Other than Noakhali chapter, fascinating…..few new thoughts/ideas.

tI

From personal experience mostly (1) rather than (2) (my inlaws are first generation Korean immigrants whose families were recent Korean converts, so I’ve spent a lot of time in and around the American Korean community). Not unrelated, even within the same denominations (e.g. Presybeterian or Roman Catholic), the Korean Christians are far more evangelical than their U.S. counterparts (something also true of African branches of U.S. Christian denominations such as Lutherans).

You also see disproportionate Pentacostal immigration from Latin America, and disproportionate Christian immigration from the Middle East and much of Asia generally.

Along the same lines as what you describe, it is also interesting that the growth in Christian participation and activity in the Great Plains (e.g. the Dakotas) has come to a great extent not from people returning to the Lutheran and Catholic pews, but from new Evangelical congregations in those areas.

25% of s koreans are christian. 75-90% of north american koreans are christian (depending on whose numbers you trust). the is due to 1) selective migration, 2) the power of the diasporic christian churches in integrating and converting non-christian immigrants. similarly, in 1800 the most powerful churches on the eastern seaboard were the congregationalists and episcopalians (north to south). but as settlement expanded to the west, these two denominations did not expand concomitantly. methodism on the other day did.

The notion that Bangladeshi Muslims might have converted mostly from some religion other than Hinduism is also quite interesting.

I’m not sure that I quite follow the comment: “(interestingly, one sees similar patterns between descendant populations in both the USA and among Koreans. The religions in the “core” homelands are very different in constitution from the Diaspora)”

I checked the Native American Ancestry Finder where you can see the exact Ancestry Painting percentage breakdown, and your sibling is intermediate between your two parents. I am well aware of the possibilities where this would not be the case, however. By the way, 23andMe said that consumers who tested with the v2 chip will also have their Ancestry Paintings updated with the new algorithm later this year.

About homozygous or heterozygous parts of the genome in the Ancestry Painting, I personally believe that you should not take it that seriously unless your ancestry is close to the reference populations used in the Ancestry Painting, because there have been some strange results. This is made the most clear in the results of Africans tested on v2, and especially East Africans. The fake “Asian” segments of Africans are consistently homozygous, at a much higher rate than what you would expect considering the low proportion of Asian segments overall.

This was improved with the v3 upgrade. A large part of the fake “Asian” segments on v2 are now African (I am 5% “Asian” and 12% “African” on v3, while people similar to me ethnically are 0-3% “African” and 10-20% “Asian” on v2). However, the Asian segments that remain are still usually homozygous. I wouldn’t be surprised if these changes to the Ancestry Painting algorithm also affected your proportion of Asian segments.

Great blog entry, by the way!

the genetics can answer this, as the mundari exhibit some distinctive patterns. i am skeptical of this being the primary answer anymore, because i don’t think that tribal people can transform into intensive rice farmers so easily. rather, the more plausible model is that indo-aryan peasants from the west (speaking dialects which would later become bengali) assimilate mundari and tibeto-burmans on the margins, and totally absorb them culturally.

as for where you read it, this idea is repeated everywhere. it sounds possible, and, it dovetails nicely with the ‘pots, not people,’ ideology regnant after world war 2.

You’re on the list…but it’s only chromosome 1…

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