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Ailchu, thank you. I tried very hard to make my point above without causing offense. I'm glad I succeeded. To your point, perhaps we need to move everyone to someplace new so they can start over without the weight of ethnicity. As an American it's easy to overlook the advantage we had by...

Ailchu, always be careful asserting what the people of another country think. I believe you meant well and I accept that ethnicity in my country is decoupled, as you say, from nationality (thank God), but we all think of ourselves as Americans. We call our fellow Americans . . . Americans. My...

I think the phrase Angela may have been looking for (excuse the presumption) is, “man up.” No adult, male or otherwise, complains that someone has been mean to them. They marshall their facts and do battle, or they say, sorry, I was in error. Pick one.

Angela, I have to disagree with you. Fast food is not cheaper than homemade food, it's far more expensive. What it is, is convenient and, because the high fat and starch content, it's tasty. I haven't eaten a burger in years because I refuse to spend that much money on lunch. And don't get me...

Americans were much more religious in previous decades, yet much slimmer than people living today. An answer to obesity must account for its recent rise, first in the US and now in England (and some other countries in Europe too?), despite the fall in religiosity across the board. A more...

It's interesting that no one (at least that I noticed in skimming the comments) has mentioned online education. Within a framework of standard requirements (reading, basic math, civics, etc) it could free the student to advance at their own rate and study what truly interests them. It would also...

Homemade cornbread and black bean soup, one of my favorite winter meals. And by the way, having actual bits of corn in the cornbread is an abomination.

You have to mention a good crusty sourdough . . . while I know the original recipe goes back thousands of years, the current variety seems like an American (or Californian) invention to me.

Or, better yet. Nobody killed anybody, nor drove anyone into extinction. We all just interbred with abandon . . . any body, any species, any place . . . with all our offspring evolving to become modern humans.

That modern man evolved from several source populations should not be unexpected. We know that modern humans interbred with Neanderthal and Denisovians from time to time so it's no great leap to expect contact between other, earlier homo types. Any woman should be able to tell you that the...

Let's be honest. We all put our own profit first. The last time you sold a car or your house, or some more minor item online, did you look up the market rate to see the maximum you could get for the item? Of course you did! Don't expect more from companies than you would do yourself.

My point is that it is very hard to create a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural country. The US is perhaps the most multi-everything country in the world and every day illustrates the issues that remain unresolved. We should be understanding of the problems faced by countries that have little or no...

The US has an advantage of 300 years of experience absorbing and integrating large numbers of immigrants. It's never been easy, as the anti-German discrimination of our early history attests. It's harder when the cultural gulf is great, which I suspect the problem is with absorbing Muslim...

I'm late to this thread, but I'll chime in as Z1817 . . . CTS2230 . . . Z726 . . . Z36217 (an English clade). Family can be solidly traced to Yorkshire c1550. Of note there is a Celtish (Parisi) chariot burial in the region of their origin. I like to think that points to a link with the Parisi...

Well, my paternal line is G2a and they were good farmers, coming from Yorkshire c1686, and moving through west Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and on into Iowa. My father was the last farm boy. My mother's line is also descended from Neolithic farmers, K1a4h, from Holstein, Germany, but...

This, I suppose, is my problem making sense of autosomal DNA results. Pieces of my family have been in America since the 17th century, and since then they've been mixing with other immigrants from most every nation in Europe. All my DNA results show is that I'm related to everyone, though with a...

If who or what is causing you stress is at work (bosses, inane co-workers), then that answer is problematic. I always planned my day around a noon work-out. That split up my day, but more importantly allowed me to cleanse my mind of the absurdities that often popped up in the office. I usually...

Thanks for that update!

Under G2a-Z726 I'm predicted to be Z36217, an as-of-yet unconfirmed sister clade of 4803 and 16775. I'm fairly lucky because a number of the members of my family in the US and a long-lost cousin in England tested with FTDNA, so I have a very good confirmation of my paper trail. We're from...

My paternal line is G2a-Z726, but my male ancestors are, almost certainly, mainly of other Y-DNA types. In fact, when I look at MyTrueAncestry for the Y-DNA distribution of all male samples that match my autosomal DNA kit, G2a doesn't even make the list. Why should I think I'd look anything like...