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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Newsweek Article: In your Blood (DNA Testing)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:43:29 -0700
In-Reply-To: <43DD3F4E.2060406@comcast.net>


> the possibility of finding African or indigenous Taino
> ancestry in the kids could be more intriguing,

Bonnie;

This is exactly the sort of remark that I find annoying and insulting; the
idea that the only things worth finding are the PC 'exotics', be they
African, some variety of NA, or religion-linked middle eastern. I
certainly don't feel in the slightest 'short-changed' by not finding any of
these in my own ancestry, and I don't find the implication that this is the
only reason that the science exists to be productive. (And by the way,
everybody is indigenous somewhere, depending on the timeframe that you're
talking about. It's not a mark of special grace.)

Glen




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