If you expect certain results and you get them. Whatever. However if they are far different from what you thought they would be, if it challenges your beliefs or customs, those results can make you very emotional.
I'm a biologist, and when you learn about life to the very smallest spectrum, you realize how equal we all are. Especially with our DNA. There is so little that separates us. But what really does separate us the most, is our cultural differences.
that is soooo true! I once was in a museum and someone approached me talking swedish apparently! I consider myself Russian, born in Kazakstan, however l have relatives in Russia and they are all supporting the war in Ukraine. I know they are under a huge pressure of propaganda, but I cannot believe how different we are!!!
Thank you. I have RH O negative blood. It was considered at the time some kind of 'weird' blood. WE ARE NOT. SO I DONATE MY BLOOD. Both my sons B1 positive. Running out of the O neg?
I love you man as I love my family, love is in our DNA no matter what other believes, you get born with it. People chose hatred and is hard for them to understand love.
@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus That is not 100% true. Momondo states that the whole film was NOT scripted. Some people in the movie are also working as actors, yes, but according to Momondo they didnt play a role in that movie, but they appeared as the ones they are. Source: (English) www.momondo.com/discover/article/momondo-the-dna-journey-how-it-was-made (German): www.momondo.de/entdecken/artikel/dna-journey-herkunftsanalyse
1) Everyone is so unrealistically close-minded at the start, 2) everyone gets a complete 180 degree surprise from the results, 3) everyone gets overly emotional by the end. Feels like a poorly written movie.
i wouldn't be proud, if i have to make up such a story, to teach people that things like patriotism are just stupid. this video is like a soap opera... but hey... it got a message (for close-minded people).
No ones saying that you cannot be patriotic to the Country you were born in, but you should know (and never forget) where you and your Family came from. Otherwise you are disrespecting the very roots of where your Family ultimately began.
No ones saying that you cannot be patriotic to your Country, but you should know (and never forget) where you and your Family came from. Otherwise you are disrespecting the very roots of where your Family ultimately began.
+ApolloXL5 simple question: Why? Why should i know it and why am i disrespecting my family? it isn't important for me and it changes nothing in my life....
Being a part of this exciting journey I can guarantee that I am NOT participating as an actor but totally as myself. And so are all the other participants, chosen as him-/herself in several countries. That's the whole idea with this project to show that we are all in fact DNA-cousins...
I love this so much! I was born in Turkey, then moved to the US and now live in Spain. I love everyone. I never felt hateful towards anyone and this explains why. My soul knew this. Thank you for making this video.
"The participants in the video, which has more than 5 million views, are actors and extras Momondo found through casting agencies...But each one actually had their DNA tested and their reactions to their results were "spontaneous," the company said." I, too, found myself moved and touched by their reactions. There is so much distrust and hate and fear in this world. The power of discovering how related we all are can be transformative - if we let it in. Akin to the first picture of our earth from space, the "blue marble" bringing home that we are all in this together. Love transforms and unites. Fear distances and polarizes. Which do we choose to be a part of?
Totally agree. Why did they try to "make it look "real" in such a ridiculous way? It's all about tolerance, just make a normal commercial or if it has to be a "social experiment" just take real people with "normal" reactions (and don't consider people are stupid enough to believe DNA can't determine precisely which country you're from... -_-).
no, they are not actors. it is only proof that you are less sensitive. When I was watching this video I had tear in my eyes. It is beautifull to know and be aware of where were your ancestors, for me. open your mind a little and don't degrade others feelings to "acting".
Don't get me wrong but you had tears in your eyes because of the acting and you have a strong sense of empathy. If they were full of "less sensitive" people they would be like "yeah that's cool thanks" like Kim mentioned, you might also think yeah it's pretty cool but its no big deal. By the way, I'm not saying this 100% acting but it's possible.
@@David-xu4th iron, it was said figuratively. Air you breath, meal you eat, water you drink, all things that make you originated from earth (dust). In asian literature is often used metaphorical speach.
When ever I read comments like this to any given statement on video/blogs etc. it saddens me that the majority of comments always are mistrusting/hatefull og negative. We all know that this is a commercial and that it looks staged but who cares. The message is beautifull and a way to spread more positivity and love into this world. Now.... lets see for how long this comment will survive before it will be spammed with negative comments. Peace! :-)
No, most people don't know this is fake, and that's because they made it look real, this is bullshit propaganda. There is no such thing as good propaganda, it is still lying to people and creating a false impression of reality, this is what the self-appointed philanthropist and leftists that share this video don't understand.
+Desidium see, the definition of a genetic population is not "we didn't ascend from africa", The definition is "we share common haplogroups" Besides that, I was more referring to the fact that they make it look like many people are genetic supremacists or something.
Hi there, I am from Iceland & just wanted to let you guys know that most people are nothing like that "lovely" man. He probably got exiled from Iceland for being a major dick :)
Actually i don't really think he is a jerk , he just said what he felt . Maybe we don't express ourselves that way but i'm sure most of us think the same.
Its scripted fake. Imagine a black one saying hes "more important than you" - the world would fell down, so who to pick? Hmmmmmmmmm blond? Blueeyed fake icelander?
I remember reading mine. Most of my life I thought I was gonna be predominantly French come to found out I'm Irish,Italian, Ecuadorian,German, Scottish,French Canadian. I was floored!
Made me cry...made me think even harder that we are all born equal and we are all connected in someway. Thank you for this wonderful, touching and open mind blowing video.
But if you think about it, that's true for almost all people. In your mind, the most important person is yourself, and I think that's what the guy was getting at. His manner and the response of the people talking to him suggested this was the point he was making, rather than having a pompous attitude
This is so incredible I've always wanted to do something like this and know where I really truly come from. And it is touching how emotional this is even I teared up. Imagine how much hate could evaporate if everyone knew and instead of being asked where they were from or ethnicity o race and saying one or two things and it being done with, you pulled out a paper and listed a ton of places. It would just be one more thing in common with someone else. And not to mention that they get to travel, which is the sole dream of many. Very lucky people.
It's not some races I dislike, it's some cultures. Like that one lady said, I have no problem with Turkish people, I have a problem with their culture, religion, and government. In short their ideas.
According to their website, they hired extras for some of the people behind the group, and 10 of the 67 participants have some kind of acting experience (though this included being minor extras). They further admit to some retakes, but claim the initial reaction from opening the envelope is not staged, and to make sure they captured it properly they used 4 cameras. The spitting in tube bit is staged in the sense that that was not the test they used.
Don't go with Ancestry, their test sucks. Not detailed, gives information like Eupoean, without telling you what part of Europe. Or Eastern Asian, without telling you what part. Don't use them. 23andme.com gives much more information. There is another that is even better, but I cannot remever the name of that one. Any of the DNA tests can be linked to a database
They aren't actors, or at least they aren't acting here. Only some people in the background are hired www.momondo.com/inspiration/momondo-the-dna-journey-how-it-was-made/#fDspzKux6dZQM5x5.97
While certainly interesting, I don't get why this was so emotional for some people. Is it really so surprising that after thousands of years, our bloodlines are pretty much all mixed?
Sadly, many people on this planet are deeply invested in notions of racial "purity." Racism is truly a global scourge, and perhaps an endemic flaw in the human character...
Many people are driven and have a negative look towards other countries due to conflicts and racism. For example many black people don't may be scared of finding white genes and this may be very shocking or terrifying as they had to live with a barrier between races
Jason Creamer - Sincere and spontaneous aren't synonyms - the Gettysburg Address was "scripted" - but I think most would accept it as sincere. There might be a few other passages in literature that qualify as well...
Gillinghamgus I'm not saying it's fake because of the results. all people are racially mixed, I know that. It is fake because of the acting, the way they react to the results. these are not real racists who think they are racially "pure"... these are clearly actors playing a part.
Gad Yariv Fair enough, you might be right there with the English lad coughing up snot and not mouth saliva.... may have been actors but there are people out there with those thoughts.
TLDR: their biased not racist, but this videos still probably fake to be fair they never said they were flat out racists, they said they were biased. All individuals can be biased about plenty of things, the people shown in the video were biased (not racist) against certain races for whatever reason. Maybe they don't like another countries sports team or got injured by a specific group of individuals? Who knows? As for this being video being faked, probably. As already stated plenty of times this is a TRAVEL company. Its so much cheaper to pay actors then to fly a bunch of individuals across the world, preform DNA tests and then give them free trips in their origin countries.
My question here is: why do we need a scientific evidence to start believing in that we are all cousins?! Not only we're all cousins, but also truly we're all equal. I believe regardless of being black or white, Asian or European, pop star or farmer, poor or rich, the only sane way that we can measure and judge people is based on humanity.
We are not equal. We have given each other the right for equal rights and opportunities. People use the expression as if it meant the same, but It's not the same. The difference between being equal and having the same rights is that if we were all equal, there would not be the differences required to have exchange of ideas and the inspiration that creates progress and advancement. It would all be stagnant. All the same. Never changing. Stuck in time. Living dead. You can't build anything interesting if you only have one kind of Lego piece. You need all the different ones for the cool stuff.
@ShariSez1 where did i say i dont consider myself that? I do wtf. I'm eurodescendant, so i am western. I am probably not a pureblood but there are reasons for that, and its not something to be proud of
Very STAGED, especially the reactions. Bad actors and as a whole the video has a very unnatural feel to it. It's just cringeworthy bulls*** The goal here is to push biased misinformation down people's throats. Basically, they're trying to negate people's origins and distinct ethnicities by saying "look, no need to learn about population genetics, just accept that you're mixed (and no need for frontiers)". They blatantly ignored the dna testing company's explanations on how to understand the results and what native populations normally score (usually a mixture of several components).
According to this danish article: ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/tankevaekkende-dansk-video-hitter-kan-du-holde-taarerne-tilbage/6111321 (Sorry no english) Momondo has stated that all people are your everyday guys and gals and they are not actors. "Filmen blev optaget i København i april 2016, og 67 deltagere fra hele verden medvirker i filmen. Alle deltagerne er ifølge Momondo helt almindelige mennesker, der modtager deres egne DNA-resultater." --> "The movie was recorded in Copenhagen on April 2016 and 67 participants from all over the world are in this film. All participants are according to Momondo completely regukar people, who receive their own DNA-resulsts" find Yana Gross on fb with the picture of a butterfly. She stated in a comment further up that it wasn't staged. But oh well it's up to you to decide ^^ An english link from another site in case you're still curious creativity-online.com/work/momondo-the-dna-journey/47554 (taken from a comment further down)
No that is the whole point, to get people to stop thinking we are really so different, We are all humans and that's what they're trying to convince people. SO unless you aren't human, stop being ignorant.
KIMMY TAEHYUNG Because they were sure about their heritage and most of them hate one nationality. They cry because all that they knew and thought was a big lie and they found out that they should love and respect each other.
that's b.s. I was stupid enough to do this years ago before I put 2 and 2 together as to why this is a bad idea. No crying-it's all drama and propaganda, but you beLIEve what you like, that's freedom!
The people in the video is not actors. This was stated by the company and familymembers to the people who was in the video on facebook. It's common for danish companies to state if the people in a "social" ad is actors or not.
Yes, they may not be professional actors, but they were definitely acting and the whole scenery is absolutely staged. Who believes otherwise must have severe cognitive disability.
I keep reading in the comments that this is all fake. As someone who works in advertising and has done several of these 'interview' videos, I'm pretty sure some of these interviewees are real people and some are actors because that's usually what we do. It's almost always 50/50 like that. We'll usually use the reactions of real people because theirs is more genuine, and then use the actors' lines as padding (the British skinhead guy is definitely an actor).
+Usman Majeed about 200,000 yearsWhile our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. So yes they have.
Luigi Di Bampa When I took my 23andme test I was hoping to find some geographic/genetic diversity. Alas it turns out I'm something ridiculous like 99.9% East Asian and 99.4% Chinese. Heh. I guess my ancestors didn't mingle.
I did my DNA through Ancestry and it was amazing..... Have had friends and family also take their DNA and the results are truly a journey. I cried getting my results when i saw we were spaniards.
One of The Best Travel Campaigns that I've seen in a long while and living proof that Creative and Powerful Storytelling makes all the difference in this not so different world in which we live in. Kudos to Danish Agency &Co for a brilliant conceptualization and execution. WOW!
This was so awesome! It brought tears to my eyes. I had to watch it for Interpersonal Communication, but I truly enjoyed it. I agree with the woman who stated that it should be compulsory. That would encourage tolerance and inclusivity. This is the good stuff!
Immediately when I saw the Cuban guy I said to myself, "black (Africa), Europe, and Native American (Americas)" , I don't understand why it's so emotional for people and why they would believe that they're just one thing. I'm Mexican so for sure I know I would have Native American and European but I would really want to get tested to see everything.
I like the Ad, but find some of it fake too... I have a theory that some of these conversations are taken out of context and that perhaps even some of the people are actors.
Science never lies, I do myself scientific studies and manipulations we practice to check your DNA identity cannot be wrong as the latter is repeated as much as possible to get the best results and delete the more mistakes
This is the complete truth. I was born and raised in Russia, and at 33 I realized that this is not my country, my heart called me to Spain, I began to notice that I have a lot in common with Germany, Japan, Spain, although I have no relatives there. But I always knew in my heart that my blood has ancestors who were born in these countries, there is a feeling inside of me. Now I live in my beloved country of Spain, and in my city near inhabited by people from more than 120 countries from all over the world, and I like that all are equal and there is no nationalism. And I always say that my homeland - is the planet earth. Esta es la verdad completa. Nací y crecí en Rusia, y en el 33 me di cuenta de que esto no es mi país, mi corazón me llamó para España, empecé a notar que tiene mucho en común con Alemania, Japón, España, aunque no tengo parientes allí. Pero siempre supe en mi corazón que mi sangre, tiene antepasados que nacieron en estos países, hay una sensación dentro de mí. Ahora vivo en mi querido país de España, y en mi ciudad cerca habitadas por personas de más de 120 países de todo el mundo, y me gusta que todos son iguales y no hay nacionalismo. Y yo siempre digo que mi tierra - es el planeta tierra.
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” Albert Einstein
i'm sorry if i made you emotional. Do you want a safe space? this is scripted, any person having worked on tv knows this. so please just go make a scene at Starbucks and let us be.
With all the people in the back, I'm pretty sure most of them are pretty boring "well yeah, you're cousins made out with each other and you are not special at all" :P
This is beautiful and amazing! I wish they could do that for me. If everyone would look at themselves like this we'd have a lot less of a problem with racism and prejudice. Even if it is a film, it's still great.
Unfortunately, our world is corrupt and broken. People want money and power not peace and unity. I would wish everyone would start uniting but unfortunately they won't. Personally I judge people as an individual not as a group. I really try to avoid being racist. As we are one people.
I did that a while ago, always thought I'm 100% Han Chinese (born in a small place in central China), turned out I'm 72% East Asian, 25% Turkic Siberian, and the rest 3% are just all over the places.
I didn't think so at all....their reactions seem very genuine to me. Looks like the producers may have asked for participants or just chose random strangers. How would you have expected them to act?
So I'm just gonna ignore the comment section and just say this video was truly beautiful, I did laugh when that dude ended up being 5% German though :') If a test like this was in mainstream supply or like the women even said compulsory then I genuinely believe maybe a lot of the hate could be eradicated. How ever you believe life came into existence it all started with one cell splitting so yes we are all related, very very distantly though. I just wish some people would realise that no race or nationality is better than the other. We are all one race. The human race ❤
yes, let's move you into the middle east and see how you fare. Utopia is not ready for humanity, and won't be for thousands of years. People are eating tide pods ffs. It's a nice fantasy but it doesn't align with reality, which many people refuse to see and therefore deal with logically.
Even if you forget about the linguistic or cultural difference, you still can not ignore that people have different views, character and goals in life. Not to mention such things as civil wars or a banal political confrontation. People are really the one, but at the same time it's foolish to think that people are a monotonous mass that can be attracted to a common denominator.
i think people forget it’s not just looking at your relatives , but dead ones, and you hand to remember you have mom and dad side so it’s going to be divided more
My ancestors came from both Germany and Finland. That's what we know so far. Probably more places tho! That's kind of cool to think about. No one has ONE certain background - we come from all around the world. People move around all the time, meet people from other places and have children. And it goes on and on... :)
i would like to know the origins of my family '-' but isn't that a little costly ? All i know is what I seen for my self, but I don't really know much about my family history.
Someone did not know that that all people have mixed origins? Hell, I myself belong to more than 3-4 nations.This is obvious, even if you are not a professor of genetics. People criticize only the form of this message.
This whole business of trying to trick people into thinking we're all alike follows the same strategy as using DNA similarity statistics. Oh we surely are all the same given that my DNA is 99.9% similar to that of any other human being! Well fuck it, because I'm 50% identical to a banana as well.
"Germany, I'm not a fan of the Germans". Translation from UK English to simple English: It's really hard to believe that I come from the best country with the best football team when Germany just kind of chuckles about us and won't even acknowledge that we consider them rivals.
FANTASTICO !!! GRAZIE GRAZIE E ANCORA UNA VOLTA GRAZIE ! I'm sorry for those who didn't cry for this fantastic video ! Grazie ancora per la fantastica esperienza
i usually skip all ads. but this one is the best ad i ever seen!
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I know right?! LOL!! Not only did I not skip it, I clicked this link to watch it again!
When I got my results I was basically just like “lmao cool” meanwhile these people are having an existential crisis lol
imagine if Irish discovering he's British *IRA LEFT HIM*
If you expect certain results and you get them. Whatever. However if they are far different from what you thought they would be, if it challenges your beliefs or customs, those results can make you very emotional.
@@nillyk5671 the belief most likely came later on in the generation which might be why there were mix
È meravigliosa come cosa, its Very beautiful
Thats because you hasn’t been through anything
I don't have much family, so the thought of finding a cousin in a room full of strangers would be an amazing thing for me. Love this video.
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I wonder how distant of a cousin he is, though.
"In a way, we're all kind of cousins"
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I'm a biologist, and when you learn about life to the very smallest spectrum, you realize how equal we all are. Especially with our DNA. There is so little that separates us. But what really does separate us the most, is our cultural differences.
economy and politics separate more. It separetes people even within one nation, city, family
that is soooo true! I once was in a museum and someone approached me talking swedish apparently! I consider myself Russian, born in Kazakstan, however l have relatives in Russia and they are all supporting the war in Ukraine. I know they are under a huge pressure of propaganda, but I cannot believe how different we are!!!
Te felicito por lo buenito que eres, realmente eres un bombón adornado con una bella cinta rosada
Funny thing we are all from unicellular bacteria, we're all blood brothers.
Thank you. I have RH O negative blood. It was considered at the time some kind of 'weird' blood. WE ARE NOT. SO I DONATE MY BLOOD. Both my sons B1 positive. Running out of the O neg?
hello my cousines how are you? i love you all
you ain't ma cousin... you are Simba's cousin :D
I really hate you :) But thanks for asking.
I love you man as I love my family, love is in our DNA no matter what other believes, you get born with it. People chose hatred and is hard for them to understand love.
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hate AND love is in our DNA, it's what makes us human, the good and the bad things.
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I love this. So much. Glad I didnt skipped this add.
was this an add? haha i had to search fot his video for a school but honestly still beautifful to see this
The "proudly english" and Mr: "I´m most important than you (the icelandic man)"are deeply ignorant.
These people are actors...
@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus But even if they're actors, there still are tons and tons of people that really feel and talk like that.
Lowen Herz Hi cuzz lol 😆 the ignorant Icelandic man look a like Trump 😂 maybe they are related ?!?
Zohra H the more paper white he looks he thinks he is better. The Icelandic people have a mixture. They are not pure white there.
@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus That is not 100% true. Momondo states that the whole film was NOT scripted. Some people in the movie are also working as actors, yes, but according to Momondo they didnt play a role in that movie, but they appeared as the ones they are.
Source: (English) www.momondo.com/discover/article/momondo-the-dna-journey-how-it-was-made
(German): www.momondo.de/entdecken/artikel/dna-journey-herkunftsanalyse
1) Everyone is so unrealistically close-minded at the start, 2) everyone gets a complete 180 degree surprise from the results, 3) everyone gets overly emotional by the end. Feels like a poorly written movie.
at least a good message , what have you done good to be proud off ?
i wouldn't be proud, if i have to make up such a story, to teach people that things like patriotism are just stupid.
this video is like a soap opera... but hey... it got a message (for close-minded people).
No ones saying that you cannot be patriotic to the Country you were born in, but you should know (and never forget) where you and your Family came from. Otherwise you are disrespecting the very roots of where your Family ultimately began.
No ones saying that you cannot be patriotic to your Country, but you should know (and never forget) where you and your Family came from. Otherwise you are disrespecting the very roots of where your Family ultimately began.
+ApolloXL5 simple question: Why? Why should i know it and why am i disrespecting my family?
it isn't important for me and it changes nothing in my life....
Being a part of this exciting journey I can guarantee that I am NOT participating as an actor but totally as myself.
And so are all the other participants, chosen as him-/herself in several countries. That's the whole idea with this project to show that we are all in fact DNA-cousins...
Anyone else had to watch this for their homework but ended up rlly liking the video?
yes, i had to write some bullshit and pray it penetrated my teacher's brain with knowledge.
yes i had
Yes, this assignment had me in tears! Had to start it over from the middle, because I was distracted.
bro I had this assignment for school lmao to write shit about multicultural stuff
Yes i had
who watches this for his homework
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I love this so much! I was born in Turkey, then moved to the US and now live in Spain. I love everyone. I never felt hateful towards anyone and this explains why. My soul knew this. Thank you for making this video.
This is amazing. Make a televised documentary. Spread it. It is incredible. But please please make a documentary.
I totally agree
my DNA test says i am a human. that makes me so proud
If i would look back of our history.. i could not tell that i would be proud.
It's great but not enough!
@Toni Sumblin nee
Not donkey? Are you sure?
@@Marquis-Sade oh you missed many many science classes i see. or may be ur facts belongs to donkeys
"The participants in the video, which has more than 5 million views, are actors and extras Momondo found through casting agencies...But each one actually had their DNA tested and their reactions to their results were "spontaneous," the company said."
I, too, found myself moved and touched by their reactions. There is so much distrust and hate and fear in this world. The power of discovering how related we all are can be transformative - if we let it in. Akin to the first picture of our earth from space, the "blue marble" bringing home that we are all in this together. Love transforms and unites. Fear distances and polarizes. Which do we choose to be a part of?
I hate scripted shit like that with actors. I mean cmon.. The message is cool, but with the music and the fakeness it just destroys it
Totally agree. Why did they try to "make it look "real" in such a ridiculous way? It's all about tolerance, just make a normal commercial or if it has to be a "social experiment" just take real people with "normal" reactions (and don't consider people are stupid enough to believe DNA can't determine precisely which country you're from... -_-).
Totally agree, its just garbage when its all acted out
it is real, you can even apply for this!
hell yeah
I have to confess... I can't believe in almost anything that I use to find on internet now-a-days...
I don't get why they get so emotional unless they're actors... I'd just be like "oh that's pretty cool thanks" and walk away. It sounds fake to me.
They are indeed actors.
yea very weird, i was like wtf when everybody was crying
True, same here, but some people in the world feel a real connection to their culture I guess.
no, they are not actors. it is only proof that you are less sensitive. When I was watching this video I had tear in my eyes. It is beautifull to know and be aware of where were your ancestors, for me. open your mind a little and don't degrade others feelings to "acting".
Don't get me wrong but you had tears in your eyes because of the acting and you have a strong sense of empathy. If they were full of "less sensitive" people they would be like "yeah that's cool thanks" like Kim mentioned, you might also think yeah it's pretty cool but its no big deal. By the way, I'm not saying this 100% acting but it's possible.
Easily one of the best ads I've ever seen on youtube
I wish there were videos of the other 67 people who took the DNA test. These stories & interviews are very interesting!
there are
"Woah, we're all DNA cousins?" Well no shit, how else were we meant to re-populate the planet after the last ice age?
Hi, cousin #312452.
xD best reply ever
Exactly... i do not get why they are that emotional, ofc. we have all kinds of different DNA from different places in us.
yup well some people don't realize that and were thought that they were different.
well yeah but some people just dont realize that. So preach it! XD
When you intentionally don't skip the ads on TH-cam and it leads you to one of the best videos you've ever seen.
This is a nice story and all, but these people seem like paid actors. It seems overly staged. Am I wrong?
100% fake as fuck like wig master said.
One of the most scripted things I've ever watched.
thank you. Everybody is crying and I was like "this is staged as fuck" and felt bad about myself. Now I have found peace in my heart thanks to you.
Its not fake, my brother was in this program....
Transformerbrain Oh well, then I'm totally convinced!
“Nobody was created from gold, silver, copper or iron. All of us were created from dust.” Imam Ali
@Mike White The quote is directed to the racist!!!
love this. thanks for sharing!
@@Ruben_A2000 You are welcome :)
I can assure you there is Iron in your body and it plays a huge roll in your health, but there sure ain't no dust.
@@David-xu4th iron, it was said figuratively. Air you breath, meal you eat, water you drink, all things that make you originated from earth (dust). In asian literature is often used metaphorical speach.
When ever I read comments like this to any given statement on video/blogs etc. it saddens me that the majority of comments always are mistrusting/hatefull og negative. We all know that this is a commercial and that it looks staged but who cares. The message is beautifull and a way to spread more positivity and love into this world. Now.... lets see for how long this comment will survive before it will be spammed with negative comments. Peace! :-)
Word! :)
Do you want an award for being an idiot who can´t acknowledge facts? (first)
No, most people don't know this is fake, and that's because they made it look real, this is bullshit propaganda.
There is no such thing as good propaganda, it is still lying to people and creating a false impression of reality, this is what the self-appointed philanthropist and leftists that share this video don't understand.
***** but it's not a false impression of reality, these are exactly the results you would get when everyone is from Africa
+Desidium see, the definition of a genetic population is not "we didn't ascend from africa",
The definition is "we share common haplogroups"
Besides that, I was more referring to the fact that they make it look like many people are genetic supremacists or something.
This is quite overacted but the message is on point. Also, the guy from Iceland is a jerk.
Hi there, I am from Iceland & just wanted to let you guys know that most people are nothing like that "lovely" man. He probably got exiled from Iceland for being a major dick :)
Actually i don't really think he is a jerk , he just said what he felt . Maybe we don't express ourselves that way but i'm sure most of us think the same.
Its scripted fake. Imagine a black one saying hes "more important than you" - the world would fell down, so who to pick? Hmmmmmmmmm blond? Blueeyed fake icelander?
He is just an actor. Sorry to disappoint you.
at 4:25 everybody claps and crys cas ladyuchila eat my last banana :(
They made this more dramatic then it needed to be and I'm mad we didn't get to see the results of everyone's ethnic background.
I remember reading mine. Most of my life I thought I was gonna be predominantly French come to found out I'm Irish,Italian, Ecuadorian,German, Scottish,French Canadian. I was floored!
I think there is a lot of people missing the point...
Made me cry...made me think even harder that we are all born equal and we are all connected in someway. Thank you for this wonderful, touching and open mind blowing video.
It's a strong message. But they all look like actors.
Exactly the message is great but you just feel it's a bit fake
They are
Iam 70% of water 😉
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This comment is 100% gold.
Cracked me man 🤣
Hey me too.we must be cousins.🤗
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The guy from Iceland was a jerk! "i'm more important than you"... Wtf..
But if you think about it, that's true for almost all people. In your mind, the most important person is yourself, and I think that's what the guy was getting at. His manner and the response of the people talking to him suggested this was the point he was making, rather than having a pompous attitude
It's an actor you moron
They are all actors and all less important than me.
is a bad actors fake
And........... THAT kind of thinking is why there are WARS and racism , and the rise of ideologies like the NAZIS .. SMH :(
This is so incredible I've always wanted to do something like this and know where I really truly come from. And it is touching how emotional this is even I teared up. Imagine how much hate could evaporate if everyone knew and instead of being asked where they were from or ethnicity o race and saying one or two things and it being done with, you pulled out a paper and listed a ton of places. It would just be one more thing in common with someone else. And not to mention that they get to travel, which is the sole dream of many. Very lucky people.
Fake or not, I just want to say that you guys got my attention, well played , good campaign. From the guy who skipped 99% of ad for anything.
Agreed, honestly, I think I might get a test done as a direct result of this ad.
Cool stuff.
Well, these kind of tests do exist and there are plenty of specialised companies doing this (including this one, I guess) for around 200 Euros or so.
hey hey hey i like the video very much because of the quality and the real story about it. It's very emotional and gives you something to think about.
It's not some races I dislike, it's some cultures. Like that one lady said, I have no problem with Turkish people, I have a problem with their culture, religion, and government. In short their ideas.
This is staged? Because theres a lot of overreactions out of nowhere...
looks like actors/staged i agree
According to their website, they hired extras for some of the people behind the group, and 10 of the 67 participants have some kind of acting experience (though this included being minor extras). They further admit to some retakes, but claim the initial reaction from opening the envelope is not staged, and to make sure they captured it properly they used 4 cameras. The spitting in tube bit is staged in the sense that that was not the test they used.
Staged or not your DNA doesn't lie.
This is about DNA, not about culture. I too don't believe in cultural relativism though.
+AlduinWorldEater
And SHARIA, so what?
What do you care about some law which EXCLUSIVELY applies to Muslims ONLY?!?!
Where can i get my hands on one those DNA kits - I want to know whether or not I have Chuck Norris in my blood.
dna.ancestry.com
I found this webpage where you can buy a kit and then they'll put you in their database so they can see who share your DNA :)
😅😅😅
www.23andme.com/en-int/ :)
Don't go with Ancestry, their test sucks. Not detailed, gives information like Eupoean, without telling you what part of Europe. Or Eastern Asian, without telling you what part. Don't use them. 23andme.com gives much more information. There is another that is even better, but I cannot remever the name of that one. Any of the DNA tests can be linked to a database
haha 😂
I’m a Japanese student. I am watching this movie as a school homework. How are you my cousins in the world???
OOOOH it's the same for me I'm french and watching this video for a school homework .... oooof....
hey lol, same over here, but in Colombia
horrible sinceramente
Is it supposed to be obvious that these people are all actors?
Their reactions are pretty good, but the director should really have done a second take of the interviews section...
They aren't actors, or at least they aren't acting here. Only some people in the background are hired www.momondo.com/inspiration/momondo-the-dna-journey-how-it-was-made/#fDspzKux6dZQM5x5.97
they are Not actors you moron , actors would have done a better paper... www.momondo.com/inspiration/momondo-the-dna-journey-how-it-was-made/
SO? does it change the message?
actors or not , the dna doesn´t lie
While certainly interesting, I don't get why this was so emotional for some people.
Is it really so surprising that after thousands of years, our bloodlines are pretty much all mixed?
Sadly, many people on this planet are deeply invested in notions of racial "purity." Racism is truly a global scourge, and perhaps an endemic flaw in the human character...
Many people are driven and have a negative look towards other countries due to conflicts and racism. For example many black people don't may be scared of finding white genes and this may be very shocking or terrifying as they had to live with a barrier between races
Yes it may be scripted, but the message is no less sincere and powerful.
So a video about the awareness of drug use is not sincere and powerful?
Jason Creamer - Sincere and spontaneous aren't synonyms - the Gettysburg Address was "scripted" - but I think most would accept it as sincere. There might be a few other passages in literature that qualify as well...
As person who's ancestors migrated out of Africa I demand right of return to my homeland.
Go for it.
bullshit
This is beautiful and brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it!!! Thank you!!
Is that Icelandic guy on drugs or what?
W
All of them are actors and actress.
+Albert The Writer No, we are not actors 😊
+wondermouse7 Hi are you one of the paricipants?
lol He is a racist idiot.
this is so fake,. couldn't they do it for real
What do humans do to keep the species alive? and have been for a few million years!!! oh it's real.
Gillinghamgus I'm not saying it's fake because of the results. all people are racially mixed, I know that.
It is fake because of the acting, the way they react to the results.
these are not real racists who think they are racially "pure"... these are clearly actors playing a part.
Gad Yariv Fair enough, you might be right there with the English lad coughing up snot and not mouth saliva.... may have been actors but there are people out there with those thoughts.
Gillinghamgus and it would have been much better if they took people with such thoughts and convinced them to make a DNA heritage test.
TLDR: their biased not racist, but this videos still probably fake
to be fair they never said they were flat out racists, they said they were biased. All individuals can be biased about plenty of things, the people shown in the video were biased (not racist) against certain races for whatever reason.
Maybe they don't like another countries sports team or got injured by a specific group of individuals? Who knows?
As for this being video being faked, probably. As already stated plenty of times this is a TRAVEL company. Its so much cheaper to pay actors then to fly a bunch of individuals across the world, preform DNA tests and then give them free trips in their origin countries.
My question here is: why do we need a scientific evidence to start believing in that we are all cousins?!
Not only we're all cousins, but also truly we're all equal. I believe regardless of being black or white, Asian or European, pop star or farmer, poor or rich, the only sane way that we can measure and judge people is based on humanity.
We are not equal. We have given each other the right for equal rights and opportunities. People use the expression as if it meant the same, but It's not the same.
The difference between being equal and having the same rights is that if we were all equal, there would not be the differences required to have exchange of ideas and the inspiration that creates progress and advancement.
It would all be stagnant. All the same. Never changing. Stuck in time. Living dead.
You can't build anything interesting if you only have one kind of Lego
piece. You need all the different ones for the cool stuff.
MithranArkanere, you have interpreted my message wrong, and very obviously I didn't mean we are all equal like robots.
maroonedsia
You may *think* so, but you don't.
we are not, blacks and indigenous pre-american didnt have advanced societies for a reason
@ShariSez1 where did i say i dont consider myself that? I do wtf. I'm eurodescendant, so i am western. I am probably not a pureblood but there are reasons for that, and its not something to be proud of
this gives me goosebumps and tears
So sweet and heart-meltiing
Very STAGED, especially the reactions. Bad actors and as a whole the video has a very unnatural feel to it. It's just cringeworthy bulls***
The goal here is to push biased misinformation down people's throats. Basically, they're trying to negate people's origins and distinct ethnicities by saying "look, no need to learn about population genetics, just accept that you're mixed (and no need for frontiers)". They blatantly ignored the dna testing company's explanations on how to understand the results and what native populations normally score (usually a mixture of several components).
Inb4 you get called racist and bigot by lefties
According to this danish article: ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/tankevaekkende-dansk-video-hitter-kan-du-holde-taarerne-tilbage/6111321
(Sorry no english)
Momondo has stated that all people are your everyday guys and gals and they are not actors.
"Filmen blev optaget i København i april 2016, og 67 deltagere fra hele verden medvirker i filmen. Alle deltagerne er ifølge Momondo helt almindelige mennesker, der modtager deres egne DNA-resultater."
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"The movie was recorded in Copenhagen on April 2016 and 67 participants from all over the world are in this film.
All participants are according to Momondo completely regukar people, who receive their own DNA-resulsts"
find Yana Gross on fb with the picture of a butterfly. She stated in a comment further up that it wasn't staged. But oh well it's up to you to decide ^^
An english link from another site in case you're still curious
creativity-online.com/work/momondo-the-dna-journey/47554 (taken from a comment further down)
I honestly thought I was the only one to notice this. How can people be so stupid?
No that is the whole point, to get people to stop thinking we are really so different, We are all humans and that's what they're trying to convince people. SO unless you aren't human, stop being ignorant.
exactly ...feels very unreal
Not to be mean or anything but why did they cry? They just found out they were from different parts of the world..
KIMMY TAEHYUNG Because they were sure about their heritage and most of them hate one nationality. They cry because all that they knew and thought was a big lie and they found out that they should love and respect each other.
Because they were told to or they wouldn't get paid...lol
that's b.s. I was stupid enough to do this years ago before I put 2 and 2 together as to why this is a bad idea. No crying-it's all drama and propaganda, but you beLIEve what you like, that's freedom!
I did this test this year and the results were just as I had expected - if not better. :)
Samantha Toki yeah i would cry too
Nice acting.
doesn´t change the message and point.
The people in the video is not actors. This was stated by the company and familymembers to the people who was in the video on facebook. It's common for danish companies to state if the people in a "social" ad is actors or not.
Yes, they may not be professional actors, but they were definitely acting and the whole scenery is absolutely staged. Who believes otherwise must have severe cognitive disability.
I've watched this many times and yet it still blows my mind.
I'm telling you
I keep reading in the comments that this is all fake. As someone who works in advertising and has done several of these 'interview' videos, I'm pretty sure some of these interviewees are real people and some are actors because that's usually what we do. It's almost always 50/50 like that. We'll usually use the reactions of real people because theirs is more genuine, and then use the actors' lines as padding (the British skinhead guy is definitely an actor).
thank you :) now what is your heritage ?
Yeah the skin head and the red head seem like plants, but everyone else seems legit IMO
***** For a detailed answer I would have to spit in a tube first.
hahaha :D
Is their another way than spitting x_x I detest spitting unless their's something in my mouth. That guy doing it so casually made my skin crawl.
Hundred thousands years of sex, what do you expect?
Seriously.
And during the same time frame wandering all over the world.
+Usman Majeed
about 200,000 yearsWhile our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s.
So yes they have.
Civilisation as we know it is much younger than that. In fact, calling humanity civilised is a stretch in itself.
Luigi Di Bampa When I took my 23andme test I was hoping to find some geographic/genetic diversity. Alas it turns out I'm something ridiculous like 99.9% East Asian and 99.4% Chinese. Heh. I guess my ancestors didn't mingle.
As Confucio said "Under the sky's, over the earth, only exists one family".
Now almost 4 years later, this video/channel is recommended to me. Wish it had been earlier.
I did my DNA through Ancestry and it was amazing..... Have had friends and family also take their DNA and the results are truly a journey.
I cried getting my results when i saw we were spaniards.
all we come from the same place!
best video on youtube
One of The Best Travel Campaigns that I've seen in a long while and living proof that Creative and Powerful Storytelling makes all the difference in this not so different world in which we live in. Kudos to Danish Agency &Co for a brilliant conceptualization and execution. WOW!
I've got to say, this is one of the best videos ever on TH-cam and a hell of a message. Well done!
Atheer Omar . We share the same name I’m Omar too
I'm 8% dog? I knew my great nan was freaky but I wasn't expecting that!
Hahahhaa shit I'm dead
Lol! nice one.
How about the other 2%
Airship. He is 2% airship.
hahahaahaha
I took the test. I have DNA from all over the world.
Your ancestors sure have travelled far and wide, then!
They all converged here in the United States.
Where can you get one done? I'm fascinated to find out my true heritage! I love all cultures!
ShePlaysIt Ancestry.com.
Frapzoid the best way to know your genetics is simply to know history of the last 3000 years. and analyze it with yourself
Did mine it came back a stunning 100% pure legend.
pretty impressive no?
This was so awesome! It brought tears to my eyes. I had to watch it for Interpersonal Communication, but I truly enjoyed it. I agree with the woman who stated that it should be compulsory. That would encourage tolerance and inclusivity. This is the good stuff!
The best clip I've ever seen, I cried watching this, everybody should take an eye
Immediately when I saw the Cuban guy I said to myself, "black (Africa), Europe, and Native American (Americas)" , I don't understand why it's so emotional for people and why they would believe that they're just one thing. I'm Mexican so for sure I know I would have Native American and European but I would really want to get tested to see everything.
The DNA of this video, seems to be 100% actors
Glad everyone's taken this as a competition of tolerance
last time I saw something as fake as this, I kicked my girlfriend out
Last time you had brain was like never!
I like the Ad, but find some of it fake too... I have a theory that some of these conversations are taken out of context and that perhaps even some of the people are actors.
@boris if I don't have brain, how did I figured out this is fake...oh wait nevermind even a 3 year old child would figure out how fake this is
Science never lies, I do myself scientific studies and manipulations we practice to check your DNA identity cannot be wrong as the latter is repeated as much as possible to get the best results and delete the more mistakes
You saw a fake vagina?
Despite the acting, we need to look at the message of the video.
Well said!
I guess, but the whole "reality TV" angle really rubs me the wrong way.
This is the complete truth. I was born and raised in Russia, and at 33 I realized that this is not my country, my heart called me to Spain, I began to notice that I have a lot in common with Germany, Japan, Spain, although I have no relatives there. But I always knew in my heart that my blood has ancestors who were born in these countries, there is a feeling inside of me. Now I live in my beloved country of Spain, and in my city near inhabited by people from more than 120 countries from all over the world, and I like that all are equal and there is no nationalism. And I always say that my homeland - is the planet earth.
Esta es la verdad completa. Nací y crecí en Rusia, y en el 33 me di cuenta de que esto no es mi país, mi corazón me llamó para España, empecé a notar que tiene mucho en común con Alemania, Japón, España, aunque no tengo parientes allí. Pero siempre supe en mi corazón que mi sangre, tiene antepasados que nacieron en estos países, hay una sensación dentro de mí. Ahora vivo en mi querido país de España, y en mi ciudad cerca habitadas por personas de más de 120 países de todo el mundo, y me gusta que todos son iguales y no hay nacionalismo. Y yo siempre digo que mi tierra - es el planeta tierra.
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” Albert Einstein
Great acting 10/10, sucks that the camera work reveals a tint of "Fake"
Open mind... open world.. Greetings from Argentina.
open borders are a bad idea though
This is nice propaganda. Trying to convince Europeans that their identity doesn't mean shit.
not quite , it is to convince all mankind that their identity is shitt
I was made to watch this for school but it genuinely made me emotional, really enjoyed this
I'm multiracial and I'm not crying about. WTF is the big deal about this shit? Why cry over it?
paid actors
i'm sorry if i made you emotional. Do you want a safe space?
this is scripted, any person having worked on tv knows this.
so please just go make a scene at Starbucks and let us be.
Trollseeder
Yeah I know they're paid actors. Lol That was extremely obvious.
Terence Francis
You make no sense.
because they're actors
I'M ACTING!
what do you mean
"Do you DARE to question who you really are."
Yes, and the answer is: I am who I am. The end.
My new favourite ad, they should show this to everyone. Science should make us all more tolerant.
can you release the individual video for each one of those people
With all the people in the back, I'm pretty sure most of them are pretty boring "well yeah, you're cousins made out with each other and you are not special at all" :P
nice idea
This is beautiful and amazing! I wish they could do that for me. If everyone would look at themselves like this we'd have a lot less of a problem with racism and prejudice.
Even if it is a film, it's still great.
the DNA test is expensive though...
Unfortunately, our world is corrupt and broken. People want money and power not peace and unity. I would wish everyone would start uniting but unfortunately they won't. Personally I judge people as an individual not as a group. I really try to avoid being racist. As we are one people.
You can get this done through ancestry.com - The kit costs approximately $100 USD
BBPaws
Don't be fooled by this. They are paid actor.
I did that a while ago, always thought I'm 100% Han Chinese (born in a small place in central China), turned out I'm 72% East Asian, 25% Turkic Siberian, and the rest 3% are just all over the places.
good for you sister
Beautiful!! In addition to travels, making accessible knowledge opens frontiers and minds
The moment they acted like they didn't know wtf DNA was, was the moment I was 100% sure they were acting
To me they also look like actors, too perfect behavior. :D
yeah
We are not actors :)
I didn't think so at all....their reactions seem very genuine to me. Looks like the producers may have asked for participants or just chose random strangers. How would you have expected them to act?
+Epigen Serioku it looks like they filmed it on multipul takes aswell
So I'm just gonna ignore the comment section and just say this video was truly beautiful, I did laugh when that dude ended up being 5% German though :')
If a test like this was in mainstream supply or like the women even said compulsory then I genuinely believe maybe a lot of the hate could be eradicated.
How ever you believe life came into existence it all started with one cell splitting so yes we are all related, very very distantly though. I just wish some people would realise that no race or nationality is better than the other.
We are all one race. The human race ❤
yes, let's move you into the middle east and see how you fare. Utopia is not ready for humanity, and won't be for thousands of years. People are eating tide pods ffs. It's a nice fantasy but it doesn't align with reality, which many people refuse to see and therefore deal with logically.
Phoenixgg2 nicely put 😍
I agree with you Phoenixgg2, we are all ONE
We are one race, yeah, but this video is one with the cheesiness. What the fuck are they crying about?
Even if you forget about the linguistic or cultural difference, you still can not ignore that people have different views, character and goals in life. Not to mention such things as civil wars or a banal political confrontation. People are really the one, but at the same time it's foolish to think that people are a monotonous mass that can be attracted to a common denominator.
i think people forget it’s not just looking at your relatives , but dead ones, and you hand to remember you have mom and dad side so it’s going to be divided more
I'd love to see more of these!
They're so eye opening and heart warming 🖤
My ancestors came from both Germany and Finland. That's what we know so far. Probably more places tho! That's kind of cool to think about. No one has ONE certain background - we come from all around the world. People move around all the time, meet people from other places and have children. And it goes on and on... :)
100% true and real reactions. No actors were used during the making of this.
This video gets me every time
Who''s watching this in June 2020?
love it!!!
July
August
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You edit this comment every month!
Do you realise that the producer of this commercial must have figured that that was some solid acting?
the track from background ??
It is a re-work of Tom Day's "Troughs" :)
i would like to know the origins of my family '-' but isn't that a little costly ?
All i know is what I seen for my self, but I don't really know much about my family history.
+LetsOpenOurWorld hello
I got my results from www.23andme.com/en-int/ for about $99
do you get a list like how much % you have in you of the countries? because i want to have a list like ...% of this country and so on
"An Open World Begins With An Open Mind" that's poetry right there
an open mind is a black hole
Who cares if they are actors ? The message is real, it is true. We are all mixed genetics.
Someone did not know that that all people have mixed origins? Hell, I myself belong to more than 3-4 nations.This is obvious, even if you are not a professor of genetics. People criticize only the form of this message.
My dna test i have a bit of Korean and British, but my mom denied it saying our whole blood line is Chinese..
Being mixed of nations is not being mixed as in being african, european and indigenous pre-american
@Dragon Dimosthenis so mediterranian? wow so mixed
*You people really just don't get it do you?*
This whole business of trying to trick people into thinking we're all alike follows the same strategy as using DNA similarity statistics. Oh we surely are all the same given that my DNA is 99.9% similar to that of any other human being! Well fuck it, because I'm 50% identical to a banana as well.
God made bananas too!!
Deborah D
#BananaLivesMatter
*+薄熙来* There is no trick needed?? We're all human, stupid. Race is irrelevant.
NobodyKnowsAnything So either we're not all human or race is irrelevant? I don't think so.
"Germany, I'm not a fan of the Germans". Translation from UK English to simple English:
It's really hard to believe that I come from the best country with the best football team when Germany just kind of chuckles about us and won't even acknowledge that we consider them rivals.
FANTASTICO !!! GRAZIE GRAZIE E ANCORA UNA VOLTA GRAZIE ! I'm sorry for those who didn't cry for this fantastic video ! Grazie ancora per la fantastica esperienza