Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Attitude & Aptitude, Culture, Differentiation
So a while back I wrote about how I had one of those DNA tests done to identify my heritage and when it came back, it didn’t resemble anything I expected.
Well unsurprisingly I recently got an email saying they had ‘updated’ my results to better reflect my information.
“I knew it” … I said, with a self-satisfying smugness that they had got it wrong.
That was until I pressed the link and discovered this …
I’m still only 1% British and 27% Italian … but now I’m a whopping 64% European Jewish.
Now I have absolutely no problem with that, except – as I said in my earlier post – my Mum’s family have been Italian for many generations and my Dad’s family have been British for many generations so either there’s some big family secret or, as I suspect, Rosie the cat did some fiddling with my sample before I sent it off.
The reality is it doesn’t bother me, but it does intrigue me.
What is the truth?
What would my parents say?
Why am I not religious in any way whatsoever?
Whatever the answer – and let’s be honest, we’ll never really get one – it highlights that nothing is as it seems, however hard we try to make it so.
People who voted for Donald Trump should remember that fact in particular.
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Well it does fit explain your complicated persona. ; )
Comment by Pete November 7, 2018 @ 6:21 amGod, how depressing. And true.
Comment by Rob November 7, 2018 @ 9:03 amEven DNA can’t explain you.
Comment by Bazza November 7, 2018 @ 6:37 amDidn’t DNA do exactly that?
Comment by Pete November 7, 2018 @ 8:21 amSmartass.
Comment by Bazza November 7, 2018 @ 8:32 amAnd to think Steve Jobs thought you were smart Baz.
Comment by Rob November 7, 2018 @ 9:03 amjobs thought he was a talking gnome who would look good in his garden. at the back of his garden.
Comment by andy@cynic November 7, 2018 @ 1:46 pmI find this really exciting. That chart represents hundreds, maybe even thousands of years of history and travel. Just think of the stories your DNA could tell.
Comment by Marcus November 7, 2018 @ 9:33 amseeing that his DNA traveled for free, at least one thing about current Campbell makes sense..
Comment by Niko November 7, 2018 @ 9:46 amyou evil fucking genius niko.
Comment by andy@cynic November 7, 2018 @ 1:44 pmAlmost like old times … which is lovely and horrifying at the same time.
Comment by Rob November 7, 2018 @ 6:34 pmThis blog is a time machine. Except it only goes backwards.
Comment by Bazza November 7, 2018 @ 7:34 pmhis dna would be a long history of liking the shittest of whatever was shit at the time.
Comment by andy@cynic November 7, 2018 @ 1:45 pmMutts are smarter dogs than purebreds.
Comment by Paul Macfarlane November 7, 2018 @ 1:07 pmtheres always an exception to prove the fucking rule.
Comment by andy@cynic November 7, 2018 @ 1:44 pmLife is complicated yet beautiful!!
Comment by Half Glass Full January 4, 2019 @ 7:17 pm