this is kind of exactly why these tests are bullshit lol. theyβre not accurate, theyβre based on loosely aggregated data and fundamentally DNA cannot really tell us much about things like ethnicity and CULTURE
when my aunt got one done it said weβre Indonesian rather than Chinese. But like. my family has cultural ties to China we can trace back centuries. thatβs what I grew up with. We have understood ourselves as Chinese for generations upon generations. I donβt really know much about Indonesian culture outside of what Iβve learned from friends. On a personal level, I have no connection to it at all. Is it possible my family has some degree of genetic connection to Indonesia? Sure, I guess? It simply doesnβt matter though. It would be absurd for me to call myself Indonesian and stop identifying with my Chinese culture just because of the results of one of these tests.
Which, btw, also applies to identifying as Native off the back of these results! Thatβs not how that works, folks!
For what itβs worth, my auntβs results caused no turmoil in my family. Everything else was more or less what we expected, and all of us agreed the inaccuracies were silly and would not impact our lives at all