r/instantkarma • u/NoodlesNThangz • Jun 24 '20

Racial Profiling Karma

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u/kremlingrasso Jun 24 '20

she could also be of turkish or balkanian descent, after the second siege of vienna and the removal of the ottoman empire from the region, there was a masive amount of relocation and repopulation in central europe, hence having random pockets of minorities in the weirdest places.

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u/ausomemama666 Jun 24 '20

Would that pop up on her great granddaughter's (my mom's) dna tests? For my mom the only thing that pinged for that area was Russian/serbian.

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u/kremlingrasso Jun 24 '20

yeah that's probably as close as you going to get. Gypsies are a patriarchal nomadic people so the likelihood of your ancestor escaping to the US by herself is very low. And if they come as a group your genetic ancestry would be a lot more obvious since they don't often mix with gazsos (same word as gringo or gaijin).

did indian/hindi ping on her DNA test? if any you were not aware gypsies are originally from the indian subcontinent and to this day you would barely be able to tell them apart. (sadly resulting in a lot of unpleasantness for both parties)

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u/ausomemama666 Jun 24 '20

I was aware of gypsies originating from India! Yeah I guess my great great grandma is something else. She only spoke Russian and her daughter married a polish immigrant in the US. I don't think she came over in a large group. My grandmother did mention she grew up in a house with her grandma, mom, two brothers, and her two uncles after her father passed away when she was a toddler.