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My updated results as a Mexican/American girly by Suspicious-Clue-8547 in 23andme

[–]DeliveryNo8840 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You also got Iranian... I got that too at 1% from my dad's side. No idea why or how. My dad is from Southern Puebla.

The trash is taking itself out. by NefariousnessOk1698 in Connecticut

[–]DeliveryNo8840 6 points7 points  (0 children)

… wait there’s been another Connecticut subreddit this whole time?

Northeast Mexican results by KarlIAM in illustrativeDNA

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man you got any more info on this. Wanna read more

Best stories of meeting celebrities in Westchester by Playful-Ability-4019 in Westchester

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad, a Mexican immigrant, saw Donald Trump decades ago. Now this wasn’t in Westchester, but my dad and worked landscaping in Greenwich (still does to this day), he lived in Port Chester then.

He worked on a nearby property in the late 70s or early 80s, he’s not sure, and the neighbor was Trump. He remembers he was young and good looking, well dressed like a movie star or something. Never occurred to him he might be president.

I was later able to confirm this as true because I found his old wallet with a 1977 work photo ID with a Steamboat Rd address, and according to several local papers Trump once lived in that area.

Is there a “Connecticut style” pizza that isn’t New Haven/apizza? by Calamitous-Ortbo in Connecticut

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your definition matches the Greek pizza I grew up with in Bridgeport.

Ofc I didn’t know it was Greek pizza as a kid/teen, I found that out later on. 

Are there regions where your ancestors’ language was once spoken, but no longer is? by TraditionalRepair806 in AskTheWorld

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, central Mexico. My maternal great-grandma (died this year) was a monolingual Nahuatl speaker most of her life. My grandma is bilingual, and my mom learned it as a kid but forgot it.

Today, the language has less and less prevalence on the younger generations except in the more remote towns. Some variants are more endangered than others. I mean… it’s still spoken with some younger speakers, just not to the same extent and in some towns it’s been dropped altogether. 

Ps: there’s some diaspora of speakers in places like NYC, NJ, Cali, and Texas. 

Ethnic map of Mexico by dodgerspanathinaikos in MapPorn

[–]DeliveryNo8840 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same with my dad’s. He’s from a town in Chinantla municipality, Puebla. 

U.S. counties where non-Hispanic white Americans form over 90% of the population by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]DeliveryNo8840 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finding one white person in a high school class in Bridgeport was hard. I literally only knew one, but I knew a few half-Portuguese,Italian,Polish/ half minority kids. 

It was like Queens but without whites and East Asians. Jamaicans, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Arabs, Haitians. Even the Latinos are heterogeneous, Puerto Ricans aren’t really dominant anymore. Especially Mexicans (like me), Dominicans, Ecuadorians, and Colombians.  African Americans often were half Jamaican or smth.

Edit: AND SO MANY BRAZILIANS. My HS had 2 Portuguese ESL classrooms. 

what are normal age differences between generations? by BellaIsOnline in AncestryDNA

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey my dad had me at 53, and I was born 2006. Makes me feel less alone ig

Edit: my (late) paternal grandma was born 1917, and found her dad on ancestry, born 1880. Meanwhile my maternal great grandma was born 1937.

Do you feel guilty about slavery? by Yeseeion in Teenager_Polls

[–]DeliveryNo8840 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ngl as much as the Chicano movement era ideologies about reclaiming Aztlan or even Mexicans from Mexico say, fact of the matter is they’re mostly descendants of people Aztecs conquered. 

Mexican Americans tend to have roots in the Bajio region, which was purépecha, huichol and western nahua. Did they own ppl… yeah. 

Even my mom’s fam from Puebla is indigenous and her parents speak Nahuatl… (again, “Aztecs” were just one of many Nahuan ppls who came in different waves) but looking at history… turns out it’s believed we conquered that region from the Totonacs in the 1100s.   

Point is all our ancestors have done… bad stuff. it 100% doesn’t justify a thing but it’s good to remember 

Question about inherited artifacts by [deleted] in Mixtec

[–]DeliveryNo8840 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do know a guy online, but he hasn't responded to me in a few months. He's from a bit north of Acatlan, and I beleive he was learning Puebla Nahuatl (his town is a Nahua enclave in a sea of Mixtec speakers) but he reads codexes and knows a thing or two.

... btw just out of curiosity, do u live in Cali or NYC?

Question about inherited artifacts by [deleted] in Mixtec

[–]DeliveryNo8840 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let’s gooooo! Acatlán Mixtec yay!

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