# My fellow blacks:  You are not Native American

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 3, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-blacks-you-are-not-native-american/461889 "2008-09-03T16:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-blacks-you-are-not-native-american/461889/201 "2011-04-20T20:36:07Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> -Paternal Grandpa: son of an Irish father and a Cherokee mother  
> -Paternal Grandma: daughter of a Chinese father and a Hawaiian mother  
> -Maternal Grandpa: son of an African father and a Pakistani mother  
> -Maternal Grandma: daughter of a Filipino father and an Australian aborigone mother
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> He takes both tests. This is only going to tell him about the Irish line and the Australian line- it will not show that he has any Cherokee or Chinese or Hawaiian or African or Pakistani or Filipino bloodlines.

From what I have seen of Gates’s TV show, the tests don’t even get this specific. The “ethnic groups” tested for are much, much broader than this.

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**Author:** ![pinguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pinguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinguin)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-blacks-you-are-not-native-american/461889/202 "2011-04-23T02:58:13Z")

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> [@Kevbo](#):
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> I will also say that it is not just an American thing. Every single European I have ever met shows absolute fascination with native american culture…many to the point of obsession. I have no doubt that could they plausably do so many would claim indian blood…

That’s also an obsession in Latin America. In Mexico, that obsession become an ideology that has tried to cut all links with Europe. :dubious:

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