Woah! Oh my god, I'm 10% Thai?
-(PD) Hey guys! -Hi!
(PD) What do you know about your family heritage?
Besides thinking I'm a Vietnamese, I really don't know.
My mother was from Malaysia. Before that, her ancestors came from Hong Kong and China if I'm not wrong.
My grandmother has shared with me before that I do have connections to India and that's as far as I know.
So for my mom's side, it's the Chinese side.
But from Malaysia.
I think my grandmother was from an island called Bawean (also called Boyan).
Wow.
Yeah she rowed her boat and then she came here.
My grandmother on my mother's side is actually Chinese.
She was born to a Chinese family but she was adopted.
So I should have some Chinese blood in me.
My grandfather's surname is 'Yeo'.
The 'Yeo' clan is from this place called Swatow (Shantou) in the Teochew region of China.
So I once asked my father, "How come yours and grandpa's nose are so sharp?"
He said apparently we have some German blood in our family but I'm not quite sure.
Actually your nose also quite sharp.
-Yeah I'm quite happy with my nose. -You see the nose.
No, you see from the front then it's a bit big. But if you see from the side, then quite sharp.
(PD)What do you think is your ethnic mix?
Indian.
I'm actually very very sure that I'm Chinese and Chinese,
come together, Chinese.
Part Malay, part Chinese.
In all honesty, I don't feel that there is such thing as a pure blood ever in this world.
-We're not Slytherin. -Yeah.
We're not Slytherin.
We're all Mudbloods!
To keep my expectations low,
75% Vietnamese or Kinh, and 25% Chinese.
Because my mom's father is from Indonesia.
I think I'm a mix of Chinese, Indonesian and German.
I think I'm part Mongolian.
Because I remember when we were in Mongolia, they said that
the Mongolian babies have a blue mark on their butts.
You have?
Yeah when I was younger, I have.
Majority is Chinese.
My dad's side is German-Chinese, and my mom's side is Scottish-Burmese-French.
But this is from what people tell me.
(PD) So 4 weeks ago we collected your saliva to do a DNA test.
What is this? It looks like a pacifier.
Why does it look like a menstrual cup?
We're supposed to spit until this little black line.
You got a lot of spit?
A lot sia.
*grossed out*
Wah my mouth is very dry.
I wanted to say the same thing.
Now we need to twist the cap.
Oh. (GASP)
Oh you have to lift it up then
-the thing will come out. -Yeah I'm lifting it up.
Came out already?
Should I lick it?
No don't lick it!
Cap it back up.
4...5.
Okay, we put it back into the zip lock bag.
Alright this goes in here.
Wow my saliva is going all the way to Japan!
(PD)The results are back!
So today you'll find out more about your ancestry.
Oh dear lord, have mercy.
Brenda let's find out your ethnicity!
Wah I'm 69% something?!
Chinese lah.
Yah.
I didn't know there were so many! I'm so exotic!
The last one is the best. 6% unassigned.
Are you an alien?!
Am I an alien?
69%... I think you are Southern Chinese.
-Oh! -You're correct.
I don't know, you look like you can belong in the...
Yan Xi Gong (Chinese Drama) is it?
No, I was about to say the Chinese Tik Tok videos - like the fashion ones.
I thought you can imagine me in those olden day dramas.
-The one where they wear the headpiece. -Can.
I think the 10% is Thai.
I think it's Indonesian.
Woah!
Oh my god, I'm 10% Thai?
I'm 10% Thai? I'm gonna cry.
I liked learning languages in University.
So I learned German and Bahasa Indonesia - a little bit.
I learned both until beginner level.
But then for Thai, somehow I had this feeling.
So I learned until intermediate.
-Wow! -Like Thai 3.
Am I now related to a lot of my favorite Thai actors like Bright?
And...
5%?
Maybe it's German.
German please! Just give me some...
You don't have German leh.
Wait... He lied to me!
Maybe it's unassigned, but Cambodian!
Korean!
I'm 14% Thai-Korean!
Not only am I maybe related to my favorite Thai actors like Bright,
I might be related to Lee Min Ho?
Are you ready?
See! 4 only!
What did your IC (Identification card) indicate?
Baweanese. Baweanese.
So maybe 93% Indonesian.
Indonesian!
Malay?!
It's telling you something that you already know!
Why is my IC different?
Now he got identity crisis.
Yah. Who am I?
Okay what is the 3%?
Oh!
We are from the same place, Northern Han
I feel like we're related.
Correct. Maybe the 2% you are Cambodian,
then we are confirm related.
We are confirm related already.
Maybe it's Indonesian.
Oh!
So that's where the Indo extract/Baweanese is from.
But 2% only.
So little!
Honestly I'm very shocked, because I feel like my whole life is a lie right now.
Okay, I'm gonna guess!
84% is Kinh or Vietnamese, 9% must be Chinese.
7%...
My history... I suck at history.
I don't know.
I don't know what happened in my country.
(PD) Okay, I'll show you the first 2.
Okay sure. Oh my god!
I need to hold you hand. Sister!
Oh my god, yes!
It's so amazing that they can actually identify Kinh.
7%... What I wish for is Korean.
If one day I decide to debut in Korea, then I can say "I'm a bit Korean."
Okay are you ready? Are you ready? I'm so ready!
7%...
Thai!
Oh my god! Are they neighboring countries?
Thailand and Vietnam.
I guess during the time when people can move between countries much more easily,
this is something probably true.
Aiya! Cannot debut in Korea already.
You can go to Thailand, and be a Thailand pop star.
-Oh shit... -Oh my god, so many!
For the 63% and 20%, I think it will be Malay and Chinese.
Oh! You're Han.
So I'm technically a quarter Chinese, right?
Right.
But based on this it's not true.
The other one I completely don't know. What if I'm part Kinh, then how?
Then we are really related! Oh my goodness.
8% is what?
*Loud and high pitch screams*
No way! My prediction is correct! We are related!
I'm gonna tell my parents and they'll be damn shooketh!
-I would never have guessed. -Oh my god we are related.
We are somehow related.
You stop learning Thai! I teach you Vietnamese lah!
I can't wait to see what is that 7%, I swear it's Thai.
What in the fricking world?!
-No shit! -I can't believe I have less Cambodian than you.
-Yeah! -Because we're so near to Cambodia.
No it's definitely because of migration.
Oh!
3?
Oh my god! This is as close to pedigree human as you can be already.
Correct or not?
Show me the 84%. You want to guess Leah?
I don't need to guess, it's Chinese.
Yes. Southern Han.
Remember what I mentioned about the Mongolian empire?
I'm pretty sure that everyone is part Mongolian.
Plus I went to Mongolia and I resonated so well with that place!
Honestly when I went to Mongolia, suddenly I felt like singing.
*John trying to sing a Mongolian song*
*How the Mongolian is supposed to sound like*
*Ok la, not bad*
Mongolian.
Oh my god! You are just Chinese!
*Another high pitch screamer*
I told you! How pedigree is this?
-What is this 3% that is messing up my pure breed. -Eastern China. Eastern or Western China.
Japanese!
Wait, what?!
Why is there Japanese?
In your 100% of human, you are this much Japanese.
Yah it's like my finger nail.
Or maybe my love for anime.
Why I got so many?
You have 10 colors.
My mothers side is Scottish-Burmese-French, so there's 3.
German-Chinese is 2, right? I feel like 35% is Chinese.
28%... My maternal grandmother's side is Burmese, right?
I have a feeling it might be Burmese.
14% makes more sense to be German.
5% can be Scottish,
and the 4% can be French.
We have 5 more.
Somewhere in the conversation I had with my mom,
she said something about being English.
If I go to Thailand, people will speak to me in Thai.
So I think 2% is Thai.
I feel like a lot of people say I look Filipino also.
One more 2% is...
-Swedish or Polish? -Maybe Polish.
How about we give 1% to Korean, okay?
Okay 1% Korean!
Actually if we follow your ancestry like this,
we chart the course they come from,
it makes sense that there's a European trade route.
They come through the Silk Road.
Wow! We are going to analyse the trade route now.
So, what if you are part Bangladesh?
Because north of Myanmar is Bangladesh.
That's interesting.
Maybe we're wrong. We always hype it up.
Oh! I'm Malay! What?!
Punjabi?
See! This is what I was saying.
We talk about Bangladesh, but we forget to talk about the big country.
India and Pakistan.
This is not even information that I am aware of.
That means your family quite nomadic.
Give me the German blood, can?
We can safely eliminate Korean.
-Which will make her very sad. -Okay sad! It's fine.
NANI! WHAT?!
Are you sure this is not because of the food she ate?
Then she never brush her teeth and do the saliva experiment?
2% is not bad!. It's the size of my hand, maybe.
It's not bad. It's not bad.
Why you laugh!
It's fingernail, similar to earlier on (for me).
No lah... Hand lah....
So I'm apparently Italian, and not French nor Scottish.
Lies from my mother. Honestly, it might be unassigned.
-Because it might be many generations ago. -It might be very dilute.
Let's see!
Oh! What the heck!
Oh my god, you're only 56% something.
56% is Southern Indian.
One of them is Northern Indian,
and then there's two ethnicities which I have no clue.
Oh what if there's like British or something.
Because you know British India like...
Oh! That's not a bad theory.
Exactly! It's not impossible.
(PD) Okay I'll show you from the top.
Oh my god! I'm 22% Tamil only.
I'm really really surprised by this.
Because my primary speaking language is Tamil, but it's 22%.
And 56% is Telugu, which I don't know how to speak.
But I guess also cause Singapore doesn't have this is the education system.
That's true. That's very true.
But I don't know of anyone in my ancestry who speaks Telugu as well.
Let's see what the rest of it is.
Bengali!
Did you know that?
No! Oh my god so I have Pakistani blood as well, that's really cool.
Apparently I'm a very diverse Indian.
And the best part is the one that I associated with myself the most,
which is Tamil, is 22%!
Less than a quarter of you is what you think you are.
Exactly! Oh my god!
Chow!
Oh!
I'm very curious about what the 10% is,
cause I'm pretty sure I can guess what the 87% is.
Of course Chinese!
Okay Southern - I guess I'm not super surprised by that because I'm Cantonese so...
Guang Zhou.
Probably from those areas.
Then what the heck is the 10% Sew?
Cambodian?!
WHAT?! FROM WHERE ONE?! Oh my goodness!
I had no idea!
Okay I was think South East Asia, but I didn't think of Cambodia at all.
I wonder where they met?
Wait was I like...I don't know. Which time frame? Like how? How did this even happen?
If anybody here is watching and you are from Cambodia right,
please help me find out who is my ancestor.
-Now it's time for you to go to Cambodia to find your roots. -Yeah I totally want to go to Cambodia
and see the city, see the country.
(PD) Now you'll use the GeneLife app to find out more about your ancestry results.
Woo!
I'm gonna go in now.
Go go go.
'Your journey starts here.' Okay so I got all my 5 ethnicities here.
See, they give you a pie chart to show you.
I'm gonna look at Telugu first, which is my majority.
Wah, I love that the moment they show Kinh, they show me paddy field.
Before I did anything, I scrolled all the way down to fun fact,
and my favourite fruit appeared.
'Square watermelons are grown and sold in Japan,'
'they are also expensive, costing as much as a hundred dollars!'
'Modern day Kinh people trace their origin from a mixture of many ancient tribes in Vietnam'
'as well as people from the Middle East, China and Japan.'
So...I have Japanese blood inside of me?
Where is the Central European? Let me learn more.
Wow! There's a lot of CEs, and BCs, and everything here. I feel like I'm reading an email.
They even have a migration map to see where your ancestors go.
Now on my maternal side, my haplogroup is F.
It means 'You originated about 44 thousand years ago'
'in populations in East and South-East Asia.'
Your maternal lineage descended from ancestors who migrated from Eastern Africa?!
Wow very cool! It makes sense because of what I mentioned earlier,
about how we all came from Africa.
So that's where humans generally originated from.
My migration map is like the airplane - You know like you go for lay over
in Doha, then you go to London that kind.
Oh my god! Really!
Yeah it's very smooth.
Maybe you need to check your paternal side.
Okay my paternal side, they traveled more.
They traveled around Africa.
Then they went to Middle East and I ended up in China,
then ended up in Thailand, then Laos!
They always end up in a region and never in Singapore, specifically.
So the map probably doesn't show Singapore because the migration influx in Singapore
happened relatively recently, like in the past couple 100 years
versus this migration map that dates back to a few 10,000 years ago.
This migration thing is so quick that I think our human research cannot keep up.
But it will be very exciting when the research starts to develop
and we can actually see the whole migration pattern up to where we are now.
I think with adequate research,
they can pinpoint that you are inside this building.
Yeah... Erm.
I think that's a bit much, but we get the point John. We get the point.
I feel it's very interesting that the app not only showcase the different ethnic groups you have,
they also show fun facts
and a little bit of heritage on the background of the ethnic group.
(PD) After seeing your test results, how do you feel?
I have nothing else to say but shook.
Okay for me, mine isn't as shook as yours.
You having Vietnamese blood is so mind blowing.
When I first saw 4 ethnicities I was already like, "Nani (what)?"
cause I was only expecting to see 1 thing which was Indian.
But they really broke it down
and that is something that I would have never seen coming.
Same. I didn't know that I had a part of anything else
apart from Chinese because that was what I've been told all my life.
I just feel very glad that I know more about my heritage in that sense.
For the past 26 years of my life, I feel like I only listen to what my parents say
and it's not 100% accurate also, as we can tell.
So it kind of gives you a bit more context in terms of who you are as a person
and you won't keep on guessing, then pretend you got German blood when you don't.
You are shading my father!
I do watch like these kind of documentaries
and anthropological studies about how humans migrated.
Everyone is essentially by ancestry a type of nomadic person.
And it's just interesting to see it finally being plotted out
and all these dots starts to connect for me.
From my knowledge of these kinds of DNA tests, a lot of data about South-East Asia is not available.
But I think GeneLife is the one based in Asia
so they have a lot of data in Asia, and that's something very accurate for us.
(PD) Does knowing these results change anything?
It makes me want to interrogate my family right now.
It's just easier for me to explain to people directly where I'm from in a sense.
Now you can just screenshot and show them.
After finding out that I'm 10% Thai, this is driving me to want to learn Thai even further.
And meet my Thai actor relatives...
It opens a door about discovering different cultures and different ethnicities.
I guess it wouldn't impact your lives as much.
But now I do feel that I am a little bit more inclined to go to Cambodia and Vietnam.
Find out more about my own heritage, where I came from, what my ancestors did, who they were.
There are just so many questions I want to know the answers to now.
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