‘Whatever your ancestry results, don’t get too attached to them. They could change.’1¹ Is it possible to feel genetic attachment? A number of television programmes suggest that DNA is central to a core sense of self. Long Lost Family (in the USA) and television commercials for Ancestry.com advance the idea that genes are key to identity and affiliative feeling. In the process they mobilize what I call genetic affect, whereby elemental feelings of self-identity and belonging – to family, nation, ethnos – are tied to one’s genetic make-up. In the process they imbricate scientific discourse with narrative modes based in reality television.

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遗传影响，如电视上所见

“无论你的血统结果如何，都不要太执着于他们。他们可以改变。'1 ¹是否有可能感受到遗传依恋？许多电视节目表明 DNA 是核心自我意识的核心。Long Lost Family（在美国）和 Ancestry.com 的电视广告宣传了基因是身份和归属感的关键的观点。在这个过程中，他们调动了我所谓的遗传影响，从而自我认同和归属感的基本感觉——家庭、国家、民族——与一个人的基因构成联系在一起。在这个过程中，他们将科学话语与基于真人秀的叙事模式融合在一起。