Do Modern Spanish and Portuguese People have North African or Arab Blood?
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Published 2017-08-04
Because of the hectic environment in pre-modern Iberia, the genetics, language, culture and attitude of the groups living there are quite unique in Europe, and that makes it a very interesting place to learn about.
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All Comments (21)
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Let me know your thoughts on the origin of the Spanish and Portuguese people! Thanks for watching! Feel free to check out my second channel where we will be discussing geography and demography: www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQ_KS2ikIc_sLtZBmZBWOw
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I remember a girl in high school being shocked that a Spanish exchange student was White. So I had to educate her about where Spain is located. A lot of people in America associate Spanish with Mexico, so their image of a Spaniard is incorrectly a mestizo.
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Hi, I am from Portugal and here are the results of my DNA test: - Iberian. 32,6,% - British and Irish. 31,9% - Italian. 12,2% - Northen african. 19% - Miiddle East. 3,4% - Papua New Guine 0,9%
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Great video! I’m myself of Portuguese ancestry in Brazil. Good for North Americans understand that Latino is an European term. Latin Americans are genetically and culturally descendants of the Iberian peninsula, but depending on what region in the continent the mix is completely different.
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I wish i had seen this 4 years ago. It took me almost this long to figure all this stuff out on my own! Great video
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Not mentioned in the video is the strong presence of Celtic genes in the Iberian gene pool.
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I'm Portuguese, once I was very tanned, after living in England for years now, I'm very white 😭😂
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I appreciate you posting this video. I try to discover as much information about my ancestors' as possible. My great grandmother on my father's side was Mescalero Apache, french Canadian, Spanish and Dutch. I've been wanting to learn more about Spain for a while.
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THAT WAS A VERY GOOD ,YET CONCISE VIDEO! THANKS
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People usually think (and you show it in your video) that dark hair and eyes are something related to the muslim world, it´s not, it´s older than that. It´s something shared with all mediterranean cultures, since the time when neolithic farmers arrived from Anatolia. In fact, dark eyes/hair and white skin (predominant in Spain) are the typical phenotype of one of the oldest and largest groups of cultures in Europe (shared as well with the people of Wales and Ireland non mixed with saxons and vikings).
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I've been to both Spain and Portugal and can say both countries are beautiful. The people are lovely too, friendly and welcoming.
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Masaman, you just helped me immensely with my intellectual project Human Colonies. - This is the first time I hear someone explain concisely and correctly the consequences of conquests.
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Thank you for sharing this wisdom..im gonna start learning
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My mother, a Spaniard, just had her dna tested by 3 companies. She was found to be nearly 100% Spanish. She had a miniscule amount of Portuguese, French, and Basque dna. Nothing from North African, Arab, or Germanic traces. Her family as far back as we know is from the Salamanca region.
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By the way there are more Arabs in England, France, Sweden by far than Spain.
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It is also worth pointing out that there were frequent emigration events from Ireland to Spain (and France) after every uprising against English rule. For example, the famous US chess player Paul Morphy was the descendant of an Irish soldier and his Catalan wife. The surname was changed the from Murphy to Morphy before the family went on to emigrate to New Orleans.
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Galician is an official language with its own literature and its forms. It is taught up to high-school and a mandatory subject to access to university if you take the exams in Galicia. Furthermore, it comes from the "Galaico-Portugués" which covered half of today's Portugal. So, yeah, it hardly "comes" from the portuguese as you put it in the video.
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I like the way you mention the genetic heritage too. You are damn good man. Love it.
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The World still is flooded by ignorance, namely at USA ...
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Mason i could watch your videos all day , your videos are better than history class! Please don't stop uploading this content!
