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!
Reincarnation can be significant.
Oh, & genetic-testing is notoriously inaccurate, unless one is paying-for 1000x oversampling…
100x oversampling is the bare-minimum I’d consider useful.
The reincarnation thing: my “home” is what my soul/continuum remembers as “home” from some life as a buddhist Himalayan monk, many centuries ago.
To say that I don’t fit this modern world well is understatement.
Wrong values, wrong instincts, wrong frame-of-reference, wrong reactions, wrong everything.
Once I undertood it, then … life made MUCH more sense.
My unconscious has been trying to make my world fit its memory of my ( previous-incarnation’s ) world, & that’s impossible.
Once that became understood, then adapting & outgrowing-the-problem could begin.
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That makes sense. I believe I was Brazilian and Norwegian in a past life