Originally Posted by
eastern
True. I see this a lot everywhere. We can not deny the Finno-Ugric origin of the Hungarian language and we know there's a relation between Hungarians and Ural-like people. But it's honestly blown out of proportion to the point where people say they are in the same cultural group as North/Central Asians? Hungarians are European, and their DNA says the same. Yes, a bit of East Eurasian is present but definitely not 10%. Some Turkish Turks don't even get that percentage (which I can start an entire similar prompt about too, but that's for another day). 10% East Eurasian is something you'd see in for example Iranics (could be way lower, could be way higher) or Caucasus peoples who don't have a significant Altai/Ural origin. Yes, some Hungarians CAN score that kind of percentage but it's honestly too rare. Same goes for Finnish people. White Europeans, both culturally and genetically. We also can't forget that even pure Ural/Altai people aren't even THAT East Eurasian. Seen a few score a good 40% West Eurasian. So a Hungarian scoring 10% EE is quite unrealistic.
But again, that doesn't mean they're fully 100% European. They have some very slight remnants of their very very ancient Uralic ancestors. Some Hungarians get the Central Asian R-Z2125 haplogroup (I apparently have that one too, and im West and Central Asian mixed). But it's not significant at all IMHO. If there's any legitimate sources that say otherwise I'd love to see them (and I've read the Z-2125 Arpad dynasty study before, no need to send me that one again)
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