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Hey Reina. So during a bit of Elden Ring Lore research, I started doing a little bit of study on Sengoku Jidai. After Hideyoshi shut down all the ports and tried to isolate Japan, apparently the Dutch from 1640-1854 were the only people trading with them from a post on Dejima. Although the Netherlands is on the other side of Denmark that at least gets you to Europe, and I've seen at least one map that has the Dutch trading in 1665 with routes all the way from Dejima to the Baltic Sea near Finland and even on the other side of Scandinavia, in a Russian city called Arkhangelsk. Shot in the dark, but I'd bet that's where the link would be. It's a big world and a long history tho, so who knows. Hope you're feeling better!
Hi Scully San, I am half Japanese and both my parents did the My Heritage test as well, and you should know that My Heritage does not have a good coverage of Asia. Nothing bad said about My Heritage, but to make these estimates, they need alot of DNA from each region, to estimate the mixture of "race" in your specific region ex. Japan. It is a myth that each country is made out of pure race, obviously we are mixed, borders are man made not natural. This whole DNA thing was started by the Mormons in the US because they believe that it's possible to find your ancestors and baptise them into their religion, this is why the My Heritage "database" already has a lot of Western, especially European DNA. My Mothers results looked something like yours, although instead of Inuit, it she had Inca (South American) DNA. She also had 2-3% Finish in her, and I believe that the indigenous people of that area called the Sami is the reason. They are an indigenous group of north of the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland. They are a travelling people and they do look like they have mongolian heritage. You can find language videos on youtube, where you can listen to Sami and Ainu language, and there is a lot of similarities. When assessing your DNA it's easy to say, oh well it must have been because this Hablo group moved from this area to this area 10.000 years ago, but remember, these DNA kits can only measure back around 500 years, meaning only six-seven incestores back (if they live to around 70 years old). So someone in your recent ancestry was full Inuit, and someone even further back was full Finish. Now having said all this, the test kit also includes that the only assessments that is 100% correct is the first line, meaning that you are 98% Japanese. The rest is an estimate, and if you do another test from another test kit that has a different database, your answer will be different. As a Japanese person I would advise you to get an asian based or Japanese based DNA test kit. I know that they exist because I wanted to find one for my mother. I hope this helped just a little...thank you for this video! Kind regards Ken
There are Japanese DNA companies which are apparently more detailed when it comes to Asian ancestry. Bigger sample sets. You may be able to upload results for analysis.
Can we go under the assumption that you haven't undergone any cosmetic procedures? A lot of Asians who have had surgeries often get assumed to be part white.
Finns Russian -- go look up "Ingrian Finns". Possibly in your family's past someone was remembered as coming from Russia but was ethnically Finnish. Finland also borders Russia. Finland also dealt with forced deportations into Russia in the past. Ppl also constantly confuse Nationality and Ethnicity.
Yeah! Finland was ruled by Russia for a long time, and Russia has a long history of sending prisoners to Siberia-which would very likely be where your Inuit ancestry comes from!
And people like you confuse ethnicity with ancestry. Your ethnicity is your cultural identity, not your ancestral lineage. Just because she's a little bit Inuit by ancestry doesn't mean she's also ethnically a little bit Inuit.
I really understood your mother when she talked about wondering if she was adopted. I felt the same way for much of my life, finally met a cousin that looked enough like me that I felt that I belonged in my family.
No, because many Koreans and Chinese people have them too. Besides, all these simple DNA tests say that Ainu people are about 80％ Japanese and 15% South Asian and that the rest of their genome comes from random places including Europe and North Africa. It also says Inuit but not all the time, and even when it shows up it's always a tiny bit. On the other hand, South Asia shows up all the time. If she had Ainu ancestry, she would be more South Asian than Inuit. But she isn't, meaning that her Inuit ancestry doesn't come from Ainu people.
@@mfreak1126 The Ainu are native to northern Honshu, Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and Sakalin. Are you thinking of the indigenous people from the Ryukyu Islands that are located to the south of mainland Japan?
Note that these DNA tests primarily expose DNA add mixture. In this case, the Inuit and Finnish DNA is just shared DNA with these groups. It doesn't mean there is a specific ancestor that came from these people groups. For example, as humans we all share common DNA by definition , but we cannot necessarily show ancestor relationships with this knowledge. In this case, the Finnish people also share Sammi (a nomadic group of reindeer herders that spans all of northern Europe and Asia). This doesn't mean you have Finnish DNA, it just means Reina shares DNA with Finnish people who shared DNA with Sammi and Inuit. Also, the DNA testing database probably doesn't have enough data to discretely resolve the difference between Finnish, Sammi and Inuit DNA, and so reports Finnish and Inuit as broad categories. The subtleties of DNA haplogroups is complicated especially when many haplogroups and markers are shared across many different peoples, and then these peoples are separated by relatively recent national borders.
It makes sense. Very common to get small percentages of japanese/korean for finnish people in dna tests too. Long time ago the origin is same in siberia. Finnic people moved from the east to the west and west and northern russia used to be region of finnic tribes which have many lost in history or are in small numbers nowadays. Finns still carry rare haplogroup which makes them ancestry very unique. There is a saying that finns are the most and least europeans of european ethnic groups. 15:44 this man has features that are quite common in Finland. Super interesting guys. But your husband definitely has no idea about it because of his weird theory of finns going with scandinavians in viking boats 😂 its just small sea and bit if land between finland and japan. During long periods of time its not weird that there is this root.
I'm brand new to your channel. The genetics brought me in (I'm a biochemist), but the adorable conversation with your Mom kept me glued to the screen. I absolutely love how open you and your mother are with each other.
Inuit Finnish makes allot of sense based on the fishing routes in the Arctic back in the day. Inuit came over from Mongolia Siberia area 10,000 years ago.
I was thinking this too. The indigenous inhabitants of the Nordic region were the Saami whom have the closest genome to Siberians out of all Europeans. Over time, this group of Arctic people's genome has been diluted with European mixing.
I'm sure your right about the Mongolia thing being only 800 years , it was a Inuk that was teaching me about the Mongolia Inuit link and how similar there cultures were, but I'm not sure the 10,000 year thing is a myth because "13,000-year old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast" in 2018. And there was 3 waves of peoples to the America's the Inuit were the latest one 800 years, as you pointed out which is why they look so similar to Mongolians compared to there Native American counterpart . @@David-qk7um
Well, that’s kind of the “historical bias” recorded history has to get, well “recorded”. The Mongols were making records while the Inuit were trading, traveling and having children. 🤷 Not stuff that made the history books but did make our ancestors!!
Watching the video, I could tell being 100% Japanese really meant a lot to you. I found your recent short post on TH-cam. You are correct, it does not matter and I’m glad it does not bother you as such. Look at it this way. Many of us on TH-cam started to learn Japanese because of your videos. Sugoi! I am glad your facial injury is healing. :)
Your mom is adorably funny! I was smiling and giggling while reading the subtitles of what she was saying. Both of you are cute when you talk to each other. ❤
It must’ve been a great feeling when you’re mix. I’m glad your mom is happy with your heritage. It’s scary but I’m always wanting to try it out myself. I am Cambodian mix with euro. But then again, people assume I’m Hawaiian or Samoan for a Cambodian. Or Filipino. I need to start trying this now! ❤
Many Asians in Russia have same dna haplogroup as Finns but they look like East Asians or Central Asians not like Finnish people. Maybe that’s where it’s coming from. Really near to Japan that Asian part of Russia
Finns are predominantly Caucasian but probably like 8% of the population has some Asiatic admixture because of the Sami. Most of our ancestors didnt cross Racial lines, was only a small percentage
My family, on both sides, have been in the U.S. since the 1600's. Based on my last name and my Mom's maiden name, one would assume that we were of English heritage, or the U.K. I took the Ancestry DNA test at least 10 years ago and was really surprised to find that We were English, Scottish, Irish, Viking (Sweden & Denmark) and 1% Iberian peninsular. I figured that in 400 years over here, there would have been something weird mixed in. But, apparently they stuff with their own kind. About you and your channel - I was drawn to this video when it popped up as I spent 3 years in Japan in the late 1960's while in the U.S. Army. I loved my time there and love the people! You have a very infectious personality! Thanks for posting.
How have I followed you since source fed days and I just now realized that Scully isn’t your actual last name!?! Duh!!! You’re a huge xfiles fan of course that’s your stage name.
OMGosh!! Your mother is so adorable!! You are lucky to take after her, she isn't just beautiful, she seems like such a lovely woman as well...and a very caring mother who truly enjoys and loves her daughter. Most all mothers love their children, but they don't all really and truly ENJOY them.
I'm not surprised by the Finnish bit. You somehow look a bit like my aunt. 😂 I'm Finnish, btw. DNA tests often show a tiny bit East Asian or Arctic or even Amerindian for Finns. It's complicated. No, I'm no viking. No, Finland technically isn't in Scandinavia. Look up Uralic peoples. Finns were called China Swedes in the US back in the day. Yeah, an old German map even shows Finland as yellow for mongoloid. Anyways, AMA.
Yeah they even had laws banning the China Finns because they decided they weren't white they were closer to Siberians. They were only very partly right because the DNA does cross over a lot. Considering how much the Inuit move around the world over the past few thousand years, it makes since that the rest of the northern peoples would do a lot of the same, being nomadic.
Finns don't look like japanese a bit. or any other Asian countries . I used to live in other countries and everybody asked if I came from Sweden , Norway etc The same with other Finns as well. . Watch the video " Coding Ambassador &the Finnish Double flip -Education in Finland."
@@cinderellaandstepsisters No-one said that Finns in general look Japanese. Too tired to write a long reply on my phone but read the Eurogenes blog if you're interested in population genomics.
@@SuviTuuliAllan don't believe everything you hear or read. Trust what you see. Use your brains. Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. The other European countries have got asian dna even more than Finland by the way.
Your mom is so adorable! Those old photos are precious. Fun video. I dunno if any of these DNA tests ever come back as 100% anything. I'd think not. Perhaps folks whose families have stayed in a narrow area of Africa for an extremely long time or something. Otherwise we're all some wonderful scramble of genetics. And phenotype is gonna phenotype. Genes can do plenty of unusual things regardless of expectation of how ethnicity presents physically or previous results through family lines. I never understand people who think they can always identify someone's ethnicity just by looking at them... or question it. Very odd to me.
There not, there was a news piece done with a set of identical twins (one of them being a journalist), who tried three seperate companies including the company that reinascully uses and they both got completely different results which is impossible if they are identical twins
Im 100% Caucasian. Most people are 100% 1 Race, usually only mixture of ethnicity within the same Race..the only 2 groups heavily mixed are modern Middle Easterners and modern Latin Americans.
This segment was very interesting to watch. Especially when you said you had some Korean ancestry and a certain percentage of Finnish. I remembered a conversation I had with a friend of mine at the University of Hawaii back in the 70s. He had an interest in linguistics, as a hobby, so he was telling me about how there had been discovered some elements of a language that was in common with some people in Northern Korea as well as people in Finland, and apparently it was surmised that there had been some tribe in the Urals (in Russia) thousands of years ago that had split up with some of them going east and some of them going west. I wonder if others from E ast Asia have found Finnish in the DNA report 🤔 Thank you for sharing your story!
I never realized you were so into languages. I wish you shared a bit of your learning techniques and how many languages you know. That would be so interesting to hear about ☺️. Also if possible can you give us an update in your mom’s results? Thank you
Reina, it doesn’t matter what the results are (there’s definitely room for error in the ‘results’). You’re an amazing person, have an amazing family. Your TH-cam channel is one of my favorite channels and always look forward to your videos. All the best to you and your family in the future.
The Sami people, which is the Scandinavian equivalent of the inuit, has lived across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia for thousands of years, so the likelihood that some of them came across the inuits isn't far fetched at all. So most likely that's the explanation for the Finnish in your DNA test.
Sami ppl are not Finns. Sami ppl are a different race with a completely different culture. Finland has not even got very many of them. Mostly Norway has them Sweden is the second Finland is the third and Russia has the smallest number of Sami ppl. Very often Sami ppl are represented as finns, but they are different ppl.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters You are partially wrong on all counts there. While most Sami are not Finns, most Finns are part Sami. Finland used to have many now blended tribes with their own Finno-Ugric dialects of 'Suomi/Sami' language with shared cultural roots in Asia.
@@Nuihc88 You are wrong . Sami ppl themselves say they have a completely different culture to all Nordic nations. They are very strict with it. For instance they don't want any finn or any other Nordic ppl to wear their national costume. Do you think other Nordic countries have not got dna of other nations? Little you know. All the ppl everywhere are mixed. By the way watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. Percentually Finland has the most ppl with blue eyes and blond hair and they are tall.
Every family has a "wandering" ancestor. Good you embraced the distant line. There may be an update from Heritage as more results with similar lines are found. I enjoy seeing you with your husband. He seems good for you. Take care 🙂
Very interesting! For the finnish part of your result, I wonder if it might be because of a Sami connection? They are a people that live in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and would have been nomadic or semi-nomadic following their reindeer herds during the migrations. For them to have connection with the inuit people would not be strange at all, to my mind. It's certainly a fascinating thought to consider how much people of the past traveled, and how connected we all are! I still dream of visiting Japan one day, it's been a goal since I was really young. Greetings from Sweden! ❤
Finns and Sami ppl are different ppl. Sami ppl have a culture of their own. Norway has most Sami ppl. Sweden is the second, Finland the third and Russia has the smallest number of them.
Great video. I think this really goes to show that physical features don't always reflect our ethnicity. My mother has been asked many times throughout her life if she has Japanese ancestry because of her facial features. She took her dna test and her ethnicity was completely Scottish, English and Irish. Many English emigrated to Ireland and vice versa over the years so that English % in your partner's result makes perfect sense (even if many Americans with Irish ancestry would rather it wasn't there). The Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh have been mixing for so long it is difficult to tell them apart.
You guys have such cute chemistry on Camara. Would love to see more vids like this . Great to know what you are. My parents are both 100% Puerto Rican. But knowing the history of the place and how many different countries came through there. I know I'm a mutt just not sure what the numbers are.
most people in the world are mutts unless they have stuck to their own ethnic group for generations. (Jews, Amish, Mennonite, and least but not last German Russians to 100% Germanic Emprie)
I just randomly came across your video, but it’s super interesting. You do look a tiny bit European. My sister did 1 and our family’s from the Philippines. We’re actually east and central Asian, and 1/4 Polynesian. We have Chinese ancestors, but many people came into the region from Indonesia, Malaysia and southeast China.
There’s a few finno-ugric type ethnicities in Russia. A lot of Russians from the Siberian region often get a small “Finnish” percentage in these dna tests. Some linguists have speculated that the Japanese language is related to the Finnish-ugric languages.
@@tovarishchfeixiao my friend’s 100% japanese mum also got some “Siberian” percentage in her 23andMe results. My understanding is there is some evidence that a portion of the makeup of the Japanese ethnicity comes from ancient north East Asian Siberia/Baikal populations that are probably related to Yakut, Buryat, and Evenk peoples today. Another significant part probably coming from Southeast Asia.
@@antonc81 Logically, the Japanese people had to go there from somewhere. Considering that it is an island and you hardly will find any island filled with humans that were not "conquered" by the first people stepping onto it.
@@tovarishchfeixiao for sure. The geographic location and ice age geography of the region makes Siberia and China the two most logical sources of immigration into the Japanese archipelago. Genetic evidence confirms this.. which is why you so often see “Siberian” and “Finnish” admixtures from services like 23andMe for their Japanese clients. I’m half ethnic Russian and I get a small “north Asian” component in genetic tests.
Finnish people are related to Siberian people. Ainu of northern Japan and Inuit are related. It totally makes sense, especially based on those small percentages.
My mom is from Sakhalin Island before WWII. It is now Russia. I was born in Sapporo. My DNA test showed Japan and Ryukyu Islands. You never know how it’s going to go with DNA.
Okinawa people are related to Ainu. I guess the Ainu were all over Japan originally and when people from Korea and China entered Japan Ainu population ended up only on the extremities.
@@zagrizena Google it Korean language is not related to Finnish at all. Finnish and Estonian languages are related.Nobody said that Norwegian , danish etc. are related. The loan words occur in every language. If you have loan words it doesn't mean the language is related. What do you learn at school?
@@cinderellaandstepsisters you're such a troll 🤣 A lot of people said Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German are related. Linguists, not commenters. And of course there are some loanwords between even unrelated neighbouring languages, but claiming one language has mostly the same words as some other language, implies those are related somehow. Hence my question. As for the supposed Finnish-Korean loanwords that is a bit of a stretch. Either they are false cognates with separate etymology or those are loanwords from some other language related to Finnish (maybe some Mongolian or Russian ugro-finnic steppe language, if they are spoken that far East).
@@zagrizena For heaven's sake. Finnish Has A LOT OF LOAN WORDS FROM SWEDISH. Finland was directly a part of Sweden for over 600 years so it should not be so weird. I am a Finn and I know the history of my country. Don't even try to know more about Finland than Finnish ppl. Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Educate yourself. You are a troll!
I just found your channel today. What an interesting video to start off with! Finnish people weren't always restricted to the area of where Finland is today. They were part of a much larger group of people comprised of clusters of family groups in Scandinavia, upper Russia, and further south approximately where Hungary is today, along with some islands in the Baltic inlet. This historical major tribe of Native Scandinavian people are referred to as Sámi. I am proud to know that my oldest ancestry is Native Scandinavian Sámi as well as Native American, Lenni Lenape Tukwsit (wolf clan) and Scottish Highlander Suðrland (named by my Norse ancestors, today is spelled Sutherland). Ancestry & cultural backgrounds are fascinating!!! ❤ So glad you both decided to find out your ancestral history so one day your child will know for sure the ancestors standing behind her. 😇 Edited to add... your mom is so sweet & funny! I love the relationship between you two! Her photo with the flower crown & dress is so pretty!!!
Turkey was a big center of trade and they often went to Italy and the European continent. Very classic story of intermingling going to England and Ireland and likely a little Scottish too.
Yes, Inuit and Ainu are both more closely related to Tungusic Siberians, and many of those tribes are nomadic, so them having possible relations with Finn/Russian, or with Japan/Korean/Mongol/Jurchen(Manchu) is quite high as there's been many many centuries if not millenia of contact/trade in those northern regions.
That’s where both „Finnish“ and „Inuit“ might be coming from. Indigenous people in Asian part of Russia are few but diverse. Some are Turkic, some are Mongolian, some are Finno-Ugric and some are directly related to Inuit and other Natives of North America (maybe even South)
Hi, I'm Sri Lankan living in Australia. Last year I got my DNA tested through Ancestry and mine came out as 100% Southern Indian even though I don't know anything about when my ancestors moved to Sri Lanka from India or I don't have any Indian relatives. :)
I got a little Finnish, too...I am very Asian. I tested with Ancestry, 23andme, and FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage. Only MyHeritage has a little Finnish. The others are 100% Asian. I don't believe the "little Finnish" bit.
I think Sami Finns should be listed as European as they are in Europe. Other genetic testing companies don’t put them in the Asian category. But it is good to know. I thought maybe their test sample were East Asians that have lived in Finland for 5-6 generations and had a white great great grandpa.
A friend of mine did one of those ancestry things on herself and her dad. She wanted her mom's DNA too, but her mom refused, and indeed seemed to be alarmed that she was doing it for herself and her dad. She learned why her mom was alarmed when she got the results. She called her mom and said they needed to talk, and talk outside the hearing ranger of her father. When she asked why she was not related to her dad, her mother started to cry. What she learned was horrifying. Her mom had been raped but had never said anything about it to anyone because she was so ashamed. There is a song with a line, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." That's exactly how my friend felt. She told no one about this until both of her parents had passed away.
I have been told that when doing these DNA tests that any percentage under 2% is not statistically significant. And that it becomes very hard to determine with any accuracy what that result means. So, I would take the "Finish" thing with a grain of salt. ;)
Of course there's also the unique results that can vary between testing sites. MyHeritage would like people to think I'm 12% Italian. I'd say I average 2-3% on other sites. FamilyTree DNA would say 7% Magyar. Non-existant elsewhere. Most of the sites would say I'm 4% Indigenous North American, but MyHeritage doesn't have enough samples from that according to the part of the site I was on, so I get Mesoamerican & Andean in my results instead. Also the only place that gives me any Inuit.
Please be aware that DNA ancestry results are not very accurate. Identical twins have taken these tests and gotten different results which is impossible if the test was very accurate. The results are a best guess by looking at where most of your gene expressions most commonly appear geographically. The smaller the percentage, the less accurate the measurement is.
That is what I have been telling people for years. They do get a little better as more people get tested, but they are not that good. How can you differentiate between an Irish Gael, and a Scottish Gael that's ancestors migrator from Ireland hundreds of years ago? What about Anglos and Saxons that migrated from Germany to Briton, etc., and so many others that migrated and intermixed with others.
Actually it is totally normal to for siblings to get different results due to genetic recombination. So you can get variations actually. You don’t always get equal amounts of the same dna. You only inherit 50 percent of your parents and your sibling can inherit different part is your parents 100% available dna.
@@rhade3845 by large amounts? twins do get some variations not by large amounts on some of the better tests that I've seen. Of course they are estimates and when some regions are close by and historically mixed it can be harder to determine, like Irish vs Scottish, etc. My 23 and me and my Ancestry test are pretty close to each other and were both taken separate, no raw data uploads from one to the other.
@@28gire-jp1tw i find that hard to believe. since the dawn of modern humans, that person's entire ancestry from their moms side and dads side never once dipped their toes into other cultures/races? I know people who have taken tests and gotten as high as 97-98% something, but never a full 100%
I got 100% Scandinavian on the same test. But when lookin at the map online, it was also northern Germany (but that was danish at a time) and if going back to 1600s (I think it was a slider), also some british, so not sure. But it said 100% scandinavian.
18:55 Yes, you can be 100% of one nationality in the US. As my surname suggests, I am 50% Finnish. Both sets of my dad's grandparents immigrated to Northeastern Minnesota from Finland in the early 1900s. I am a 3rd generation Finnish American on my dad's side. I do have cousins who are 100% Finnish - some even had DNA results proving it. My parents met in College in Wisconsin & my Mom's dad was 100% German, so I am 25% German - his grandparents immigrated to southern Minnesota in the 1800s. My grandma's branch is more complicated & some have been in North America since the Mayflower. Mom used to say she was a "Duke's Mixture" of German, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, & Danish. I did the Ancestry DNA test because I have been working on my tree on their website for a few decades & used their software before the website. Ancestry updates it's findings as they get more DNA to match, so it has changed a little bit in the last 3 years. I did get a few small percentages of unexpected countries in the updates, but people didn't always stay where they were born, so it's not a bad thing - Vikings, Romans, British, Spanish, French, etc were exploring the world around them & conquering as they went for centuries.
Technically most Asians have some sort of Chinese DNA somewhere. It’s normal. You also might find European DNA and possibly native DNA. There is literally no pure Japanese in genetics terms yet. It’s some type of mixed heritage.
Very fun. I'm from the US and lived for many years in the Seattle area, where there are many immigrant people from Asia: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc. Also Inuit, Pacific Islanders, etc. If I were to see your mom at a bus stop or walking down the street (before seeing this video), at first glance, I would assume she was a lovely Filipina.
When your mom talked about feeling like she didn't look like anyone in her family, I can tell you as someone with mixed ancestry, I did the same. Sometimes you inherit more from one side and their recessive genes to boot, so you end up looking unique. But, when you see photos of your ancestors, I can guarantee you can see your face in them. It made me feel connected to them deeply.
I’m part Inuit and Mikmaq and and we call ourselves Inu and Lnu. Meaning people of the Northern sun and people of the dawnland. I had no idea that the indigenous peoples of Japan called themselves Inu too. Very interesting.
I remember watching Conan O’Brien was joking about taking a DNA test and his doctor calling him because he was 100% Irish. His doctor claimed the only way you can be 100% is through inc3st! I don’t know if that is true, but when my husband’s DNA was tested, the results were 96% Polish (he is from Poland), but the results stated that he is more Polish than 99% of the people living in Poland.
A lot of things happen during wartime that families never spoke about that can have a big effect on your DNA adding some nationality that you didn't know your family had
I love these kind of vids. Your mum kinda looks like Japanese mixed with south-east asian to me. For me it's the shape of her nose, it's very similar to my own, which I inherited from my Indo dad. In her graduation picture, she really reminds me of my aunt when she was young as well. Based on your results, there shouldn't be big surprises though.
Fenno-Ugric peoples are related to Siberians who are in turn related to the people who walked over the Behring Strait when there was a landbridge between it and North America. And I'm guessing they came to the northern islands with the Ainu maybe.
So, I think I can add to some of this. Not at all a genealogist but I took these tests and my family came back with similar results. I did 23andme for my mom, brother, and myself. When I first loaded my results, 23andme said I was almost all Cambodian but my brother had Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian, with a trace of Spanish/Portuguese. I loaded 23andme results to MyHeritage and they contrastingly had results that accounted for the Chinese and South Asian DNA. When they did an update after receiving more reference samples with East Asian DNA, my results uploaded and appeared similar to my brother's. When I tested my mom with 23andme, she had very little Chinese even though her mother was mostly Teochew with her Grandfather leaving China to escape communism, and that's where most of the East Asian DNA comes from. Her result has stayed the same despite the update. Moreover, all of the results change and are more reflective of family history when changing the confidence level, which puts my brother and me at about a quarter East/Broad Asian with a mix of Bengali/Indian and unknown. All of that makes sense as my Dad's paternal haplogroup is R2a (started likely in Central Asia and went into India) and my mom's is B5. Loading my mom's and brother's DNA into MyHeritage they both got Finnish/Inuit with mom having a bit of Filipino (I did not get any on Inuit/Finnish on MyHeritage). So depending what site you use especially for Asian DNA (since the reference population is low), they will interpret your DNA differently. For me, MyHeritage caught my Indian and Chinese/Vietnamese heritage first while 23andme did not until later. 23andme broke down my East Asian which also has me at a bit broadly EA and I assume that's where my Inuit/Finnish probably is (since it is the same percentage as my brother's Inuit DNA on MyHeritage). My maternal grandma had very Northern East Asian features and everyone in my fam, especially the men, are especially tall (women 5'7 and men 6' and over). I suppose the best way to cross reference some of these results yourself is to see if you also have DNA relatives from those regions they give you. I had many (South)East Asian relatives, a few Indigenous American relatives (they had traces of Asian), and a bit of Indian with 1 Bengali relative, and 1 mostly Siberian/East Asian relative. On other sites my family is related to a couple of Finnish people. (But I take all of these interpretations with a grain of salt). Lastly, one of the reasons I ran it through MyHeritage was because for 6 days, I dreamt that I had Inuit heritage. I thought those dreams were weird because of my 23andme results until I loaded my mom's and bro's through MyHeritage. Some people also say that MyHeritage is not great, that 23andme is the best. However for me, MyHeritage had my DNA composition pretty spot on, and with 23andme, they eventually updated their reference populations pretty much the same, except they categorize my family's possible Inuit as broadly East Asian. It doesn't matter to me nonetheless, for me it's in the haplogroups and we are very much Cambodians :) Good luck anyone looking to find out about your origins and long live the ancestors!
Great video, genetic-genealogically speaking. MyHeritage in Eurasia tends toward thousands-of-year scales, while Ancestry in America tends toward hundreds-of-years scale. Your husband may get better granularity there, but still probably not "to Cousin Tony's home village". :) Both are getting better by the year. Good luck if you go further!
2% Japanese and Korean, 98% Finnish. After Ice Age 10000 years ago all known relatives are from Finland. You have other way, small number for Finnish DNA. 20 years ago doctor told strange comment about me looking Asian (shape of eye) even my white skin, 190cm, blond hair, blue eyes and all typical Finnish things. Your DNA had same kind of long distance jump than my. Have a nice day, thank you for video.
So….never seen you before, know nothing about you, but when I saw your face, I immediately thought you looked more Korean than Japanese. I’m half Korean by the way and I had my own dna tested, diff company, and it came back 50% Korean, no other Asian ethnicities. I honestly thought there might be some Chinese or even a little bit Japanese (based on history between the countries) but nope. I need to get my brother to do a testing…cuz he looks different 🫢 and I mean different. *whispers* he looks Japanese 🫢 DNA results are fascinating.
Writing this comment before I see your results... It's rather interesting that in many cases Japanese people will have Chinese or Korean in their DNA. But given the history and closeness of those countries, I'd say it's not that far fetched. But it is rather interesting, especially when like you said, My family has been in the country for many past generations. History and Family History is fun! I hope it's been fun for you too!
You should have all your older relatives take the DNA test too, to be able to build a family tree in the service and hone in from which family branch the ancestry is inherited from. 👍🏻
When I saw your mother, I said she looked like she may have some Korean somewhere in her family line. Your mother's face shape is similar to my Korean dau-in-law.
Wish the test would have been more thorough. She should give her mom another test that distinguishes the percentage of Japanese and Korean rather than just treating them like the same ethnicity.
I think you look like the photo of your great-aunt that you showed us, and I think your mom looks like Shii-Chun. This was super cool to watch (even though I agree with your mom the moving pictures are also scary). And yes that photo of your mom is so cute!!!! Mashallah, thank you for sharing with us!
I love watching DNA reaction videos, but it's not so often we see Japanese ones. Your high energy and fun (all of you) make this engaging. Omoshiroi desu ne.
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Hey Reina. So during a bit of Elden Ring Lore research, I started doing a little bit of study on Sengoku Jidai. After Hideyoshi shut down all the ports and tried to isolate Japan, apparently the Dutch from 1640-1854 were the only people trading with them from a post on Dejima. Although the Netherlands is on the other side of Denmark that at least gets you to Europe, and I've seen at least one map that has the Dutch trading in 1665 with routes all the way from Dejima to the Baltic Sea near Finland and even on the other side of Scandinavia, in a Russian city called Arkhangelsk.
Shot in the dark, but I'd bet that's where the link would be. It's a big world and a long history tho, so who knows.
Hope you're feeling better!
Hi Scully San,
I am half Japanese and both my parents did the My Heritage test as well, and you should know that My Heritage does not have a good coverage of Asia. Nothing bad said about My Heritage, but to make these estimates, they need alot of DNA from each region, to estimate the mixture of "race" in your specific region ex. Japan. It is a myth that each country is made out of pure race, obviously we are mixed, borders are man made not natural. This whole DNA thing was started by the Mormons in the US because they believe that it's possible to find your ancestors and baptise them into their religion, this is why the My Heritage "database" already has a lot of Western, especially European DNA.
My Mothers results looked something like yours, although instead of Inuit, it she had Inca (South American) DNA. She also had 2-3% Finish in her, and I believe that the indigenous people of that area called the Sami is the reason. They are an indigenous group of north of the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland. They are a travelling people and they do look like they have mongolian heritage. You can find language videos on youtube, where you can listen to Sami and Ainu language, and there is a lot of similarities.
When assessing your DNA it's easy to say, oh well it must have been because this Hablo group moved from this area to this area 10.000 years ago, but remember, these DNA kits can only measure back around 500 years, meaning only six-seven incestores back (if they live to around 70 years old). So someone in your recent ancestry was full Inuit, and someone even further back was full Finish.
Now having said all this, the test kit also includes that the only assessments that is 100% correct is the first line, meaning that you are 98% Japanese. The rest is an estimate, and if you do another test from another test kit that has a different database, your answer will be different. As a Japanese person I would advise you to get an asian based or Japanese based DNA test kit. I know that they exist because I wanted to find one for my mother.
I hope this helped just a little...thank you for this video!
Kind regards
Ken
There are Japanese DNA companies which are apparently more detailed when it comes to Asian ancestry. Bigger sample sets. You may be able to upload results for analysis.
Aren't these a total scam? Is this a scientifically proven method? xD
Can we go under the assumption that you haven't undergone any cosmetic procedures? A lot of Asians who have had surgeries often get assumed to be part white.
Finns Russian -- go look up "Ingrian Finns". Possibly in your family's past someone was remembered as coming from Russia but was ethnically Finnish. Finland also borders Russia. Finland also dealt with forced deportations into Russia in the past.
Ppl also constantly confuse Nationality and Ethnicity.
Many Asians get Finnish percentage but I think it’s from Siberian Asians
Finnish are a meshing of Slavic and Nordic Peoples generally. The fact of Inuit peoples in Russia suggest that’s the crossover. Like the others said.
English speakers confuse nationality with Citizenship, and you’re one of them lol
Yeah! Finland was ruled by Russia for a long time, and Russia has a long history of sending prisoners to Siberia-which would very likely be where your Inuit ancestry comes from!
And people like you confuse ethnicity with ancestry. Your ethnicity is your cultural identity, not your ancestral lineage. Just because she's a little bit Inuit by ancestry doesn't mean she's also ethnically a little bit Inuit.
I really understood your mother when she talked about wondering if she was adopted. I felt the same way for much of my life, finally met a cousin that looked enough like me that I felt that I belonged in my family.
The Inuit and Finnish DNA is probably through Ainu. So a single Ainu ancestor 7-8 generations back sounds pretty realistic...
No, because many Koreans and Chinese people have them too. Besides, all these simple DNA tests say that Ainu people are about 80％ Japanese and 15% South Asian and that the rest of their genome comes from random places including Europe and North Africa. It also says Inuit but not all the time, and even when it shows up it's always a tiny bit. On the other hand, South Asia shows up all the time. If she had Ainu ancestry, she would be more South Asian than Inuit. But she isn't, meaning that her Inuit ancestry doesn't come from Ainu people.
@@mfreak1126 The Ainu are native to northern Honshu, Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and Sakalin. Are you thinking of the indigenous people from the Ryukyu Islands that are located to the south of mainland Japan?
@@Stringbean0000 I clearly said Ainu people.
Note that these DNA tests primarily expose DNA add mixture. In this case, the Inuit and Finnish DNA is just shared DNA with these groups. It doesn't mean there is a specific ancestor that came from these people groups. For example, as humans we all share common DNA by definition , but we cannot necessarily show ancestor relationships with this knowledge.
In this case, the Finnish people also share Sammi (a nomadic group of reindeer herders that spans all of northern Europe and Asia). This doesn't mean you have Finnish DNA, it just means Reina shares DNA with Finnish people who shared DNA with Sammi and Inuit. Also, the DNA testing database probably doesn't have enough data to discretely resolve the difference between Finnish, Sammi and Inuit DNA, and so reports Finnish and Inuit as broad categories.
The subtleties of DNA haplogroups is complicated especially when many haplogroups and markers are shared across many different peoples, and then these peoples are separated by relatively recent national borders.
@@mfreak1126 I’m confused by your comment because the Ainu people are not South Asian and are most likely descendants of people from the Jomon period
It makes sense. Very common to get small percentages of japanese/korean for finnish people in dna tests too. Long time ago the origin is same in siberia. Finnic people moved from the east to the west and west and northern russia used to be region of finnic tribes which have many lost in history or are in small numbers nowadays. Finns still carry rare haplogroup which makes them ancestry very unique. There is a saying that finns are the most and least europeans of european ethnic groups. 15:44 this man has features that are quite common in Finland. Super interesting guys. But your husband definitely has no idea about it because of his weird theory of finns going with scandinavians in viking boats 😂 its just small sea and bit if land between finland and japan. During long periods of time its not weird that there is this root.
The story of your mom going to the river is so cute, im dying
I'm brand new to your channel. The genetics brought me in (I'm a biochemist), but the adorable conversation with your Mom kept me glued to the screen. I absolutely love how open you and your mother are with each other.
Inuit Finnish makes allot of sense based on the fishing routes in the Arctic back in the day. Inuit came over from Mongolia Siberia area 10,000 years ago.
I was thinking this too. The indigenous inhabitants of the Nordic region were the Saami whom have the closest genome to Siberians out of all Europeans. Over time, this group of Arctic people's genome has been diluted with European mixing.
Not 10.000 years ago.. it was when Mongolia invaded east Asia, closer to 800 years ago,, the 10.000 years migration is a BS Myth,,
I'm sure your right about the Mongolia thing being only 800 years , it was a Inuk that was teaching me about the Mongolia Inuit link and how similar there cultures were, but I'm not sure the 10,000 year thing is a myth because "13,000-year old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast" in 2018. And there was 3 waves of peoples to the America's the Inuit were the latest one 800 years, as you pointed out which is why they look so similar to Mongolians compared to there Native American counterpart . @@David-qk7um
Well, that’s kind of the “historical bias” recorded history has to get, well “recorded”. The Mongols were making records while the Inuit were trading, traveling and having children. 🤷 Not stuff that made the history books but did make our ancestors!!
A lot of Mongols, Yakutians, Nenets, Nepalis, and Kazakhs look Japanese too. Nenets and Yakutians also hunted whales too
that part with your mother was the most wholesome thing i watched in a very long time ❤ and i could listen to you for hours 😊!!!!
OMG your mom is a total sweetheart🥰 and looking at those pics, she was a cutie even back then. Big Hugs to you and your whole family!!!
You are so sweet with your mom and hubby! It warmed my heart to see all that love! 🥰
I hope you have a follow up with mom’s test I love seeing these kinds of videos
I am happy for you and your husband’s exploration of history and your reactions to results.
I wish your family well.
Ooh we got a Reina's mom cameo? Blessed! She's so cute!! She looks like New Jeans Hyein in her throwback photo - soooo pretty!
Watching the video, I could tell being 100% Japanese really meant a lot to you. I found your recent short post on TH-cam. You are correct, it does not matter and I’m glad it does not bother you as such. Look at it this way. Many of us on TH-cam started to learn Japanese because of your videos. Sugoi!
I am glad your facial injury is healing. :)
Your mom is adorably funny! I was smiling and giggling while reading the subtitles of what she was saying. Both of you are cute when you talk to each other. ❤
Oh my gosh I love how similar your laugh is to your moms, and what lovely laughs!!! ❤❤
That older pic at the end of your mom that she was embarrassed by was so cute!!!!
It must’ve been a great feeling when you’re mix. I’m glad your mom is happy with your heritage. It’s scary but I’m always wanting to try it out myself. I am Cambodian mix with euro. But then again, people assume I’m Hawaiian or Samoan for a Cambodian. Or Filipino. I need to start trying this now! ❤
Finns are part of the Arctic people groups, like Siberians, Sami, and Inuit. The Finns western neighbors are the Germanic Scandinavians.
Many Asians in Russia have same dna haplogroup as Finns but they look like East Asians or Central Asians not like Finnish people. Maybe that’s where it’s coming from. Really near to Japan that Asian part of Russia
@@user-3aa6234fh And the Sami who live in Finland migrated from that Area of Russia in Siberia to Finland about 3000 years ago
Finns are predominantly Caucasian but probably like 8% of the population has some Asiatic admixture because of the Sami. Most of our ancestors didnt cross Racial lines, was only a small percentage
@@lucianaromulus1408 Sami ppl are different ppl. They have a completely different culture.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters I know, they're like an Asiatic mix, similar to the people of say Tajikistan or Uzbekistan
My family, on both sides, have been in the U.S. since the 1600's. Based on my last name and my Mom's maiden name, one would assume that we were of English heritage, or the U.K. I took the Ancestry DNA test at least 10 years ago and was really surprised to find that We were English, Scottish, Irish, Viking (Sweden & Denmark) and 1% Iberian peninsular. I figured that in 400 years over here, there would have been something weird mixed in. But, apparently they stuff with their own kind. About you and your channel - I was drawn to this video when it popped up as I spent 3 years in Japan in the late 1960's while in the U.S. Army. I loved my time there and love the people! You have a very infectious personality! Thanks for posting.
How have I followed you since source fed days and I just now realized that Scully isn’t your actual last name!?! Duh!!! You’re a huge xfiles fan of course that’s your stage name.
I fully assumed it was her stepdad's last name for all these years 🫣
OMGosh!! Your mother is so adorable!! You are lucky to take after her, she isn't just beautiful, she seems like such a lovely woman as well...and a very caring mother who truly enjoys and loves her daughter. Most all mothers love their children, but they don't all really and truly ENJOY them.
I'm not surprised by the Finnish bit. You somehow look a bit like my aunt. 😂 I'm Finnish, btw. DNA tests often show a tiny bit East Asian or Arctic or even Amerindian for Finns. It's complicated. No, I'm no viking. No, Finland technically isn't in Scandinavia. Look up Uralic peoples. Finns were called China Swedes in the US back in the day. Yeah, an old German map even shows Finland as yellow for mongoloid. Anyways, AMA.
Yeah they even had laws banning the China Finns because they decided they weren't white they were closer to Siberians. They were only very partly right because the DNA does cross over a lot. Considering how much the Inuit move around the world over the past few thousand years, it makes since that the rest of the northern peoples would do a lot of the same, being nomadic.
Finns don't look like japanese a bit. or any other Asian countries . I used to live in other countries and everybody asked if I came from Sweden , Norway etc The same with other Finns as well. .
Watch the video " Coding Ambassador &the Finnish Double flip -Education in Finland."
@@cinderellaandstepsisters No-one said that Finns in general look Japanese. Too tired to write a long reply on my phone but read the Eurogenes blog if you're interested in population genomics.
@@SuviTuuliAllan don't believe everything you hear or read. Trust what you see. Use your brains.
Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland.
The other European countries have got asian dna even more than Finland by the way.
@@butterflies655 Yeah? Which ones? Btw is this your sock-puppet?
Your mom was/is a beauty - so wholesome to watch you two chatting.
Your mom is so adorable! Those old photos are precious. Fun video. I dunno if any of these DNA tests ever come back as 100% anything. I'd think not. Perhaps folks whose families have stayed in a narrow area of Africa for an extremely long time or something. Otherwise we're all some wonderful scramble of genetics. And phenotype is gonna phenotype. Genes can do plenty of unusual things regardless of expectation of how ethnicity presents physically or previous results through family lines. I never understand people who think they can always identify someone's ethnicity just by looking at them... or question it. Very odd to me.
There not, there was a news piece done with a set of identical twins (one of them being a journalist), who tried three seperate companies including the company that reinascully uses and they both got completely different results which is impossible if they are identical twins
Anything under 5-10% should be discard as skeptical. These test are not accurate.
I vaguely remember a YT video where some Irish people tested as 100% irish...no, I can't cite it...@@HUN73RK1LL3R
Im 100% Caucasian. Most people are 100% 1 Race, usually only mixture of ethnicity within the same Race..the only 2 groups heavily mixed are modern Middle Easterners and modern Latin Americans.
that was really fun to watch
This was such a cute, fun video 🥹 your chats with your Mum and with Mike were so comfy and nice to listen to
This segment was very interesting to watch. Especially when you said you had some Korean ancestry and a certain percentage of Finnish.
I remembered a conversation I had with a friend of mine at the University of Hawaii back in the 70s. He had an interest in linguistics, as a hobby, so he was telling me about how there had been discovered some elements of a language that was in common with some people in Northern Korea as well as people in Finland, and apparently it was surmised that there had been some tribe in the Urals (in Russia) thousands of years ago that had split up with some of them going east and some of them going west. I wonder if others from E
ast Asia have found Finnish in the DNA report 🤔
Thank you for sharing your story!
I never realized you were so into languages. I wish you shared a bit of your learning techniques and how many languages you know. That would be so interesting to hear about ☺️.
Also if possible can you give us an update in your mom’s results? Thank you
My japanese Godmother was from an island off the coast of Hokkaido. Her brothers were all over 6ft tall and had green eyes. Your nose is so cute.
She was ainu?
I love your mom's hair in that picture! She is so beautiful
Reina, it doesn’t matter what the results are (there’s definitely room for error in the ‘results’). You’re an amazing person, have an amazing family. Your TH-cam channel is one of my favorite channels and always look forward to your videos. All the best to you and your family in the future.
@AntiXtoxiC I never said there was. Why are you responding to what I said with your reply???? Smh
Give your Mom's inner child a Hug! Thanks for sharing! Quite fun!
Congrats, great result. You belong now to my superior clan,
best regards from mighty Finland !
The Sami people, which is the Scandinavian equivalent of the inuit, has lived across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia for thousands of years, so the likelihood that some of them came across the inuits isn't far fetched at all. So most likely that's the explanation for the Finnish in your DNA test.
And the Sami migrated from Siberia to Scandinavia about 3000 years ago
Not really. I've got both in my test.
Sami ppl are not Finns. Sami ppl are a different race with a completely different culture. Finland has not even got very many of them. Mostly Norway has them Sweden is the second Finland is the third and Russia has the smallest number of Sami ppl. Very often Sami ppl are represented as finns, but they are different ppl.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters You are partially wrong on all counts there. While most Sami are not Finns, most Finns are part Sami. Finland used to have many now blended tribes with their own Finno-Ugric dialects of 'Suomi/Sami' language with shared cultural roots in Asia.
@@Nuihc88 You are wrong . Sami ppl themselves say they have a completely different culture to all Nordic nations. They are very strict with it. For instance they don't want any finn or any other Nordic ppl to wear their national costume. Do you think other Nordic countries have not got dna of other nations? Little you know.
All the ppl everywhere are mixed.
By the way watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?" The answer is Finland. Percentually Finland has the most ppl with blue eyes and blond hair and they are tall.
My Japanese friends scored Mongolian, Central Asian, Inuit/Eskimo, Andean/Mesoamerican, and Finnish in their DNA test result.
I appreciate Reinas "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" quote (You sound like your from london!)
bro, your mom is soooo cute lol that picture of her was adorable.
This was fun to watch!
Every family has a "wandering" ancestor. Good you embraced the distant line. There may be an update from Heritage as more results with similar lines are found. I enjoy seeing you with your husband. He seems good for you. Take care 🙂
Very interesting! For the finnish part of your result, I wonder if it might be because of a Sami connection? They are a people that live in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and would have been nomadic or semi-nomadic following their reindeer herds during the migrations. For them to have connection with the inuit people would not be strange at all, to my mind. It's certainly a fascinating thought to consider how much people of the past traveled, and how connected we all are!
I still dream of visiting Japan one day, it's been a goal since I was really young. Greetings from Sweden! ❤
Finns and Sami ppl are different ppl. Sami ppl have a culture of their own.
Norway has most Sami ppl. Sweden is the second, Finland the third and Russia has the smallest number of them.
Great video. I think this really goes to show that physical features don't always reflect our ethnicity. My mother has been asked many times throughout her life if she has Japanese ancestry because of her facial features. She took her dna test and her ethnicity was completely Scottish, English and Irish.
Many English emigrated to Ireland and vice versa over the years so that English % in your partner's result makes perfect sense (even if many Americans with Irish ancestry would rather it wasn't there). The Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh have been mixing for so long it is difficult to tell them apart.
You guys have such cute chemistry on Camara. Would love to see more vids like this . Great to know what you are. My parents are both 100% Puerto Rican. But knowing the history of the place and how many different countries came through there. I know I'm a mutt just not sure what the numbers are.
most people in the world are mutts unless they have stuck to their own ethnic group for generations. (Jews, Amish, Mennonite, and least but not last German Russians to 100% Germanic Emprie)
Sounds like my Puerto Rican Grandma "I'm 100% Spanish" She was like 70% Spanish 15% Taino 15% African which is pretty average in Puerto Rico
I just randomly came across your video, but it’s super interesting. You do look a tiny bit European. My sister did 1 and our family’s from the Philippines. We’re actually east and central Asian, and 1/4 Polynesian. We have Chinese ancestors, but many people came into the region from Indonesia, Malaysia and southeast China.
Your mom looks so cute!!!! not Reina saying her friend looks like a ghost 😭🤣
I have noticed that peoples expressions and face changes when speaking a different languages also confidence makes a difference to.
😭😭😭😭😭 your mom and the river. Omg, girl that has my wife and I rolling over here. 😭😭😭
Husband does test: "you're 10% eagle" 🤣
There’s a few finno-ugric type ethnicities in Russia. A lot of Russians from the Siberian region often get a small “Finnish” percentage in these dna tests. Some linguists have speculated that the Japanese language is related to the Finnish-ugric languages.
The language relation actually kinda would make some sense.
@@tovarishchfeixiao my friend’s 100% japanese mum also got some “Siberian” percentage in her 23andMe results. My understanding is there is some evidence that a portion of the makeup of the Japanese ethnicity comes from ancient north East Asian Siberia/Baikal populations that are probably related to Yakut, Buryat, and Evenk peoples today. Another significant part probably coming from Southeast Asia.
The Yayoi people. Because Yayoi people came from the North of China. Not Southern China.
@@antonc81 Logically, the Japanese people had to go there from somewhere. Considering that it is an island and you hardly will find any island filled with humans that were not "conquered" by the first people stepping onto it.
@@tovarishchfeixiao for sure. The geographic location and ice age geography of the region makes Siberia and China the two most logical sources of immigration into the Japanese archipelago. Genetic evidence confirms this.. which is why you so often see “Siberian” and “Finnish” admixtures from services like 23andMe for their Japanese clients. I’m half ethnic Russian and I get a small “north Asian” component in genetic tests.
Finnish people are related to Siberian people. Ainu of northern Japan and Inuit are related. It totally makes sense, especially based on those small percentages.
Welcome to Finland and to see what finns look like.
Haha love the intro, well edited
My mom is from Sakhalin Island before WWII. It is now Russia. I was born in Sapporo. My DNA test showed Japan and Ryukyu Islands. You never know how it’s going to go with DNA.
Okinawa people are related to Ainu. I guess the Ainu were all over Japan originally and when people from Korea and China entered Japan Ainu population ended up only on the extremities.
Actualy the Korean language and Finnish language have similar words and there was emigration from the Korean region towards Finland a long time ago 😊
Very very little. The Finnish language has mostly the same words as the swedish language.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters really? Isn't Finnish like a whole different language family from Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German?
@@zagrizena Google it Korean language is not related to Finnish at all.
Finnish and Estonian languages are related.Nobody said that Norwegian , danish etc. are related.
The loan words occur in every language. If you have loan words it doesn't mean the language is related. What do you learn at school?
@@cinderellaandstepsisters you're such a troll 🤣 A lot of people said Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German are related. Linguists, not commenters. And of course there are some loanwords between even unrelated neighbouring languages, but claiming one language has mostly the same words as some other language, implies those are related somehow. Hence my question.
As for the supposed Finnish-Korean loanwords that is a bit of a stretch. Either they are false cognates with separate etymology or those are loanwords from some other language related to Finnish (maybe some Mongolian or Russian ugro-finnic steppe language, if they are spoken that far East).
@@zagrizena For heaven's sake. Finnish Has A LOT OF LOAN WORDS FROM SWEDISH.
Finland was directly a part of Sweden for over 600 years so it should not be so weird.
I am a Finn and I know the history of my country. Don't even try to know more about Finland than Finnish ppl. Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Educate yourself. You are a troll!
I just found your channel today. What an interesting video to start off with! Finnish people weren't always restricted to the area of where Finland is today. They were part of a much larger group of people comprised of clusters of family groups in Scandinavia, upper Russia, and further south approximately where Hungary is today, along with some islands in the Baltic inlet. This historical major tribe of Native Scandinavian people are referred to as Sámi. I am proud to know that my oldest ancestry is Native Scandinavian Sámi as well as Native American, Lenni Lenape Tukwsit (wolf clan) and Scottish Highlander Suðrland (named by my Norse ancestors, today is spelled Sutherland). Ancestry & cultural backgrounds are fascinating!!! ❤ So glad you both decided to find out your ancestral history so one day your child will know for sure the ancestors standing behind her. 😇 Edited to add... your mom is so sweet & funny! I love the relationship between you two! Her photo with the flower crown & dress is so pretty!!!
Turkey was a big center of trade and they often went to Italy and the European continent. Very classic story of intermingling going to England and Ireland and likely a little Scottish too.
You are so blessed to have such a great Husband. You two are PERFECT!
Damn it I didn't want this to end because it was so much fun and very interesting!! I love this kind of stuff....awesome!!😁😆😅🤣😂😊😇❤👏🙌🙏👍🎉🇯🇵
Yes, Inuit and Ainu are both more closely related to Tungusic Siberians, and many of those tribes are nomadic, so them having possible relations with Finn/Russian, or with Japan/Korean/Mongol/Jurchen(Manchu) is quite high as there's been many many centuries if not millenia of contact/trade in those northern regions.
North Asian
Swear the northern islands of Japan are close to Russia, heard there were land disputes between the two nations way back when.
That’s where both „Finnish“ and „Inuit“ might be coming from. Indigenous people in Asian part of Russia are few but diverse. Some are Turkic, some are Mongolian, some are Finno-Ugric and some are directly related to Inuit and other Natives of North America (maybe even South)
@@user-3aa6234fhThat theory has been debunked for a long time ago.
Hi, I'm Sri Lankan living in Australia. Last year I got my DNA tested through Ancestry and mine came out as 100% Southern Indian even though I don't know anything about when my ancestors moved to Sri Lanka from India or I don't have any Indian relatives. :)
I got a little Finnish, too...I am very Asian. I tested with Ancestry, 23andme, and FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage. Only MyHeritage has a little Finnish. The others are 100% Asian. I don't believe the "little Finnish" bit.
@Honeycaramel-mu6ms Do you know that Norway has Sami ppl the most The second is Sweden. The third is Finland and Russia has the least number of them.
I think Sami Finns should be listed as European as they are in Europe. Other genetic testing companies don’t put them in the Asian category. But it is good to know. I thought maybe their test sample were East Asians that have lived in Finland for 5-6 generations and had a white great great grandpa.
Oh, that lovely lady thought she was adopted. Give her a hug!
A friend of mine did one of those ancestry things on herself and her dad. She wanted her mom's DNA too, but her mom refused, and indeed seemed to be alarmed that she was doing it for herself and her dad.
She learned why her mom was alarmed when she got the results. She called her mom and said they needed to talk, and talk outside the hearing ranger of her father.
When she asked why she was not related to her dad, her mother started to cry. What she learned was horrifying. Her mom had been raped but had never said anything about it to anyone because she was so ashamed.
There is a song with a line, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." That's exactly how my friend felt.
She told no one about this until both of her parents had passed away.
The Ainu are really interesting to me, I love researching cultures. Your husband's was likely Bedowan. Sorry for my crazy spelling!
I have been told that when doing these DNA tests that any percentage under 2% is not statistically significant. And that it becomes very hard to determine with any accuracy what that result means. So, I would take the "Finish" thing with a grain of salt. ;)
Exactly. Id say 1% and under is not accurate at all.
Exactly. I would also like to see the result from say three different DNA test to see if the agree on the results.
Of course there's also the unique results that can vary between testing sites. MyHeritage would like people to think I'm 12% Italian. I'd say I average 2-3% on other sites. FamilyTree DNA would say 7% Magyar. Non-existant elsewhere. Most of the sites would say I'm 4% Indigenous North American, but MyHeritage doesn't have enough samples from that according to the part of the site I was on, so I get Mesoamerican & Andean in my results instead. Also the only place that gives me any Inuit.
Please be aware that DNA ancestry results are not very accurate. Identical twins have taken these tests and gotten different results which is impossible if the test was very accurate. The results are a best guess by looking at where most of your gene expressions most commonly appear geographically. The smaller the percentage, the less accurate the measurement is.
That is what I have been telling people for years. They do get a little better as more people get tested, but they are not that good. How can you differentiate between an Irish Gael, and a Scottish Gael that's ancestors migrator from Ireland hundreds of years ago? What about Anglos and Saxons that migrated from Germany to Briton, etc., and so many others that migrated and intermixed with others.
Actually it is totally normal to for siblings to get different results due to genetic recombination. So you can get variations actually. You don’t always get equal amounts of the same dna. You only inherit 50 percent of your parents and your sibling can inherit different part is your parents 100% available dna.
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@@e.g.1218identical twins, people born with the exact same DNA get different results.
@@rhade3845 by large amounts? twins do get some variations not by large amounts on some of the better tests that I've seen. Of course they are estimates and when some regions are close by and historically mixed it can be harder to determine, like Irish vs Scottish, etc. My 23 and me and my Ancestry test are pretty close to each other and were both taken separate, no raw data uploads from one to the other.
moms picture was really cute, she should be proud.
I’m 62% Scandinavian, 28% Irish, and 10% German. The Irish part was a complete shock when we got the DNA results.
if someone took a DNA test and got 100% anything, I would genuinely be concerned that that test was wrong
There many people here on TH-cam and are 100% of what they are.
@@28gire-jp1tw i find that hard to believe. since the dawn of modern humans, that person's entire ancestry from their moms side and dads side never once dipped their toes into other cultures/races? I know people who have taken tests and gotten as high as 97-98% something, but never a full 100%
I got 100% Scandinavian on the same test. But when lookin at the map online, it was also northern Germany (but that was danish at a time) and if going back to 1600s (I think it was a slider), also some british, so not sure. But it said 100% scandinavian.
@@rawkusrexthere’s some some African Americans have 100% African dna
You should look up Conan O'Brien's (night time tv host) dna test 😮. He is 100% Irish but there's a twist.
18:55 Yes, you can be 100% of one nationality in the US. As my surname suggests, I am 50% Finnish. Both sets of my dad's grandparents immigrated to Northeastern Minnesota from Finland in the early 1900s. I am a 3rd generation Finnish American on my dad's side. I do have cousins who are 100% Finnish - some even had DNA results proving it. My parents met in College in Wisconsin & my Mom's dad was 100% German, so I am 25% German - his grandparents immigrated to southern Minnesota in the 1800s.
My grandma's branch is more complicated & some have been in North America since the Mayflower. Mom used to say she was a "Duke's Mixture" of German, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, & Danish. I did the Ancestry DNA test because I have been working on my tree on their website for a few decades & used their software before the website. Ancestry updates it's findings as they get more DNA to match, so it has changed a little bit in the last 3 years. I did get a few small percentages of unexpected countries in the updates, but people didn't always stay where they were born, so it's not a bad thing - Vikings, Romans, British, Spanish, French, etc were exploring the world around them & conquering as they went for centuries.
Technically most Asians have some sort of Chinese DNA somewhere. It’s normal. You also might find European DNA and possibly native DNA. There is literally no pure Japanese in genetics terms yet. It’s some type of mixed heritage.
Just an observation and feedback: if you can use the microphone clip-on you so the sound doesn’t come out too echo-ish.
Who on earth thinks they are 100% of anything?
Pretty dumb huh?
Ignorant folks
Very fun. I'm from the US and lived for many years in the Seattle area, where there are many immigrant people from Asia: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc. Also Inuit, Pacific Islanders, etc. If I were to see your mom at a bus stop or walking down the street (before seeing this video), at first glance, I would assume she was a lovely Filipina.
Also Inuit is tribe located in Alaska.
Hold onto your hats... Finnish genetic markers are also found in some Canadian Native tribes! The Bering Land Bridge allowed a LOT of spread!
When your mom talked about feeling like she didn't look like anyone in her family, I can tell you as someone with mixed ancestry, I did the same.
Sometimes you inherit more from one side and their recessive genes to boot, so you end up looking unique. But, when you see photos of your ancestors, I can guarantee you can see your face in them. It made me feel connected to them deeply.
Excellent video! It's so interesting to find out where we actually come from. Sometimes the results are surprising.
I’m part Inuit and Mikmaq and and we call ourselves Inu and Lnu. Meaning people of the Northern sun and people of the dawnland. I had no idea that the indigenous peoples of Japan called themselves Inu too. Very interesting.
I remember watching Conan O’Brien was joking about taking a DNA test and his doctor calling him because he was 100% Irish. His doctor claimed the only way you can be 100% is through inc3st! I don’t know if that is true, but when my husband’s DNA was tested, the results were 96% Polish (he is from Poland), but the results stated that he is more Polish than 99% of the people living in Poland.
A lot of things happen during wartime that families never spoke about that can have a big effect on your DNA adding some nationality that you didn't know your family had
I love these kind of vids. Your mum kinda looks like Japanese mixed with south-east asian to me. For me it's the shape of her nose, it's very similar to my own, which I inherited from my Indo dad. In her graduation picture, she really reminds me of my aunt when she was young as well. Based on your results, there shouldn't be big surprises though.
Fenno-Ugric peoples are related to Siberians who are in turn related to the people who walked over the Behring Strait when there was a landbridge between it and North America. And I'm guessing they came to the northern islands with the Ainu maybe.
So, I think I can add to some of this. Not at all a genealogist but I took these tests and my family came back with similar results.
I did 23andme for my mom, brother, and myself. When I first loaded my results, 23andme said I was almost all Cambodian but my brother had Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian, with a trace of Spanish/Portuguese. I loaded 23andme results to MyHeritage and they contrastingly had results that accounted for the Chinese and South Asian DNA.
When they did an update after receiving more reference samples with East Asian DNA, my results uploaded and appeared similar to my brother's. When I tested my mom with 23andme, she had very little Chinese even though her mother was mostly Teochew with her Grandfather leaving China to escape communism, and that's where most of the East Asian DNA comes from. Her result has stayed the same despite the update.
Moreover, all of the results change and are more reflective of family history when changing the confidence level, which puts my brother and me at about a quarter East/Broad Asian with a mix of Bengali/Indian and unknown. All of that makes sense as my Dad's paternal haplogroup is R2a (started likely in Central Asia and went into India) and my mom's is B5.
Loading my mom's and brother's DNA into MyHeritage they both got Finnish/Inuit with mom having a bit of Filipino (I did not get any on Inuit/Finnish on MyHeritage). So depending what site you use especially for Asian DNA (since the reference population is low), they will interpret your DNA differently. For me, MyHeritage caught my Indian and Chinese/Vietnamese heritage first while 23andme did not until later. 23andme broke down my East Asian which also has me at a bit broadly EA and I assume that's where my Inuit/Finnish probably is (since it is the same percentage as my brother's Inuit DNA on MyHeritage). My maternal grandma had very Northern East Asian features and everyone in my fam, especially the men, are especially tall (women 5'7 and men 6' and over).
I suppose the best way to cross reference some of these results yourself is to see if you also have DNA relatives from those regions they give you. I had many (South)East Asian relatives, a few Indigenous American relatives (they had traces of Asian), and a bit of Indian with 1 Bengali relative, and 1 mostly Siberian/East Asian relative. On other sites my family is related to a couple of Finnish people. (But I take all of these interpretations with a grain of salt).
Lastly, one of the reasons I ran it through MyHeritage was because for 6 days, I dreamt that I had Inuit heritage. I thought those dreams were weird because of my 23andme results until I loaded my mom's and bro's through MyHeritage. Some people also say that MyHeritage is not great, that 23andme is the best. However for me, MyHeritage had my DNA composition pretty spot on, and with 23andme, they eventually updated their reference populations pretty much the same, except they categorize my family's possible Inuit as broadly East Asian. It doesn't matter to me nonetheless, for me it's in the haplogroups and we are very much Cambodians :)
Good luck anyone looking to find out about your origins and long live the ancestors!
Great video, genetic-genealogically speaking. MyHeritage in Eurasia tends toward thousands-of-year scales, while Ancestry in America tends toward hundreds-of-years scale. Your husband may get better granularity there, but still probably not "to Cousin Tony's home village". :) Both are getting better by the year. Good luck if you go further!
2% Japanese and Korean, 98% Finnish. After Ice Age 10000 years ago all known relatives are from Finland. You have other way, small number for Finnish DNA. 20 years ago doctor told strange comment about me looking Asian (shape of eye) even my white skin, 190cm, blond hair, blue eyes and all typical Finnish things. Your DNA had same kind of long distance jump than my. Have a nice day, thank you for video.
I had my brothers(siblings) and parents tested also, that really fills out the picture.
So….never seen you before, know nothing about you, but when I saw your face, I immediately thought you looked more Korean than Japanese. I’m half Korean by the way and I had my own dna tested, diff company, and it came back 50% Korean, no other Asian ethnicities. I honestly thought there might be some Chinese or even a little bit Japanese (based on history between the countries) but nope. I need to get my brother to do a testing…cuz he looks different 🫢 and I mean different. *whispers* he looks Japanese 🫢
DNA results are fascinating.
My Karate Sensei is Guatemalan Spanish. His great Grandfather was Japanese.
Writing this comment before I see your results... It's rather interesting that in many cases Japanese people will have Chinese or Korean in their DNA. But given the history and closeness of those countries, I'd say it's not that far fetched. But it is rather interesting, especially when like you said, My family has been in the country for many past generations. History and Family History is fun! I hope it's been fun for you too!
Korea historically had a very great influence on Japan, especially as regards religion/philosophy.
You should have all your older relatives take the DNA test too, to be able to build a family tree in the service and hone in from which family branch the ancestry is inherited from. 👍🏻
When I saw your mother, I said she looked like she may have some Korean somewhere in her family line. Your mother's face shape is similar to my Korean dau-in-law.
Wish the test would have been more thorough. She should give her mom another test that distinguishes the percentage of Japanese and Korean rather than just treating them like the same ethnicity.
I think you look like the photo of your great-aunt that you showed us, and I think your mom looks like Shii-Chun. This was super cool to watch (even though I agree with your mom the moving pictures are also scary). And yes that photo of your mom is so cute!!!! Mashallah, thank you for sharing with us!
I love watching DNA reaction videos, but it's not so often we see Japanese ones. Your high energy and fun (all of you) make this engaging. Omoshiroi desu ne.
The Japenglish exchange between you and your mom was the best part for me hahaha
Your mother is an absolute treasure. x
I worked with the sopranos got a couple of pics with them 😭
NO FREAKING WAY 😭😭😭😭✨
It was so fun listening to you guys. It was just like being home english japanese English japanese