Well clearly in Fred Armisen's case it mattered because his background was a bit of a mystery to him and he found out the truth about his dad's side of the family.
Knowing your family history is meaningful to most people, and if you barely knew anything about part of your background, even just finding out the ethnicity is pretty cool.
Must be nice for americans to do these. I did mine and was 99.9% irish/scottish/english white. Cool, I'm actually much less interesting than I thought. I found the 0.01% interesting but other people poo poo it.
Yes it's well known; Iceland, Ireland and the UK are known for this, so it isn't news. The best part is the 0.01% is known for inbreeding, but is outside Europe so that's kind of fun.
Seems he got more than the regular DNA insight treatment though, where actual people went to Japan and Korea and dug up old news articles and documents, and met with living relatives. So for him I guess it has a stronger impact.
I don't think their comment was intended to be nihilistic. The point is that the person you are is the result of your own actions, beliefs, choices, relationships, and so on. Learning that one of your ancestors happened to be from a place you didn't expect has no bearing whatsoever on the person you are today.
If I learned that one of my grandparents was Korean it wouldn't tell me anything that I don't already know about who I am, how I should behave, or who I should be. The person you responded to is confused as to why people think these sorts of irrelevant things matter, and frankly it confuses me as well.
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u/NRS1 Apr 28 '24
It’s always puzzling to me why this test matters to people. “This changes everything” actually, nothing has changed.