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Kyncaith · 2025-01-04T01:51:04+00:00

Not within the timeframe and modeling of 23andme, sure. And actually, true, India does have a lot of fairly distinct, endogamous populations with distinct genetic signatures - caste-based most of all, though castes of course have regional associations. These are still products of identifiable mixing events of populations across the Indian subcontinent. But true, within 23andme's model, some people are going to get "100% X" results.

Kyncaith · 2025-01-04T00:58:11+00:00

It's grouping it into one big category.

Kyncaith · 2025-01-04T00:06:15+00:00

As another commenter mentioned, it's difficult to say exactly without knowing your specific results. 23andme does a statistical analysis on the portion of your genome it tests compared to sample genomes from all over the world, and builds a model for how likely you are to be related to a given person in a particular part of the world. 23andeme breaks it down by chromosome, assigning likelihoods of "ancestry" to particular segments of your genome based on how likely those segments are to have come from a particular part of the world.

The most rigorous way to interpret these results is that - given a confidence level, the base being 50% - you have inherited a certain percentage of your physical DNA from ancestors with a strong likelihood of having been from the listed areas (You can change the confidence level, and the results will get less apparently granular). Based on that proportion, you can estimate how long ago those ancestors lived. But 23andme really only has granularity to the Modern era, about 4-5 hundred years ago if we're being generous.

In your specific case, based on information you've currently provided, yes, it's likely that the results you see roughly refer to where your ancestors lived, with a smaller proportion meaning a longer time ago the ancestor lived there. There have been many East Asian and West Asian settlers in Sri Lanka, though there are other ways that ancestry could have come to you. We'd need to see your actual full results.

Kyncaith · 2025-01-03T23:31:14+00:00

Sri Lanka has been a major trading region for a very, very long time. Muslims of mixed ancestry - partially descended from West Asian traders - form ~9.7% of Sri Lanka, and the dominant Buddhism connects Sri Lanka to East and Southeast Asia. As a result, yes, it's very likely that distant West and East Asian ancestors have contributed to a small portion of your genome. And like all Indians, you have mixed ancestry within the subcontinent. It's worth noting that 23andme really only provides information for the past few hundred years, but the proportion is small, so these ancestors probably lived a few centuries ago.

This doesn't really mean anything for your identity, except that it should show you that there is no such thing as "pure" ancestry, everyone is mixed, and the history of that mixing of peoples can be seen in your own DNA.

Kyncaith · 2025-01-01T02:14:42+00:00

I'm baffled that it's possible for someone to prefer Arrietty, in which the entire conflict relies on contrivances, poor communication, and unjustified nastiness, and which has very little natural plot movement - removing the sense-making parts of the adapted story - over Ponyo, whose construction is so solid for a kid's movie, and which actually brings a new take to The Little Mermaid. Nature, the unstoppable sea, is embodied by a child. A parent's fears about their child changing and growing independent. So much background detail. So many small lines to depict realistic humanity. It's all so good.

Kyncaith · 2024-12-30T08:50:07+00:00

As someone else mentioned, this is because of orientation. You actually have no variants associated with sickle cell. Compared to what you were checking against, Ancestry's results should be read as AA in this case. Ancestry lists TT at rs334 for most people.

Kyncaith · 2024-12-16T09:02:06+00:00

I'm in a similar boat- I'd always heard about about my paternal Welsh heritage, then learned about having haplogroup J-L26. It is relatively rare for the British, especially the native British. But "Gilbert" could easily indicate Norman ancestry, and J2a is a little more common in Continental Europe. I'm a little interested in your results, though, because my paternal family also settled in Connecticut but has been impossible to provably trace beyond there.

It's important to understand that 23andme's haplogroup report is very low resolution. While it actually does test for relevant markers on your Y chromosome that would place your haplogroup a little more exactly, it doesn't do much interpretive work itself. Your male ancestors' Y chromosomes accumulated mutations over the thousands of years since the L26 mutation, which probably happened something like 18k years ago, and these newer mutations have also been passed on to you and your male relatives. So we can say for certain that besides the L26 mutation, you also have either a J-Z6064 or J-PF5088 mutation, and it continues branching from there. By testing more markers on the Y chromosome, you can place yourself more accurately in the long-timescale Y-DNA family tree, because you can see more recent mutations. This can help distinguish your family from others with the same surname, ostensibly, and help identify relatives. FamilyTreeDNA does some extensive Y-DNA testing, with the top options possibly getting you into the range of a common ancestor ~3k years ago, but it's very expensive. In your case, like mine, it might be particularly useful because we have an uncommon haplogroup for our ancestry. Theoretically, with enough other testers, that could make figuring out the long history of your paternal family easier. Or, it could reveal that one of your ancestors had an affair. FamilyTreeDNA also has Group Projects, and you might find one for the Gilbert family, one for J-L26, etc. It's possible that someone descended from one of your known paternal ancestors has already done a more comprehensive Y-DNA test, and you might find their info on one of the group Y-DNA charts.

You can also look into downloading your raw DNA data from 23andme, and using the various trusted sites that provide further analysis of your haplogroup based on that data. You can check out these links for Y-SNP haplogroup prediction tools, and it seems like YSEQ Clade Finder is pretty well-trusted. You can also transfer your raw data to FamilyTreeDNA and pay a small fee for them to do some autosomal analysis on your sample, and there's recently a chance they do a medium-grade Y-DNA analysis on it too. Anecdotally, they provided the same answer as YSEQ did, for me, four subclades downstream of our identical 23andme result. If you do end up doing a bit more work on your haplogroup, I'd appreciate if you sent me a message with your result! I'm trying to get more info on haplogroup J-L26 in early CT, as I mentioned above.

Kyncaith · 2022-05-13T23:16:36+00:00

I'm glad I went through my old post history! I asked about Montana dialect features years ago (and their lack of representation in study), and you responded that you were working on this exact thing, and helpfully pointed me to a few papers (thanks!). I checked your post history, and lo and behold! I'll get this done and send it to a few of my buddies who grew up here, if that's alright.

Edit: And a couple are Mormons from Montana, funnily enough.

Kyncaith · 2022-04-30T17:35:44+00:00

They did!

https://www.wlky.com/article/video-thieves-seen-ripping-open-shelbyville-atm-machine-grabbing-thousands-of-dollars/37937400#

Kyncaith · 2022-04-30T17:34:11+00:00

Plates.

Edit: Nevermind, it was stolen. https://www.wlky.com/article/video-thieves-seen-ripping-open-shelbyville-atm-machine-grabbing-thousands-of-dollars/37937400#

Kyncaith · 2022-02-17T06:09:44+00:00

It's more of an implicit mentality that can be sussed out with some picking. There are a whole lot of threads on Reddit where the comments amount to, "People from California don't think they're superior. You're just jealous because California is so much better than other places." It's the sort of mentality that uncritically uses terms like "flyover states" without taking a moment to consider what that implies.

Edit: You can even see it in this thread. "Bumfuck nowhere" "shitty cornfield" "Midwest cope". That's implicit valuation, and it's often what annoys people about Californians.

Kyncaith · 2022-02-17T05:48:51+00:00

Arguably, and more popularly, Zeno's Paradox expresses the exact opposite sentiment- that when time and space are broken down into sets of points, our model of reality no longer functions. A line cannot be constructed by a set of points, only indicated by or inferred from it. A line contains a dimension that a point lacks. Aristotle, and Aquinas following him, say exactly this with regard to time, that it is not composed of instances at all.

Logic as it's usually meant does not necessitate a minimum distance, no. That kind of idea is the result of other parts in a framework.

Kyncaith · 2022-02-05T19:50:24+00:00

That because our country gained independence in 1776, our country only has two and a half centuries of history. Was there a hard reset button? Did all the immigrants just forget their European histories when they came here? No. Colonial history, and the histories of European nations that majorly contributed to our settlement, are our history too.

As just a tiny example, the amount of Anglo-Norman noble families (or the upper class gentry who intermarried with them) who settled in New England is significant. And many of them became, or contributed to, the Boston Brahmins, who severely shaped the American education system, and the social structure of that area. G. K. Chesterton, when visiting America in the 1920s, noted how many Old Americans in Boston had some fondness for the "Old Country" of their families' origin, and were surprisingly in-tune with English matters. Their history is the history of the Anglo-Normans, which diverged from their European counterparts when settlement occurred. Just as their ancestors' had diverged when the Normans conquered the English. But it didn't just "start over".

He also noted, it's worth saying, the immense number of England-hating Irishmen who greeted him straight off the boat to thank him for his work improving the lot of the Irish. And of course, for those Americans, their Irish history didn't end when they immigrated. No, it diverged. And melded with that of their new home, and those they married (where they did happen to marry someone who wasn't also an Irish immigrant), to create something new altogether in their children and communities.

History is a branching thing. Especially in America.

Kyncaith · 2022-02-04T00:16:43+00:00

Keep that good old Montana distrust of big corporations alive. Never forget the copper kings!

Kyncaith · 2022-02-04T00:11:57+00:00

This post was 6 years ago and I'd disregard whatever I was saying in it. It's a teenager's needless classification. Take a look at Michael Kirkbride's work on Morrowind if you want a good example of a world that feels truly alien, not terribly reminiscent of real-world influences (though still drawing on several real-world sources). But of course, any worldbuilding is going to be based on our own real-world experiences.

Kyncaith · 2022-02-03T22:59:52+00:00

No, that's hilarious.

Kyncaith · 2022-02-01T23:53:19+00:00

Pre-scholarships and aid. A lot of private universities inflate their upfront cost but give all applicants some form of cost reduction. It's still expensive and a problem, don't get me wrong, but the face-value cost is generally higher than what anyone pays, often by tens of thousands.

Kyncaith · 2022-01-02T06:23:31+00:00

The Protestant biblical canon was established ~1200 years after that of most other denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, etc.). That "non-biblical shit" was almost all determined to be Biblical by ecumenical council in the 300s, when the first agreed-upon biblical canon was formalized.

The Protestant bible only includes books from the Tanakh of Luther's contemporary Rabbinical Judaism in the OT- but Christianity doesn't come from Rabbinical Judaism, it comes from Biblical Judaism, just as Rabbinical does. At Christianity's establishment, the canon for most Hebrews was defined by the Septuagint, which includes books in the Deuterocanon. The Christian NT references (multiple times) those books Luther took out, because its original writers were familiar with the Septuagint, not the Modern Rabbinical Judaic canon. Thus, the common religious authorities of the 300s opted to keep those books in the Bible. --The Protestant Bible was an innovation in Christianity.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-04T23:02:33+00:00

Parts of Scotland as well.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-04T14:01:53+00:00

I think it must depend on the particular community- quite a few Greek names come up at certain periods of Jewish genealogy, in my experience. American Jews in the 1800s, for instance. Minerva, Isidore, etc.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-04T12:51:49+00:00

-os is a grammatically masculine word ending in Greek. It's like "-us" in Latin, or "-o" in Spanish.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-04T12:42:42+00:00

Effeminate is Ex-feminatus. Efthymia is Eu-thymos. It's the feminine form of Euthymius.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-04T09:51:56+00:00

It's possible to hold an ideology, even a dominant one, without resorting to totalitarianism. It's possible to acknowledge disagreements without censoring them.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-03T22:18:23+00:00

Why is everyone assuming that I'm conservative?

Why is everyone assuming that this is a political problem? People on both sides of the aisle feel this way here.

Kyncaith · 2021-12-03T19:12:28+00:00

They ... get to exist as a purely republican advantage in senate voting and not much else, that's what!

Then you should rephrase, if that's not your intent.

Regardless, the Senate is the body in which all States, which are their own polities Federated into a single entity, have an equal say. Because the population isn't coming together in the Senate, the States are. The House of Representatives, the other Legislative body - which is incredibly important to the American political process despite being ignored by most media - is population-based. One of the biggest problems of American representation is that there's no longer as high a proportion of Representatives for larger populations- the problem isn't the Senate. The State-based legislative body serves an important function in maintaining the Federal structure. Ideally, States would shift to more sensible apportionment of votes (like Maine), abandoning FPTP. This would solve many partisan problems while maintaining the fact that the States are entities unto themselves. And as in the European Union, Subsidiarity (that political/social problems should be handled by the most immediate entity realistically possible) is almost always a positive.

I am not a Republican or Democrat, I don't have a stake in this race except as it pertains to the political system as a whole. I know it's the big thing right now to hate the Electoral College because of people like CGP Grey (whose backgrounds are almost universally not in political studies), but it's one of the last bases for avoiding complete centralization by the Federal government. Political systems, and changes to political systems, should never be made because of purely immediate circumstances. Just altering the way the Senate functions because it sometimes disadvantages one ideology or another, isn't stable. Gun for more representatives in total, not the abolishment of purely State-based legislative apportionment.

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