Half-Sicilian, Half-Pontic Greek ADNA Results

[Sp_loa]

I think it goes this way, please correct me if I'm wrong

MOST MENA

SEPHARDIC JEWS
ASHKENAZIC JEWS
PONTIC GREEKS
GREEK ISLANDERS
PENINSULAR SOUTH ITALIANS
SICILIANS
BALKAN GREEKS

MOST EUROPEAN

Most of my DNA tests suggest that I'm 60-65% Southern European(Italian&Greek-Bulgarian&Spanish), 20-24%Middle eastern&Anatolian and 16% Berber. So I guess I'm not that MENA as most jews.

But I guess my family is an exception because we are really very mixed. Most jews have more MENA than I am, and Less berber.

[Percivalle]

maybe the calculator is shit?

Most likely.

[Sikeliot]

I think it goes this way, please correct me if I'm wrong

MOST MENA

SEPHARDIC JEWS
ASHKENAZIC JEWS
PONTIC GREEKS
GREEK ISLANDERS
PENINSULAR SOUTH ITALIANS
SICILIANS
BALKAN GREEKS

MOST EUROPEAN

No, you're actually wrong because different parts of Sicily, Aegean islands, and southern Italy widely differ.

It's something like this:

Cyprus/Pontic
Sephardim
Calabria
Dodecanese
Sicily except southeast, and Crete
Ashkenazim
Campania
Cyclades and North Aegean
Apulia and southeast Sicily
Ionian islands
Abruzzo and Molise
Mainland Greeks

It jumps around a lot, it is not simple like you made it.

[Leto]

He is not Greek, he is Anatolian 'Greek'. Anatolian 'Greeks' are Greek-speaking West Asians. They were linguistically Greekified during the Hellenistic and Byzantine eras. They were later sent to Greece via a population exchange with Turkey in 1923. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popula...ece_and_Turkey

I'm pretty sure all of those exchanged people assimilated completely within a few generations.

[Tauromachos]

What surprises me is, he looks neither Pontic nor Sicilian.

What does he look?

[Tauromachos]

He looks like some dark Pontians that pop up once in a while, I don't know if he is common in Sicily.

Pop up?
From where? How often?
After each rain?

[Lavrentis]

I'm pretty sure all of those exchanged people assimilated completely within a few generations.

"Assimilate completely" means that your culture is the same with the culture of the people that supposedly assimilated you, and that's not the case. These people have different customs from native Greeks.

[Leto]

"Assimilate completely" means that your culture is the same with the culture of the people that supposedly assimilated you, and that's not the case. These people have different customs than native Greeks.

To this day? It's been almost a century since then (3-4 generations). After all, they spoke Greek and were Orthodox Christians.

[Lavrentis]

To this day? It's been almost a century since then (3-4 generations). After all, they spoke Greek and were Orthodox Christians.

They brought other customs here, other types of music and other types of food too. These components are a part of them.

And speaking Greek and being Orthodox doesn't make you Greek. South Italians are more Greek than them.

[Leto]

They brought other customs here, other types of music and other types of food too. These components are a part of them.

And speaking Greek and being Orthodox doesn't make you Greek. South Italians are more Greek than them.

I think in the past Greeks didn't think like you. Culture and language mattered the most. You see, the Pontians were accepted as full-fledged Greeks, not just as some foreign refugees.