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Due to racial admixture (in often times, multi-generational Racial Admixture), many mixed-race Latinos (including Mexican Mestizos) can often resemble Old World Ethnic Groups or races, such as South Asians, Southeast Asians, Polynesians, & Middle Easterners/North Africans (MENA), this is usually...
Saint Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) has been portrayed in the media of being a Northwestern European type (usually a Borreby or Brunn) influenced by early Dutch settlers in North America & Coca-Cola, but according to recent Anthropological research, Saint Nicholas had light brown skin, dark brown...
None of my grandparents have been tested, my paternal grandfather passed away in 1982 (before I was born), so I never met him, my maternal grandfather passed away in 2012 (when I was 13), & my maternal grandmother just passed away last year, so only my paternal grandmother is still alive, but...
So, I just tested my father for the holidays & his birthday, unfortunately my mother doesn't want to test, so now that I have been able to test my father, I calculated an estimate on how my mother could possibly score, I know it's not the most accurate, & we will not know the true estimate...
Tejanos are on average a balanced admixture (around half & half) of Spanish & Native American (mainly Coahuiltecans), with smaller amounts of Sephardic Jewish (1/64 to 1/16 on average) & Afro-Mexican (1/32 or 1/16 on average), the Hispanic settlers of Texas were mainly Mexicans (mainly...
MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER:
Born in 1927 in Atotonilco El Alto, Jalisco (in Los Altos de Jalisco), moved to Michoacán with his parents & siblings as a young adult, passed away in October of 1982 in Nogales, Sonora, by the Arizona border, he was likely 90% European & 10% Native American, as shown...
On the 23andMe subreddit.
30% of Whites are of German ancestry, 20% are of British ancestry, 10% are of Irish ancestry, 10% are of Jewish ancestry, 10% are of Italian ancestry, 10% are of Polish ancestry, 4% are of Scandinavian ancestry, 2% are of Portuguese ancestry, 2% are of Spanish-Cuban...
• 35.8% of Black Americans are in the 80-89% Sub-Saharan African range.
• 28.2% of Black Americans are in the 70-79% Sub-Saharan African range.
• 28.2% of Black Americans are in the 90-99% Sub-Saharan African range
• 5.1% of Black Americans are in the 60-69% Sub-Saharan African range.
• 2.5% of...
• 80.4% of US/Canadian Whites are 100% European
• 8.1% of US/Canadian Whites are in the 90%+ European range (with less than 10% Amerindian admixture)
• 5.6% of US/Canadian Whites are in the 90%+ European range (with less than 10% Sub-Saharan African admixture)
• 3.2% of US/Canadian Whites are in...
Balanced Mestizo:
Mexico (nationwide)
Chile (nationwide)
Honduras
El Salvador
Paraguay
Pardo/Triracial:
Venezuela
Panama
Nicaragua
Colombia (nationwide)
Harnizo/Castizo:
Costa Rica
Argentina (nationwide)
New Mexico, & other parts of the Southwestern United States (mainly the Colonial...