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posted by mrpg on Friday August 18 2017, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the color-me...-anything dept.

Over at StatNews is a story on a recent trend where low cost commercial DNA testing is resulting in a number of White Nationalists taking genetic tests, and sometimes they don't like the results that come back.

The article looks at research on how they respond to the sometimes unexpected results:

[...] In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years' worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.

[...] About a third of the people posting their results were pleased with what they found. "Pretty damn pure blood," said a user with the username Sloth. But the majority didn't find themselves in that situation. Instead, the community often helped them reject the test, or argue with its results.

Some rejected the tests entirely, saying that an individual's knowledge about his or her own genealogy is better than whatever a genetic test can reveal. [...] Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don't matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy "that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry," Panofsky said.


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 18 2017, @06:25PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday August 18 2017, @06:25PM (#556015) Journal

    Ah, I see where you're going with this.

    Unfortunately, this "melting pot" means the bad as well as the good. This also means that my "culture" would include massive amounts of genocide and slavery, some of it within living memory, of the people who were here before us or who were forced to come here against their will by us. No thank you; none of my ancestors were involved in either the slave trade or the genocide of the American First Nations as far back as I can trace them, and i would rather *not* lay claim to that as part of "white culture" if it's all the same to you.

    Furthermore, consider that I grew up in southern Queens and the Bronx, by turns, in New York City. Flushing looks like Hong Kong, and most people in the Bronx where I was were Latinx or black. Whites were very much a minority in both cases. I still prefer Sichuan, Hunan, and Cantonese food over Midwest and especially Southern US cuisine, and make it a point to brew about half a dozen pan-Chinese herbal medicines for common ailments. Yet my skin is white (though I get mistaken for Hispanic or even Egyptian in low light...must be the hair).

    So...what culture am I, really? Am I a "reverse banana?"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:10PM (#556166)

    No fried chicken, chicken-fried pork, batter-fried okra, hush puppies, collard greens??
    Gal, you were eating at all the wrong "Southern" joints. 8-)

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 20 2017, @03:51AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday August 20 2017, @03:51AM (#556586) Journal

      I kind of like the whole not-having-diabetes thing. There is a reason the fattest people in the country live in the Southeastern states =P

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