribe of Native Scandinavian people are referred to as Sámi. I am proud to know that my oldest ancestry is Native Scandinavian Sámi as well as Native American, Lenni Lenape Tukwsit (wolf clan) and Scottish Highlander Suðrland (named by my Norse ancestors, today is spelled Sutherland). Ancestry & cultural backgrounds are fascinating!!! ❤ So glad you both decided to find out your ancestral history so one day your child will know for sure the ancestors standing behind her. 😇 Edited to add... your mom is so sweet & funny! I love the relationship between you two! Her photo with the flower crown & dress is so pretty!!!
Your mom looks so cute!!!! not Reina saying her friend looks like a ghost 😭🤣
A friend of mine did one of those ancestry things on herself and her dad. She wanted her mom's DNA too, but her mom refused, and indeed seemed to be alarmed that she was doing it for herself and her dad.
She learned why her mom was alarmed when she got the results. She called her mom and said they needed to talk, and talk outside the hearing ranger of her father.
When she asked why she was not related to her dad, her mother started to cry. What she learned was horrifying. Her mom had been raped but had never said anything about it to anyone because she was so ashamed.
There is a song with a line, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." That's exactly how my friend felt.
She told no one about this until both of her parents had passed away.
The Ainu are really interesting to me, I love researching cultures. Your husband's was likely Bedowan. Sorry for my crazy spelling!
This was fun to watch!
Your mother is an absolute treasure. x
I just randomly came across your video, but it’s super interesting. You do look a tiny bit European. My sister did 1 and our family’s from the Philippines. We’re actually east and central Asian, and 1/4 Polynesian. We have Chinese ancestors, but many people came into the region from Indonesia, Malaysia and southeast China.
Your mom was/is a beauty - so wholesome to watch you two chatting.
Every family has a "wandering" ancestor. Good you embraced the distant line. There may be an update from Heritage as more results with similar lines are found. I enjoy seeing you with your husband. He seems good for you. Take care 🙂
Congrats, great result. You belong now to my superior clan,
best regards from mighty Finland !
Damn it I didn't want this to end because it was so much fun and very interesting!! I love this kind of stuff....awesome!!😁😆😅🤣😂😊😇❤👏🙌🙏👍🎉🇯🇵
I love watching DNA reaction videos, but it's not so often we see Japanese ones. Your high energy and fun (all of you) make this engaging. Omoshiroi desu ne.
Turkey was a big center of trade and they often went to Italy and the European continent. Very classic story of intermingling going to England and Ireland and likely a little Scottish too.
Hi, I'm Sri Lankan living in Australia. Last year I got my DNA tested through Ancestry and mine came out as 100% Southern Indian even though I don't know anything about when my ancestors moved to Sri Lanka from India or I don't have any Indian relatives. :)
I remember watching Conan O’Brien was joking about taking a DNA test and his doctor calling him because he was 100% Irish. His doctor claimed the only way you can be 100% is through inc3st! I don’t know if that is true, but when my husband’s DNA was tested, the results were 96% Polish (he is from Poland), but the results stated that he is more Polish than 99% of the people living in Poland.
I got a little Finnish, too...I am very Asian. I tested with Ancestry, 23andme, and FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage. Only MyHeritage has a little Finnish. The others are 100% Asian. I don't believe the "little Finnish" bit.
@Honeycaramel-mu6ms Do you know that Norway has Sami ppl the most The second is Sweden. The third is Finland and Russia has the least number of them.
I think Sami Finns should be listed as European as they are in Europe. Other genetic testing companies don’t put them in the Asian category. But it is good to know. I thought maybe their test sample were East Asians that have lived in Finland for 5-6 generations and had a white great great grandpa.
I’m 62% Scandinavian, 28% Irish, and 10% German. The Irish part was a complete shock when we got the DNA results.
You are so blessed to have such a great Husband. You two are PERFECT!
I have been told that when doing these DNA tests that any percentage under 2% is not statistically significant. And that it becomes very hard to determine with any accuracy what that result means. So, I would take the "Finish" thing with a grain of salt. ;)
Exactly. Id say 1% and under is not accurate at all.
Exactly. I would also like to see the result from say three different DNA test to see if the agree on the results.
Its really so interesting to get the dna test result, because you realize that you are a mix of so much more than you actually know. That is how I felt and my mom as well, when we got our results from My Heritage.
My Karate Sensei is Guatemalan Spanish. His great Grandfather was Japanese.
As for your hubby's west Asian origins. One thought that popped in my head was the moorish invasions of Iberia around 711 AD. The moors invaded the peninsula from Northern Africa and had an Islamic state in Europe for about 800 years or so. At some point those ancestors probably mingled with other ancestors in what's now Italy. I think the English/Welsh/Irish aspect were more mingled over time isolated in the UK until his ancestors met in the US. My personal thoughts, I could be wrong.
I love these kind of vids. Your mum kinda looks like Japanese mixed with south-east asian to me. For me it's the shape of her nose, it's very similar to my own, which I inherited from my Indo dad. In her graduation picture, she really reminds me of my aunt when she was young as well. Based on your results, there shouldn't be big surprises though.
you can test specifically for ainu or jomon (an ancient japanese hunter-gatherer group) haplogroups, which are commonly found in japan, especially in hokkaido and sakhalin and parts of northern japan, and somewhat in other parts of northern asia. i am not sure about inuit (which can have various haplogroups) or sami haplogroups.
I love your mom's hair in that picture! She is so beautiful
Hi, I'd just mention that in Finland the Finns and Sami people who are kind of genetically intermixed. The Sami and Inuit may have shared a common ancestry. So, your Finnish and Inuit ancestry might be connected. Another interesting factoid is that Finnish and Japanese, both belong to the Ural-Altaic language family.
Very fun. I'm from the US and lived for many years in the Seattle area, where there are many immigrant people from Asia: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc. Also Inuit, Pacific Islanders, etc. If I were to see your mom at a bus stop or walking down the street (before seeing this video), at first glance, I would assume she was a lovely Filipina.
It’s funny, my first time watching and when I saw him I immediately said he’s Italian. He looks Italian.
if someone took a DNA test and got 100% anything, I would genuinely be concerned that that test was wrong
There many people here on UA-cam and are 100% of what they are.
@@28gire-jp1tw i find that hard to believe. since the dawn of modern humans, that person's entire ancestry from their moms side and dads side never once dipped their toes into other cultures/races? I know people who have taken tests and gotten as high as 97-98% something, but never a full 100%
I got 100% Scandinavian on the same test. But when lookin at the map online, it was also northern Germany (but that was danish at a time) and if going back to 1600s (I think it was a slider), also some british, so not sure. But it said 100% scandinavian.
@@rawkusrexthere’s some some African Americans have 100% African dna
You should look up Conan O'Brien's (night time tv host) dna test 😮. He is 100% Irish but there's a twist.
Finnish people are related to Siberian people. Ainu of northern Japan and Inuit are related. It totally makes sense, especially based on those small percentages.
Welcome to Finland and to see what finns look like.
Fenno-Ugric peoples are related to Siberians who are in turn related to the people who walked over the Behring Strait when there was a landbridge between it and North America. And I'm guessing they came to the northern islands with the Ainu maybe.
She picks a hair from his sweater, good lady ❤
I am half Japanese but was wondering about my family origin. A lot of nomadic peoples sailed across the bering strait from Asia to Alaska to fish and gather food, so being Inuk (Inuit) makes sense. I live in BC and look a lot like I'm Coast Salish.
some really good questions: how exactly do these DNA kits come up with those percentages? what do they even mean? can these really indicate anything substantial about any individual's ancestry? how far back does it go? what's the difference between saying one person's DNA is 96% japanese vs saying japanese DNA can be traced back to the chinese from X centuries/millennia ago?
would've been nice to hear an expert talk about this, instead of yet another blase ad for these DNA kit companies, which may be building giant databases of DNA without informing the participants of their actual intent, while marketing it as some sorta dubious product with limited value.
I think you look like the photo of your great-aunt that you showed us, and I think your mom looks like Shii-Chun. This was super cool to watch (even though I agree with your mom the moving pictures are also scary). And yes that photo of your mom is so cute!!!! Mashallah, thank you for sharing with us!
Also Inuit is tribe located in Alaska.
He's Handsome! Being a local Cork person in Ireland, I can confidently say he has a big Irish head on him!
My PopPop had those eyebrows- I did when I was younger but they’ve thinned out as I grew up
And nose.
We can get Murphy's here in Philippines now.
He looks more than half white. Various members of her family look like various Non-Japanese peoples. Kind of like Ainu's. Different Ainus look like all different peoples.
You said that sometimes grandma doesn't look fully Japanese, I feel the same for you. I assumed you from a full front view I see northern Russian, but from a more side angle I see more Japanese
Of course there's also the unique results that can vary between testing sites. MyHeritage would like people to think I'm 12% Italian. I'd say I average 2-3% on other sites. FamilyTree DNA would say 7% Magyar. Non-existant elsewhere. Most of the sites would say I'm 4% Indigenous North American, but MyHeritage doesn't have enough samples from that according to the part of the site I was on, so I get Mesoamerican & Andean in my results instead. Also the only place that gives me any Inuit.
I am >95% Chinese but I also have that 1.7% Finnish. From what I read, they categorizes Finnish as people from Siberia which is huge swath of lands from Eastern Europe to sea of Japan.
Hey, your video just recommended so I watched and found out that our stories are similar! I have been told that I might have Russian blood while our ancestors lived in Hokkaido so I took the same test couple of years ago ago and my result came back that I have 2.4% Finnish!
The calculation tells me that I have a Finnish ancestor 5 generation back! I am happy that my family rumors came out kinda true! Oh, I am “Japanese “ btw😊
All of my grandparents came from Poland. My test came back 97% Eastern European, roughly 2% Baltics, the balance Scandinavian.
When Finland was under Russian rule some people moved to eastern Russia near Japan either forcibly or voluntarily. There are still few old people speaking finnish around there. You could serve your prison sentence in Siberia, this is why we still say something like "he should be sent to Siberia" when someone does something you don't like. This is one possible case. Then there is of course larger thing that a lot of Finnish genealogy originates from somewhere around Ural mountains at first place.
European traders made contact with the Japanese way way back and there was some mixing there. It is possible some of those explores were Finnish.
But why don't they distinguish between Japanese and Korean? Other tests will give you at least a percentage of each rather than just lumping it like that
Excellent video! It's so interesting to find out where we actually come from. Sometimes the results are surprising.
When you go back to the last ice age, sea levels were hundreds of feet lower than today. Japanese islands were physically part of the Asian mainland. Ancient people walked to what is now Japan. They also walked across the land bridge connecting Asia and the American continents. That can explain how you can have a bit of Inuit and perhaps also the Finish DNA.
Your mom is adorable!
the answer is traders, probably just one finish trader settled in japan because the cost of going back was too much their children would know japanese and would be more likely to have children with japanese locals. same with your Inuit dna, you probablyjust had more inuit traders that are ancestors that kept having children with mixed inuit japanese citizens making you more inuit.
Your mum is sooo kawaiii. Her mannerisms - so adorable!
This is why i love Japanese people - especially older generation.
Original culture!
Just based on Reina's looks, I was expecting even more Finnish percentage heritage. I know several half Japanese, half Finns, and she looks more Finnish than those guys.
Greetings from Finland and Thank You for a nice video!
A portion of Finns belong to Haplogroup NC1, and the Jomon culture belongs to NC9, arguing for a common origin in central Asia. I do not have any idea about the Inuit.
Great video, genetic-genealogically speaking. MyHeritage in Eurasia tends toward thousands-of-year scales, while Ancestry in America tends toward hundreds-of-years scale. Your husband may get better granularity there, but still probably not "to Cousin Tony's home village". :) Both are getting better by the year. Good luck if you go further!
Your results totally make sense. The northern people were all hunter-gatherers. Nomads. Where those groups are now isn't always (or only) where they've been. Your distant Innuit ancestor likely came from a subgroup in extremely Northeastern Russia. Your distant Finnish ancestor likely was from a group that wandered or traded through the Arctic when it was passable. Seems to all compute.
Ever since I was a kid people would always think i was at least part Japanese, which I am not but it is odd how ideas can get in someones mind based just on looks.
Nice family and an interesting video. ありがとうございます。😊
My parents adopted me and my brother from South Korea (not blood related). I was always told that I looked more like I was from the Philippines. We both took a dna test and I was 100 percent Korean where as he was a giant mash of nationalities. You never know!!
😂 Color of skin does not dictate ethnicity. This gives me some hope. Because want some Asian and African in mine … I know I will be at least 30 Spanish and 40 Native. And I wanna know exactly what tribe/ empire I belonged to.
No discussion of the "Korean" aspect of Riena's majority component....That could be a fascinating story....
to help with the iberian thing.... there is an old folktale i read about where the people of ireland came from. the story goes that originally ireland was inhabited by gods and fae and banshees and kelpies and whatnot (so like mythic creatures). there was this warlord named Mil that got exiled from someplace in the middle east and so he and some of his people sailed to iberia (modern spain and portugal). Mil's grandson is this guy Ith who sailed to ireland where he met 3 kings of the tuatha de danann (the um.. gods, fae and whatnot). while he was there somehow Ith got killed and so his brothers assembled a fleet to invade ireland. the kings called for a 3 day truce before ith's brothers can land and then they conjured a big storm to kill them, but it ends up that the men wash up on shore and it's agreed that they will split ireland amongst them. The invading fleet can have the world above land and the tuatha de danann will claim the world below, hence the weird faerie mounds dotted around ireland. the men married local women that were of the tuatha de danann and that's why to this day the descendants of those people have just a spark of magic in them and it's why so many irish women are beautiful and wise and why so many irish men are fierce warriors and the best lovers. as for the actual historical record....at some point the gaels of iberia colonized ireland. the former story is way better than the latter and so that's the story i choose to believe.
1.3% Finnish gang. 👋🏻
I’m 1.3% Finnish as well, but it didn’t come as that much of a surprise to me, considering I’m Norwegian and my maternal great grandma came from Sweden.
She's not "mixed" people. The sami people in Finland mixed with the inuit people to a small degree, who are asian. She's just related to the Inuit (as probably most asians are, since they're all asian).
The cool thing with MyHeritage is they constantly update your percentages the more people test. The percentage breakdowns for my ancestry have changed multiple over the last several years,
so it will be interesting to look at them a year or two later.
all of then do, it's not just myheritage. Fun fact, never do a DNA test to know your ethnics. DNA is about proving family.
@@wuverrabbit Why not?
Yeah, I'm Korean and used 23andme. At the beginning it said Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian. It tightened up over a year and ended up like 100% Korean.
@@wuverrabbit Being extremely mixed and having my brother show very similar results means I know MyHeritage is very accurate with their predictions, they could even point out the small places the mix of my ethnicities was most common and that was the island my father came from. My DNA comes from all over the world so it's very much not random.
"@JSN723
Yeah, I'm Korean and used 23andme. . . it said Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian. It tightened up over a year and ended up like 100% Korean."
It's a racket. This lady and her family look way more than a few percent non Japanese. Not believing those results.
Reina your mom is the sweetest most adorable lady I love her so much! Thank you for bringing her into your video!
This is so coo! I'm mixed race (Chinese immigrant and midwestern Scandianvian American) and I think both sides have taken DNA tests, but I haven't. I don't feel like I look like any of my ancestors.
First and foremost you are the soul that LIVES the LIFE. The life being the GIFT, given to the soul, so that it may have physical experience.
Finno-Ugric speaking groups of people are living through big parts of Russia; they were in Russia before speakers of Slavic languages spread to Russia ... Finno-Ugric peoples are very often by Y DNA haplogroup belonging to the group N ... and people from Near East (Turkiye and Caucasus region) were arriving to Italy during the Roman times and later as a part of Great migration during and after Hunic invasion ... (4th to 5th century AD) . Greetings ... from Croatia ...
I just came across your channel. Are you living in Japan? Sorry. I don't know anything about your channel, but this topic is so interesting as I always thought if you aren't 100% Japanese, you cannot have a Japanese passport and are considered a foreigner. Can you comment on this? I have a sister in law who was born and raised in Japan, but her dad was part German, so she is a German national and holds a German passport. She also had to go to a "Foreigners" school in Japan .
You’ve had a Bell’s palsy attack? This Aug. I’ll be 2 years into my Bells Palsy attack. Still having issues on the right side of my face.
Don't forget people wars also allow for intermingling on many levels from many places
My brother-in-law is half Japanese. Japanese mom, German/Polish Dad.
There’s a reason that the terms Gaelic and Galatia (in Turquia) are related.
The Iberian Peninsula includes other countries, not just Spain. Portugal, France, Gibraltar, and Andorra are Iberian countries. I'm Brazilian of Portuguese descent, so I'm also Iberian.
My mom is Irish and I am 55% Irish 12% Welsh and they finally got the 9% German correct and there’s 9% Scottish, 7% Sweden and Denmark (probably where I got my paternal haplogroup of I1 M253 from), 7% English and Northwestern Europe (again) and 1% Iberian from my Irish mother. Now if only we could define these categories, that would be something. I guess it’s just autosomal admixture.
There has been a hypothesis among language scholars that Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian, all the way to Turkish belong to a "Turko-Altaic Language Family" that includes Finnish. Reina's DNA might lend credence to that idea.
I was watching something the other day that said (if I am remembering correctly) that a number of the Finnish people may have migrated eastward, and that apparently the Finnish were related to the Ainu people. Which come from the north of Japan where I believe you said part of your family was from? And certainly if they had migrated through the extreme northern parts of Siberia, they could have interacted with the Inuit. So that might explain the 4%.
I just watched a video on the Ainu and yeah, I can see that in you. All you need is that Joker lipstick that the women wear. Maybe when you gramma thought there was Russian in her background she meant Finish? All I can say is people love to mingle!
I love genetics and where we all came from. We all are mixed up somewhere and got surprising ancestors 😂 There are people with a different skincolor to yours and they can still be genetically closer related than people with the same skincolor/'race'😊 Thanks for showing us the results! Appreciate it! Very interesting 👍 I could be wrong, but as a mix your grandpa looks half indeed to me:) And your mom seems like a lovely person!^^ Have a nice day!
Inuit and Finnish makes sense . Specially if there’s a part of you family is from northern Japan. It’s not impossible that Finnish and inuit natives had made it all the way to northern japan long longbtime ago.
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Kim Novak was 100% Italian, but she looked Nordic, due to the fact that Northern Italy was where the Gauls lived!
check out the video on the indigenous Japanese. Quite fascinating and they don't come from where you expect.
Hi Reina, this is the first time I have one of your videos. in the recommended videos on the right side is one from ancestrove talking about a connection between finish and east Asian people. so it seems like at sometime in the past there were connections and so maybe that accounts for your finish portion.