Ancestors

I've decided not to refer to myself as caucasian, white person, whitey etc, any more. Actually, I think the whole idea of race is ridiculous and I really wish it would fall out of fashion and be replaced with something like cultural heritage, or ancestral heritage or something like that. My 23andme DNA data keeps being updated, every time I check in with the site, it's like an unfolding story. When the results first emerged, the data showed that I was 100% European, which at the time was a bit disappointing, because a few family members and I felt that we had some indigenous origins in there somewhere. I figured, however, that DNA doesn't lie and was resolved to accept that I was pretty white bread. It was interesting enough to read about my maternal haplogroup being native to Central Asia, from 40,000 to as recent as 3000 years ago. Now it seems that I have more diverse ancestry than the DNA first showed. It's not much, but it makes me realise we are much more mixed than we think we are. Through my paternal grandmother, I have .3% North African DNA and through my maternal grandfather, I have .3% Asian, including South Asian (Indian) and East Asian (Chinese) DNA. It makes me so happy. I want to be connected with the rest of the world and this is proof that I am. I think it is more than a coincidence that when my daughter was born, a thought flew threw my head, as she lay there looking around alertly, that she looked Indian. Then when my son was born, the same kind of insight came to me, but in his case, I thought he looked African.His midwife said at the time that she thought he had reached far back into his ancestral heritage, to manifest in the world. Her wisdom is proving to be more true than we all realised at the time.