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Well I've been getting told I look middle eastern on the phenotypes subreddit, and a few other sites. It kind of surpised me, but despite this ancestry DNA says I am predominately "Northwest European"
Can anyone explain why this is? I personally don't really think I quite look like anyone. I think I might be jewish, because I have some features that only jewish people have, but yet I do not quite exactly look like the actual jews you would find, but I'm pretty sure it's because I must have from a lost tribe of israel. I haven't gotten jewish on GED match or ancestry, but on MyHeritage I got some jewish ancestry.
I was wondering if anyone knows anything about genetics here, could it be that my traits that I get from jewish ancestry just be really dominant and thus this is the explanation for why it seems to be so dominant, or am I actually full on jewish and something isn't right with the tests here, either way there's a strong chance I think that my ancestors stopped believing in judaism at some point or something like that. How could something like jewish show up as northwestern European? uh, but yeah nonetheless just at a loss wondering what to think about all of this, it's kind of weird. It's pretty certain that I am jewish to some extent. People here are quite apt at classifiying people on their looks and such and that's about as far as I had gotten.
Oh right I forgot to mention, most other ancesty tests say Northwestern, but Myheritage gives Eastern European, and out of curiosity as a result I looked at as many eastern europeans as I could, and I just don't think I look Eastern European at all, I don't think it's really possible. I think they just gave me that as being likely because I had some jewish ancestry on their test since it's believed many of the jews around are mixed with eastern european ancestry, but I look a bit different then them.
I thought my jawline for example wasn't white but I did some more research and it turns out that scottish people have pretty well defined jawlines, so that's where I get my jawline from mostly. I have a photo of someone I'm closely related to, and likey have well defined jawlines and are white.
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