For example, I’m like 0.01% Senegalese or something, but I wasn’t raised by Senegalese people or by the culture, nor do I consider the percentage to be significant enough, so I would not consider myself to be Senegalese.
My dad says our ancestry test used to say he was ~48-50% Norwegian, but now my ancestry says it is around 3-4%. However, another test I paid for with my raw data detected Swedish ancestry around 22%. We were raised more with Norwegian stuff and Norwegian learning videos, though, so I consider myself and my dad Norwegian-American for sure, no matter what it says on the ancestry test because 1) IDK how true, but I heard ancestry tests can be bullshit and just estimate from regions. 2) Culture and identity is more than just a number percentage on a test. 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Hilsen fra en norskamerikaner!
Culture and identity has little to do with ancestry or actual ethnicity. It’s strongly correlated but ultimately we are what we were raised to be.
Thank you. A lot of people (not on Lemmy) have just made fun of me for identifying as American with Norwegian roots. It’s not like I said I was more Norwegian than Norwegians born in Norway though or said I was just American and couldn’t be Norwegian-American
I am an American however, through and through and have my own distinct culture from a Norwegian-raised person
Happy cake day!!