DNA Testing – Top American Hobby
DNA testing is America’s favourite hobby next to gardening.
Hobby’s used to be low tech, simple affairs that kept our minds off the pressures of life – collecting stamps, tending the garden, knitting, train sets – now DNA testing is fast becoming one of the most popular hobbies around. DNA testing is being used extensively in the United States as part of the genealogy trend to uncover family history.
DNA testing – Tracing the Ancestors
America has always prided itself on being one big melting pot. Nationalities from across the world headed to the United States to start a new life. In search of a better life, fleeing from poverty, discrimination or persecution, America was the land of the free. But it has paid a big price. Its native people were killed and conquered in order to build the democracy as we know it. And the country embraced slavery, dislocating millions of blacks from Africa to America, cutting their links to their family, history and roots. DNA testing has offered many Americans a way to once and for all reconnect with their pasts.
DNA testing rewrites history
As well as confirming the identity many people carry around with them, DNA testing can also throw a few spanners in the works. It can be a shock to find out you are not for example mostly of European descent, but African or vice versa. DNA testing shows you can’t judge a book by its cover – underneath facial features and the colour of our skin, it’s the genetic coding in our DNA that unveils the true story.
DNA Testing – New Wave
The desire for genealogical testing in the form of DNA testing has been dubbed as a ‘new wave’ that has also made American’s revisit some uncomfortable moments in their history. Some DNA testing reveals black Americans with strong European make up, confirming that many black women were impregnated by white slave owners. It’s estimated that 30% of black Americans undertaking DNA testing will discover European ancestry on their father’s side.
As a result, DNA testing to discover genealogy can open up a can of worms. It’s important that if you are thinking of undergoing DNA testing, you prepare yourself for the secrets and twists that would have normally have been left to the discretion of history.
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