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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8233365, member: 110504&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], you&#039;re due a public apology for my comments earlier in the thread:</p><p>&quot;Regarding nationalism generally, from here, the whole concept is reeking crap. A lot like &#039;race&#039; --Show Me One other example, in mammalian zoological taxonomy, where the term is even used. Back to nationalism, it&#039;s kind of like, if you really descend from only one major ethnicity, keep your sons <i>and </i>daughters under lock and key. --For the sake of the rest of the species, because you&#039;re frighteningly inbred.&quot;</p><p>Whether or not this completely absolves me, I had an entirely different demographic in mind.&nbsp; ...Let&#039;s not go there, if we don&#039;t have to.</p><p>...I&#039;ve had numerous adventures with commercial DNA companies, going back a decade or so.&nbsp; From here, the&nbsp; essential, opening caveat has to be that they are, after all, commercial.&nbsp; Meaning, for one, that their databases are mutually proprietary, and effectively tell you more about the extent, and limits, of their clientele than about the human genetic record at large.&nbsp; It&#039;s ultimately more a business than a science.</p><p>From memory, among the three companies I wound up giving my money to, all emphasized the predictable British Isles, northwestern European and Scandinavian elements.&nbsp; From there it kind of went into freestyle.&nbsp; Between them, they registered residual Sub-Saharan African descent, along with some Ashkenazi.&nbsp;&nbsp; (--&#039;Residual&#039; apart from, let&#039;s see, minor details like facial morphology, the cultural environment, and consequent personal experience.&nbsp; For one benign instance, the guy at the restaurant where I worked who liked to call me &#039;Cambodian&#039; --he thought that was really funny.)&nbsp; At this level, they differed widely, not only between eachother, but from one month to the next, within the same company.&nbsp; At this interval, 23&amp;me includes both.&nbsp; --But it&#039;s also worth noting that, even among the European groups, the various percentages have been no less volatile.&nbsp; Whether or not the science itself is still in its infancy, the commercial application sure makes it look that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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