WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.151 --> 00:00:03.448 - So I'm half Japanese, 3/8th Mexican, and 1/8th Filipino. 00:00:03.448 --> 00:00:05.607 - I'm half Japanese, half Italian. 00:00:05.607 --> 00:00:07.519 - I'm pretty black. 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.119 (laughs) 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:12.623 (electronic drum music) 00:00:33.007 --> 00:00:34.904 - How much of your identity is based on 00:00:34.904 --> 00:00:37.400 what you are from a racial standpoint? 00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:38.723 And to think that could all be 00:00:38.723 --> 00:00:39.942 not what you thought it was. 00:00:39.942 --> 00:00:41.741 - If it turns out that I'm not Italian 00:00:41.741 --> 00:00:42.775 or not Japanese, 00:00:42.775 --> 00:00:44.423 you're going to blow my fucking mind. 00:00:44.423 --> 00:00:45.677 - It's going to give me an excuse 00:00:45.677 --> 00:00:46.919 to try more foods because I'll be like, 00:00:46.919 --> 00:00:48.301 "Oh, I'm representing my country, 00:00:48.301 --> 00:00:49.763 "I'll go eat this weird food. 00:00:49.763 --> 00:00:51.203 "This blood sausage." 00:00:51.203 --> 00:00:52.712 - I obviously don't really know much 00:00:52.712 --> 00:00:55.382 about my ancestry, so I think it'll be really interesting. 00:00:55.382 --> 00:00:58.400 - Basically the spectrum of like what Blackness can be. 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:01.535 I am the ultimate black person. 00:01:03.455 --> 00:01:05.278 - I guess I have to spit into this tube 00:01:05.278 --> 00:01:07.100 and it is going to be sent to a lab. 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:08.656 - [Voiceover] Spit to fill line. 00:01:08.656 --> 00:01:10.015 - That's a big ass vial. 00:01:10.015 --> 00:01:11.581 I have to spit to right here. 00:01:11.581 --> 00:01:12.859 - Ew. 00:01:12.859 --> 00:01:13.961 - Ew. 00:01:13.961 --> 00:01:16.272 - I honestly, like, don't know if I can do this. 00:01:16.272 --> 00:01:17.844 - How do you do this? 00:01:17.844 --> 00:01:18.690 (giggles) 00:01:20.230 --> 00:01:21.516 Listen I don't have time. 00:01:21.516 --> 00:01:22.713 (breathes loudly) 00:01:22.713 --> 00:01:24.013 (spits) 00:01:24.013 --> 00:01:25.285 (giggles) 00:01:25.285 --> 00:01:27.328 - Oh, oh my god! 00:01:28.278 --> 00:01:28.875 - Ah! 00:01:28.875 --> 00:01:30.430 - I hate spit! 00:01:30.430 --> 00:01:32.637 (spits) 00:01:32.637 --> 00:01:33.732 - There's food in there. 00:01:33.732 --> 00:01:35.671 - [Voiceover] Oh! 00:01:35.671 --> 00:01:37.953 - Oh my god, what the fuck do I do? 00:01:37.953 --> 00:01:39.053 (giggles) 00:01:39.053 --> 00:01:41.004 (screams) 00:01:41.004 --> 00:01:42.606 - Tell me where I'm from. 00:01:42.606 --> 00:01:44.022 - And now we just wait, like, 00:01:44.022 --> 00:01:46.096 six to eight weeks or something for it to come? 00:01:48.886 --> 00:01:50.373 - I am a genetic counselor, 00:01:50.373 --> 00:01:51.720 and I work at 23andME, 00:01:51.720 --> 00:01:54.261 and today we'll be going over some ancestry results. 00:01:54.261 --> 00:01:55.098 You ready to go? 00:01:55.098 --> 00:01:56.317 - Oh, I'm ready. 00:01:56.317 --> 00:01:59.974 - [Erynn] Overall 50% East Asian and Native American, 00:01:59.974 --> 00:02:01.471 and then when you look at that 00:02:01.471 --> 00:02:05.291 it's 49.6% Japanese. - Okay. 00:02:05.291 --> 00:02:09.191 - And the other 49.7% European, 00:02:09.191 --> 00:02:11.072 Southern European, Italian, 00:02:11.072 --> 00:02:14.276 - 31.7% Italian. 00:02:14.276 --> 00:02:16.517 They couldn't say that I was conclusively half Italian 00:02:16.517 --> 00:02:18.153 based on the results. 00:02:18.153 --> 00:02:20.289 - And then the rest is broadly Southern European, 00:02:20.289 --> 00:02:21.230 which doesn't necessarily mean 00:02:21.230 --> 00:02:22.553 that it's not Italian. 00:02:22.553 --> 00:02:23.296 - But you know what though, 00:02:23.296 --> 00:02:24.295 it's like, with white people, 00:02:24.295 --> 00:02:25.757 it's like they all think they're Italian. 00:02:25.757 --> 00:02:27.255 There's like a bunch of random shit up there. 00:02:27.255 --> 00:02:28.636 I mean, I'm going to say I'm half Italian 00:02:28.636 --> 00:02:30.610 because my grandpa will freak out if I don't. 00:02:30.610 --> 00:02:33.593 Regardless of like what the genetic breakdown is 00:02:33.593 --> 00:02:37.076 like, being an Italian American is something that's like 00:02:37.076 --> 00:02:38.875 bigger than blood. 00:02:40.445 --> 00:02:42.073 - So this is showing you, 00:02:42.073 --> 00:02:45.057 that you are 99.9% European. 00:02:45.057 --> 00:02:46.461 - Wow. 00:02:46.461 --> 00:02:50.234 - And it looks like 36% British or Irish, 00:02:50.234 --> 00:02:52.417 20% or so French and German, 00:02:52.417 --> 00:02:54.634 9.9% Scandinavian. 00:02:54.634 --> 00:02:56.399 - I'm not like shocked by that, 00:02:56.399 --> 00:02:57.806 but I've never been like, 00:02:57.806 --> 00:02:59.803 "Oh, I'm part Scandinavian." 00:02:59.803 --> 00:03:00.697 (laughs) 00:03:00.697 --> 00:03:05.642 I feel like I just learned that I'm a basic white girl. 00:03:05.642 --> 00:03:07.140 Not that exciting. 00:03:07.140 --> 00:03:11.354 Literally 99.9% European. 00:03:12.514 --> 00:03:13.495 - [Erynn] So let's see. 00:03:13.495 --> 00:03:16.002 99.7% European. 00:03:16.002 --> 00:03:16.838 - So, yeah. 00:03:16.838 --> 00:03:18.580 - 57% Eastern European, 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:20.913 26% North Western European, 00:03:20.913 --> 00:03:24.221 and then just half of 1% British and Irish. 00:03:24.221 --> 00:03:26.160 11.6% Broadly European, 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:28.956 we're really just can't dig down any further. 00:03:28.956 --> 00:03:30.257 - Okay, yeah, that scans. 00:03:30.257 --> 00:03:33.866 I'm just a basically, just a white guy. 00:03:33.866 --> 00:03:35.485 I'm a little disappointed. 00:03:35.485 --> 00:03:38.318 I thought I might be something cool. 00:03:38.318 --> 00:03:39.781 I'm just a white guy. 00:03:39.781 --> 00:03:41.418 - I'm actually like super nervous. 00:03:41.418 --> 00:03:45.423 - 71.9% East Asian and Native American. 00:03:45.423 --> 00:03:46.804 51% Japanese. 00:03:46.804 --> 00:03:48.197 - 51%, That's interesting. 00:03:48.197 --> 00:03:49.625 - 51.1 00:03:49.625 --> 00:03:51.343 - DNA guys, it's crazy. 00:03:51.343 --> 00:03:52.620 How possible is Jurassic Park? 00:03:52.620 --> 00:03:53.479 (laughs) 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.221 European. 00:03:55.221 --> 00:03:56.822 What the fuck? 00:03:57.662 --> 00:03:58.980 Wait a second. 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:03.011 Where's the Mexican in this? 00:04:03.011 --> 00:04:05.287 When I saw that the screen said no Mexican on it, 00:04:05.287 --> 00:04:06.787 I freaked out a little bit. 00:04:06.787 --> 00:04:07.586 Holy shit! 00:04:07.586 --> 00:04:09.346 Wait, is that like completely not there? 00:04:09.346 --> 00:04:14.094 - There's not a stretch of DNA for Mexican. 00:04:14.094 --> 00:04:16.730 Like the population of Mexico is made up of 00:04:16.730 --> 00:04:18.286 other populations. 00:04:18.286 --> 00:04:19.504 - Erynn pretty much told me that 00:04:19.504 --> 00:04:21.385 the 23.2 South European 00:04:21.385 --> 00:04:23.486 and then even the six point whatever 00:04:23.486 --> 00:04:26.411 of Native American could be inferred to be Mexican. 00:04:26.411 --> 00:04:27.886 I mean, it can't be conclusively said 00:04:27.886 --> 00:04:30.730 that it is Mexican, but it can't be said that it's not. 00:04:30.730 --> 00:04:32.727 - Do you think you'll share that with your family? 00:04:32.727 --> 00:04:33.771 - So when I tell them like, 00:04:33.771 --> 00:04:36.047 "Hey dad, you're not as Mexican as you thought" 00:04:36.047 --> 00:04:37.545 He's going to be like, "Bullshit son!" 00:04:37.545 --> 00:04:39.568 You know, like, how like dad's talk to kids. 00:04:39.568 --> 00:04:41.321 And as for the 1/8th Filipino, 00:04:41.321 --> 00:04:43.504 10% said that I was from Southeast Asia, 00:04:43.504 --> 00:04:45.802 in Southeast Asia is the Philippines. 00:04:45.802 --> 00:04:47.429 I would definitely recommend this for people 00:04:47.429 --> 00:04:49.563 who are multi ethnic, like me. 00:04:49.563 --> 00:04:53.104 And yeah, you may find out some crazy truth. 00:04:53.104 --> 00:04:54.880 - I like can't stop rubbing my hands. 00:04:54.880 --> 00:04:55.960 (laughs) 00:04:55.960 --> 00:05:00.604 - We can see that you're 97.5% Sub-Saharan African. 00:05:00.604 --> 00:05:03.784 So you can see the majority is West African. 00:05:03.784 --> 00:05:04.585 - That makes sense. 00:05:04.585 --> 00:05:05.758 My dad's Nigerian, 00:05:05.758 --> 00:05:07.023 but my mother's side of the family 00:05:07.023 --> 00:05:08.718 is from the Caribbean. 00:05:08.718 --> 00:05:10.726 - Other than Native Americans, for example, 00:05:10.726 --> 00:05:13.420 there's really no one who's from the United States. 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:14.082 - Yeah. - [Erynn] Right. 00:05:14.082 --> 00:05:15.080 - Yeah. 00:05:15.080 --> 00:05:16.682 - So the Caribbean is kind of similar. 00:05:16.682 --> 00:05:20.478 It's an area where everybody has come from somewhere else. 00:05:20.478 --> 00:05:21.384 - Got it. 00:05:21.384 --> 00:05:23.137 - So we can also see that 00:05:23.137 --> 00:05:25.122 there is some European ancestry as well. 00:05:25.122 --> 00:05:26.166 - Whoa. 00:05:28.196 --> 00:05:30.524 (laughs) 00:05:32.735 --> 00:05:34.314 - Yeah, I'm going to tell everyone. 00:05:34.314 --> 00:05:36.126 I really enjoyed the whole experience. 00:05:36.126 --> 00:05:38.006 I think it's really interesting to find out 00:05:38.006 --> 00:05:40.513 the unique things that make you you. 00:05:40.513 --> 00:05:42.173 Like down to like your DNA. 00:05:42.173 --> 00:05:44.486 - This must be a very exciting for people 00:05:44.486 --> 00:05:47.026 from a culturally diverse background. 00:05:47.026 --> 00:05:50.311 - I didn't even notice I'm 1.5% West African, 00:05:50.311 --> 00:05:51.426 which is crazy. 00:05:51.426 --> 00:05:54.572 - Us white people, we get enough excitement. 00:05:54.572 --> 00:05:55.722 (laughs) 00:05:55.722 --> 00:05:56.869 - I've never really thought of ancestry 00:05:56.869 --> 00:05:59.933 as a catalog of boning throughout history. 00:05:59.933 --> 00:06:02.232 - A combination of boning and migration. 00:06:02.232 --> 00:06:03.626 - I just wanted to hear you say boning. 00:06:03.626 --> 00:06:05.141 - That's really the only thing I was getting at. 00:06:05.141 --> 00:06:05.843 (laughs)