After the Gates program, I was interested. I didn't know that it was so easy to do. The price is a little steep for my level of interest, but maybe I'll do it.
I think wide-spread general knowledge about individual racial background has interesting implications for discussions about race and how we think about history.
Think about the argument for reparations for slavery. Does Henry Louis Gates pay himself?
(I’m kidding about that, really, but it’s interesting to think about what it says about our ideas of race.)
One of my mom's brothers had it done, but just focusing on the African ancestry. Their side of the family, however, isn't as ethnically interesting as my father's side. Many of those aunts and uncles have very strong Native American features, red hair, and blue eyes.
On the Gates show didn't he say that a lot of people who thought they were Native American especially were surprised by the results that they weren't? (Or was it just his own family?)
I have it on reliable authority that the DNA tests are just a left handed way for the government to get your DNA on file . . . Big Brother and all that.
I have it on reliable authority that the DNA tests are just a left handed way for the government to get your DNA on file . . . Big Brother and all that.
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