ancestry

The Archbishop of Canterbury has revealed he is related to a former slave owner after digging into his ancestry.

It captures the depth of rootedness and cultural ancestry, tradition and mythology,” said Frederick Luis Aldama, a professor at the University of Texas who has written extensively about Latinos in comics.

Ratan Tata was born in 1937 in a traditional family of Parsis - a highly educated and prosperous community that traces its ancestry to Zoroastrian refugees in India.

He said he had been informed by an officer that his ancestry meant he was unlikely to qualify for the high-level security vetting - called "Developed Vetting" - that would allow him to work in sensitive roles.

The granddaughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Sheinbaum will also be the first person of Jewish ancestry to serve as president in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nation.