Watching you guys is addictive. I have been homebound here in Australia for the last 7 days with Covid. You guys have kept a smile on my face the whole time - thankyou.
Since Americans tend to be of mixed heritage, we tend to be interested in tests like Ancestry and 23ansMe. While we are Americans, we are more than that. I have a high percentage of British ancestry, but do not consider myself British.
Brad...for sure you can wear a kilt. I'm sure everything Scotsman or Irishman will buy you a beer coming across you. Plus I'm sure Lex will love the open access that the garment provides! ;-)
Sure he can. My best friend growing up, Germaine, was like 6’3” 350lb Marine Vetetan who wears a kilt from time to time. Pretty sure he doesn’t pay for drinks at the bar when he does… lol
My husbands Irish friend got married to a Scottish lady (best wedding ever btw) and he wore a kilt and as he said "Irish tartan...proper tartan" he didn't mean it tho, he was just trying to wind up his Scottish inlaws 🤭 it worked a bit but you know once everyone is pissed it doesn't matter
I don't know your last name Brad but, if its of Scottish origin, you can wear a kilt in the appropriate clan tartan. Failing that, if your mother's maiden name was Scottish, you can wear that clan tartan. If both fail, try the Stewart tartan as it's generally considered generic.
I think you guys look Nigerian but Brad definitely has some Abe Lincoln in him. Every time his head is turned his profile reminds me of Lincoln, especially that beard. In the end, you're good ole Americans.
Skin color is based on a whole bunch of different genes. But generally, the closer to the equator, the darker you are. The vitamin D hypothesis. As far as your differences to other family members, look up recombination. That will explain a lot.
Might be. Over the millennia skin color adapted to how much sun they got. Too dark and you'd get too little vitamin D from the sun, too light and you'd get burned and skin cancer. Healthy families got more kids back then to spread their well balanced skin tone for that area.
these two folks are in the top 5 of the reviewers I follow doing music. Completely entertaining. just love watching Lex getting involved in the music. Brad is spot on cool.
The percentages change the more the test groups expands. Mine has changed a percentage or two here and there. I'm currently Nigeria 31%, 27% Cameroon/Congo/Western Bantu, 8% England and Northwestern Europe and a tie of 7% for Mali and Ivory Coast/Ghana, 6% Benin & Togo, 4% each of Ireland/Sweden & Denmark/Senegal with 1% Wales and Germanic Europe. The DNA fascination is amazing!
You just never know what is in your mix. My daughter is qualified to be a native American, if she uses her dad's roll number, and she's only 2% native American. I think the idea of race only matters when politics need it to.
I am 25% Native American due to me being of half Mexican heritage (I look completely white). I've never considered whether or not I'd qualify to be a Native American.
@@blanketstarry7725 My understanding is that the percentage doesn't matter, if you have the roll number. Our kid has his name, and a good relationship with him, so I just left it at that. Point being, I never looked very far into it, so I couldn't tell you any extra info.
@@palecorpse It depends on the tribe. The five civilized tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) use the Dawes roll for membership. You must prove that you are a direct descendent of an original Dawes enrollee. Other tribes may use blood quantum, maternal or paternal lines. So, you could be 1/2 Native but through your father and his tribe might only qualify you if it’s through the maternal line and therefore you wouldn’t be eligible to enroll in that tribe. Tribal enrollment and enrollment through the US department of interior who issues a CDIB (certificate of degree of Indian blood) card are COMPLETELY different things. NO DNA test can specify which tribe your ancestors belonged to so having a good paper trail is vital for tribal enrollment.
Congratulations on your Welshness, Lex! As for our food, there's a traditional broth called Cawl, Cockles and Laver bread (seaweed). We certainly have cheeses (Caerphilly is probably our most famous) in fact Welsh rarebit is probably the origin of the grilled cheese sandwich. There's Faggots and Peas (which sounds dubious but is delicious) and we've got the finest lamb on earth. If you both ever come to the UK make sure to spend some time in Wales, We've got more castles per square mile than any other country in Europe. Also famous for our singers.
I don't care what your race is because your wonderful people that have the kindest of hearts. Today, so many people are all about race, I'm all about the individual. I can careless of the skin color because friends are like crayons, you need more than just one color to make a beautiful body of work.
Absolutely LOVE both of you!! And Brad, you are correct: the smoothness in Scotch whiskey is present whether you have Scottish DNA in ya or not! LOL!! And I was rolling on the floor with the "cultural appropriation" comment - wouldn't ya think that by now people would just explore and enjoy the various cultures they encounter and not get so tied up in the "correctness" issues. As if we all didn't have a variety of backgrounds in all of our own DNA. Final comment: as Brad Walker just mentioned, you two are very much addictive, and it's a very healthy and informative addiction, so Thank You!!
I can't find my earlier comment and it might have been glitched but I told Brad if he can't find his ancestor to know what tartan kilt to wear since he's from St. Louis he could just wear the Missouri Tartan. It's really pretty.
You guys are just honestly so lovely, you have great open minded personalities and I can just imagine hanging out with you! Love watching your videos, keep being yourselves XXX love from the UK (btw Wales is joined to England on the left hand side, the sea in-between splits Wales and the UK from Ireland) xxx
Yeah, Brad you can wear a kilt, drink whisky and eat haggis. Lex you should try Laverbread (made from seaweed) and cockles (shellfish) that's on a Welsh breakfast.
@@jabreck1934 - No the Basque people were/are white. There is a possibility that the Moors invaded Ireland which is why the term Black Irish or that the Irish came from Spain originally.
@@donnajean3202 did some research. Apparently the definition of “ Black Irish” has change throughout the years, The definition of “white” has also changed throughout the years. There are many theories surrounding the term “ Black Irish”
Been watching you guys for some time now, and I just have to say you are the cooooolest couple, so down to earth. You are 100% real!!! Love you all, have a great weekeind!
As a Scotsman, i'd say you can freely wear a kilt with 0% Scottish DNA and you'd get nothing but compliments from virtually every Scot. But just don't ever refer to it as a 'skirt' 😉
@@scottbarker1039 Hah! You'd actually be very surprised at how well that would go down. I can't speak for every Scot but on the whole, you'd get a lot of positivity.
@@scottbarker1039 I'm 67 percent English per ancestry but I do believe the majority of it is Norman English. A lot of my 17 to 25 percent Scot is Norman and other Scandinavian people as well. I'd totally wear them. Especially if I had the money for suit and tux jackets to go with them. You can't wear a regular jacket with one. They wear shorter specifically tailored jackets to go with the kilts.
Right at the end of the video you guys hit on a truism I learned a while back. Race is a social construct! Things get so complicated when you try to nail down someone into any specific category by race that the harder you look at it, the less it makes sense, biologically speaking. Humans are on a spectrum where we're all more or less related to each other. A Norwegian is probably about a far (genetically) from an Australian Aboriginal as it's possible to be, but go far enough back, and there's a common ancestor. For people who are "in between" the areas that Western Society deemed as the "races" it gets weird. Northern Africa and the middle east aren't quite what most would consider "White" or "Black". We don't hear about it as much, but there's huge areas of central Asia where the people there are something in between "White" and "Asian". Now that humans have been traveling around the world for a few centuries mixing with each other, we're all more related than ever before!
I'm fascinated by human migrations. Like that the Polynesians have their origins from Taiwan and some of those same people ended up in Madagascar of all places.
This is why we all look alike. You know the old saying? "All black people look alike. All Asian people look alike. White people all look alike." It depends on who's doing looking, but I've observed that there's a maximum of about a dozen different faces, but color has very little bearing. The differences are very minute, like the angle of the nose, hairline, etc. Truth is, everybody that are humans, all look alike. Now let's stop this skin tone bullshit.
I’m a result of what you guys talked about! My dad is 70 percent African, his father was biracial, and mom was Black and my mom is full white and as a kid I grew up just as any normal half black/Black kid , but I would go through a lot of identity crisis cause my father knew more about his European heritage than the typical AA family and so it was boldly pressed on me that I was slightly different than other Mixed race kids! I took a dna test and I’m 33 percent Black! But I would always identify as mixed , mulatto , or Biracial, cause I am far too passing to identify anyway else !
Hi Lex - people from Wales are called Welsh and there are parts of Wales where they speak the welsh language which is completely different to English. Wales is beautiful high mountains and valleys lots of sheep and coal mines historically in the south and slate mines in the north. Famous singers to check out Shirley Bassey Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler. Bands Mannix Street Preachers and Stone Roses. Brad in north west of scotland and islands the language is Gaelic again completely different to english. People are called scots or scottish. Scotch is only used to describe whisky from scotland.
Gotta Love your curiosity. And, yes, I expected you both to be as 'ethnicity fluid' as you are 'musical genre fluid'. Keep it Up, and Good Luck. Many of us look to you for escape, laughs and a different perspective in these crazy times. Be Goats not Sheep
I found it incredibly interesting. It makes me thing there were way more people who crossed “forbidden” lines in procreation than admitted to it, or did it with a sense that they weren’t accountable for their behavior. I wouldn’t be at all shocked to learn that Americans who have grown up thinking of themselves as Black have a significant European genetic ancestry.
Hate to bring this up, but a lot of those "lines" were crossed due to the rape of slaves, and not so much voluntarily. Most Black Americans have some percentage of white blood due to this phenomenon.
@@ryanstacy2673 I'm not going to guess at percentages but a bunch of it was from people falling in love. Especially before institutionalized racism and from my studies I do believe that began with Bacons rebellion. The black people and the poor white people together nearly burned Virginia to the ground and that's when the Lords decided hey we need to keep them separated or they are going to kill us all.
Wales is where Sir Tom Jones is from! And now , you'll have to watch Braveheart because of your Scotland blood! LOL! I'm getting MINE done! Nice mix you two!!! I want Nigerian Food now....😁 You don't want no Scottish food! Check out "Haggis". Morrocan food is a favorite!
you raise a very valid point at the end. i am white and my daughters mother was from jamaica. people of mixed race sometimes find it hard to find their identity, and often are not accepted by either race. but the truth is people who identify as black in your country and mine as your DNA shows are mixed race.
I used to play a lot of pickup soccer with a big group of Cameroonian transplants who lived in Omaha for one reason or another. I had a 4 year stretch there where I'd just show up at the complex on a random Saturday or Sunday, and they'd invite me to play. I just assumed that they were all refugees from the Sudan when I first met them, but that was not the case. It was a good group of guys.
Probably a regional thing, like Scots, Irish and Welsh settled in their area, and the slave ancestors were largely from Nigeria in that region of the US. Just my guess.
I did a DNA test too and I was shocked by how UNDIVERSE my DNA is. Also, I thought my father was 100% Jewish. Turns out he was about 60% Jewish and 40% Italian! I had no idea I had any Italian. And just as you feel drawn to the places and cultures that are somewhere in your history, I feel the same way. At the end of the day, it was interesting and a bit surprising. But it really doesn't matter where any of our blood came from. We are all connected and we are all human. We all go through so many of the same experiences whether we are white or black or rich or poor or any other category. Thanks for sharing! Loved your results!
Did mine in 2018...you're right about updates.. Im a mixed breed, mutt as well 5% eastern Africa, 6% Native American(recently updated to Canadian and northern Native American), 30% Greek, 15% Spanish, 6% Irish, 10% German and 2% Asian, the rest unknown. I feel like I cannot check any box at all. The percentages and regions change with updates. Whatever..it can get confusing. I just say I look white with dark eyes, olive tan skin and say I'm from everwhere. I'M HUMAN. The hapalog stuff is fascinating!
Lex my deepest sympathies for having welsh heritage if you have an unexplained fondness for sheep then you now know it comes from your welsh heritage. Brad, if you knew your clan name, not only could you where a Kilt but you would have a specific Tartan. Tartans are the colours and design that would distinguish each clan.
@@thatsthat2612 Yeah I think it's beautiful too. Missouri and Illinois have so many Scots and part Scots that both states have a tartan. I'm a quarter per dna test and my mothers side has a Scot name. Dads side claims to be from Sweden and migrated to Denmark and after several generations migrated to Scotland and then kicked out by the crown and removed to Ulster in the Highland clearances. But my particular branch of moms side migrated to England a thousand years ago.
greetings from scotland brad!! love your channel guys! We do have whisky here but u gotta be careful with that stuff lol. 15% is enough to wear a kilt BTW. Hell 1% is enough for a kilt.!!
Oh wow, I didn’t know y’all lived in Hollywood Fla! That’s where I grew up ! In the 70’s and 80’s !! We lived off stirling road! Near 441 I went to Hollywood hills high school!! And driftwood in middle school! Still have family there! Now I live in Alabama!
Northern Africans and people from the Middle East predominately came from the Caucasus Mountains, same as the Europeans. Thus...."Caucasians" Native Americans came primarily from 2 migrations, one Asian and the other Euro-Asian. Genealogy is fascinating and the more people that know about it would help bring people together. Well, that's the hope at least.
Not exactly. Caucasian as a term used to describe Europeans originated from the 18th century anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He was basing his work on the Noah flood myth. Europeans are descended from several migrations from the Middle East, Near East and the Eurasian Steppe. This is why Europeans and Middle Easterners share much genetic history. Most geneticists use the term West Eurasian to refer to people of the region.
Excuse but Native Americans were in the America's long before anyone why do you think we call our bears brother's. This ideal that Native Americans are descents of Africans or Asian are wrong no we didn't cross over the land bridge. And I don't like the ideal of African trying to claim Native heritage. For your agenda.
@@Kate-yb5ig The evidence is conclusive. Native Americans originated from East and North Ease Asia. Native Americans and Asians share common DNA that neither group shares with Europeans, South Asians, Australians or Africans. And, the deeper ancestors of everyone on the planet are from Africa. Take a class in human genetics and you will see that the scientists are right.
Greetings from Scotland. We would love to see you in a Kilt, Brad! Just research which tartan is correct, choose the correct weight for the weather, and decide if you will "go commando" or not!!!!!! Is it true what we don't wear beneath the kilt?
And you're never too old to learn to play Bagpipes, My dad learned in his sixties. My surname is Scottish, but my ancestor who brought it to the U.S. came from Ireland in 1773. My mother's German ancestors came, in the same year, and her English ancestors, later in the 1800s. As with almost anyone with U.K. ancestry, about 15% Viking!
Nice chat! Nice relationship you have. Lex, looking at the map, you’ll find Scotland at the top (north) joined to England below (south). Left of England (west) it’s joined to Wales and then keep going left (west) across the sea to Ireland. 🤗
Culture is 100% who we are, nothing to do with race. I’m white from Liverpool and my wife was black from Liverpool and we both had all the same memories and experiences of growing up in Liverpool. We were just the same, both scousers.
Ethnicity is about the culture you're from... yes, there's correlation between ancestors and ethnicity, but that's mostly because for the vast majority of humanity humans lived with their own. definition of ethnic: adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion. Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries. Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group.
@@Panteni87 you’re totally missing his/her point. Culture is a way better indicator shared experiences and positive relationships then ethnicity, that’s the point. For example I’m a third gen Polish immigrant on my dads side but I don’t speak a word of polish, in fact most of the time I think it’s Russian when spoken in front of me. Short of maybe being stubborn and having SOME similar medical predispositions I share nothing with the Polish people. I share far more experiences and hold many more of the same morals and values as a Hispanic or black American. There’s nothing wrong with learning about our ethnic heritage but putting to much emphasis on it creates unnecessary divisions in our shared culture, like the ones were experiencing currently.
@@Panteni87 if ethnicity equals culture then sex equals gender and I don’t wanna hear anything else. I’ve already said explicitly I have zero familiarity with Slavic culture, which is my predominate ethnicity so how could that even be true for anyone except those growing up in their native ancestral land and grow up as a part of that specific culture. Those two things are obviously separate logically and are IRL for a massive portion of the planet, even for non ethnically ambiguous people.
A few years back, there was a story about these identical twin models and their DNA test. IDENTICAL TWINS and their DNA was different. I don't remember the particulars.
I took mine last year and came back something like 42% Scottish, 27% Irish, 16% Northern England, Scandinavian, and some other European decent. This explains the sunburns…lol
From what I understand, the results you have there are from "Haplogroups" which are basically used to trace migration. My haplogroup migration started from northern Africa. In percentages, I am British/Irish, German/French, Finnish, Italian, or in short "Northwestern European". My haplogroup's have been found in Denmark, Iceland, Britain, Germany, Finland etc. My maternal haplogroup is semi rare, the one from Denmark, Iceland etc. The Paternal is pretty common I guess, Ireland, Britain etc. Getting into genealogy is quite complex and confusing. But these test are just basic to my understanding. They have other tests to go deeper.
Love you guys. You are so cool. Also love that you are so conscious of other people (Brad's apology about the phone). That is so good. It amazes me how Americans are so insulated from the rest of the world and don't know much about the rest of the world. Not judging, just an observation. Perhaps I am just an old fart and schools teach different thi9ngs today and a lot less Geography? Keep up the good work and these personal vlogs are great. They make you more than just a reaction team.
If you find the family name of your Scottish heritage there will be a Tartan specifically for your clan (I have McPherson and Campbell as mine and they both have their unique tartan and family crest/motto)
Went to college with several Nigerian soccer players on scholarships...and...great parties with them.... taught me to chew chicken bones for the protein, we were all poor together and chicken was cheapest...we grilled out at our apt complex alot.. We had big potlucks...they taught me fantastic seasonings that a girl from the south did not know. I was on athletic scholarships too. Ended up engaged to their team-mate from Colombia, south America, didn't last, but all the incredible food and flavors did.Nigerians do wonderful flavorful stuff with potatoes, yams and veggies. But they favor beef. we could rarely afford..this was in 1979. My brother's priest is a super fella from Cameroon.
Love this,I wish everyone in America especially would do this so everyone would realise how much we have in common regardless of skin color. I'am from Louisiana I have a Cajun last name & a Creole grandmother,My mom is Irish and Dutch. I guess that makes me Gumbo lol
Thats cool, I am a Heinz 57 in my dna too. My family thought we were Welsh but my dad did his DNA and found out he is half Welsh half Norse. My mom is Choctaw, Spanish and German. I guess that makes me a Hispanic Welsh Viking? I just identify as American :) Researching your family is always fun!
DNA tests are interesting. I did the 23andMe as well as the ancestry tests years back. I have different results from each that have been updated through the years as well. 23andMe said I was 2% West African on the original results, so I told all my coworkers in NYC that I am black LOL. I am fair skin, blue green eyes and European looking. The "one drop" rule from the early 1900's would have probably labeled me as black because of that small percentage. In the next update, that west African percentage was removed completely. After all the updates through the years, I am 100% European, mostly Norwegian and Swedish, with some English, Irish and German mixed in smallish percentages. 23andMe and Ancestry have different percentages, but the same areas. My ex-wife who grew up thinking she was all Italian turned out tracing back to Italy, Spain, and the middle East. I think those tests are cool, and provide some interesting thoughts, but when all is said and done, we are still the same people, and it doesn't matter where your ancestors were from. The only extended family I have outside the U.S. live in Norway. I have never met any of them, and have never been to Norway. My mom's parents came from Norway, and my dad's family has been here for several generations, and I was told by his family that there is French, English, Irish and Scottish way back in his family.
Opposite for me. My Spanish disappeared n 2% North African appeared. My dad was born in Sicily. Everybody stopped there. Greeks, Romans, Carthage, n probably Phoenicians too. My Irish n Germanic stayed pretty much the same.
I'm Swedish, family always lived in Sweden. Still I am 2 % west African and 2% north African. I also have a strong Belgian heritage from immigrants in the 17th century. If you search long enough everyone is more or less mixed.
The best music comes from Mali. I love the kora music and desert blues that comes from around that region. I'm a Finn and in my culture we appreciate melancholic melodies and I've found something that I can relate to in malian music. They malian music has those melancholic melodies but combined with hypnotic rhythms. It's absolutely beautiful music. West Africa was the true birth place of blues and jazz and therefore rock music too. Later the African musicians took the electric guitars from the American blues and fused them together with their own music cultures and created desert blues, which is like the ultimate form of blues.
Camaroon is the next country to the east of Nigeria. Congo is Huge....and slightly farther east from Camaroon. Bantu is a language with hundreds of dialects and it is spoken by most people in Africa south of the equator. Bantu is a European term.
So Brad's DNA has 26% European ancestry and Lex has 28% European ancestry. And it will be like this for most people no matter the skin color because we all have a mix of different DNA all around the world. Most of us likely aren't as different from one another than outward appearances might suggest.
It's more common in USA because of all the plantation race mixing that went on under slavery. Recent African immigrants don't have that. Put it this way, black Americans that have been here since slavery have more European dna than blacks who have been in Europe for centuries.
@@adamprice3466 Blacks have not been in Europe for centuries (yes there were a couple but almost none). Very few people from Africa were living in Europe until quite recently, post WWII and actually only after the Europeans abandoned their empires in the 60s. This is when the great migration began.
@@thomassenbart That's what I mean, of the tiny amount of blacks that have been in Europe for centuries. They still have less European dna than Ameriblacks.
Northern African ancestry is complex. It's an overstatement, as you might expect, to consider it "white," whatever the heck that means. But Berbers split genetically from Lapplanders (far north Finland) around 7000 BC. And Berbers are a characteristic group in North Africa. Some are blonde and blue eyed, which is what you might be thinking of. Another historic group in North Africa is an ancient people we call Capsian. These are believed to be the same people that in ancient Lebanon and Israel we call Natufian. These are a brown skinned type Mediterranean people who were probably the main ancestral base for ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and as far west as Morocco. They were collecting grain for storage as far back as 16,000 BC, or possibly earlier, which was back in the previous glaciation or "ice age."
And whiteness only goes back 8000 years. Melanin percentages were reduced by the addition of two genes when certain darker peoples moved up to Scandinavia.
@@dan.j.boydzkreationz Well, that's one of those guesstimates. We don't really know for sure. A lot of concepts related to ancient biology are still being worked out. FWIW, my understanding is that blondness came into Scandinavia from Siberia. At least that's the present thinking on it. Not sure if that's closely linked to pale skin or non-brown eyes as well. Could be. My impression is that people moved from Siberia into the region of Finland and Estonia and while some stayed north, others ventured south along river routes to the Black Sea, eventually reaching northern Africa, becoming the Berbers.
Not to sound cliche but we are a lot more connected then we all act like. I'm adopted and never have had my DNA test but I will one day. I'm pretty sure it's going to be all over the place even though I always Mark the generic white when it comes to ethnicity
This was really interesting. My results were an even mix of central western Africa, and north western Europe. I know there are some people who won't have this test done because they are terrified of any degree of African ancestry showing up 😱.
I don't give a ratzazz about yer DNA. What I care about and admire is you guys always make me smile. You exude Love and Hope... wonderful couple. I'd be proud to have you guys as friends.
Y'all are 100% wonderful human beings! ☺♥
Thank you, Randy 🙏🏽
Totally agree with this statement!
I third that
So are you. Yes. 😁
True
As a geography guy, I almost had a heart attack during this lol
😂 Me too. My dad made up general knowledge games with us when we were kids, lots of geography questions.
yeah we need to send Lex a MAP!
Yeah same here. But it was still great!
Watching you guys is addictive. I have been homebound here in Australia for the last 7 days with Covid. You guys have kept a smile on my face the whole time - thankyou.
Hope you feel better soon Brad ❤️
Good luck with that Covid.. Had it twice! You’ll be good!
@@BradAndLexVlog Brad's right about the genetic results changing as more information is gathered. I went from 8% French/German to 0% within 1 update
I'm with you Brad - smiling is good. Cheers.
Hope you're feeling better.
You are 100 percent American 👍 Love from the Uk
Since Americans tend to be of mixed heritage, we tend to be interested in tests like Ancestry and 23ansMe. While we are Americans, we are more than that. I have a high percentage of British ancestry, but do not consider myself British.
It just shows, we all have more in common then not! Thanks for sharing your DNA tests with us all. That was interesting.🙂
I identify you both as adorable! You two are so precious - sending smiles and hugs your way!🙂❤🌻🙏
“Brad, you are NOT the father”…wait, I should probably watch the video first.
Brad...for sure you can wear a kilt. I'm sure everything Scotsman or Irishman will buy you a beer coming across you. Plus I'm sure Lex will love the open access that the garment provides! ;-)
Sure he can. My best friend growing up, Germaine, was like 6’3” 350lb Marine Vetetan who wears a kilt from time to time. Pretty sure he doesn’t pay for drinks at the bar when he does… lol
My fam has a Scottish family crest. I should send brad a kilt to honor his heritage. 😁
Well said Rob. We don't give a fuck about cultural appropriation, we're not that precious! 😂🤣
My husbands Irish friend got married to a Scottish lady (best wedding ever btw) and he wore a kilt and as he said "Irish tartan...proper tartan" he didn't mean it tho, he was just trying to wind up his Scottish inlaws 🤭 it worked a bit but you know once everyone is pissed it doesn't matter
I don't know your last name Brad but, if its of Scottish origin, you can wear a kilt in the appropriate clan tartan. Failing that, if your mother's maiden name was Scottish, you can wear that clan tartan. If both fail, try the Stewart tartan as it's generally considered generic.
I think you guys look Nigerian but Brad definitely has some Abe Lincoln in him. Every time his head is turned his profile reminds me of Lincoln, especially that beard. In the end, you're good ole Americans.
Scottish Americans :)
I think Lincoln was part African actually.
5% Abraham Lincoln ..
Skin color is based on a whole bunch of different genes. But generally, the closer to the equator, the darker you are. The vitamin D hypothesis. As far as your differences to other family members, look up recombination. That will explain a lot.
Might be. Over the millennia skin color adapted to how much sun they got. Too dark and you'd get too little vitamin D from the sun, too light and you'd get burned and skin cancer. Healthy families got more kids back then to spread their well balanced skin tone for that area.
Brad has always wondered why he loves the sound of bagpipe music.
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It's a Long Way to the Top if you want to Rock and Roll.
@@cometogether999 yes he'd like that song
@@taylormurphy7717 yes he would..awesome song 🎵
these two folks are in the top 5 of the reviewers I follow doing music. Completely entertaining. just love watching Lex getting involved in the music. Brad is spot on cool.
The percentages change the more the test groups expands. Mine has changed a percentage or two here and there. I'm currently Nigeria 31%, 27% Cameroon/Congo/Western Bantu, 8% England and Northwestern Europe and a tie of 7% for Mali and Ivory Coast/Ghana, 6% Benin & Togo, 4% each of Ireland/Sweden & Denmark/Senegal with 1% Wales and Germanic Europe. The DNA fascination is amazing!
These dna tests are impossible to do. Its all fake.
Wales is west of England, Scotland is north of England. All three are on the same island.
You just never know what is in your mix. My daughter is qualified to be a native American, if she uses her dad's roll number, and she's only 2% native American. I think the idea of race only matters when politics need it to.
I found out that, along with being 90% "northwestern European (Scottish), I am also 6% American Indian!
I am 25% Native American due to me being of half Mexican heritage (I look completely white). I've never considered whether or not I'd qualify to be a Native American.
@@blanketstarry7725 My understanding is that the percentage doesn't matter, if you have the roll number. Our kid has his name, and a good relationship with him, so I just left it at that. Point being, I never looked very far into it, so I couldn't tell you any extra info.
@@palecorpse It depends on the tribe. The five civilized tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) use the Dawes roll for membership. You must prove that you are a direct descendent of an original Dawes enrollee. Other tribes may use blood quantum, maternal or paternal lines. So, you could be 1/2 Native but through your father and his tribe might only qualify you if it’s through the maternal line and therefore you wouldn’t be eligible to enroll in that tribe. Tribal enrollment and enrollment through the US department of interior who issues a CDIB (certificate of degree of Indian blood) card are COMPLETELY different things. NO DNA test can specify which tribe your ancestors belonged to so having a good paper trail is vital for tribal enrollment.
@@ChickasawScot that makes sense. She's creek, and her father has the card.
Don’t matter where you come from the best thing is to be nice
Hey Lex, I am Welsh. Congratulations on being 10% perfection. 😂
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Congratulations on your Welshness, Lex! As for our food, there's a traditional broth called Cawl, Cockles and Laver bread (seaweed). We certainly have cheeses (Caerphilly is probably our most famous) in fact Welsh rarebit is probably the origin of the grilled cheese sandwich. There's Faggots and Peas (which sounds dubious but is delicious) and we've got the finest lamb on earth. If you both ever come to the UK make sure to spend some time in Wales, We've got more castles per square mile than any other country in Europe. Also famous for our singers.
Ooh sounds heavenly 🤩🥰
Welsh lamb is the best 👌
uh... You eat WHAT with your peas?
@Fluffy Little Bear it's like an oversized meatball cooked in gravy...they're so good
YES!!... SCOTLAND & WALES!!!... I just KNEW you were kin!!... I would LOVE to help you get into some kilts!!
Nothing wrong knowing your past ancestry and be proud.
I can relate, Brad. When I travel, I'm always excited to dig into the local cuisine. The Southwest has amazing food!
i agree with atuuschaaw.. you guys are just great folks , a wonderful blend!
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I don't care what your race is because your wonderful people that have the kindest of hearts. Today, so many people are all about race, I'm all about the individual. I can careless of the skin color because friends are like crayons, you need more than just one color to make a beautiful body of work.
Friends are like objects?
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I'd question that brand of test since Lex's came back zero guitar and zero lyrics for Brad.
What a lovely couple, inspiring!!! x
Absolutely LOVE both of you!! And Brad, you are correct: the smoothness in Scotch whiskey is present whether you have Scottish DNA in ya or not! LOL!! And I was rolling on the floor with the "cultural appropriation" comment - wouldn't ya think that by now people would just explore and enjoy the various cultures they encounter and not get so tied up in the "correctness" issues. As if we all didn't have a variety of backgrounds in all of our own DNA. Final comment: as Brad Walker just mentioned, you two are very much addictive, and it's a very healthy and informative addiction, so Thank You!!
I can't find my earlier comment and it might have been glitched but I told Brad if he can't find his ancestor to know what tartan kilt to wear since he's from St. Louis he could just wear the Missouri Tartan. It's really pretty.
You guys are just honestly so lovely, you have great open minded personalities and I can just imagine hanging out with you! Love watching your videos, keep being yourselves XXX love from the UK (btw Wales is joined to England on the left hand side, the sea in-between splits Wales and the UK from Ireland) xxx
Yeah, Brad you can wear a kilt, drink whisky and eat haggis. Lex you should try Laverbread (made from seaweed) and cockles (shellfish) that's on a Welsh breakfast.
cockles are amazing. Also Welsh cakes yum
I'm Irish American. And alot of times the Irish weren't considered white. Which is weird I know
My grandmother was from Ireland.
She was Basque/Irish
I think that’s where the term “ Black Irish”
Comes from but, I don’t know
@@jabreck1934 - No the Basque people were/are white. There is a possibility that the Moors invaded Ireland which is why the term Black Irish or that the Irish came from Spain originally.
@@donnajean3202 did some research. Apparently the definition of “ Black Irish” has change throughout the years,
The definition of “white” has also changed throughout the years.
There are many theories surrounding the term
“ Black Irish”
Been watching you guys for some time now, and I just have to say you are the cooooolest couple, so down to earth. You are 100% real!!! Love you all, have a great weekeind!
Always love to see dna results videos.
As a Scotsman, i'd say you can freely wear a kilt with 0% Scottish DNA and you'd get nothing but compliments from virtually every Scot. But just don't ever refer to it as a 'skirt' 😉
@@scottbarker1039 Hah! You'd actually be very surprised at how well that would go down. I can't speak for every Scot but on the whole, you'd get a lot of positivity.
If he wears a kilt and sits in that chair, he needs to lift the camera angle slightly!
@@scottbarker1039 I'm 67 percent English per ancestry but I do believe the majority of it is Norman English. A lot of my 17 to 25 percent Scot is Norman and other Scandinavian people as well. I'd totally wear them. Especially if I had the money for suit and tux jackets to go with them. You can't wear a regular jacket with one. They wear shorter specifically tailored jackets to go with the kilts.
Kilts were / are worn by Irish too .my husband wore one for our wedding...
The first kilt was designed by an English man ..for his scottish workers
@@scottbarker1039 if you attended a Scottish wedding as part of the wedding party, you’d be obliged to wear one, English or not.
Cameroon is between Nigeria and Congo . Mali is also north of Nigeria. All in West/Central Africa
Of course you guys have a bit of Portugal in you! Awesome 😁
You’ll Love The food
Rod Stewart has Scottish blood. How about “Maggie May” #1 hit, live album “Unplugged & Seated” (Ron Wood, Rolling Stones & Faces) on guitar 🎸.
I would've guessed you both to come up as 100% Awesome. 🧀😁❤
That's nice ☺️
I second that!
Aw shucks, group hug! 🤗
I am going to do this!
Right at the end of the video you guys hit on a truism I learned a while back. Race is a social construct! Things get so complicated when you try to nail down someone into any specific category by race that the harder you look at it, the less it makes sense, biologically speaking. Humans are on a spectrum where we're all more or less related to each other. A Norwegian is probably about a far (genetically) from an Australian Aboriginal as it's possible to be, but go far enough back, and there's a common ancestor. For people who are "in between" the areas that Western Society deemed as the "races" it gets weird. Northern Africa and the middle east aren't quite what most would consider "White" or "Black". We don't hear about it as much, but there's huge areas of central Asia where the people there are something in between "White" and "Asian". Now that humans have been traveling around the world for a few centuries mixing with each other, we're all more related than ever before!
I'm fascinated by human migrations. Like that the Polynesians have their origins from Taiwan and some of those same people ended up in Madagascar of all places.
This is why we all look alike. You know the old saying? "All black people look alike. All Asian people look alike. White people all look alike." It depends on who's doing looking, but I've observed that there's a maximum of about a dozen different faces, but color has very little bearing. The differences are very minute, like the angle of the nose, hairline, etc. Truth is, everybody that are humans, all look alike. Now let's stop this skin tone bullshit.
If race was a social construct then DNA testing and this video wouldn't exist.
Loving Brad's tshirt
I’m a result of what you guys talked about! My dad is 70 percent African, his father was biracial, and mom was Black and my mom is full white and as a kid I grew up just as any normal half black/Black kid , but I would go through a lot of identity crisis cause my father knew more about his European heritage than the typical AA family and so it was boldly pressed on me that I was slightly different than other Mixed race kids! I took a dna test and I’m 33 percent Black! But I would always identify as mixed , mulatto , or Biracial, cause I am far too passing to identify anyway else !
Also love you two! Binge watching your videos saved me during COVID! Best wishes !
Hi Lex - people from Wales are called Welsh and there are parts of Wales where they speak the welsh language which is completely different to English. Wales is beautiful high mountains and valleys lots of sheep and coal mines historically in the south and slate mines in the north. Famous singers to check out Shirley Bassey Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler. Bands Mannix Street Preachers and Stone Roses. Brad in north west of scotland and islands the language is Gaelic again completely different to english. People are called scots or scottish. Scotch is only used to describe whisky from scotland.
I've done some business with Nigerians while I was living overseas. It's also a very educated, upwardly mobile country.
Gotta Love your curiosity. And, yes, I expected you both to be as 'ethnicity fluid' as you are 'musical genre fluid'. Keep it Up, and Good Luck. Many of us look to you for escape, laughs and a different perspective in these crazy times.
Be Goats not Sheep
I found it incredibly interesting. It makes me thing there were way more people who crossed “forbidden” lines in procreation than admitted to it, or did it with a sense that they weren’t accountable for their behavior.
I wouldn’t be at all shocked to learn that Americans who have grown up thinking of themselves as Black have a significant European genetic ancestry.
There are a lot of YT videos showing "black" people learning they are primarily European.
There's an old Richard Pryor routine about when he went to Africa and figured somebody's been lying about his family tree.
Hate to bring this up, but a lot of those "lines" were crossed due to the rape of slaves, and not so much voluntarily. Most Black Americans have some percentage of white blood due to this phenomenon.
@@ryanstacy2673 Yes, for sure.
@@ryanstacy2673 I'm not going to guess at percentages but a bunch of it was from people falling in love. Especially before institutionalized racism and from my studies I do believe that began with Bacons rebellion. The black people and the poor white people together nearly burned Virginia to the ground and that's when the Lords decided hey we need to keep them separated or they are going to kill us all.
Wales is where Sir Tom Jones is from! And now , you'll have to watch Braveheart because of your Scotland blood! LOL! I'm getting MINE done! Nice mix you two!!! I want Nigerian Food now....😁 You don't want no Scottish food! Check out "Haggis". Morrocan food is a favorite!
you raise a very valid point at the end. i am white and my daughters mother was from jamaica. people of mixed race sometimes find it hard to find their identity, and often are not accepted by either race. but the truth is people who identify as black in your country and mine as your DNA shows are mixed race.
How cool is it to learn more about where we come from? Thank you for sharing.
I used to play a lot of pickup soccer with a big group of Cameroonian transplants who lived in Omaha for one reason or another. I had a 4 year stretch there where I'd just show up at the complex on a random Saturday or Sunday, and they'd invite me to play. I just assumed that they were all refugees from the Sudan when I first met them, but that was not the case. It was a good group of guys.
The simple joy that you 2 bring every video, Thank you!
Wow, you guys are amazingly similar...
Probably a regional thing, like Scots, Irish and Welsh settled in their area, and the slave ancestors were largely from Nigeria in that region of the US. Just my guess.
I feel like there is a brad and lex travel channel in our future. Brad meeting up with Fandabi Dozi would be amazing. A little high land adventure
I did a DNA test too and I was shocked by how UNDIVERSE my DNA is. Also, I thought my father was 100% Jewish. Turns out he was about 60% Jewish and 40% Italian! I had no idea I had any Italian. And just as you feel drawn to the places and cultures that are somewhere in your history, I feel the same way. At the end of the day, it was interesting and a bit surprising. But it really doesn't matter where any of our blood came from. We are all connected and we are all human. We all go through so many of the same experiences whether we are white or black or rich or poor or any other category. Thanks for sharing! Loved your results!
Proof that we are ALL family.
We Are One👍✌🤘🙏❤
Brad and Lex ROCK🤘❤
Did mine in 2018...you're right about updates.. Im a mixed breed, mutt as well 5% eastern Africa, 6% Native American(recently updated to Canadian and northern Native American), 30% Greek, 15% Spanish, 6% Irish, 10% German and 2% Asian, the rest unknown. I feel like I cannot check any box at all. The percentages and regions change with updates. Whatever..it can get confusing. I just say I look white with dark eyes, olive tan skin and say I'm from everwhere. I'M HUMAN. The hapalog stuff is fascinating!
Whoa your ancestors did not discriminate 😂
Genre fluid. That’s a pretty cool t shirt.
Lex my deepest sympathies for having welsh heritage if you have an unexplained fondness for sheep then you now know it comes from your welsh heritage. Brad, if you knew your clan name, not only could you where a Kilt but you would have a specific Tartan. Tartans are the colours and design that would distinguish each clan.
Brad and Lex are from St. Louis. If he can't figure out who his ancestors are he can always wear the Missouri Tartan kilt. It's quite beautiful.
@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 missouri has a tartan? That's nuts I didn't expect that. It's cool
@@thatsthat2612 Yeah I think it's beautiful too. Missouri and Illinois have so many Scots and part Scots that both states have a tartan. I'm a quarter per dna test and my mothers side has a Scot name. Dads side claims to be from Sweden and migrated to Denmark and after several generations migrated to Scotland and then kicked out by the crown and removed to Ulster in the Highland clearances. But my particular branch of moms side migrated to England a thousand years ago.
You guys are so refreshing to experience. Keep the faith.
Thank you ❤️❤️
greetings from scotland brad!! love your channel guys! We do have whisky here but u gotta be careful with that stuff lol. 15% is enough to wear a kilt BTW. Hell 1% is enough for a kilt.!!
Oh wow, I didn’t know y’all lived in Hollywood Fla! That’s where I grew up ! In the 70’s and 80’s !! We lived off stirling road! Near 441 I went to Hollywood hills high school!! And driftwood in middle school! Still have family there! Now I live in Alabama!
Northern Africans and people from the Middle East predominately came from the Caucasus Mountains, same as the Europeans. Thus...."Caucasians"
Native Americans came primarily from 2 migrations, one Asian and the other Euro-Asian.
Genealogy is fascinating and the more people that know about it would help bring people together. Well, that's the hope at least.
Not exactly. Caucasian as a term used to describe Europeans originated from the 18th century anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He was basing his work on the Noah flood myth. Europeans are descended from several migrations from the Middle East, Near East and the Eurasian Steppe. This is why Europeans and Middle Easterners share much genetic history. Most geneticists use the term West Eurasian to refer to people of the region.
Excuse but Native Americans were in the America's long before anyone why do you think we call our bears brother's. This ideal that Native Americans are descents of Africans or Asian are wrong no we didn't cross over the land bridge. And I don't like the ideal of African trying to claim Native heritage. For your agenda.
@@Kate-yb5ig The evidence is conclusive. Native Americans originated from East and North Ease Asia. Native Americans and Asians share common DNA that neither group shares with Europeans, South Asians, Australians or Africans. And, the deeper ancestors of everyone on the planet are from Africa. Take a class in human genetics and you will see that the scientists are right.
@@Kate-yb5ig So you're suggesting Native Americans evolved separately from the rest of humanity? No, we all go back to the same place eventually.
This was great content. I'm glad I found you two
Greetings from Scotland. We would love to see you in a Kilt, Brad! Just research which tartan is correct, choose the correct weight for the weather, and decide if you will "go commando" or not!!!!!!
Is it true what we don't wear beneath the kilt?
My Scottish ancestors came from a mountainous area where the bracken Fern grows.Hence the name Breckenridge.
And you're never too old to learn to play Bagpipes, My dad learned in his sixties. My surname is Scottish, but my ancestor who brought it to the U.S. came from Ireland in 1773. My mother's German ancestors came, in the same year, and her English ancestors, later in the 1800s. As with almost anyone with U.K. ancestry, about 15% Viking!
Nice chat! Nice relationship you have.
Lex, looking at the map, you’ll find Scotland at the top (north) joined to England below (south). Left of England (west) it’s joined to Wales and then keep going left (west) across the sea to Ireland. 🤗
I think culture describes more of who we are than ethnicity as long as your human. No War please!
Culture is 100% who we are, nothing to do with race. I’m white from Liverpool and my wife was black from Liverpool and we both had all the same memories and experiences of growing up in Liverpool. We were just the same, both scousers.
Ethnicity is about the culture you're from... yes, there's correlation between ancestors and ethnicity, but that's mostly because for the vast majority of humanity humans lived with their own.
definition of ethnic: adjective
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion.
Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries.
Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group.
@@Panteni87 you’re totally missing his/her point. Culture is a way better indicator shared experiences and positive relationships then ethnicity, that’s the point.
For example I’m a third gen Polish immigrant on my dads side but I don’t speak a word of polish, in fact most of the time I think it’s Russian when spoken in front of me. Short of maybe being stubborn and having SOME similar medical predispositions I share nothing with the Polish people. I share far more experiences and hold many more of the same morals and values as a Hispanic or black American.
There’s nothing wrong with learning about our ethnic heritage but putting to much emphasis on it creates unnecessary divisions in our shared culture, like the ones were experiencing currently.
@@razielquadmegistus9551 ethnicity=culture. You completely missed my point
@@Panteni87 if ethnicity equals culture then sex equals gender and I don’t wanna hear anything else.
I’ve already said explicitly I have zero familiarity with Slavic culture, which is my predominate ethnicity so how could that even be true for anyone except those growing up in their native ancestral land and grow up as a part of that specific culture. Those two things are obviously separate logically and are IRL for a massive portion of the planet, even for non ethnically ambiguous people.
Wales is magical, you should definitely go!
A few years back, there was a story about these identical twin models and their DNA test. IDENTICAL TWINS and their DNA was different. I don't remember the particulars.
Fela Kuti! (Nigerian.) Check out his music! He founded Afrobeat! Very interesting story.
I took mine last year and came back something like 42% Scottish, 27% Irish, 16% Northern England, Scandinavian, and some other European decent. This explains the sunburns…lol
For us Scots the kilt is perfect for summer, because it means we don't get flies buzzing around our face.
From what I understand, the results you have there are from "Haplogroups" which are basically used to trace migration. My haplogroup migration started from northern Africa. In percentages, I am British/Irish, German/French, Finnish, Italian, or in short "Northwestern European". My haplogroup's have been found in Denmark, Iceland, Britain, Germany, Finland etc. My maternal haplogroup is semi rare, the one from Denmark, Iceland etc. The Paternal is pretty common I guess, Ireland, Britain etc. Getting into genealogy is quite complex and confusing. But these test are just basic to my understanding. They have other tests to go deeper.
@Marcus And I'm confused all over again. Holy cheese dip. One of these days I'll figure it out.
Love you guys. You are so cool. Also love that you are so conscious of other people (Brad's apology about the phone). That is so good. It amazes me how Americans are so insulated from the rest of the world and don't know much about the rest of the world. Not judging, just an observation. Perhaps I am just an old fart and schools teach different thi9ngs today and a lot less Geography? Keep up the good work and these personal vlogs are great. They make you more than just a reaction team.
Brad can wear 15% kilt
So... like a mini kilt? 😳
If you find the family name of your Scottish heritage there will be a Tartan specifically for your clan (I have McPherson and Campbell as mine and they both have their unique tartan and family crest/motto)
Went to college with several Nigerian soccer players on scholarships...and...great parties with them.... taught me to chew chicken bones for the protein, we were all poor together and chicken was cheapest...we grilled out at our apt complex alot.. We had big potlucks...they taught me fantastic seasonings that a girl from the south did not know. I was on athletic scholarships too. Ended up engaged to their team-mate from Colombia, south America, didn't last, but all the incredible food and flavors did.Nigerians do wonderful flavorful stuff with potatoes, yams and veggies. But they favor beef. we could rarely afford..this was in 1979. My brother's priest is a super fella from Cameroon.
Nice memories. The best we all can hope for, cheers.
Rock that Kilt Brad !
Love this,I wish everyone in America especially would do this so everyone would realise how much we have in common regardless of skin color. I'am from Louisiana I have a Cajun last name & a Creole grandmother,My mom is Irish and Dutch. I guess that makes me Gumbo lol
Unless a black person is first or second generation in America they are almost definitely going to be mixed
Thats cool, I am a Heinz 57 in my dna too. My family thought we were Welsh but my dad did his DNA and found out he is half Welsh half Norse. My mom is Choctaw, Spanish and German. I guess that makes me a Hispanic Welsh Viking? I just identify as American :) Researching your family is always fun!
Please....find a Kilt shop and get a photo of Brad in a Kilt, sporran etc. LOL
Cameroon is right next to Nigeria and the Republic of the Congo is below Cameroon. Western Bantu people are in the same area Cameroon and Congo.
DNA tests are interesting. I did the 23andMe as well as the ancestry tests years back. I have different results from each that have been updated through the years as well. 23andMe said I was 2% West African on the original results, so I told all my coworkers in NYC that I am black LOL. I am fair skin, blue green eyes and European looking. The "one drop" rule from the early 1900's would have probably labeled me as black because of that small percentage. In the next update, that west African percentage was removed completely. After all the updates through the years, I am 100% European, mostly Norwegian and Swedish, with some English, Irish and German mixed in smallish percentages. 23andMe and Ancestry have different percentages, but the same areas. My ex-wife who grew up thinking she was all Italian turned out tracing back to Italy, Spain, and the middle East. I think those tests are cool, and provide some interesting thoughts, but when all is said and done, we are still the same people, and it doesn't matter where your ancestors were from. The only extended family I have outside the U.S. live in Norway. I have never met any of them, and have never been to Norway. My mom's parents came from Norway, and my dad's family has been here for several generations, and I was told by his family that there is French, English, Irish and Scottish way back in his family.
My mum's Norwegian and I'm 60% Norwegian, 8% Denmark and Sweden. Some Norse trace dna in the UK. Heaps of North American distant cousins
Opposite for me. My Spanish disappeared n 2% North African appeared. My dad was born in Sicily. Everybody stopped there. Greeks, Romans, Carthage, n probably Phoenicians too. My Irish n Germanic stayed pretty much the same.
I'm Swedish, family always lived in Sweden. Still I am 2 % west African and 2% north African.
I also have a strong Belgian heritage from immigrants in the 17th century.
If you search long enough everyone is more or less mixed.
The best music comes from Mali. I love the kora music and desert blues that comes from around that region. I'm a Finn and in my culture we appreciate melancholic melodies and I've found something that I can relate to in malian music. They malian music has those melancholic melodies but combined with hypnotic rhythms. It's absolutely beautiful music. West Africa was the true birth place of blues and jazz and therefore rock music too. Later the African musicians took the electric guitars from the American blues and fused them together with their own music cultures and created desert blues, which is like the ultimate form of blues.
Y'all done found out you "Blaucasian!!!" LOL We all "mixed."
I've never heard that one before 😂💀
Camaroon is the next country to the east of Nigeria. Congo is Huge....and slightly farther east from Camaroon. Bantu is a language with hundreds of dialects and it is spoken by most people in Africa south of the equator. Bantu is a European term.
So Brad's DNA has 26% European ancestry and Lex has 28% European ancestry. And it will be like this for most people no matter the skin color because we all have a mix of different DNA all around the world. Most of us likely aren't as different from one another than outward appearances might suggest.
Not really. The majority of Black Americans have about 30% European DNA but the opposite is not true. Very few White folk have much African DNA.
It's more common in USA because of all the plantation race mixing that went on under slavery.
Recent African immigrants don't have that.
Put it this way, black Americans that have been here since slavery have more European dna than blacks who have been in Europe for centuries.
@@adamprice3466 Blacks have not been in Europe for centuries (yes there were a couple but almost none). Very few people from Africa were living in Europe until quite recently, post WWII and actually only after the Europeans abandoned their empires in the 60s. This is when the great migration began.
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That's what I mean, of the tiny amount of blacks that have been in Europe for centuries. They still have less European dna than Ameriblacks.
@@thomassenbart Not 30%. 10 to 30%.
think you are American to me, just good people love both of you
Northern African ancestry is complex. It's an overstatement, as you might expect, to consider it "white," whatever the heck that means. But Berbers split genetically from Lapplanders (far north Finland) around 7000 BC. And Berbers are a characteristic group in North Africa. Some are blonde and blue eyed, which is what you might be thinking of.
Another historic group in North Africa is an ancient people we call Capsian. These are believed to be the same people that in ancient Lebanon and Israel we call Natufian. These are a brown skinned type Mediterranean people who were probably the main ancestral base for ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and as far west as Morocco. They were collecting grain for storage as far back as 16,000 BC, or possibly earlier, which was back in the previous glaciation or "ice age."
And whiteness only goes back 8000 years. Melanin percentages were reduced by the addition of two genes when certain darker peoples moved up to Scandinavia.
@@dan.j.boydzkreationz Well, that's one of those guesstimates. We don't really know for sure. A lot of concepts related to ancient biology are still being worked out.
FWIW, my understanding is that blondness came into Scandinavia from Siberia. At least that's the present thinking on it. Not sure if that's closely linked to pale skin or non-brown eyes as well. Could be.
My impression is that people moved from Siberia into the region of Finland and Estonia and while some stayed north, others ventured south along river routes to the Black Sea, eventually reaching northern Africa, becoming the Berbers.
Lakota saying "we are all related." So very true❤
Not to sound cliche but we are a lot more connected then we all act like. I'm adopted and never have had my DNA test but I will one day. I'm pretty sure it's going to be all over the place even though I always Mark the generic white when it comes to ethnicity
Great show. Thanks for being so transparent.
This was really interesting. My results were an even mix of central western Africa, and north western Europe. I know there are some people who won't have this test done because they are terrified of any degree of African ancestry showing up 😱.
I feel like if those people would do it and accept it this world would be totally different.
No Scotland England and Wales are part of the same large island. On the other side across the water is Ireland. Genealogy is fun!
Came for the avocado hat, stayed for the European results. Wasn't surprised at all.
I really enjoyed your chatting on this. I think it kind of shows how arbitrary our little pigeon holes are about "what" people are. We are all people.
After watching this, I am 100% confused.. lol
Cameroon borders Nigeria to the East and South. Bantu is a general term for over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa.
Scottish & Welsh? It's like we're practically related. See you guys at the reunions.
Wales is attached to England, on the side closest to Ireland.
Lex looks very Creole
I don't give a ratzazz about yer DNA. What I care about and admire is you guys always make me smile. You exude Love and Hope... wonderful couple. I'd be proud to have you guys as friends.
In the next stream I expected to see Brad wearing a Kilt while munching into a Hagis..
Skip the Haggis!
I’ve not done a dna test but my family is from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England.