u/Big_Boi_Pedro

I’m from Brazil. My father always said his great-grandfather came from Lebanon, and everything I know about him matches that information. The way he hated being called a turk (immigrants from the ottoman empire were often called turks in latin america), how he was a maronite catholic, etc. But I don’t have any lebanese DNA apparently, and my Y haplogroup is R1b-M269. What could explain this?

I mean, I am “latino” in the modern sense of the word and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just that usually what comes to mind when people think of latinos they think of someone who’s around 50% iberian and 50% native, and that’s not my case, but everyone still immediately identifies me as latino. So I want to know what exactly in my DNA makes me look “latino” rather than just iberian. Maybe it’s the african DNA? Pardon me for the quality of the pictures, I rarely take a decent one