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Old June 23rd, 2019 #1
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Disclaimer: This thread , even though it will critically go into Spain's racial history , is not intended to claim that all Spaniards are mixed-race/not part of the larger European peoples . . . it merely presents fact critically collected.

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Spain . . located in the outmost soutwest of the European mainland.


The original inhabitants , from which the area got its name ( Iberian Peninsula ) were a Celtic tribe called Iberians.

Celtic peoples were mostly chartacterised by red hair.

Rome , which had an ongoing quarrel with the Celtic inhabitants of Europe, conquered the area.

So . . also a good deal of Roman blood . .

Thus far concerning antiquity . .

Concerning post-antiquity history . . .

The first people to truly form a 'Spanish state' were the Visigoths, a germainc tribe of the Middle Ages . .

They were Christians . .

They re-conquered the Iberian Peninsula from the Moorish Muslims of Northern Africa who had subdued it for some time ( the Iberian Peninsula in their sack was actually the farest into Europe / the biggest part of the european mainland the Muslims ever conquered)

They exclaimed a Christian kingdom . .

But . . that's when it was starting to become problematic . .

At least on the surface.


Of course there were still remnants of the Moorish rule . .

( the Moors were a mixed-race people similar to most of today's Middle Easterners )


What was supposed to be done with them ?
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It is said that they were trusted to become citizens of Spain if they embraced christianity . . . . which many did . .

Also . . along with the Moors there came a good percentage of jewish population.

To sum it up so far . . Quite a complex racial history.

It would seem naive from today's point of view to allow people of an alien race to "become fully functioning members of a country" by only "adapting the country's customs" ( at that time Christianity was more or less the custom for all of Europe )

On the other hand, there also were quite strict laws at that time.

"Limpieza De Sangre" ( "cleanliness of blood"-rule ) . . for example.

The Christian Inquisition also still was against Jews / Moors for a time even if they converted . . . and race-mixing was even punishable at the stake. .


'Diffuse' history when it comes to decision-making at that time , gotta admit . . at least concerning the then-officials. .

Well , the fact is : Gotta admit that the Northern African ( Moorish / Jewish ) influence truly DID leave some footprints.

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Another fact which should be mentioned. . Spain also has a long history of gypsy-immigration ..

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The present situation . . . even though Spain is by far majority pure Caucasian , the diffuse racial history along with different decisions by "the officials" still plays a role.


But , like I said , one shouldn't draw the conclusion from that Spain is "a mixed country per se".

I'm mainly posting this as an example of what slight problem may occur if the racial question in an area is not solved completely . . .

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What remains to say again that the majority of the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula surely are Europid/Caucasian ( Gothic blood / Celtic / sometimes maybe even original Roman blood) and that Spain also is a pure European language ( the Spanish language is based on a simplified Latin the first 'colonialists' there , the Romans , imported ) , but that there might be 'problematic areas' . . .



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Old June 23rd, 2019 #2
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Gotta add , concerning this , that , in addition to the racial question not having been solved 100 per cent in ancient Spain , the Spanish settling of South- /Meso-America also was problematic , racially.

In contrast to the North American explorers ( Anglos /French /Dutch et al . . ) they didn't take settlers from back in Europe to settle the land but instead took sons /daughters from the natives . . That's why today South-/Meso-America is largely Mestizo. .

Again , that is not meant to put down Spanish people or Spanish customs yet especially the upper-class it would appear often made mistakes ( the church / noblemen , conquerers . . ) . . . that's why , gotta admit , today many people have 'darkies' in mind when faced with the word 'Spanish' ( 'Latin-Americans' et al . . )

Again , this is not to be understood wrong . . . Spain is the second most influential language of the world and the Spanish-speaking influence-sphere surely also is big.
 
Old June 23rd, 2019 #3
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I once worked with a Spanish lady from Catalonia who had blonde hair and blue eyes. She hated that every idiot American asked her if she was from Mexico, too. So there are still lots of pure Whites in Spain even after centuries of invasions and mixing by the Moors and others. Funny that I often see more White, non-mestizos on Univision or other Mexican TV channels than on u.s. networks. They are purer Spanish descent or from Whiter South American countries like Argentina and Uruguay. The Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is German, obviously.
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Old August 30th, 2019 #4
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I agree. Many people think of Latin American mestizos when they hear the word spanish. There clearly is a difference.
 
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I heard spain even is said to have a blonde-haired blue-eyed minority, mainly concentrated in the north of that country
 
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The Vandals , also a people which lived on Spanish soil, were of Germanic phenotype.

Most ironically though , today's Andalusia , the region named after them ( Vandals ;Andalusia ) is said to be one of the 'darkest' of Spain concerning phenotype . .

The Vandals were all over northern Africa and also entered the Spanish mainland . . Another Caucasoid people which once lived in Northern Africa . .
 
Old December 9th, 2019 #7
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. . I have to say . . in my youth I had a spanish friend ( Spanish as in from Spain ).


He didn't even have German citizenship . . ( but he was fluent in German ).
In retrospect . . man ,was he critical about being of Spanish phenotype . .

He was born in Spain but moved to Germany with his parents at an early age and had his childhood here . .though , he never had German citizenship . . ( at least didn't have it during the time we knew each other )

When we had a talk about different peoples mixing with each other worldwide he was like "Believe me . . as someone from Spain I know what you're talking about" or when I once mentioned Arabs he was like "Guess what pal ? I'm spaniard . . I'm half arab . ."

Wow.

Do even many Spaniards themselves overestimate the Moorish admixture . .?


^ ^ . . these were his own words.

^ ^ the spaniards are a very proud people.

Concerning phenotype , the dude was dark-haired . . but he didn't seem to have race-mixing genes in him.
 
Old December 9th, 2019 #8
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I agree. Many people think of Latin American mestizos when they hear the word spanish. There clearly is a difference.
OMG, one of my pet peeves is when people refer to beaners as "Spanish." It used to be just dumb negroes that did that but lately white people have been doing it. Ticks me off.

The beaners in DC are straight-up Amerindians from Central America. They aren't even mestizos.
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Old December 9th, 2019 #9
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OMG, one of my pet peeves is when people refer to beaners as "Spanish." It used to be just dumb negroes that did that but lately white people have been doing it. Ticks me off.

The beaners in DC are straight-up Amerindians from Central America. They aren't even mestizos.
Haha , even Indios are referred to as 'Spanish' nowadays.

They may be from Latin-America but their ethnicity is still Indio . .

The Spanish were civilsed Europeans , the Indios a 'nature-people' . .

Well , they may have practised astrology and were even into building pyramids but at the core they were jungle-dwellers . .

Did you know that the ancient Mayans had a ritual in which the high-priest would tear the heart out of a fully conscious human being on top of a sacrificial pyramid ?

Weird rites . .

Now , do these people have anything to do with being 'spanish' ( except the language ? )




 
Old December 30th, 2019 #10
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I also heard that the Spanish spoken in many Mestizo countries is more like Spanish slang by people who can understand Spanish.

Pretty much must be a difference , like English and Ebonics

I think the main difference is that true Spaniards held to their heritage while in most 'Latin-American' countries a culture of mongrels developed . .


After all the revolutions which occured all around the Spanish-influenced world , no wonder many mestizos / creoles ended up "in charge" . . .

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The Straights of Gibraltar are only about 9 miles across, IIRC.. One glance at a map will tell more about history than any book. People from both sides of the Mediterranean would get on boats and raid the other side in centuries past.
Human nature, these raiders brought home 14 year old girls along with whatever plunder they could find. Then they went home and told their wives "Honey, I was thinking about you the whole time I was gone. See? I even brought you some kitchen help so you won't have to work so hard". Few months later "kitchen help" shows to be pregnant (I made this up, but you get the idea).
So it comes as no surprise that people on both sides of the Mediterranean have similar features. Many if not most Spaniards have at least some Arab ancestry, no fault of their own. Most Mediterranean-Europeans are OK people.
Because of their features, Jews have little difficulty infiltrating Mediterranean culture, passing themselves off as Spanish, French or Italian.
During colonial times, European countries sent not only convicts but the poor and low class to populate the Americas. That said, the Spanish we have encountered in the Southwest are likely to have more Arab ancestry that Spaniards in Spain.
 
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That said, the Spanish we have encountered in the Southwest are likely to have more Arab ancestry that Spaniards in Spain.
... what leads you to believe that ?.

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Old January 2nd, 2020 #13
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...That said, the Spanish we have encountered in the Southwest are likely to have more Arab ancestry that Spaniards in Spain.
Strange statement this, and I don't doubt there is some truth, but likely less than you think.

I lived in Southern Spain for more than two years, 1969, 70, and 71. I was 23 when I got there and not quite 26 when I left. True, a young man that age has more on his mind than academic studies of the country he has found himself in, but I did pay attention. I also spent a good deal of time in Morocco just as a tourist. (I was in Spain with the US Navy, stationed at a communications station near the city of Cadiz.)

There is an admixture of Arab in Spain, but with most Spanish, maybe not so much. Obviously, it decreased somewhat traveling South to North. Northern Spain is where I would start to see some blond hair, light eyes, and taller Spaniards. Even more than this, I saw a difference based on social class. Social class in Spain is nearly permanent. As you went up the classes you saw less of the admixture, down the classes more. There was a very low class of Spanish, we used to call "Mo's." "Mo" meant Moroccan. These people were unemployed or nearly so. And no, they wern't the Gitanos (Romani.) There is nothing lower than a Gitano.

I agree with your post, but have never thought about the one quote. This much is true, most, to be polite, most Hispanics, are very little Spanish, but are racially tribal from the Americas.

To be fair, I really do respect Spain, and the Spanish...my Avatar is the flag of Andalucía, where I lived in Spain. And I gave Andalucía the Spanish spelling, not the English spelling.

As for me, I am an American, of totally British ancestry, all sides of the family.

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Old January 3rd, 2020 #14
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Strange statement this, and I don't doubt there is some truth, but likely less than you think.

I lived in Southern Spain for more than two years, 1969, 70, and 71. I was 23 when I got there and not quite 26 when I left. True, a young man that age has more on his mind than academic studies of the country he has found himself in, but I did pay attention. I also spent a good deal of time in Morocco just as a tourist. (I was in Spain with the US Navy, stationed at a communications station near the city of Cadiz.)

There is an admixture of Arab in Spain, but with most Spanish, maybe not so much. Obviously, it decreased somewhat traveling South to North. Northern Spain is where I would start to see some blond hair, light eyes, and taller Spaniards. Even more than this, I saw a difference based on social class. Social class in Spain is nearly permanent. As you went up the classes you saw less of the admixture, down the classes more. There was a very low class of Spanish, we used to call "Mo's." "Mo" meant Moroccan. These people were unemployed or nearly so. And no, they wern't the Gitanos (Romani.) There is nothing lower than a Gitano.

I agree with your post, but have never thought about the one quote. This much is true, most, to be polite, most Hispanics, are very little Spanish, but are racially tribal from the Americas.

To be fair, I really do respect Spain, and the Spanish...my Avatar is the flag of Andalucía, where I lived in Spain. And I gave Andalucía the Spanish spelling, not the English spelling.

As for me, I am an American, of totally British ancestry, all sides of the family.

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To be fair, I really do respect Spain, and the Spanish...
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OMG, one of my pet peeves is when people refer to beaners as "Spanish."
How 'bout Speaners then?


Speaking of Speaners, their whole world came crashing down at the Battle of Trafalgar, didn't it? Along with the Frenchies- it was game over for both their fleets once Lord Nelson showed up. (too bade he died though )

 
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