- So we have a little surprise for you.
- Oh my God. Stop. (laughs)
- Adopted in the seventies.
- Didn't expect that.
- I feel like that would've been quite unusual back then.
- This is my distant cousin.
- Someone didn't tell the family
that we have another cousin in here.
It's like the gay crisis wasn't enough,
the gender crisis wasn't enough,
let's go through your cultural crisis.
- [Xander] Today we're gonna be taking DNA tests
- So we're finding out where we came from,
way up the family tree line,
just in case we didn't already know.
I mean, you never know, right?
So I'm a bit unhinged today. (chuckles)
- We are going to be using a MyHeritage DNA test kit.
It basically gets your DNA,
they take it somewhere to a lab, they use it
and then they figure out your entire family bloodline.
- I'm South Korean, my mom is South Korean,
my dad is South Korean.
They're both immigrants here.
As far as I know, I'm South Korean a hundred percent.
- I will actually be surprised if I'm 100% Indian.
You know, you get the results,
there's always like 1% of something else.
- Love to know more about basically the things
that make me me,
because I don't actually look anything like my family.
So there's been a lot of toes dipped into Afghan genealogy
and I'm sure that that's gonna be reflected in my results.
My cultural background is White.
The amount that that I know about it
is basically on my mum's side, I think we're Scottish.
And on my dad's side, we're Welsh.
- My cultural background is basically my identity.
I'm like the brown girl in the room,
or like I'm the brown girl on Buzzfeed,
or one of the brown girls on Buzzfeed, whatever.
Like, I don't see myself that way, but other people do,
and I think growing up and that,
made me rethink a lot about my identity.
- You know, I look Asian.
Going to school in Australia,
I was like one out of like five Asian kids
in school at all times.
So like, yeah, it played a big part
- In more recent times, I've kind of grown more curious
about my ancestry.
I wanna know where I come from
because I do feel like I'm missing that part of my identity.
- Let's do the test.
Is it a COVID test? Is it a pregnancy test?
Nope. It's a DNA test.
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- The babies.
- I can't believe there's someone out there
whose job is to literally just open packets of spirit.
- Off to the science lab so they can tell us
where we're really from.
Oh my God!
"Where are you from?" Now I'll know for sure.
(tense music)
- I honestly don't know what to expect at all,
but we'll find out - We'll find out.
- [Zeta] Thank God, Daniel's here today.
- Yeah, thank God. (Daniel chuckles)
Are you ready to explore your ethnicity?
- Absolutely. - Let's go.
Sohan, you are 81.4% South Asian.
- Stunning. I knew that.
- 11.3% Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
- Oh! That's wild.
That's probably the most surprising thing to me.
Didn't expect that.
- 3.2% Central Asian, 3.1% English.
- [Sohan] Yep.
- And 1% Mesomerican and Andean.
- [Sohan] What is, where is that?
Oh, my gosh.
- Your DNA shows a clear origin
in Punjab, India. - Yeah.
- And your paternal grandmother was born in Punjab.
- I feel a lot more rooted in my South Asian heritage.
When people say like, "Oh, what's actually going on?"
Now I know like for certain that's where my heritage is.
- You have a pretty good sense of who your family is
and so, I think it's more
about the details- - Yeah.
that MyHeritage has helped uncover.
- I wanna be shocked, I want you to shock me.
- 80.1% Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
- The Scottish and Welsh, like that's literally
my mom's side and my dad's side.
- 9.9% Baltic. - Did not know that.
- [Daniel] 5.5% Scandinavian
- Guys, I'm Scandinavian! (Daniel chuckles)
- And 4.5% Finnish.
We have a record here which we'll show you.
- Oh, my God. - Which is from the 1881.
England, Wales census.
Your great-great-grandfather, John.
So he was born in 1844 and died in 1907.
He was a coal mine.
There's also a stepson, William Jones.
So he was 16.
- I feel like that would've been quite unusual back then.
- Yeah, I think so too, yeah. - Having a stepfamily.
- And then here in the 1911 England, Wales census,
we can see your great grandparents, John Morgan
who's 30 and Esther, 26.
- [Zeta] So that would be my dad's grandparents?
- Correct, but they had five children,
they immigrated from Wales to New Zealand.
- I always wondered when my family went to New Zealand.
- We actually found a really nice photo
of your paternal grandfather. - Wow!
- [Daniel] Your great, great grandmother, Esther.
So that was Esther who moved from...
- Wales to New Zealand
- [Daniel] To New Zealand.
- Even though it's not even that shocking,
I still don't know what to say.
- You're still surprised, yeah.
- I don't know what to expect
but I'm expecting something random,
but like, I don't know if I'm gonna be, I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm ready, let's do it. (Hameda claps nervously)
- Let's go.
You are 46.8% West Asian. - Okay.
- 24%. South Asian. - Yes, to be expected.
Oh, what the... (both laughing)
12% North and West European, where? (laughs)
Amazing, see, okay the Asian stuff,
I get it, I understand, I feel it.
Oh, and then just like-
- The Europe. - Yeah.
I thought that it was gonna be more Central Asian
'cause my is actually from Herati, which borders on Iran.
- Okay. - So, it makes sense that
that's kind of the area that it's picking up.
My voice is never shaken in a video before.
I don't know why this is so overwhelming. (laughs)
I don't know what to do or say about it.
- We'll go into the DNA matches.
So, your third match is only 0.3% in terms of
the shared DNA that you have. - Mh-hm.
- So we have a little surprise for you.
- Oh my God, stop. (laughs)
This is my distant cousin, my third or distant...
What, how did you...
- Hello, Hameda.
My name is Sapeda and you don't know me,
but basically, we have the same history.
I've heard that you are born in Germany
one year before my family and I immigrated
because of the civil war in Afghanistan in 1995.
You know, in Germany the Afghan people always say
we are related to each other.
In our case, it's true.
I'm looking forward to meet you
and exchange some memories about our family members.
- That's... (chuckles)
That's like awesome. - Yeah.
- That's so weird.
Knowing that you're from a place that was so war torn
and everyone kind of was separated all the time,
you kinda give up on the idea of finding
lost family members.
I mean,
(laughs nervously) I'm shaking.
- You're shaking. - Yeah.
- I have a feeling it's just gonna say
a hundred percent Asian. (chuckles)
- {Daniel] Well, Xander is 52.1% Japanese and Korean.
(Xander breathing shakily) - What?
- [Daniel] 25.9% Mongolian. (Xander indistinct)
19.5% Chinese and Vietnamese.
- What? - [Daniel] And 2.5% Finnish.
- Finnish! Okay, this is what got me.
Finnish?
- Even 2.5%, how does that work?
How does that work?
Geographically, how does that work?
I said if there was Caucasian, I would have questions,
I have lots of questions right now.
- And you've got 94 DNA matches on MyHeritage.
- Wait, what?
I have questions for all of my grandparents.
- So your highest DNA match, share 1.2% DNA.
Monica from Norway.
So let's hear from Monica.
(Monica speaking foreign language)
How do you feel?
- Adopted in the seventies.
So like from listening to this, one of my grandparents
or their siblings had a kid, didn't tell the family,
an adoption.
Someone didn't tell the family
that we have another cousin in here.
I have been really waiting for this.
As the gay kid, I just wanna cause chaos.
It's like the gay crisis wasn't enough,
the gender crisis wasn't enough,
let's go through your cultural crisis.
Okay, so like when people ask me what I am,
what do I, what do I say now?
- When you see the spread of the colors
across like everything
and I guess that's kind of the point, right?
Is that, we're all sort of connected in some ways.
So like, the prejudice and stuff that we have,
it's kind of bullshit, right?
'Cause we all kind of ending up... (laughs)
- Exactly.
- Integrating throughout generations.
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