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#DECOLONIZE || She/Her who loves my Islands, who loves the Sea || To Connect, Protect, & Respect our Indigenous Land, Water, & Peoples || #Pasifika Pod Producer

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    1. Nikos A. Leverenz‏ @nikosleverenz 30 Nov 2020

      Nikos A. Leverenz Retweeted Lani Mermaid

      My maternal lineage features more than a few Spanish names: Amado, Juan, Ponce, Domingo, Concepción. @23andMe proved that those names -- and the colonial religion -- are the sum total of my Spanish heritage. #Filipinxhttps://twitter.com/Lani4Pasifika/status/1333247861148971009 …

      Nikos A. Leverenz added,

      Lani Mermaid @Lani4Pasifika
      Hate to break it to some Chamorros and Filipinos, but if nobody in Spain claims you, you're not Spanish. Stop glorifying the colonizers in your lineage.
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    2. Lani Mermaid‏ @Lani4Pasifika 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @nikosleverenz @23andMe

      You have family in Spain?

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    3. Nikos A. Leverenz‏ @nikosleverenz 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @23andMe

      No, that was the point of my tweet that affirmed yours. The only connections with Spain are the names and the creed imposed upon all Spanish colonies.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. 𝐌 𝐀 𝐏 𝐌 𝐀 𝐊 𝐄 𝐑‏ @mapmakerdavid 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @nikosleverenz @Lani4Pasifika @23andMe

      There was a lot of surname change during the Spanish colonial era. My father’s surname, Garcia, and my mother’s, Cruz, are not guarantees that we’re Spanish.

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    5. Lani Mermaid‏ @Lani4Pasifika 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @mapmakerdavid @nikosleverenz

      My genealogy is in a book, which made sure to put a *(Spanish) next to the ancestors who were not Chamorro. I have just one, but I don't claim them nor do they me I'm sure as it was in the 1800's. But my last name is "Spanish", though I am not Spanish.

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    6. Nikos A. Leverenz‏ @nikosleverenz 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @mapmakerdavid

      Neither side of my family has much of a recorded genealogy. One of the main takeaways of having my DNA run was that the Chinese woman my grandfather thought was his mother was not in fact his mother.

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      Lani Mermaid‏ @Lani4Pasifika 30 Nov 2020
      Replying to @nikosleverenz @mapmakerdavid

      Lani Mermaid Retweeted Lani Mermaid

      Ahh well. Sorry to hear. I did a previous thread on 23andMe actually..https://twitter.com/Lani4Pasifika/status/1258999305781645314?s=19 …

      Lani Mermaid added,

      Lani Mermaid @Lani4Pasifika
      PSA: please DO NOT pay to give your DNA to for-profit companies like 23andMe. They can replicate it and do whatever tests they want with it once you give it over. The time of genetic engineering is coming upon us fast & they do NOT have your interests in mind. Keep it to urself.
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        1. Nikos A. Leverenz‏ @nikosleverenz 30 Nov 2020
          Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @mapmakerdavid

          It cleared a lot of ambiguities, and not in an entirely palatable fashion.

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