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by neivin 2335 days ago
I didn't buy the test because all it would say would be "Congrats! You are 100% asian."

I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to.

It's not that useful for me. I've had friends do it and get 99.97% Chinese or Indian.

Amazing, I could have told you that for free.

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> I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to.

I'm not familiar with the kinds of ancestry information they can provide, but why would that only apply to white people? Why not also, say, people with African heritage and which of the African countries they have ties to?

As a 3rd generation white person in the US, what specific European ancestry I have is meaningless to me.

I find the health tests to be more interesting than the ancestry, though it was a bit scary though having to click through all the warnings to get to the results.

> what specific [ancestry] I have is meaningless to me.

it's ultimately probably not important, but I would think that it's at least something to be curious about.