rothaer
08-31-2022, 01:24 PM
Germans do today face a kind of another „Versailles“ when it comes to commercial companies interpretating their DNA.
Difficulties in telling apart various Northwest European ancestries are today mostly solved at expense of a German assignment.
An English or a Scandinavian getting 50% false German will immediately complain about that error. So the companies try to solve their problems in a way that pleases the majority of their customers. And the majority are not Germans, but Scandinavians and English.
Meanwhile Germans are used to their permanently wrong assignments and will have to interpret them as „Scandinavian-like“ etc. But Americans with German ancestry that are not deeply into their own ancestry research will be notably misled. This thing is so huge that it will eventually even have political implications, caused by a wrong identification of a lot of Americans.
Eastern Germans are split up in Slavic / Eastern Euopean parts, suggesting they are no „real“ Germans as they are not included in references for this. Southern Germans are told to have Celtic, Roman and Balkan proportions and hence also being questionable as for being „real“ Germans.
But the deconstruction and denial of Germans is not even refrained from in regard to Northwest Germans that are close to Germanics per 50 AD. Here I post the current AncestryDNA result of my wife, that is 4/4 indigenous to Western Mecklenburg.
https://i.imgur.com/lUWbAvO.jpg
And here is the reult of another German, hailing 4/4 from Lower Saxony:
https://i.imgur.com/avFLeyY.jpg
Difficulties in telling apart various Northwest European ancestries are today mostly solved at expense of a German assignment.
An English or a Scandinavian getting 50% false German will immediately complain about that error. So the companies try to solve their problems in a way that pleases the majority of their customers. And the majority are not Germans, but Scandinavians and English.
Meanwhile Germans are used to their permanently wrong assignments and will have to interpret them as „Scandinavian-like“ etc. But Americans with German ancestry that are not deeply into their own ancestry research will be notably misled. This thing is so huge that it will eventually even have political implications, caused by a wrong identification of a lot of Americans.
Eastern Germans are split up in Slavic / Eastern Euopean parts, suggesting they are no „real“ Germans as they are not included in references for this. Southern Germans are told to have Celtic, Roman and Balkan proportions and hence also being questionable as for being „real“ Germans.
But the deconstruction and denial of Germans is not even refrained from in regard to Northwest Germans that are close to Germanics per 50 AD. Here I post the current AncestryDNA result of my wife, that is 4/4 indigenous to Western Mecklenburg.
https://i.imgur.com/lUWbAvO.jpg
And here is the reult of another German, hailing 4/4 from Lower Saxony:
https://i.imgur.com/avFLeyY.jpg