i'm a scottish african
or an african scot and today
i took
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let me tell you my story
why did i take a dna test
is it because i'm in some way uncertain
about my scottishness
no
is it because i want to connect with
family that i haven't met
no
is it because i've got some health
concerns
that aren't immediately obvious
no
so why
at 57 i'm pretty comfortable in my
scottishness it's obvious that i'm
scottish
it's probably not as obvious that i'm
ghanaian as we'll find out now even if
you connected me to the continent of
africa it's huge
it's also way more genetically diverse
than other continents
maybe that's because all those years ago
it was only a small group that migrated
out of africa to populate the world
leaving all that genetic diversity
behind
which is why europeans all look the same
don't worry i'm european as well
the point is that i'm confident in my
scottishness
you see what makes you scottish isn't
dna
scottishness is even deeper than dna
there are people whose ancestors left
scotland generations ago and they've
inbred like pfeiffer's at a viagra
convention but they're no more scottish
than a morris dancer in saint george's
day singing swing low sweet chariot
and that's just confused a lot of north
americans hasn't it
never mind i'll be honest i don't know
why they sing that song anyway
genetics
seems a bit like a root map
every scottish person's ancestors came
to scotland from somewhere else
whether it was viking raping and
pillaging saxon migration norman
infiltration flemish trading jewish
refugees seeking all africans leaving to
establish the human species globally
everyone who's scottish is ultimately
african the only question is
when your ancestors left africa and what
route they took to get here
some people's ancestors moved on from
here to the new world and intermingled
with people whose ancestors had gone
somewhere else from africa before they
headed to those new worlds
but when you do a dna test
that's essentially the question that
you're asking
when did my ancestors leave africa
and what route did they take to get to
where i am today
folks who watch this channel seem really
interested in that subject and it's an
interesting question lots of people in
the comment section have said that
they've got scottish ancestors and they
took dna tests to confirm how scottish
they are
now you know you're x percent scottish
some took dna tests first and then they
found out that they were y percent
scottish and now they want to find out
more about scotland
so welcome aboard the haggis train
actually oh this would be the one see in
the comment section say what percent of
scottish you are if you've taken a dna
test don't i don't want a big 10
generation family history two pieces of
information
have you taken a dna test and two what
percentage scottish are you if you
haven't taken a dna test then what
percentage scottish do you think you are
some people do these dna tests because
it helps it find relatives that they
didn't know that they had because some
companies who do the tests allow you to
match up with folks that you're closely
related to and folk are really keen on
that
but that's not what motivated me
i'll be honest i don't even get on with
a farmer that i have why would i go
looking for other people to argue at
christmas
so what motivated me to take this dna
test
the other day
somebody who'd booked me to do a
stand-up comedy gig googled my name
and he sent me a message to show me what
came up
and under the
people also asked bit it seems that the
things that people often ask is
is bruce fumey black
i pissed myself
i remember once being in ghana and going
to the museum with my brother prosper we
were the same dad but my mum was
scottish his mum's getting in
so in accra there are two different
entry fees for the museum or they're
well at that time a low fee for
ghanaians and a more expensive rate for
foreigners right now the guy at the desk
wanted me to pay the foreign visitor
rate
obviously as a ghanaian that guinea and
bit of me didn't want to pay the higher
rate because i felt that was an insult
not to be considered guinean
the scottish bit of me just wanted to
get in as cheap as i possibly could
what i'm saying is
that these dna tests can get you
discounted rates at certain museums
but that's not why i'm taking the test
my heritage offered to sponsor a video
if i took one of their dna tests and
promoted their brand now don't worry i
haven't sold out i didn't take the money
in fact i even paid for this dna test
including the extra postage for express
delivery
now who knows
if it waited maybe my heritage would
have sponsored this video
then again
they might have wanted to influence what
i see
but they haven't
and so they can't ha
once i thought this was a good idea for
a video i didn't really want to wait for
all the negotiations and paperwork and
all that kind of stuff it got me
thinking
see a dna test was an intriguing idea
for a video
and
my background isn't actually quite as
certain as i suggested
you see i'm scottish right that's we're
cool with that
but some races have pointed out in the
previous comment section i'm also the
result of an interracial marriage
my grandad was scottish but my granny
was english
less controversially my mum
a daughter of that first union
don't mention the union
anyway my mum married my west african
dad so genetically
i may be as much english
as i am scottish
i still think they'd want to charge me
the tourist weight in the museum in
accra
and the crazy fruit white supremacists
they'll never be satisfied because what
drives them is that percentage of the
dna that's residual neanderthal
that's right we've all got a bit of it
in fact the genetic difference between
black and white is less than the
percentage of your dna that's
neanderthal
i'm going to let that sink in for a
moment
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the question remains
how much of me can be genetically
associated with england
with an english granny i still qualify
to play football for england
because
i haven't yet been selected for scotland
garth southgate
i'm waiting for that call
what's more when i was in ghana i met
one of my cousins of which there are
millions incidentally my green grandad
had four wives and 20 children
but when i was there somebody said that
my grandad's dad had been a coffee
trader and was german
see when people wonder
is bruce fumi black it's that german
gadget that they're talking about
the point is
that there's maybe more of a story to be
told
in this dna test and i realized
so
i took the my heritage test
even though they didn't pay me to do it
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help a poor scottish african take a dna
test
it'd be much appreciated
as it was i would have chosen my
heritage anyway and i'll tell you why
i did a bit of checking and they've got
the most detailed geographical
breakdowns and as we've already
established
your background may be more diverse than
you think they came out and taught for
detailed geographical breakdown
particularly if you're europe-based
rather than us-based or if your families
move to north america in recent rather
than long-past generations now that's
crucial
you see 55 percent of the folks who
watch this channel are from the uk so
because my heritage as depth to european
data it was definitely the one to go for
as far as i was concerned or as far as
they are concerned
all right north americans you can join
in as well and the aussies and the kiwis
with this test you also get that link up
to matching potential relatives who are
genetically close to you think
now i know i said that that didn't
interest me but i can't lie
i'm a wee bit curious
wouldn't you be
you never know when a soap opera is
going to need a long lost afro celtic
cousin nobody knew about just to
introduce a character that'll bump up
their diversity numbers
i better get myself in the market don't
you think
also they give you results in four weeks
some of these companies take up to eight
weeks and we've already established that
i don't have the patience for that kind
of nonsense
but the most important reason that i was
happy to go with my heritage and i can't
stress this enough is that they've
committed in their privacy policy to
never sell or license our genetic data
and for somebody like me that doesn't
trust corporations
that was the kicker
so
i've just done the test inside and it
took about 90 seconds
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and then
you post your samples back
in the jiffy bag
like this now i'm off to post this
but seeing as you've got four weeks to
wait you might as well watch my video on
should black people be allowed to talk
about scottish history when the results
come back i'll replace that video with
the one of me getting the results of
this test either way you'll find the
video
here in the meantime
how many documents
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you