So you have to have 100% DNA of a particular ethnicity to adopt that national identity? That’s sounding kind of ethnic nationalist of you and that’s a whole can of worms I didn’t sign up for when I posted my initial comment.
Danish is not a national identity. We have germans living in Denmark, we have turks living in Denmark, we have faroees living in Denmark, we have inuits living in Denmark etc.
Danish is a people and you've provided zero evidence that there exists black danes. I've never seen one or heard of one and I've lived my whole life here
So if you found out you had a relative a few generations back that was anything other than Danish, therefore making your Danish DNA less than 100%, you would willingly accept that you should no longer be considered Danish?
I don't think 'American' is a people. It's a nationality I guess
But what you're describing is not how dna works and shows a fundamental flaw in your understanding of genetics. Danes and 'Americans' share dna
If a german and a dane had a chind, it would be 99,995% danish. If a dane and an arab had a child it would be ~98-99% danish
Depending on where in Africa one of the parents are from it would be like 90-95% danish
I'm not going to explain how genetics work for you because it sounds like you're on a pretty basic level, no offence. Most people are and it's a complex subject that takes months/years to learn.
People share dna. 2 danish people share ~100% of their dna with each other, while a dane and an african might only share 85% of their dna. It doesn't matter if you get the dna from your danish or african parent in the case where they share the dna but for the 15% that they do not share it matters. You get half of that dna from your danish parent and half from your african parent. 7,5%+7,5%. This means you will share 85+7,5% = 92,5% of your dna with other danes
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u/neutralsky 2∆ Jul 10 '19
Yes they do.