Name: Asian Americans Take A DNA Test
Uploaded: 2018-05-18T02:21:31.000Z
Duration: 10 min 49 s
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- Many of our coworkers have done this before

and have gotten wild results, and we wanted

to see if this might apply to some of our

- My folks have always been really private

way to even hide stuff from me sometimes.

- My mom and dad always talked about our immediate family.

Aside from that, we don't really interact

with aunts, uncles, cousins, or any of that.

- We can't trace my family history back that far.

^- The Philippines has always been conquered

^by various other cultures and countries.

^So it's kind of hard to say what real Filipinos are.

^from the mountains, so we weren't as conquered.

^my parents were born in Vietnam, so Chinese.

^- And my parents have always told me that I am 100% Indian.

^I started thinking that I might have other genetic codes

^in my DNA because my mom was born with blonde hair,

^and then she has an uncle with blue eyes and blonde hair.

^- My parents had always told me I was Vietnamese.

^Recently, I found out I was part French.

^- Southeast Asia is a bit of a melting pot.

^I was raised to believe that I am 100% Lao.

^- And my mom is Japanese, and my dad is white,

^and I found out that my great-grandfather

^- And I'm 50% Chinese and 50% Scottish and Irish.

^- As a first guess, most people do think I'm Korean.

^- When I was in the Korean market, a older Korean lady

^as a mechanic, and his client sometimes thinks

^- I would get Chinese, Thai, and sometimes Filipino.

^in a Chinese restaurant with a Chinese family

^eating Chinese food almost every day, speaking Cantonese.

^Sometimes you feel like you belong everywhere,

^and sometimes you feel like you belong nowhere.

^- It's hard to say what does Japanese look like,

- So we got these little kits from 23andMe.

^Because of history keeping in the Philippines,

^and not a lot of access to those records --

^- And I've always wondered what my lineage was.

^Bloodlines is a really important thing in Korean culture.

^was some mixing back in the day, or there wasn't.

^My entire family is really pale, and I'm tan

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Asian Americans Take A DNA Test

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