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DNA Results Arrived... My Thoughts

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Hi everyone, Kei here. Today I'm here to tell you that... our family's DNA results arrived! We filmed a video to analyze the results, and the video will be up on my YouTube channel ASAP (I've been very busy with homework and preparing for driver's ed). I will be discussing the results in this post, and what they mean to me. I was the first to check my results. They broke down like this: My mom checked her results, which are as follows: And here are my dad's results: We were very surprised to find out that my mother was not 100% Han Chinese as previously believed. She did indeed have Japanese (the one minority that we had some suspicions of), but after that it was surprise after surprise (though the vast majority of these percentages were close to or exactly 0.1%). While Peruvian, Sri Lankan Tamil and Bengali had all appeared in my results, Mexican, Esan in Nigeria and North European had not (nor did Mom think she would have these roots at all). We