how do you feel like looking whiter or browner than your dna test results?

[Luso]

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You look Italian to me.

[Voskos]

Why? Where do they think you are from?

Nowhere specific. I just don't look typical for any region and I can somehow blend in with the locals in several places. What about you? Do you look more Australian or Greek?

[alnortedelsur]

I guess that I feel kind of lighter than what my results suggest. My Euro ancestry is mostly Spanish and some distant Italian, and on top of it I have some minor Amerindian and SSA mixtures and plot on Eurogenes K15 PCA south of Spain and close to Tuscany, and yet I'm lighter than the southern Euro stereotype that many people have in mind, and my skin/hair/eye pigmentation are also well into the white/Murican norm. Several users in this forum have told me that I pass in many western European countries, or that I look pseudo eastern European (Russian, Ukrainian or Baltic), and many people IRL have mistaken me as being from those places.

I don't think I'm much lighter than most Spaniards, but than the stereotype about them, yes.

[Daos777]

I feel more racially superior than what my autosomal dna tests show.


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[paradox]

Nowhere specific. I just don't look typical for any region and I can somehow blend in with the locals in several places. What about you? Do you look more Australian or Greek?

I dont look Greek and every Greek I've encountered has told me this. Funnily enough a Greek woman did say to me if I hadn't spoken to her in Greek she would have thought I was Australian, but that's just ridiculous. Another told me I look French and I would agree with her. I do ask them what ethnicity I look like but most prefer not to answer. The old people especially think I may get offended but I wouldn't.

[Universe]

now i am starting to develop an off-mena dilemma considering my dna results , i don't look like my results at all .

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I have just looked at your thread about your gedmatch results. Your result look like a Southern Italian person's result. I have seen photos of you too, you look like a southern european person imo. I have seen southern italians more exotic than you (posted here, on the forum)

anyway, *majority* south italian but my gedmatch admixture results are atypical

If your parents didn't tell you anything about having foreign ancestry, your ancerstors are Apulians/southern italians.

[Universe]

Don't obsess about it too much... that is a bad rabbit hole to go down. I used to feel "inferior" for being darker and more mena looking with dark hair and eyes despite my gedmatch results and g25, in reality it doesn't matter.

You are Southern Italian? I am Southern Portuguese and I think we have a similar phenotype. As a matter of fact, you and I probably look similar to how the ancient Romans looked like. Being med gives you a variety of phenotypical variation and we see that in all southern euro countries today. You are caucasian... just not stereotypically "white" like most today think is defined by light features.

You are a handsome guy, whether you're exotic or not. I'm sure many females like your look.

[Luso]

You are a handsome guy, whether you're exotic or not. I'm sure many females like your look.

Thanks, I think all caucasian phenotypes are nice in their own ways

[Leto]

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You are not browner than your results. You score 50% East_Med+West_Asian+Red_Sea, so I think you are seriously exaggerating the issue.