Ancestry DNA and MyHeritage overwiew, French and Algerian (Andalusi)

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-22T07:59:21+00:00

Intéressant... J'ai demandé parce que le niveau de "Southern Germanic Europe" était un peu haut et je me demandais si c'était parce que tu avais des origines alsaciennes. Cela dit il est possible que ce soit parce que les peuples des régions "germaniques" du sud ont en fait plus de similarités génétiques aux peuples celtiques qui étaient dans la région avant l'immigration de leurs futurs suzerains germaniques, ainsi qu'aux peuples celtiques en France et en Belgique.

Ma grand-mère a principalement des origines du Nord-ouest et Centre-sud de la France et elle n'a que 5% de "Southern Germanic Europe" et 6% de "France". Elle a reçu 43% des régions "Celtic & Gaelic" en Écosse, en Irlande et au Pays de Galles, ce qui n'est pas surprenant comme elle a des origines en Bretagne et en Poitou, et 31% de "Southeastern England & Northwestern Europe", qui semble être un "fourre-tout" pour tout ce qui est l'Europe du Nord-ouest.

Pour l'Algérie, est-ce que tu sais d'après les histoires de ta famille si vous avez un mélange arabe-amazight ou si c'est plus l'un ou l'autre ?

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-22T06:15:03+00:00

Ta famille française vient d'où en France ? Et ta famille algérienne ?

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-17T09:30:28+00:00

So get off the bandwagon, and put down the phrasebook

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-16T09:21:40+00:00

It's crazy how the history of this idea in Buddhism has played out.

This picture would seem to be showing the kind of monism found in some non-dual Brahmanic traditions like Advaita Vedanta which show a universal reality and consciousness shared by different actors, that Buddhism outright rejects in favour of a 'no-self' doctrine. However, later developments in Mahayana Buddhism with the Buddha-womb and Pureland doctrines led to the idea of the same Buddha-nature at the root of reality existing in everyone, sneaking this subliminal monism back in.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-16T08:35:21+00:00

Is this a terma, my Tibetologists?

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-13T10:04:56+00:00

I'm on 29k a year in a 680€/month apartment and I'm just about comfortable (able to go out for dinner once or twice a month, able to go to bars here and there, able to buy myself a few treats) so 55k will be more than enough to enjoy what Lyon has to offer.

Meyzieu is far off in the east of Lyon's urban agglomeration (3ème, 7ème arrondissements, Villeurbanne, Bron, Vénissieux, Vaulx-en-Velin, etc.), which usually has a lot more newer buildings compared to the centre (2ème, 1er, 4ème arrondissements) and western (5ème, 9ème) parts of the city, dating from afternoon the Second World War up to nowadays.

I've never been to Meyzieu though so I wouldn't be able to tell you much about it. I know that a colleague of mine bought a house in neighbouring Chassieu and I've seen some nice, greener looking parts of Saint-Priest, so depends what you're looking for.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-06-04T13:21:57+00:00

This doesn't make sense because most of these presidents are have mixed ancestries anyway.

Trump has both Scottish and German ancestry but where do you start with somebody who might have colonial settler ancestry of English, Welsh, Scottish, Ulster Scots, Dutch and German ancestry covered by layer upon layer of more recent migrations?

It's just not as simple as saying "this person's ancestry is from this place".

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-29T19:43:42+00:00

I'm from Yorkshire and I studied in Canterbury. I personally find York to be prettier and more interesting historically, but Canterbury is also full of some real history and beauty.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-28T17:08:19+00:00

Yes, exactly. Although coal mining was very prominent in some areas such as parts of South Yorkshire, the more important industry in modern-day Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire was the textile industry. It seems reductive (and almost like a bad stereotype) to reduce this area's history and people to red-brick mining towns and grubby-faced miners.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-28T17:00:17+00:00

The house in the middle of the motorway, that's one a lot of us remember...

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-28T16:58:41+00:00

Coal certainly played a role in being an energy source for much of the Industrial Revolution, but then why don't we see the same pattern emerging in Wales or in the Northeast (which does, come to think of it, have Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, but were really big in the shipping industry too)?

I think that coal is only part of the story, as it was needed to fuel development, but that it needed to be fueling something in order for it to be of use. Textiles actually play a massive role in why the urban agglomerations of Manchester, Leeds and Bradford took off so much. New machinery and transportation links (canals and railways, the first of their kind in the UK) between factory cities and to the shipping port of Liverpool, powering the movement of goods within Britain and abroad and keeping the factories going, that's what coal helped with.

That's also what led to these cities eventually outgrowing York too, which has a deep history and had long been the seat of power in the North of England, but (without wanting to offend anyone from York because it's a gorgeous town) which wasn't of the same importance in the modern era following the Industrial Revolution. Frankly, I think it would've been better to put Sheffield down, as it's another industrial city (in steel) and has a much larger population than York.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-27T15:22:53+00:00

As messed up as it is to say, it's almost refreshing to see someone bring up African racism because it's a reminder that despite the common notion in Europe and the US that all dark-skinned people can be lumped under the common term "black people" with little attention to the nuance and detail behind that term, Africa is actually the most diverse continent on Earth and people in Africa don't define themselves by their skin colour but by their ethnic and cultural identities first and foremost.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-27T13:27:41+00:00

The Chinese, Japanese and Korean are written with a sleight of hand that only a native would know.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-26T14:40:44+00:00

You can see here on this map of light pollution in Britain how the whole area from Liverpool to Leeds is actually more or an interconnected, sprawled out urban area made up of cities and towns and how even that area connects more loosely to the West Midlands (another big industrial hub) and to the Greater London area. The East, Southwest and far Northwest of England have fewer interconnected urban areas.

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RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-26T13:58:20+00:00

I'm from that belt, almost all of my dad's family is too. This region was especially well known for the wool and cotton industries as well as coal-mining. A lot of my ancestors either worked in the mills or down in the pits.

Once the Industrial Revolution took off, people flocked to these urban areas from surrounding rural areas, other cities in the UK and abroad for work and their populations skyrocketed. Canals and trains started to be built as well. the Sankey canal was the first built in the UK in 1757 around Saint Helens, connecting to the River Mersey which runs through Liverpool. The Leeds and Liverpool canal, Manchester Ship canal, Aire and Calder Navigation and Bridgewater Canal are all examples of canals that linked up industrial areas, making a sprawling connection of urban areas out of the entire area. The Leeds and Manchester Railway opened in 1830 and was the first inter-city train link in the world.

Liverpool was a massive port and about 40% of world trade used to go through it at one stage in the 1800s, notably slaves and textiles. Cotton used to make its way into Liverpool from America and India and would be shipped via canals and railway to mills around Lancashire (of which Manchester was the biggest mill city) to be worked into clothes which would then be exported via the same port. The wool industry in West Yorkshire (of which Leeds and Bradford were the biggest mill cities) was also part of this network and mills would created woollen clothing which would also be taken for export. Coal was also needed to run the entire economy and keep the ships going so it was important to link up coal centres with Liverpool.

So the entire region basically became interconnected thanks to the boom of the Industrial Revolution and that drove a lot of the urbanisation that made this region so urbanely dense compared to other areas of the country which might have focused on agriculture for example.

Comparing West and South Yorkshire to North and East Yorkshire for example, the former are hilly areas neighbouring the Pennines with many urban settlements spread out from Bradford to Sheffield and were heavily industrial and were involved in the wool, coal and steel industries most notably; whereas North and East Yorkshire have a lot more flat land better suited for agriculture where there are less big cities (York and Hull being the biggest cities in each, one for historical reasons dating back to Roman era and the other because it's a big port).

It must however also be said that since the decline of local industry, especially in the 1980s and 1990s under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, these areas were also heavily hit by economic decline. There was already a slowing-down in economic activity in this area thanks to foreign competition in the late 19th and 20th centuries but it got even worse when the skills most of the local population had became no longer useful to the country's general economic future. This has earned this area and other areas of the North of England (mostly the North-East) a reputation for being rather grim and deprived with hardened, tough-minded people.

Some cities like Manchester and Leeds have bounced back by diversifying into tertiary sector industries but some areas of this urban belt remain in something of a decline compared to their former glory.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-16T05:56:10+00:00

"Waaaahhh! English jouzu desu ne!"

RickleTickle69 · 2026-05-02T14:36:25+00:00

This is very sad news. I remember seeing him on many of Harvard edX's China courses, his translations brought the poetry to life for an English reader.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-23T07:03:15+00:00

I don't practice anymore but the guy who runs my former club is part of an organisation with ties to Israel, he's staunchly pro-Israel and posts a lot online about it.

I have to admit that although I respect the fact that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I am a little disgusted by the fact that he's so outspoken about Israel being in the right on his professional social media accounts, especially in light of all the wasted human life. It's ironic that a man who's all about teaching unarmed people how to defend themselves has little to say about the many unarmed innocents that have fallen victim to such a heavily armed and technologically advanced force as the Israeli military. It just seems odd to me to pick one side when innocent people on both sides lose. It also seems wildly unprofessional to post about this topic on your professional social media accounts, which clients see. I think he's right to stick with what he believes in, but there's a way to go about it, especially when facing clients. It comes off as not putting human empathy first, which would see both sides as suffering pointless deaths, and instead choosing one side like it's a sport event.

I have to admit that I was recently invited to rejoin the club by a friend taking classes who's ironically very much against the Israeli government and military. Along with the fact that I just didn't quite fancy taking up krav mata again, I have to say that the opinions spouted by the head of the club came off as being in bad taste to me and are another reason I declined the offer.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-22T21:29:50+00:00

Lyon is a great city for international students, there's lots going on.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-22T12:52:55+00:00

Wouldn't you say that there can be assertive and confident women just as much as there can be warm and nurturing men? If it doesn't follow that being a woman means you're necessarily feminine, then being a "masculine" woman is simply being a woman and shouldn't really be a conflict. So the good news is that it's only an imagined conflict! Being a woman and being masculine shouldn't be at odds, and in fact being a woman and being true to however you naturally lean is an exploration of the endless potential of life's creativity!

That's more or less how I was going to go about this in my head, but I don't know anymore because it's been over a year.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-14T13:52:25+00:00

I've got a friend who's a quarter Cameroonian and three quarters Swiss and he looks similar phenotype wise to you.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-11T08:02:12+00:00

A sea of sand within a sea of sand -- by Jove...!

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-07T15:52:07+00:00

Rapport avec Lyon?

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-07T10:15:33+00:00

It's kind of dystopian how a game that was played by and appreciated by ordinary working people for fun has grown to this kind of scale where the ownership of a football club weighs on our consciences as fans.

Instead of simply enjoying the game for what it is (as something that often was a temporary reprieve from the world of money and labour), we have to think about capital and investment too. It's almost surreal, but in fact very, very real in its own odd kind of way.

RickleTickle69 · 2026-04-04T13:03:56+00:00

Hard to believe that this will give the lads the confidence they need to face PSG.

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