{"id":56175,"date":"2018-04-09T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56175"},"modified":"2018-04-09T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:03:29","slug":"carlos-arias-vivas-dna-tests-dont-define-your-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56175","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Arias Vivas | DNA tests don\u2019t define your identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Arias Vivas | DNA tests don\u2019t define your identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a>
\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
\n2018-03-14<\/p>\n

Carlos Arias Vivas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nCC0<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Convos with Carlos | 23andMe results can\u2019t change your upbringing<\/em><\/p>\n

During one late night bonding session with my hallmates, one of them revealed to the group that they took a DNA test<\/a> and discovered more about their background. Intrigued, I sought out to buy one of the kits for myself. The major players in this industry are Ancestry.com<\/a> and 23andMe<\/a>; both offer DNA tests that can shed light on your lineage as well as an optional health risks assessment.<\/p>\n

Now, I knew that these tests are very expensive. For 23andMe, the basic ancestry service costs $99 and the Health + Ancestry service costs $199. I ended up choosing to go with 23andMe based on positive online reviews. Also, this was the brand my hallmate had used. Luckily, for me, there was a special Black Friday sale, so I snatched up the kit and waited for it to arrive at Amazon@Penn.<\/p>\n

Before doing the spit-test that is required, I knew that I was going to be Latino. My parents are from Ecuador<\/a>, and I imagined that my ancestry composition would show a high concentration of Latino ancestry. I never questioned my background because that was never a conversation I had with my family. After countless times of spitting in my tube, I entered my registration code to track my kit, sealed up the test tube in the box, and dropped off my sample at the post office.<\/p>\n

This \u201cwaiting game\u201d was an agonizing process. But even though I was excited to receive my results, I knew that the outcome wouldn\u2019t dramatically change who I was. Whatever 23andMe had in store, my upbringing is already set in stone…<\/p>\n

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Even though I was excited to receive my results, I knew that the outcome wouldn\u2019t dramatically change who I was. Whatever 23andMe had in store, my upbringing is already set in stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,125,14646,8,20],"tags":[18815,28415,10773,10772],"class_list":["post-56175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-23andme","tag-carlos-arias-vivas","tag-daily-pennsylvanian","tag-the-daily-pennsylvanian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56176,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56175\/revisions\/56176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}