That’s how my mom is, but one creole parent on the more euro side of 60 range and dad 39% European with a very mixed dad not from Louisiana (well as far as I know😂)
Yeah but they’re not to be taken as exact law. They give a good round about estimate to give you a feel of your overall racial range. I don’t think someone who’s 50% Indigenous is only gonna get 2% on their results lol.
Much of this lopsided percentage is a direct result of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924; most people of African descent are an average of 80% west African (Ghana and Nigerian the top two)--in many cases, regardless of skin tone, hair texture, features, etc.
@@DanDan-z7e Because they lumped black people in with mixed race people. This pulls our percentages up while it pulls blacks percentages down. You really believe the average black person is 25% European because of slavery lol? Slavery ended in 1865 and it's not guarantee that a ancestor was raped exactly on that date. It could have been 1810 or 1750 by example. You lose have each generation (100,50,25,12.5, etc). How on earth blacks making it 6, 7,8 generations with a quarter. If that's the case shouldn't t the indigenous % be alot higher lol? Atleast 12.5% half of that so called quarter of euro blood. Think about it..
@@krazyjnva2up2down55remember it’s no percentage based on our race view in America 😂. I do wish it could be some type of race logic, so we know who still mixed and if someone fall back into the blk or white box(75%+ which is not logic America use and nobody considers anyone mixed unless u directly from a white parent) it’s understood it’s a social construct and we all mixed with something at the end of the day. But ppl who still be 60/40 range gotta stop the one drop stuff asap 😂. Idk if u saw my results on one of these videos yt it was 71% African 28% European 1% indigenous
@@DoubleBeezy Someone who is above 75% isn't going to have trouble blending in with the local Nigerian population. We definitely know who is mixed for the most part. Black Africans ain't Yellow. Also the hair type is a dead give away
I think Dominicans should be proud of everything that they are, but what is often glossed over is the fact that the DR tried to ethnically cleanse BLACK out of existence. If both the DR people and those outside of the DR acknowledged that history, it would help both sides to come to terms with the subtle issues that persist when it comes to race.
They purged Haitians out of DR because they were trespassing and slaughtering rmulatto and European farmers. I think if those outside of DR and Dominicans alike who are ashamed identifying as mixed or Hispanic just appeal to Pro-black Hotep agendas should acknowledge that history so that way they can come to terms of who they are as a nation and race.
Thanks so much for watching! I’m glad my content is speaking to you. I just think it should be ok for us to highlight people like us and show how diverse we really are and how we can’t all be shoved into a one size fits all identity ✨
I absolutely love Christina, she’s such a breath of fresh air and not to mention beautiful inside and out just like yourself. This was a great DNA reaction video. Keep up the good work sis. Much love & respect ❤️
I come from one of those rare MGM Creole families that stayed 50% or less African over several generations. My sister’s children with black men tested about 50% African. My niece’s children with a biracial man of Mexican and Black American ancestry are about 45% African. Her child with a black American man is around 60% African. My parents are both MGM Creoles (New Orleans and Lake Charles) and I’m 36% African (Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon) 58% European ( French, Italian, English, Scottish) 6% Indigenous (Latin America).
That is so rare today! Dare I say, I love when when I see it. & that doesn’t mean that Creole families that have become predominantly black over the generations are any less beautiful. My own family has become predominantly black after my grandparents generation with a few exceptions here & there like me & my parents and a few others. So I’m not saying it to mean blacker Creole families aren’t beautiful but when things are rare, they’re gonna stand out & I just love to see it. Your family’s mixture sounds beautiful.
No such thing as full creole? Do we have a standard for half creole, quarter creole, partially creole ?btw I'm creole but do not ID as full/half/quater creole, I'm just a Creole. My parents ( on dad side grandmother ) are French, Haitian, and Indian and where not slaves fwiw. I'm also a product of West Lousiana.
@@kfelix2934 to me Creole should be able to operate just like any other ethnic group. If someone has a Puerto Rican parent and an African American parent, people would say that person is half Puerto Rican even though Puerto Rican is not a race and their Puerto Rican parent could be just as black as their African American parent. It’s about culture and I think Creoles should start distinguishing ourselves the way everybody else gets to. If you are from two parents who’s lineages stretch back to colonial Louisiana then you are “full” Creole. If only one of your parents has this background then you are “half Creole”.. not that I’d be policing people telling them they have to say half or 1/4 or whatever because the community is too small as it is to be alienating or half including peoole but there is something to be said for those of us who are Creole through & through on both sides since the beginning… it’s not a race thing if that’s what you were hinting at. Being mixed doesn’t make one full Creole vs “kinda” Creole”.. it’s about that Colonial Louisiana heritage regardless of race and if you just have 1 grandparent with that background that’s different than having two parents with that background.. that’s all it is ✨
@@kfelix2934 Yeah that’s because people just handle the Creole identity any ol way. You have people who are Creole & don’t even claim it & then you have people going around acting like they’re oh so Creole because one of their grandparents were from Louisiana or because they’re mixed and assume being mixed somehow makes them Creole even though they have zero connection to Louisiana. We have no structure or anyone REALLY creating a standard for what it means to be Creole & people freely identify or don’t indentify with it however they please without truly even committing to it. So no you’re not gonna hear anyone say they’re half Creole because the gate is wide open for anyone with the slightest Louisiana heritage to say they’re completely Creole and who’s gonna check them or verify it? I can’t go around claiming to be Nicaraguan because of my Nicaraguan great-grandfather without Nicaraguans & Latinos as a whole checking me at the door. They warmly accept me as is, as someone of Nicaraguan ancestry but if I were to waltz into the Latino community telling them they need to accept me as being completely Nicaraguan, no one would let me do that.. but they’re fine with me saying I’m part Nicaraguan and showing love to my Hispanic heritage. They love that. Just like I love for people of Creole ancestry to acknowledge it and big up it without acting like they’re just full fledge Creole ESPECIALLY when they’re not from Louisiana. There’s no one policing our identity enough so people don’t have to step correct and say “I’m half Creole” or “part Creole.” They just straight up say “I’m Creole” lol.. I give a pass to people who at least have 1 Creole parent especially if they grew up in Louisiana. They likely grew up pretty connected to their Creole family and knowing that side of their heritage but the ones that are less than half just straight up saying they’re Creole like they don’t have 3 other grandparents ir whatever, I’m not a fan of that but like I say, I’m not gonna be the one to police them. If I do it, then it’s because I only want mixed people to be Creole so I let people say what they want but I do definitely look at people who have at least 1 Creole parent different from those who just have a Creole grandparent or great-grandparent or something. I do love for them to embrace their Creole heritage and claim it as part of their heritage but the ones who act like that’s all that they are, I’m not a fan of it. If I had it my way, people would say “I’m half Creole, 1/4 Creole, part Creole etc” but I don’t really voice that or care to make a big deal of it. Like I said, we’re too small of a community for me to nit pick lol
My dad's family is an example of one that maintained a typical "biracial" genetic mix over many generations in the US - literally going back to the 1600/1700s all the way up to my grandmother's generation. Ancestry results I have seen of these family members on 23andme have typically been in the 60/40 and 70/30 range (the higher no being the European ancestry, the lower no representing the African ancestry). Since it was my father and his siblings who began marrying mono-racial black women, my ancestry results show more African ancestry at around 62-63% Sub-saharan African.
I wonder if his family was demonized by black people for trying to “keep it in the family” or whatever they say when mulattos want to carry on tradition
Well thanks to the Most High my father is 100% African and he's from Louisiana I was nervous. But when he got his DNA done my friend was like you're going to have some Caucasian in you especially because of where he comes from. And when that test came back and it said 100% I took off dancing .
Steve reminds me of mine and my family’s dynamic. Those like him including the Hodgetwins (who are 56% Afro) reflect what much of my family is like. But DNA results become tricky because even among full siblings, even their results can vary.
Well yeah they can’t give you a 100% spot on percentage, that’s why they call them estimates. They’re more to let you know what range you fall into more than a concise exact. But across 3 companies, my results (at the continental level) don’t deviate more than 3%. They’re all 49-52% & the girl in this vid said her results from different companies are between 50 & 52%. It gets trickier at the regional level when you’re trying to figure exact ethnic percentages. Those can vary a lot from one company to the next so one should conduct additional genealogy research to figure all that out. But at the continental(racial) level, those numbers are pretty solid give or take a few percent.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Exactly! Plus, this talk reminds me of the fact that although DNA may not necessarily change, we are all still making new discoveries day by day. Ancestry had me at 13% Scottish when it once had me at 8% Scottish. Maybe the company discovered that I was more Scot than anything else? Perhaps. There’s something else I was thinking. Looks may not be everything, but sometimes your phenotypical expression can also be a reflection of higher percentage counts of what you may be composed of, racially. At times when I’m out and about minding my own business, some people would point out what I am including others. Typically, those like us have higher percentage count of Afro and Euro.
@@JorJorCrelatto Genetics definitely play a large role in phenotype. It’s just that every blue moon, someone will come out with features that don’t fit how black or how white they are & people love to run with it & say see! There’s no “mixed look” cuz my black aunt with two black parents is light skin… so because of the hand full of outliers, I placate people and let them have the whole “genetic dice” argument but if someone forced me to bet money on which child was going to come out light skin, the one with two fully black parents or the one with the white mom, though yes, genetically “anything is possible” and you do have light skin black peoole & dark skin mixed peoole, if I’m going with good odds, I’m gonna bet that the biracial one will come out light skin lol. People have a difficult time with the concept of PROBABILITY vs POSSIBILITY. Sure anything is possible but how probable is it? But yes I do believe that more often than not, people come out with the features you’d imagine them to come out with based on how their parents and grandparents look. People who fall outside of this are outliers. Most black people look black and most mixed people look “mixed” but you do have outliers & people love to act like outliers are the norm so I just let them lol.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Since outliers and the topic of genetic lotteries came up, everything you say reminds me of Tyra Banks. She came out 80% African, but I guess her lighter skin and greenish-Hazel eyes are perhaps throwback genes to her distant white ancestors? Maybe. And I also knew this woman as light as me and you who had blue eyes, but yet both of her parents were unambiguously black and darker skin. Pretty cool and interesting! It does happen. Hence, the outliers.
@@JorJorCrelatto Yep one of my best friends is like that. Very fair skin with eyes like yours and coarse/type 4 ashy/golden hair. Both her parents are brown skin, brown eyes, black hair but her dad’s mom was a very fair skin mixed Creole woman with reddish/blondish hair & grey eyes so my friend just happened to inherit a bunch of that one mixed grandparent’s European genes. So people love to use these rare occurrences to make it seem like it’s totally the norm and to be expected lol.
My grandmother is from Virginia and she has two black parents but her DNA results show that she's 49% European and 51% African. Both of her parents were very fair skinned but her father could pass for white. That said, black is black... My favorite book is Americanah my Nigerian Auther Chimamando Ngozi Adiche and she talks about how she never Identified as black until she came to the United States. Its not something native to Africa so I associate it more with the diaspora. So for me even if you're 75-50% European and the remainder is African, to me you are still black... mixed but black. I think of it more as an ethnic identifier than a "race". Black is more like a caste. My grandmother's family knows their history and who their white ancestors were but that didn't negate them identifying as black... her response when people would ask if she was mixed was "CLEARLY but I never got denied service or entry for being mixed, I was denied for being black so I'm black, a mixed black person" same with my mother. My father is from South Carolina and is of geechee descent so my mother is mixed but by father is nearly entirely African
@@krazyjnva2up2down55 because I don’t buy into race? Puerto Ricans come in every color and race and different parts of the island have different mixtures the same is true for most Latin American countries. They identify with their culture over their race. I identify with the ppl in the US who are of African descent and who historically have been labeled black regardless of their mixture. How is that not letting go of the one-drip rule? I’ve never seen black as purely a racial designator since A) race is a social construct and B) half of my family is technically mixed. The concept of race doesn’t serve “black” ppl so ī identify with “my people” black Americans, be that nearly pure Africans from the Carolinas of Gullah/Geechee descent or if they descend from mixed-race Virginians like my mother's family or mixed creole people in Louisiana. I identify with the people who in this country were persecuted for being of African descent
Mixed identity is also experience based, so it doesn't really matter how mixed a mgm is (them specifically cuz a biracial is gonna always have a mixed experience due to because directly tied to that other race), some of them dont and will not identify as mixed because they dont have a mixed experience. Many of them grow up up soley in black culture. So i feel its unfair to force that label on them in the same way it unfair to force a black label on someone who identifies as mixed.
Agreed. I don’t force anyone to identify as anything and yes it’s very experience based. I pointed out Steve and the other guy in this video as MGMs because that’s literally what they are and they work well as examples just the same as if I had used a biracial person as an example of what a biracial person is even though they may identify as black. They still work well as an example.. but I’d never tell any mixed person, “you’re mixed and need to identify as such”.. unlike certain groups, I never want to beg or bully people into sharing an identity with me because when you truly value your identity, you’re actually going to gate keep it more than force people into it.. So if someone feels more comfortable identifying as mono racial, by all means please do. I’m here as an example for mixed people who identify as such and to let all MGMs (especially Americans because we are pressured the most to identify the way others want us to identify) know that they CAN identify as such if they want to. Some are so conditioned by the one drop rule that they fear making people mad by identifying as mixed. But for the ones who are perfectly comfortable with a monoracial identity, such as, you even have biracials who choose to only identify as black. I’m not here to convince those people. I’m here for the ones who do identify or want to identify differently. Thanks for watching & commenting ✨
Another is how and why are the biracial some elders did claim their other race because it was no love there DNA but nothing else. But for those who it works for Morris power to you. ✌🧘🙏
I disagree with that claim. Because the difference is when a mixed person identifies as black when they are mixed it stems from self denial. Besides we would never hear the end of it from people if a mixed person identifies only as white and white culture, they would call that person a racist.
Thanks so much for watching! & wow your family is so similar to mine. 3 of my grandparents are Louisiana Creole and 1 is half African American, half Nicaraguan. I love our beautiful culture as well. We’re definitely unique ✨💕
This is very interesting. I’m a Louisiana creole, and living in Las Vegas. I recently did a DNA test, and my Test results said I was 51 percent Sub-Saharan African, and 49 percent Western European. 34 %French, and %15 Spanish.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade I will definitely post my results. Your vids are amazing. My family is the Cane River Creole from Natchitoches. Keep up the great work, because Creole’s are all over the country now, and we have very few people that represents our culture on RU-vid, and I truly appreciate that. Also, I get called Bad Bunny at work all the time 😂 😂 😂 once again, keep up the great job 💯
@@AbbeyCelestine Oh y’all CREOLE Creole lol. I saw a documentary specifically about the Cane River Creoles. They did a good job preserving the culture out there. The documentary was old so idk how it is exactly today but at least around the 80s/90s when they did that documentary, they appeared to still be heavily culturally Creole & there were still a ton of mixed race Creoles. Looked like a little Latin America over there lol. & I’m so glad you’re enjoying my channel! Thanks so much for tuning in. We really do need the representation and just to show the world like hey, we’re here, we still exist lol. Oh, & Bad Bunny is fine as hell, take that as a compliment from everybody 😂
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Yeah, we are about as Creole as it gets. We still have family reunions every year, where all of us from around the country meet and greet one another at cane river, and persevere our heritage. Also, I definitely took the Bad Bunny reference as a compliment Queen💯
@@AbbeyCelestine That’s beautiful y’all still gather with out of town family every year. I hope y’all never stop doing that 🙌🏼 That’s what keeps that connection & pride alive
In Brazil Mixed-race peoples are called Pardo( Brown) and Mulattoes for B& W mix; Jamaica is Brown and Mixee race females of any mix are affectionately called Browning. Dougla is for Indian and Black in Trinidad and Guyana. Creole in Belieze and Mulato and Brown in some other small islands!
Ancestry dna gave me a new community that said EARLY FRENCH SETTLERS Louisiana(I’m just 3% French, so that was shocking 😅). And I had 2 Louisiana creole communities, one from Acadian group and other early south and central creoles. East Texas and Oklahoma, early Southern African Americans was my others , and looking at your vid, I’m shocked she didn’t have much Nigerian but she probably got some since updates. I was 30% Nigerian and I had 12% western Bantu mix and everything else was single digits
Yeah I have Early French settlers too. Even though you only have 3%, Ancestry was probably still able to place two and two together. Someone with Louisiana Creole communities who has some French ancestry, more than likely that French ancestry is coming from Louisiana French settlers. It makes sense. Wow you have small percentages too like me. My biggest 3 are 17, 15 & 14% lol. I wish I had at least 1 30%.
you probably got to the 50% mark because the non black side of you actually has a little bit of black in them too. Just like the black side has other things as well.
I am in a similar boat as you & can relate. My mom's father was Creole & from Nola. Her mom was White Presenting & from Charleston SC (she considered herself an Octoroon). My mom did her DNA some years ago & discovered she was 47% Black. My mom wanted to be Blacker, I was shocked she was even that much Black because she looks Caucasian and so does my youngest brother. So anyway, my Dad's Paternal Grandmother was Biracial. I already know my Dad's father was less than 75% Black given that info. I speculate that I'm between 53-59% Black. Although I could be slightly lower or higher. My youngest brother looks 100% White. My middle brother looks half & half and people either think I'm Latina or Biracial. I don't speak Spanish and to get Latin people to understand that I'm not ashamed of who I am, I will tell them that I'm White, Black and native American, because I am. Black & most White people already know I'm mixed without me having to say anything, they just don't know to what extent. Sometimes people like my husband will get mad with me because I don't identify as lightskinned. I'm not lightskinned for a Creole/Mixed person. I'm just lightskinned to Black people. Being lightskinned is usually a coincidence/surprise for Black people. My youngest brother, my mother & grandmother are White Presenting, they're light skinned to Mixed folks, but not even considered Black to Black people. I'm authentically 100% a Creole woman. It's the only term that truly fits my racial identity. I can totally attest to how rare it is to be 50% Black. Growing up I was usually the only Mixed kid in the class. I didn't see myself as Black, nor did the Black kids. People confuse that with thinking I'm better or White. None of my Black friends had a full-blooded sibling with pale skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. I also found it weird that Black people always obsessed with my hair and white folks were usually obsessed with my complex complexion. Growing up, none of my friends got asked, "so which one of your parents is White". So yeah, I am Creole. I am Mulatto and come from a long Mixed Race lineage on both sides of my family and I am proud of that. I must admit, I was nearly heartbroken when I found out my Grandmother's grandmother that she said she met (and was a slave) was not the Black woman that I thought---she was half white and her kids with the Master were even more white. Yes it is rare. We survived and every one alive as a right to be proud of who they come from.
That’s actually a perfect way of differentiating between the whole “light skin” thing. Usually when we say light skin, we’re referring to black people who aren’t mixed and you described it perfectly by saying peoole like this are usually a “surprise” in their family. This is different from MGMs such as Creoles because it’s very obvious that the whole family is mixed and just like your mom, some are even white passing so it would not come as a surprise for anyone in that family have light skin. & also, not all mixed people are light skin so that’s why I make the distinction between MGM (Creoles or whatever particular kind of MGM) & Light skin because MGMS are mixed, even if they’re dark skin, just like biracial people but light skin black people are not mixed despite being light skin. At least no more admixed than the average African American. & yeah light skin is relative and many people that are considered light skin in the black community aren’t light skin to me but I can gauge their tone through a black lense and say this person isn’t light to me but I know they’d be considered light to the average black person. Like Trya Banks isn’t light skin to me but I mentioned her in one of my videos as light skin anyway because I know the average black person would view her as light skin. Based on your profile pic I’d say you were light skin. Like the average mixed person. Sounds like your mom and brother are like white peoole light lol. There’s white passing light which is basically the color of a white person, & then regular mixed people light which is often similar to the skin tones of peoole of other races like Middle Easterners and Mediterranean whites and Latinos and such and then there’s the light that’s only considered light in the black community. So you may not be the color of white people but your profile pic at least, looks like the color of the average mixed person to me. But either way, if you’re mixed you’re mixed and mixed people come in all beautiful shades.
❤ You're like one of the only people outside of my family who can relate to how I see things. My neighbor is Biracial, she's darker than I am and her oldest daughter looks like a phenotypical darkskinned Black girl. Her daughter and my daughter are both MGMs, but nobody would guess that her daughter has a White Grandparent. Unfortunately people have this one-sided idea of what a mixed person should look like. For instance, Beyonce is very proud of being Creole, but those of us who come from Creole/MGM families also know that some people wouldn't see her that way because of her Father's phenotype. Neither of my kids would identify themselves as Mixed. My son looks biracial and takes after me, where as my daughter looks more like her Dad who is an MGM with likely more African American DNA than me. I was about to get my DNA done, but when my dad found out his great Grandfather was Irish 3 years ago, I felt very very Irish because I knew my mom was 25% Irish from when she did her DNA. We expected her to be more French and Native American. I find it interesting how people see themselves and how others see us. I watch a lot of Finding your Roots and and was shocked when Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he was 50-50. I expected him to be at least 60% Black. We really can't tell by looking at people their ancestry and there are so many people out here who lie about it and are ashamed.
I love looking at Latino results! It’s so beautiful 😻 I love that no matter what they can say “I love being Dominican” because that means they love being African, Taino and Spanish. MGMs who are apart of the African American community with a recent white relative have it a little more difficult because of other African Americans who are either MGM with no recent white ancestor or an African American who is not an MGM. I have to name everything since my Euro is outside of the slave trade and from another Country so I’m not confused with an African American who does not acknowledge/has a little bit of European from distant mixing/rape. I wish I could say one thing like Creoles and Latinos 🤣. Maybe I can say “Gerblackish” For black, Irish and German 🤣🤣🤣 . On 23andMe I am 62% African 36% European and the rest is Native and some Asian. On the other test it’s 58% African 34% European and the rest is Asian and Native American which resonates a bit more because my maternal grandmother father was West Indian(Indo/asian- African). Awesome video 💖
Omg Latino results are my favorite. They’re most similar to me racially & I just love how they’ve always been able to embrace their mixedness & they’re usually very excited about everything they find in their results. & haha that’s a cute name. I think MGM is kind of the blanket term for mixed Americans for now. But it would be cool to come up with specific names for specific mixtures
I like when Mexicans and Arabs do dna tests. There’s always one part of their dna that usually gets revealed in the results that is their African ancestry.
I am Black American and it is not rare. I am 61.3% African 36.8% European and 0.7% Indigenous American. And identify with both, Creole and Cajun. I have a family tree, 23andMe and Ancestry as proof. And I can trace one of my branches up to 1781 France. Most of my family is extremely multiracial.
Okay so I see the original comment I made isn’t showing up, do you have a word filter that automatically filters comments containing certain words? I’m pretty sure my initial comment contained the word r*pe from what I remember, should I just try to rewrite my original comment while self-censoring that word?
For Mom Boss of 2, she almost certainly has substantial Nigerian ancestry. It’s just that, at the time of her taking the test with Ancestry DNA, results from Nigeria were temporarily reinterpreted as essentially falling into “Benin/Togo” and “Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples.” Personally, I’m Nigerian, and took the test in late 2017, which gave a seemingly diverse array of results at the time, with it listing me as 39% Nigerian, 36% Benin/Togo, 19% Cameroon/Congo, 3% Senegalese, and the rest being a few other West and Central ancestral groups. But, by 2018, my results became *5% Nigerian* (!), with 51% of my ancestry becoming Benin/Togo, and the rest being Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples. By 2019, it began to make much more sense. It listed me as 100% Nigerian. After a fairly recent update, it became 98% Nigerian and the rest being Benin/Togo. I also took 23andMe in 2022, which interpreted my results as 99.8% Nigerian. So, for Mom Boss of 2, she’s likely received an update of her results since then that she hasn’t yet publicized, which almost certainly show considerably higher ancestry from what’s now Nigeria. Either that, or it somehow makes sense that I can be interpreted as 5% Nigerian, lol.
I have some Dominican and Haitian cousins. We all shared 4th great grandparents and a lot of Mexicans too. Do you have that? And I found out have Italian ancestors, I never heard any history about Italians colonized the americas
I only have really distant ancestors from Haiti back when it was St. Domingue & a 4th great-grandfather from Cuba. But most of my Latino relatives are mainly Nicaraguan because my grandma is half Nicaraguan. So I have great-aunts and uncles and cousins and stuff who come from Nicaragua. My great-grandfather was from there.
Interesting video, one correction though. So called black american proportions are 73.2% african, 24% european, and 0.8% Native, according to the latest data. Not that any of it means anything cause its not how race is determined.
Yes depending on the particular study, around 75%(73/74 whatever you wanna call it, it varies from study to study but overall, roughly 75%) to 95% is the “norm” range for the average African American. But within that range, the largest majority will fall into the 80th percentile so that’s why I used that number. Less than 80 is the lower range of the norm and lower 90s is the upper range of the norm. Above 95% & below 50% are the rarest. Below 70 isn’t as common & like I say in the video, about 5% fall below 60 & 1% fall below 50. If I ran into any given African American at any given moment & had to blindly guess what range they fall into, my safest bet would be the 80th percentile over any other range. But yes, not that any of us walk around with our percentages printed on our foreheads or anything anyway lol. Thanks for watching.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade alot of the time all you need to do is look at the hair texture. Black americans rarely have type 2 or 3 hair. The vast majority is like 4a or 4b. I'm Blessed with 3b/3c 😂😂
I’ve been seeing more and more of these channels pop up and it’s very nice. Though my family is Creole (any Kouri vini speakers?) I’ve grown up identifying as blk but my sister and brother identify as mixed. My sister and I recently did 2 DNA tests and my results were 48.6% euro (German 18.8% Italy 11.3% British isles 8.1% France 6.8% southern central Slavic 1.9% and 1.5% Spain) [] 34.6% African ( Nigerian 10.7% Cameroon 7.7% Kenyan 7.5% Sierra Leon 7% Gambian 1.7%) [] and 17% Caribbean/West Indies, growing up I was always told our family was African, French, German and Native American, I have 0% native DNA. My lighter skinned sister’s results were 51.1% euro 36.6% African and 12.3% Caribbean/West Indies she can’t remember the breakdown for the different countries but I can remember that the country with the largest % of DNA was 24% German. People have assumed I was blk, mixed, Creole and Indian from India, I live in a suburb that has a high Hindi population and I’ve had many Hindi people ask me where I’m from in India. I have many “white passing” relatives who identify as black (including my grandmother) and growing up I know that played a big part in how I saw myself. I’ve always felt that if I didn’t say I’m black then I hate myself. Even when I get questioned about my ethnicity from other black people I feel this way. I’m 38 and grew up in a predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles county and I remember in 4th grade we had this assignment where we had to make a chart showing our ethnicity, I divided my chart into 3 parts and put African, German and French. I remember 2 kids telling me my chart was wrong, that I couldn’t be German or French b/c I was black. It didn’t matter that my grandmother’s dad was German or that my family was Creole. My family went to an all black church that was divided into adult church, young adult church and children’s church, I was bullied really bad by the girls, mainly because of my hair and the fact that I “talked wyte.” I have 3a-3c hair and I would always wear my hair pressed when I was younger and my hair has that silk pressed look when straightened and looks like “white people hair.” They would talk between themselves (especially around the boys) and would point at me saying it’s silly why my mom would put a long weave on me, I didn’t even know what a weave was back then. A few girls sat behind me during 1 of the sermons and pulled my hair, It took me getting older to realize they were trying to pull the non existent weave off my head, smh. Bullying got so bad that 1 of the adults let me help out with the children’s church, I never went back to young adult church. I was a very confused kid growing up. At the end of the day I may not be able to police how people see me but now when a person asks me what I am I’m gonna tell the truth, that I’m Creole but I identify as blk. It’s also time to leave behind the ridiculous 1 drop rule, I am raising my nephew who looks completely wyte, it would be crazy to say that he is blk. I also don’t like the vids I’ve been seeing online lately of people who are mixed/biracial or say Dominican blaming all black people for people assuming they are. Next I want to do the Ancestrydotcom DNA and I’m looking forward to find family members that I don’t know of. Sorry for the essay and love the content. ❤️☺️
That’s good to know you’ve been seeing more channels like this popping up! Means more people are understanding themselves better and not continuing to let people tell them who they have to be. & yeah the hate gets real sometimes. I’m sorry you had to go through that. I used to pull my own hair in elementary school, trying to prove to them my hair was real lol and some girls put gum in my hair at school in 7th grade. I could be all day talking about all that kind of stuff. I’m so happy you’re embracing your heritage and definitley not forcing that one drop nonsense into your nephew. Thanks so much for watching! ⚜️
I have a question and I am curious to know your answer: What type of approach should a MGM or Biracial parent have when raising a child they have with a mono racial parent and the child looks more mono racial? I ask this because I have witnessed white children with one MGM/Biracial parent be encouraged to take on this multiracial persona, with braids and other cultural custom/attire, when their phenotype is white. And I have witnessed on the opposite side of the spectrum the same with kids that identify with their MGM/Biracial parent but have a black phenotype. And what words of wisdom would you speak to MGM/Biracial father’s that deny their mono racial looking children for not looking as MGM/Biracial as them?
Great question! My kids father is mono racial black and one of my daughter’s is brown skin and one is light skin. I really don’t tell them how to identify. I tell them your dad’s black and I’m mixed with xyz. They can take from that what they will lol. I teach them Spanish and my younger one and I are learning French too and I teach them Creole history and they know that they’re Creole too & that they’re mixed but they are more so black/African American so I imagine as they get older, they’ll just fall into whatever suits them. As long as a child knows what their background is and the history/beauty of it, it’s up to them on how they feel out in the world. As far as children who have a mixed & white parent, I mean I don’t see anything wrong when them rocking braids and things. But when their parents just try to present them as being a “black” child, that’s weird. I have a mixed Creole friend who has a son for a white man and of course this child looks purely white. She posts pics of him with the caption “black boy joy” and things like that.. that’s weird to me lol. Mixed yes, black, no. & It’s ok to be mixed and still lean into black culture, fashion etc because they are mixed with black, even though it’s not as much. I think that kids on either end (be it they have a black parent or white patent & a mixed one) they are still mixed children and should still be able to identify as such but having a predominantly white child identifying solely as black is weird and for the ones who have a black parent, no one would allow them to identify as white in the first place lol so that’s not an issue on that end . So to me, both sets of children are still mixed but they’re just more white or more black than a biracial person but both are still more mixed than the average monoracial person. No monoracial white person is 25% black and as far as children with a black and mixed parent, these children are usually not 75% black as their black parent also has a small European admixture so these children (assuming the mixed parent is biracial or a highly mixed MGM around 50ish% black or less ) they tend to be in the upper 60s lower 70s% black so they too, are typically more mixed than the average mono racial black American so in both instances, I still consider those children mixed, just predominantly in in direction more than the other. But the ones with the black parent might feel more of an inclination to identify as black than the ones with the white parent because being mono racially white requires more “exclusivity” and while someone can barely be half blank and still be told to identify as black, that’s not the case for the white race. White people aren’t going to see someone who has a whole black grandparent as white so that’s why I say both groups fit just fine in having a mixed identity. To me the child who’s 1/4 black should identify as mixed. They’re for sure not black and they won’t be accepted as purely white, still. They will at first glance because they likely look white but for white people who know their background, they will view them as mixed and not white. And for the ones with a black parent, to me, they can identify as mixed or black. Black people don’t tend to gatekeep their race the same way whites do. That can be perceived as a good or bad thing. & as far as dads not accepting those children, well of course that’s not cool as it’s never cool for any father to not accept any of his children for any reason. If someone is hell bent on having a child with their phenotype then why procreate with people who don’t have your phenotype? They should have procreated with a biracial or MGM woman if their child’s phenotype was that much of a big deal to them. Thanks so much for watching and for the thought provoking comment!
I also view both groups as mixed because imagine if I had more children for a white man. Those children would be basically 3/4 white. It’d be weird for these siblings to be just considered white and my other kids just considered black. It’s different when a biracial person has monoracial siblings because that biracial person is still half of what their monoracial siblings are so one sibling would be black and the other is half black. But for siblings where one might be 2/3 or close to 3/4 black and the other is 3/4 white, I think it’s more unifying (& accurate) for them all to just be mixed rather than these are black and those are white.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade I can understand that, but how would the world see your children on the opposite end of the spectrum? A good example would be Victoria Rowell's children. Yes technically both her kids can identify as mixed. But one child looks 100 % white, and the other looks about 80% or more black. The world would not see them as mixed even though they are. I think it is important to prepare children on how they will be perceived despite what they technically are. I appreciate your insight on this matter to help me understand and I am interested to see what new content you create. Keep up the good work.
@@Bohemion.Baxter Oh for sure. That’s why I say as my kids grow older, they’ll fall into what’s most fitting. Outside perception plays a part in what we tend to feel comfortable identifying as. That’s part of why some MGMs feel moreso mixed while others just identify as black. I have a very ambiguous phenotype and so do all my immediate relatives so I’m always perceived as “something else” therefore it greatly affects my “black experience.” I’m going to naturally feel more on the mixed end of things than just black. My children will likely have a different experience than me, particularly the brown skin one. The light skin one has lightish brown eyes & long, type 4 hair so I hear their day to day experience can vary greatly just depending on how they wear their hair that day. Her hair is long so if she straightens it, she’ll likely be perceived as mixed, especially when she’s with me. If it’s in its natural state, she’ll be seen as black. So she’ll probably have a varied experience. That’s why I say it’s good to just educate them on their background just to have that connection to the cultural aspects of it but people will see you as what they see you as and that’s also why I say I’m mixed therefore you’re somewhat mixed but you are more black than anything else. It’s slightly more nuanced to me with kids who are 1/4 black because they can’t really just completely fit a white identity unless they were to hide the fact that they have recent black ancestry. The kids who are 3/4 black can just be black but the ones who are 3/4 white, although they will have certain levels of privilege, they still can’t just be white. But yes both of them will have very different experiences from one another but I think both should be aware of their mixed heritage but of course out in the world, you’re seen as whatever you’re seen as so you do make sure they know hey you’re this this and this but your moreso THIS and that’s likely how you’ll be viewed (depending on phenotype because some 3/4 kids will still come out looking biracial like Thandie Newton & Halle Berry’s kids look biracial to me. I’ve seen some 3/4 black ones who do too. So I think those are the ones who will moreso identify with their mixed parents identity rather than the monoracial one especially if their mixed parent is biracial which would mean they have a grandparent of a different race.)
The French were very much like the English they were anti-mix with the coloreds and practiced a sort of segregation that's why you Louisiana creoles don't have that much French% you thought you had. They were also in Mexico they didn't mix with us native/brown Mexicans. And ofcourse in Haiti no mixture there either...
I beg to differ. They were definitely free about mixing. It’s the British who were anti mixing. That’s why mixed Louisiana Creoles are even a thing and the rest of America has no such mixed race group. The reason we don’t have as much French is because we eventually became part of America and the Americans with their British ideologies came in and put an end to all the cultural and racial mixing we were doing but old school Creoles were VERY French. A lot of them were more French than they were African or anything else because Creoles back then practiced the whole “mejor la raza” type thing. But when we became part of America & the Americans came in & one dropped mixed people into blackness the way the French never did in the three tier society we had under French rule (whites, mulattos, blacks), the mixed people had to start intermingling with black people. This forced them to start mixing and procreating more & more over the years & that’s what diluted the French more & more & more. Not the French themselves but Americans coming in & setting strict racial barriers & laws is what did it. I can tell you just based on my family’s DNA results alone, my relatives from my grandparents generation have WAY more French ancestry than the average younger Creole. They’re all 30% or more. The more the years go by, the more the French gets diluted out. Strict race mixing laws never came into Latin America, that’s why you guys maintained your heavy Spanish admixture. & as far as Haiti, the predominantly black Haiti we know today was not always that way. They had lots of whites and Mulattos that were ran out during the Haitian Revolution and most of them actually fled to Louisiana so that’s actually probably why we don’t see many mixed Haitians today. They did mix at one point in time (Idk exactly how much but there used to be a sizeable number of Haitian mulattos) but the whites and mulattos fled and integrated into other groups. So it’s not that the French didn’t mix as much. They just didn’t maintain their colonies long enough for their ethnicity to remain dominant within those cultures.
as a Haitian person am I Creole here's my ancestry from Ancestry DNA Cameroon Congo 34%, Benin & Togo 26%, Nigeria 21%, Mali 7%, Ivory Coast/Ghana 7%, Senegal 3% , England & Northwestern Europe 2%,
Thanks so much for watching! Louisiana Creole & Haitian Creole are two different things so as a Haitian, you or your family probably speak Haitian Creole whereas our language is Louisiana Creole & you guys are native to Haiti while we’re native to colonial Louisiana, meaning our ancestors were here before Louisiana became part of America, back when it was still a French/Spanish colony & because of that, a lot of us have French &/or Spanish ancestry (not all of us though, some are predominantly black or various other mixes) & some people still speak Louisiana Creole or French so you wouldn’t be Louisiana Creole without that Louisiana ancestry/heritage. It’s not really about DNA percentages. Creole in this context just means “native to Louisiana” so it’s kinda like saying we’re “Louisianian” which would be the equivalent of you saying you’re Haitian. Louisiana never fully let go of it’s pre America, French identity so a lot of us still hold onto to our Creole or “Louisianian” identity just as much as or more than our American identity. So I’m Louisiana Creole because I’m of Louisiana lineage just like you’re Haitian because you’re of Haitian lineage. We share a related history & some similarities because we both used to be French colonies so Louisiana & Haiti would be like saying Puerto Rico & Cuba for example. Both Puerto Rico & Cuba used to be Spanish colonies but Puerto Ricans aren’t Cubans and Cubans aren’t Puerto Ricans. Hope this helps! ☺️
I respect that you seem very generous and passionate person about MGM/Biracial Identity , as I am when it comes to Haiti being an African country , with an African language & culture on the wrong side of the hemisphere, I know I was kind of trolling even when my post my ancestry makeup I know I'm not Creole because I'm 98% Sub-Saharan African & barely 2% European with 0% Amerindians, to make things clear Haitian-Creole is not really a Creole language it's an African language that has a lot of tribal African linguistic words from Peulh, Wolof, Bakongo, Fon, Gébé, Hausa, Mundang, Mandé, Yoruba, & Igbos words, & majority of Haitians have the highest African ancestry in the Americas from 93% to 100% African, the MGM/Biracial Haitian make up 3% of the population, the rest are African people believe it or not trace their lineage to an African ethnic , minus the slight trolling, in a serious note preserve your culture & I'm not Creole i was joking
@@rasmoise568 & thank-you for noticing my passion. I’m glad you’re very passionate about your heritage as well. We all operate better when we know who we are and love who we are while also being able to appreciate & find beauty in the backgrounds of others too along the way ✨
I’ve watched a few of your videos. I’ve not seen information regarding the original meaning of Creole. “Creole “ originally meant French citizens born outside of France. Ex: Napoleon’s wife Josephine’s parents were from France and she was born on the island of Martinique. People in France actually saw her as less as she was not born in France. After the African revolt in Haiti, many Creoles sailed to Louisiana and the term changed.❤
Wow I'm hispanic and this would make so much sense because in Spanish there's the word "Criollo" and it basically means Spaniards born in the Americas so I can see how "Creole" would be the same but for the French. I guess they highjacked "creole" to mean mixed with African since they didn't have their own term like "mulato" which is a Spanish term. I believe the French like the English didn't acknowledge the offsprings of french & black so they were just black
@@olg06 Nah we used the word Mulatto too. All my family’s old records say Mulatto and the French almost always acknowledged their offspring. We had a “third class” in French Louisiana. There were whites, then there were Mulattos then blacks unfortunately were at the bottom. We operated exactly like the rest of Latin America. The French are Latin as well so they operated like the Spanish and Portuguese, not the British. I addressed this in my other comment to you when you get a chance to read it. We ended up using the word Creole to distinguish ourselves from Americans when we first became part of America. It wasn’t a racial thing at first. (Well technically the very first use of the word was the same as it was for you guys. It just meant a Frenchman or Spaniard who was born in the Americas). But then it meant anyone who was native to Louisiana as opposed to being an American immigrant. Creoles spoke French, they were Catholic, etc and Americans spoke English and were Protestant etc. it was just to distinguish ourselves from them but then over time it further evolved to somehow mean mixed race but many non mixed Creoles still go on the definition of Creoles just being people of Colonial Louisiana descent. Meaning our ancestors were Francophone Louisiana natives and not Americans
As a Social Science Practitioner......I have alot of expertise in this arena particularly as someone who had a direct link as to how these results are being used at Ancestry! Now I have to say this due to racism in America many are lead to believe that when we reference West Africa we are to believe the term 'black" is appropriate! Alkebulan the original name of Africa are the most mixed! Alkebulan has well over 3,000 detectable ethnicities. To the contrary Alkebulans countries MUST be seen as a separate ethnicities and need to be calculated as such! It is wrong to suggest a person with African Roots are less mixed! So each country MUST be recognized as such!!!! NIH (National Institute of Health) clearly states African are the most mixed ethnic continent on earth! The vast majority of people uninvolved in higher in research do not understand!
Genetics are not a social science. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent. Being multiethnic and multicultural isn't the same as being "mixed."
@@rainicewaller6210 WHAT YOU HAVE STATED IS 100% INACCURATE DEAR!!!! Additionally, I just told you in my response above Africa is the most diversified continent in the world with over 3,000 groups represented! Did you really just use my response to answer me!!!!!!!SMDH! OMG !"SOCIAL SCIENCE GENETICS" is a real field of study! HELL....(NIH).....National Institute of Health confirms this. Social Science has a huge role in all of this! Please stop trying to teach when organizations like these are ever present to include": SOCIAL SCIENCE GENETIC ASSOCIATION CONSORTIUM" !🤣 OMG! The word "BEHAVIOR "(key word here) between humans and how genetic differences impacts the outcome in a community!!!! Yes " Social Science Genetics"was heavily used to gain perspective about "Isolated Genetic Communities". It's my work! I know what research I did to solidify my argument and to get the organization to adapt my concept! Your response is directly leading people down the wrong path! I'm not here giving my response based on an OPINION! Ancestry actually adapted my concept! "Isolated Genetic Communities" back in 2017!!!! Due to the African Diaspora many people of color can be directly traced to geographical locations across the globe! Louisiana Creoles, Trinidadians, Jamaicans, Haitians, Dominicans, Puerto Rico, Brazilians; West Indies as a whole literally are detectable communities based on their (DNA/Genetic) makeup and geographic location! GENETIC MARKERS most certainly do exist in each of the aforementioned groups!!!!! ALL are: MULTI-ETHNIC, RACIAL, AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES that can be directly linked based on "GENETIC MARKERS"! tied to a particular location! Please stop trying to debate something in research I have been able to accomplish! You may not get it.....BUT they surely did which is why they are using it now! NAMASTE!
Again, genetics are not a SOCIAL science. Sociology would be an example of social science. And everyone knows Africa is the most genetically diverse continent on the planet.
@@rainicewaller6210 SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG WITH YOU FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO COMPREHEND WHAT I SAID!!!! FIRST OF ALL PLEASE STOP USING A PART OF MY ANSWER AS YOURS!!!!!! YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY CRAZY FOR DOING SO!!!!! I"M THE ONE THAT TOLD YOU AFRICA IS THE MOST DIVERSIFIED!!!!! WE CAN ALL LOOK AT MY INITIAL COMMENT AND SEE THAT! YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO READ MY RESPONSE AND THEN USED IT AS YOUR ANSWER! (DON"T YOU DARE ERASE IT OR REVISE IT EITHER) YOU NEED YOUR HEAD EXAMINED!!!! AND YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN AFTER I POINTED IT OUT TO YOU!!!! YET AGAIN YOU KEEP DOING THIS SHADY AND RETARDED BEHAVIOR!!!!!!!
@@rainicewaller6210 YOU ARE WAY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE IN THIS AREA DEAR! PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION BECAUSE THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM NIH(NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH) Abstract: What specific genes and regulatory sequences contribute to the organization and functioning of brain circuits that support SOCIAL behavior? How does SOCIAL experience interact with information in the genome to modulate these brain circuits? Here we address these questions by highlighting progress that has been made in identifying and understanding two key “vectors of influence” that link genes, brain, and SOCIAL BEHAVIOR : 1) social information alters gene readout in the brain to influence behavior; and 2) genetic variation influences brain function and social behavior. We also briefly discuss how evolutionary changes in genomic elements influence social behavior and outline prospects for a systems biology of SOCIAL behavior. I KNOW MY JOB! STAY IN YOUR LANE! SOCIAL SCIENCES HAS EVOLVED MORE THAN YOU CAN PROCESS TO INCLUDE HOW SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IMPACTS GENETIC OUTCOMES!!!!! NOW I"M GOING TO SUGGEST FOR YOU STOP TRYING TO OVERRIDE ME WHEN MY WORK IS ACTUALLY BEING USED AS WE SPEAK IN RESEARCH in 2024! YOU ARE NOWHERE NEAR INTELLECTUALLY AS SKILLED TO COMPETE WITH ME IN THIS! THE FACT THAT YOU ARE USING ANTIQUATED THINKING IN NEW AGE RESEARCH SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOUR THINKING in 2024! By the time you wake up research has already advanced another notch! GO AWAY WITH YOUR NONSENSE! If you keep up this foolishness you will be my next case study!!!!!🤬🤬🤬
Eh Les Bah Mon Cher. Your percentages may well be updated and change in the near future. The Creole Flag expresses our historical makeup. Senegal, France, Mali, Spain are just base countries. The amount of African ancestral ethnographic groups is mind boggling. There are nearly 100 different ethnicities of African origin that were sold bought and trade in New Orleans. I was born in the East and raised in the 7th Ward. Went to St. Aug and attended Corpus Cristi Church. HARD HEAD 4 LIFE. I'm in the 80% range for African. French, English, Irish and even Turkey entered the conversation. We did the Y Chromosomal and Mitochondrial tests and discovered our African Ethnographic Groups in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone.
Amazing video, answered a lot of questions i had, but there is one i had i couldn't get a clear answer from Google. Can Louisiana Creole people have Puerto Rican descent and vise versa? Again amazing video❤
Thank-you and yes they can! Louisiana Creoles are those of colonial Louisiana descent meaning you have ancestors who lived in French (or Spanish during that brief amount of time that they owed us) Louisiana prior to the Louisiana Purchase. So someone might have this and Puerto Rican ancestry at the same time. My great-grandfather is from Nicaragua so my grandmother is half Nicaraguan and I claim that heritage as well but I'm majority Creole as my other 3 grandparents are Creole. So it'd just depend on how close your Creole or Puerto Rican ancestors are for you to guage how much of each you are. Like for me, I'm mainly and primarily Creole so I'll say something like I'm Creole with a little Nicaraguan or something like that but if it were the other way around, I'd say I was Nicaraguan and a little Creole or if I had a Creole parent and a Nicaraguan parent, I'd say I was half Creole and half Nicaraguan. It all varies. But Creole itself isn't a race so you can be Creole but have various mixtures within being Creole as well.
@@CreoleLadyMarmaladePuerto Rican ancestry will never show up on a DNA test. It would be European, Native American or African ancestry. Whether those people inhabited PR for a while before migrating to Louisiana will be a personal family story of their journey to and then away from PR.
@@CreoleLadyMarmaladeNicaraguan is not a race. One of your ancestors was Nicaraguan. Typically they are Native American (Mestizo or pure). Occasionally they are black like the few Garifunas who live there.
@@BosomofAbraham Yep Nicaraguan definitely isn’t a race. My great-grandfather was a Mestizo Nicaraguan. But it makes more sense to say I’m part Nicaraguan to show the exact culture that I’m coming from rather than just only wording it racially by saying that I’m part “Mestiza” or part “white & Native American/Indigenous.” That description doesn’t specify the type of white which is Spanish & even if I narrowed it down to ethnicity and said “Spanish & Native American,” that could make me part Mexican, Colombian, El Salvadoran, etc so saying Nicaraguan shows my exact Latin heritage but yes I know that Nicaraguan itself isn’t a race just like Creole itself isn’t a race. I could also describe myself as “black & white” but you wouldn’t get the idea of my specific Louisiana French/African heritage if I did that. If I simply described myself only racially as black & white, I could very well be biracial with a black parent and a white parent but describing myself as Creole along with the phenotype that I have, gives the idea that I’m probably Black & French specifically and I come from a family of that same background rather than a fully black parent and a fully white parent. Same with Nicaraguan. We know that most (not all) Nicaraguans are Mestizo so when I’m saying I’m part Nicaraguan, odds are that’s the racial background I’m coming from. So to say Creole & Nicaraguan, yes neither of these are races but these ethnicity & nationality descriptors give far more insight into my whole heritage/culture and what my likely racial background is simply by looking at my phenotype. It’s pretty easy to see that I’m likely of some sort of Mulatta racial background and knowing that I’m Creole and a bit Nicaraguan, one would assume that I’m likely predominantly of African, French, Spanish & Indigenous ancestry and they’d be mostly correct at that assumption minus the fact that I’m only about 1.5% Indigenous. Ethnic and nationality identifiers give me much more insight into a person’s background than simply saying the blanket racial term. Someone can be African American, Jamaican, Nigerian, Haitian and all be described as black but these are 4 extremely different cultures/people so I’d know a lot more about someone’s culture and background if they’re described as Jamaican rather than black or Italian rather than white or Mexican rather than “white & Indigenous”
Hello again my Creole and Nicaraguan🇳🇮 sister. I plan on driving to New Orleans from Southwest Florida with a friend some time in the near future, any recommendations for clubbing and lodging at an economical price🤔
Gosh I haven't been out in the city in so long. I've been living on the outskirts for 4 1/2 years now. Frenchmen Street has always been a good spot. It was the less touristy version of Bourbon St, though more tourists are becoming hip to it, I think it's still not as over the top and commercial as Bourbon. You can just walk along Frenchmen and there's various different types of clubs, many of which have live music. The two most popular would be Blue Nile which is a two story club, usually live music downstairs and hip hop dj upstairs and Lion's Den on the corner is usually raggae/Carribean. It' also 2 stories. The other spots around them are usually live music jazz or brass bands. There's a guy who's usually outside of Dragon's Den with his grill who makes amazing Jamaican food. Another local gem to eat at that isn't "boujee" is Melba's on Claiborne. Also not far from Frenchmen but I would def drive there though. Also, THE go to spot for fried chicken wings is Manchu. Now this is a tiny spot ran by Asians that's def in the hood lol so just know that, but almost any family type gathering you'd go to in the city, the chicken comes from Manchu lol. We live and breathe that chicken and it's CHEAP. Hope you guys have a blast and please be safe.
As far as lodging, it'll be cheaper (and safer) to stay in Metairie. That's the first city outside of New Orleans. It's like 15 min from downtown. I'd stay there if I were visiting. Idk which exact hotel but you could probably just read some reviews to pick a hotel but that overall area will be cheaper than staying in New Orleans itself.
I have issues with those tests. Africa is genetically so so diverse & i have issues with the tests mixing ethnicity & Nationality. There is no such a thing as 10% "Nigerian". African countries (Nations)have ethnicities & thus those tests should state things like 10% Yoruba .
They do sometimes state the specific ethnicity/tribe when you have enough of it for it to pick up on. have Igbo on one of mine. But people in the Americas are so mixed up with so many different African ethnic groups, it’s often hard to pinpoint the exact ones. The African ancestry test has developed the specific capability of honing in on African heritage and can pinpoint exact tribes but it’s very expensive and not as many people have taken it as it can’t give you the information for your whole racial makeup, only the African part so people would have to spend about $300 on that test plus still Pay the $100 for the regular test to see everything else they have in their heritage.
My dad is dark skin, just by looking at him you would think he is not mix with white. both of his parenrs are biracial and he is only 51% Sub-Saharan and 48 European
MGMs are Black American Natives and Lousiana Creoles. The average Black American Native is 20%-25% European on average. The biracial definition is when one parent is one race and the other is another race or when someone has two different ancestors in their family of different races which almost every Black American Native and Creole would be considered Biracial alongside many Afro-Carribbeans. Biracial is NOT based on the ancestry percentage that someone inherited. Also, Vanessa took her test when Ancestry first came out( 2012)and it didn't have many African samples. She is more likely in the 60% African now. Because I took it for a study back in 2012 I was like 69% African now I am 76%. bi·ra·cial /ˌbīˈrāSH(ə)l/ adjective (of a person) having parents or ancestors from different racial or ethnic backgrounds. "growing up as a biracial person, I have experienced racism many times" concerning or containing members of two racial groups. adjective: biracial; adjective: bi-racial "they were part of a biracial coalition striving to bring about economic equality"
Where did I say biracials aren’t people with parents of two different races?? Sure, anyone with a 1% admixture is technically MGM, the exact same way anyone who is two races is biracial. Even the definition that YOU just gave states “A person having parents OR ANCESTORS of different racial or ethnic backgrounds.” If the term were only limited to those with parents of different backgrounds then it’d make no sense to add OR ANCESTORS because obviously if my parents are two different races then their ancestors will be different races as well but to distinctly point out ancestors shows that my parents don’t necessarily have to be two different races. They can both be mixed and I can have ancestors of different races on both sides of my family.. sooo, yeah... but the crazy part is I’m actually in agreeance that the term biracial is used to specify people who have parents of two different races. But YOU just proved my point by using the exact definition which is NOT limited only to those with parents of different races but. So, that is to say, the exact same way the technical definition of biracial is inclusive of ANYONE who has ancestors of two races, we still don’t use the word the “technical” way. So apply that same logic to MGM. Even though, yes “technically” anyone with a 1% admixture is MGM. The term MGM has been coined for people who are MIXED. Not distantly admixed with 10% of this or 1/4 of that from 200 years ago. But people who have remained MIXED and live a MIXED experience. Someone with two biracial parents has 2 whole white grandparents. That is not the experience of the average African American. So yes, you’re correct in that all African Americans have distant admixture from ancestors they don’t even know the names of, that have 0 impact on their family’s current culture or identity but that’s not who we’re talking about when we talk about mixed people outside of biracials. We’re talking about Louisiana Creoles, we’re talking about Latinos, we’re talking about South African Coloureds, we’re talking about HIGHLY mixed people with entire HIGHLY mixed families/ancestries. Otherwise, what’s even the point of coining the MGM term if it’s not to distinguish a particular group of people? If the term was a one size fits all for everyone with the slightest admixture then it was pointless to create it because the term African American already does that. & if the average African American with their 15% admixture wants to start referring to themselves as MGM, no one’s stopping them. No one would comprehend why or think it makes any sense but they are by all means allowed to do so if they’re keen on identifying with their tiny mixed ancestry.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade You mentioned biracial is based on having 50 African/50 European or close to it. When someone who is 90% African/10% European or even 75% African/25% European would also be considered biracial under the actual definition through ancestors. So almost all African Americans are also biracial( generational mixing regardless of %) not just people who are 50 African/50 European.
@@peacehappyb237 Can you time stamp that? I may have said “genetically biracial” which is just my way of describing being 50/50 mixed without having a white parent but that’s not even a real term. That’s just me explaining a 50/50 mix but biracial generally refers to people with two parents of two different races (though as you & I both know, is not the official definition but rather the socially accepted definition) but them having two parents of two different races implies that they are basically half black & half white so I may have said “genetically biracial” to imply that same half/half mix at the genetic level. But I never said that being 50/50 mixed without having parents of two different races makes you biracial. It makes you an MGM Mulatto but I used the term “genetically biracial” to signify a specifically 50/50 mix rather than 75/25, 80/20 etc. Instead of further “confusing” people who take that as me literally saying all 50/50 people are biriacial, I’ll stick to using Mulatto. I try not to offend by using that word too much but it’s really the only way to distinguish 50/50 mixed people (whether they be biracial or MGM) from everyone else.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Yes, I watched more of your videos and that is what you meant "generational biracial." That was your term you "coined" for half/ half multigenerational admix people. This was the first video I watch, so it was a little confusing.
Yeah genetics are a toss up in general and an even crazier tossup when you’re heavily mixed. I’ve seen people with the same mix come out with completely different phenotypes. That’s the beauty of being mixed.
Because in the transatlantic slave trade at least 51% of ALL Africans abducted sent to the "New World" came out of the Bight of Biafra. According to MyHeritage DNA, I'm 41.9% Nigerian and it totals 69.5% Sub Saharan but I'm actually 67.
you are not "Nigerian" you are Igbo..the 17% in your test comes from the Igbo people of Nigeria because Anambra state is where the Igbos are, that's where i am from.
I understand that several ethnic groups exist within Africa and the names Nigeria, Ghana, etc are placed onto areas with man made borders that did not always exist but I also realize that it’s hard for people of African descent to trace our roots to our exact tribes so since it’s hard to know the exact ethnic groups, I just go with the country name. Is everyone with Nigerian ancestry Igbo or could they potentially be of other ethnic groups?
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade there are 3 main groups in Nigeria, hausa-fulani, yoruba and Igbo. but because your test said Anambra 17% that is a state in Nigeria where my people the Igbo are. so that portion of you is Igbo. i was pretty shocked to see that.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Delta state has a large igbo minority but its not one of our states. i think its complicated. i will ask my cousin about it he lives in Nigeria. i left when i was young.
it's not weird honestly. I just think that most of the people like to think they're from Nigeria. idk if by choice or what but it's kinda looney but uts whatever tho. we still African
Great video! I'm Puerto Rican and roughly a quarter Sub Seharean and id say im definitely seen as black also my mom looks alot like yours and is Puerto rican
Sounds like my mama is MGM but she would never claim that over being black. And my granny never said anything other than black. But she know is was mixed or bi racial. Too each their. I use feel like if you look black and have a black parent your black, but nope. People want to id with what they feel comfortable with. Thats fair. But we must know that black americans are not all equally IDing and they are exhausted on people claiming blackiness to benefit or be abled to say the N word is nasty and rude. Plus takn away oppurtunities is direspectful. Which why i agree with you there should be more race groups. The in and out plus the direspect is the probelms. ✌🧘🙏
Black Americans usually get the most upset at mixed people identifying as mixed (not all, some are starting to understand the importance of it) & ironically they’re the ones who receive the short end of the stick when mixed people are categorized as black. It’s actually in their best interest to distinguish the two separate groups. That doesn’t mean the two groups can’t be allied or connected or rooting for one another. The average mixed person is proud of their black side and roots for black advancement. But it is what it is & white society will give that job or role or whatever else to a mixed/lighter skin person most often, all in the name of getting their brownie points for including a “black” person without REALLY having to include an actual black person. So mixed people are honestly good either way, with either identity. Black people are actually the ones who should be prioritizing themselves enough to want that distinction. Some are starting wake up to these hard truths & aren’t interested in always being represented by people who don’t look like them & don’t experience what they experience.
I agree. I just know there are a lot of pain and unsolved issues behind this topic. People will find a black relative to be able to say the N word or be granted black benefits. Black people across the world are often disrespected and copied. I call it R and B. But Yes Be proud of who you are everyday. Also be kind and respectful. The journey of the black American is a hard beautiful one and it should be respected.
@@yeyoof3496 100% agree. No group is better than the other & we share some common ancestry & should always be connected and respectful to one another without having to sacrifice our individuality at the same time. We all have to learn to navigate things delicately and respectfully.
im kriola 🇨🇻 (cape verdean) with portuguese/spanish and italian roots and african american. it was funny because my moms side is AA and i assumed that percentage was higher but my dads side was instead😂in all im about 47% african, 44% european, 5% middle eastern and the rest is native american
Oh wow you’re basically the opposite of me. I’m 51/52% African, 47% European (& 1 or 2% Central American Indigenous). My dad’s Creole & my mom’s Creole & Nicaraguan.
Creole marmalade I love watching your videos, but remember America race system is sort of a one drop system, with no percentages being based on what’s mixed, which is y your 75% logic isn’t gonna work to ppl😂. I literally watch some conservative (I’m more conservative leaning but not republican like these ppl)group who swear the one drop rule bad, but they never explain what’s full blk white asian, but instead do the exact same thing as everyone else, by saying only time someone mixed is when they directly from a white and blk parent (who could be 75%+ or mgm but of course marked as blk). They reacted to a video for Afro Latinos and I was so confused on how they were not even close to 75% African 😅and they said all the ones predominantly African was just blk and the ones predominantly European was Hispanic being said as a race. So it’s confusing. Even a dude came on their panel and said he was mgm with a parent from Puerto Rico and said he was mulatto and they talking about mulatto a bad term, but the word just means white and blk mix, same if someone identifies as mestizo a heavy mix of indigenous and white. My mom literally say she don’t mind if she was considered mix because she half 60/40 but of course she identify as blk.
Thanks so much for watching! Well, the reason many of us are speaking out about being mixed and explaining what MGMs are is to eventually change that perception. When I was a kid in the 90s, biracial people with a whole non black parent were also one dropped and jumped on for calling themselves mixed or biracial rather than black. But today, it’s far more acceptable for them to refer to themselves as mixed/biracial and many blacks actually prefer it now. Things evolve over time. America was never big on mixing races. That’s why Louisiana Creoles stood out & confused people because we were part of small demographic in America. But today, there’s far more biracials than ever and these biracials are growing up and having children of their own, sometimes with other biracials or Latinos or other mixed people in general. These modern biracials who were allowed to be considered mixed rather than black, will teach their MGM children that they are mixed as well. As America becomes more and more mixed, people will comprehend what I’m saying more and more. Latin America has always understood this concept because they have always been a highly mixed population. Nothing changes until people change it. So yes America is one drop based but I can assure you there’s a huge shift on how mixed people are viewed now vs in the 90s when I was growing up. This includes MGMs. Not all black people are on board with seeing us as mixed but many are and many are tired of being represented by and picked over for biracials & MGMs so don’t experience what they experience and they are more than happy to give us our own distinction so people can’t continue to favor us all in the name of “I’m helping a black person.” They want actual black people to be seen and heard and represented. & ultimately whether it “works” for people or not isn’t the issue. If a man can slap on a dress and force people to call him a woman, then surely a person who is legitimately genetically mixed can call themselves such and rally others like them to do the same. Even if we’re the only ones in our own little world who truly understand our REAL identities that we were actually born with, then that’s fine too.
@@CreoleLadyMarmaladeI don’t even think my mom family even go by the 75% logic, but they will say they very mixed. I think I have very few cousins that’s so pro blk that they wouldn’t dare say mixed or mulatto especially if a mulatto box was added. And I’m still shocked on how it’s pronouns and multiple genders being said before adding just a dab of race logic in America. But since America has that rule, the default sub culture if you had to choose is automatically blk or white, no in between. I personally had a creole influence growing up with my grandmother and lucky to know my great grandmother who passed when I was 14 at 96(she was an old creole as you say, maybe a quarter African at most). So many ppl who may be mgm probably just say blk based on no race logic and it’s no mixed sub culture for them, like in Louisiana, Dominican Influence and for example. You might have to make a mixed culture and throw Dominican creole together or something, to create a new style culture, like ppl in history do. Ppl mix and mingle and create their own things 😊
@@DoubleBeezy Yeah I don’t feel like ALL mixed people have to identify as mixed. Most people tend to go with what they’re told and here in America, racist whites told us all who we were and everyone has been listening ever since. It’s harder to buck up against what everyone else is doing/saying. I especially don’t expect older Creoles/MGMs to lean into their mixedness. The old, OLD Creoles definitely saw themselves as mixed/Creole but most of them are dead and gone. That was moreso my great-grandparents generation and prior. Around my grandparents generation, who are now the older ones, that’s where they just started pretty much fully accepting the one drop rule so they’re the ones who aren’t gonna budge on that and that’s ok. They lived a different experience & American society was stricter on biracials/MGMs back then. They were mostly viewed as and treated as black. Society has shifted a little since then, probably because we have a lot more “other” races/ethnicities in the mixed so people are starting to comprehend the concept of something other than black & white. Technically, we do have “2 or more races” as an option on paperwork now so there’s vague understanding of people who are “in between.” It won’t be an overnight thing but race mixing isn’t slowing down or stopping. If anything, it’s only going to accelerate, as it has been so I do feel like over time, people will have no choice but to understand it.
My sister married a creole with a high percentage of French dna and my sister is mexican I never really knew what creole people where about till I met my sister's husband and I guess they are mixed like Mexicans also It's good to know other people that are like Hispanics from Latin America so they have a daughter my nice my sister has a 74% of native to mexico and the rest is Spain asian Portugal Slavic my nice DNA is native Spanish french Ireland Asia el Salvador 😂😂😂 and she's 7 feet tall and very beautiful exotic mixed proud woman
Do you question why pro black pages have such an “obsession” with uplifting themselves and creating spaces where black beauty and excellence can be celebrated and black issues can be talked about?… are mixed race people not allowed to see beauty in our phenotypes and celebrate it amongst one another & talk about our particular issues and uplift one another & celebrate our various cultures & backgrounds just the same? Sure we can go to pro black spaces where one side of us is talked about and celebrated but what about our particular issues? What about our particular phenotypes? No I’m not obsessed but this channel is literally for mixed race people and celebrating multiracial & multiculturalism so what else would you expect me to post here? I wouldn’t expect a pro black page to celebrate mixedness and I wouldn’t call a pro black page obsessed for caring about specifically black issues and uplifting & promoting Afrocentric beauty standards.
& furthermore I’m not obsessed with “race mixing”.. that sounds like an agenda to purposely create mixed offspring. But I am proud of MY mixed background and I have an interest in various mixed cultures because I am a mixed person who loves my own background. But I never promote mixed as being superior and I never promote to purposely create mixed offspring. Love who you love and whatever child comes of that, that’s just what it is. My own children have a mono racial black father. So again I am not obsessed with “race mixing” but I do love my mixture and I do love uplifting the mixed people who already exist.
All of us are mixed with something. Why do you call it obsessive? So much of my families history has been stolen. I get curious and DNA testing is one of the best ways to get some directions.
@@CreoleLadyMarmaladeI totally agree with everything you stated 😊 it’s always a problem when a mixed person or multigenerational mixed person wants to celebrate and be proud of ALL their ethnicities that make up who they are, but when it’s Pro Black people that celebrate it’s not problem whatsoever and nobody is questioning them. Nobody can help their genetic makeup, and shouldn’t feel bad about being proud of it. Everyone should be proud of who they are no matter what their background is and be respectful of others. ❤
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Yahya Ibn Yaish was the progenitor of Negro's in America Yahya Ibn Yaish according to the Jewish encyclopedia vol 12, he was born in Portugal around 1150. After doing some tasks for the king at the time he was given some land and took the last name Negro. His son Yahia Ibn Rabbi went by the name "The Negro". Yahia Ben Rabbi (c.1145 - 1222) (pronounced YAH-hee-yah), also known as Yahia the Negro, was a Portuguese nobleman. He was reputed to be a direct descendant of the Hebrew exilarchs of ancient Babylonia (Iraq) that claimed direct descent from the Biblical King David and was the eponymous progenitor of the Ibn Yahya family. Ben Rabbi resided in Lisbon and was respected by Sephardic Jews as well as by King Afonso I of Portugal, who knighted him for his courage by awarding him the title, "Lord of the Aldeia dos Negros" (English: Village of the Negroes). His family was huge found in multiple European countries. His family fell victim to both the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions. Spain instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 before decreeing the expulsion of all Jews from Spain in 1492. Tens of thousands of Spanish Jews fled Spain, including to Portugal, where King John II granted them asylum in return for payment. However, the asylum was withdrawn after eight months, with the Portuguese government decreeing the enslavement of all Jews who had not left Portugal. In 1493, King John deported several hundred Jewish children to the newly formed colony of São Tomé. Meaning and Origin of: Moreno Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic) : nickname for someone with dark hair and a swarthy complexion, from Spanish and Portuguese moreno 'dark-haired', a word of uncertain origin, probably from Late Latin maurinus, a derivative of classical Latin Maurus 'Moor'. Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted or were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy. Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump. www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/03/22/archaeologists-find-bound-bodies-of-enslaved-africans-in-portuguese-trash-dump/amp/ Skeletons Of Jewish Victims Of Inquisition Discovered In Ancient Portuguese Trash Heap www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/08/18/skeletons-of-jewish-victims-of-inquisition-reveal-bodies-of-jewish-people-were-tossed-in-trash-heap/?sh=653d542f6057 The first references to Portuguese presence in the United States were recorded before the American Revolution (Library of Congress, 1998, June 10). They relate to a group of Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic Jews fleeing religious persecution. Their journey took them from Portugal through Holland and Brazil before they arrived in New York. (Stillman & Stillman, 1999). Mathias de Sousa, believed to be of Jewish decent, is deemed to be the first documented Portuguese settler in present-day United States, arriving in Maryland in 1634 (Library of Congress, 1998, June 10). readtheplaque.com/plaque/mathias-de-sousa-the-first-black-marylander Mathias de Sousa was the first black Marylander. Of African and Portuguese descent, he was one of nine indentured servants brought to Maryland by Jesuit missionaries and was on The Ark when Lord Baltimore’s expedition arrived in the St. Mary’s River in 1634. His indenture finished by 1638 and he became a mariner and fur trader. In 1641 he commanded a trading voyage north to the Susquehannock Indians and, in 1642, sailed as master of a ketch belonging to the Provincial Secretary John Lewger. De Sousa departed and returned to this river many times. He anchored near here and walked to Lewger’s Manor House at St. John’s. While living there he served in the 1642 legislative assembly of freemen. No record remains of de Sousa’s activities after 1642 but his legacy of courage and success is regarded with great pride by all the citizens of St. Mary’s County and Maryland." -- Historical Marker dedicated Oct. 12, 1987.
I thought about NYTN but couldn’t find where she lists her exact results. She talks about her heritage and finding her Creole roots but I couldn’t find a video that discusses her exact results. I think DaCreoleVlog is one of my subscribers. I didn’t know she had results on here & idk the other name you listed. I’ll have to look her up
