My question is why do people care? Where you came from, where your people came from? It's mostly how you are and where you are now. Why such an intense desire to know extactly WHERE you came from and how you got here. (Sorry Chris, I know you're into this) I don't get the draw....
Well for me I became curious as to who my birth parents were. I found my Birth mother and extended family . Never found out who my father was but have ideas but no exact idea .
After I found my birth mom and the extended family I started wondering about genetics what’s passed on gene wise along with what and who my siblings did for a living along with any achievements.
You see we/ I always hear you can be anything you want to be all you have to do is work hard .
The thing is I realized that the people who are saying this are the ones who are successful . Now maybe they had to kick and crawl their way up but at they all had a DNA advantage of some kind and it’s hard for me to believe otherwise .
So in my research my family , extended family , all were pretty much locked into lower blue collar jobs . I work in DOT to my surprise so did most of my brothers one in law enforcement . That’s odd I never knew them until a few years ago .
Now birth mom was married twice and that side of the family wasn’t much different in their job careers . I was a one night stand along with 2 others in between. Mom was a bit promiscuous. Lol
I wanted to know how far the nut falls from the tree , well as you read the above not far at all . Now I’m not stupid ( of course no one is saying that ) but I know where I fit in within reason of my capabilities.
There’s no way I’d be a doctor or lawyer or scientist. Which my Jewish family so wished for , architect ummmm possibly but it would be a stretch. Lol
I’m not sure if any of my dna is of Jewish descent other than converting over .
Now there’s a whole bunch of factors that can go either way in one’s success and or failure in life .
But over all our genetics are pretty much cut and dry so to say. How we learn differs. I learn from hands on more than book learning . Others learn better from book learning . Some of us don’t store memories well others have a photographic memory.
Honestly to me the ability to remember is the key to intelligence. My memory sucks . I don’t store everyday happenings.
I can’t even remember how I play or wrote my music . I don’t know if that’s how I was born or if I hit my head on something one to many times ? Just have no idea .
I feel that the way our species treats each other as to expected successes and failures is extremely faulted . It’s just like racism another form of prejudice.
Those who keep saying or thinking it’s your own fault you’re not successful is culturally taught more so then knowing the facts .
So that’s why I became curious to know about my DNA .
Now on the other side what’s weird is I’m into Native American, Celtic, Asian mostly Chinese, culture and music.
I have both Scottish and Irish in me that explains the Celtic but not the others of which I have zero dna . Lol
