momondo – The DNA Journey feat. Yanina

To celebrate diversity in the world we asked 67 people from all over the world to take a DNA test. It turns out that they have much more in common with other nationalities than they would ever have imagined. In this short film, you can join Yanina on her surprising journey into who she really is.

Let’s Open Our World is an invitation to travel across boundaries, embrace our differences and open our world.

momondo believes that everybody should be able to travel the world, to meet other people, and experience other cultures and religions. Travel opens our minds: when we experience something different, we begin to see things differently.

Let’s connect!

The film was shot in Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark, and directed by Jeppe Rønde.


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[kingofcupstarotreading]

The best person from all. Such a sweet sweet, drama free person. Like most of us Eastern Europe people, strong and cant stand drama and not making too much fuss about things.

[wugarm-zadeh]

she has Japanese -Chinese and native American DNA because of Mongolian -tatar influence on Russia and Ukraine

[TRAVELZILLA]

This is Amazing, let´s not forget that the Native Americans came from Asia actually, central Asia the far east and Southeast Asia. Plus Russia used to own a huge part of the Americas Alaska and california all the way down to San Native americans are Asians in a sense. Being Russian makes total sense the native american blood

[leosc]

Actress or not, I don't care. She's the sweetest person! :)

[Emsie]

I can’t stop smiling. She seems lovey.

[Abu]

Native Americans came from Altai mountains the same as Turkic, Mongolian and Japanese and Koreanic people

[Kazekage]

They can make a high quality documentary with the most in-depth info into the participants and y'all would still say its fake. Jeez.

[wendellbeverly]

She has a classic Eastern European look, my dad's family looks like her and they're Polish.

[bipbipboopboop]

Перемотала видео на результат, почувствовала, что-то родное. Решила посмотреть с начала. Очень приятная женщина.

[GI-hqdm]

Native Americans are close relatives to Altay people and some nations like Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs.So Yanina may have some ancestors originated from Central Asia< Altay region

[rdanielr]

Diversity is something amazing, worth celebrating! We are all part of the same world!!

[georgeclooney]

she by far the best person in that room. no stupid dramas

[noorahnn]

*Yeah I am not surprised about America and Russia's STRONG relationship*

[ismanismun]

Atlast we are from the same Ancestor, can we live our live in Peace & Harmony?
WHY NOT? YESS. 😍🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[brandon]

It's so awesome to hear these stories and to see all of these people, and to listen about how they talk of their families what they have had to endure when they made the choice to journey on, to get a better life and to leave their whole life and everything the have ever known behind in their native homeland.

[АминатАлиева-ъщ]

Очень приятная женщина. А связь России и Америки не новость. Аляска- бывшая российская территория.

[ShaunnCasselle]

These videos are soooo awesome! #humanity

[josephineusina]

Loved this! i found out i am Western European, proud of my heritage too

[esjel]

Amazing.


And That picture of her as a baby in the arms of her mother (top right) is an amazing composition. Such a great artistic photo.

[Marvee]

This is so interesting. I am from a north Indian muslim background and a few years ago my sister did a dna test for fun. We know from our paternal family history that one of our ancestors traveled from what is now Uzbekistan to India and settled there. We knew she would therefore get central asian going back 8-10generations or so. From looking at our family you can not see that. We look indian, and my sister's dna result showed her with almost 90% from the Indian subcontinent, and her test results also confirmed oral family history to central asia. What took us all by utter surprise though was going back even beyond oral history cause she also got a tiny native american and yakuts percentage going back in time. That means there was a lot of human activity across the Bering Strait before it was submerged in water. I don't know how common it is to find native american ancestry in someone from India from that far back, but for our family it was very interesting. We were not expecting that.