Passing off Chuck as a Spaniard
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marktexavery — 15 years ago(December 20, 2010 05:52 PM)
Tell that to the people who made spartacus blood and sand where all of the actors are aussies and northern europeans playing romans. and tell that to the people who cast brad pit to play a greek in troy. spaniards are white moron. troll
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dalbrech — 14 years ago(June 06, 2011 12:44 PM)
You do know that the Castilian aristocracy of the Tenth Century were pretty much Visigothic ,ie German, in ethnic background, do you?
For the record, when I was in Spain on vacation I saw plenty of Blond Spaniards.
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jl201 — 14 years ago(June 18, 2011 02:29 PM)
More idiot Americans who automartically think "Mexican taco vendor" when the word Spanish is mentioned.
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LuisLEONFC — 14 years ago(August 14, 2011 09:51 PM)
Well, this myth has been going on for way too long.
Spaniards are white! Go to Spain, whatever part you like and you will find that the majority of people are white.
They make up for 90% of the people.
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thethingthatshouldnotbe-1 — 14 years ago(September 04, 2011 10:52 AM)
Which Americans?. . . North,Central,or South?.You would be surprised at how much Americans of any region know of European(actually world) history/anthropology.Were the beep do you think the majority of"Americans" came from in the first place!?.Tell me you are some 20-something who is filled with a vitriolic hatred and yet does not even have a valid reason why.If you want enemies,get to know them first.
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anywhoo — 12 years ago(January 06, 2014 08:48 AM)
I guess when people think of Spain they expect people to look like Mexicans. That is simply not the case. People in Spain are Europeans and tend to look similar to Southern Italians with some fair types hear and there. So Heston as a Spaniard is not a stretch at all. Also remember that prior to the Moorish invasion Spain was rulled by the Germanic Visigoths.
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Rueiro — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 02:47 AM)
This clichd racial stereotype belief regarding all Spaniards to be dark as Gypsies, with coal-black hair and coal-black eyes, always annoys me. I am a Spaniard with brown hair and grey-green eyes, and I have at least a couple of friends back home who are so blond and light-skinned that could pass for Swedes. There are a lot of blond Spaniards, and even red-haired and ginger, believe it or not. Our ancestors were not only Roman or Arabic but also Celtic, Visigoth, Germanic and Jewish.
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albsoufer-90-99000 — 11 years ago(February 04, 2015 09:39 AM)
There is no a representative sample of moorish Gene-pool neither in Spain nor southern Europe. We have the same haplogroupe as the UK for example because arabians considered christians as a bad influence and never got married, so that the racial question should be not assummed at the time.
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magolding-94772 — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 10:34 AM)
albsoufer-90-99000 posted:
There is no a representative sample of moorish Gene-pool neither in Spain nor southern Europe. We have the same haplogroupe as the UK for example because arabians considered christians as a bad influence and never got married, so that the racial question should be not assummed at the time.
A century earlier than El Cid, Abd ar-Rahman III (889/991-961) 8th Umayyad Emir and First Caliph of Cordoba had a Christian mother Muzna and a Christian grandmother on his father's side, Onneca Fortunez, daughter of King Garcia Fortunez of Pamplona.
Being 3 quarters Christian, Abd ar-Rahman looked more like a Christian European than a male line descendant of a cousin of the Prophet Mohammed, and had:
. white skin, blue eyes and attractive face; good looking, although somewhat sturdy and stout. His legs were short, to the point that the stirrups of his saddle were mounted just one palm under it. When mounted, he looked tall, but on his feet he was quite short. He dyed his beard black.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd-ar-Rahman_III
In fact I have read that Abd ar-Rahman had fair hair and dyed his beard to look more like a typical Arab.
If a Muslim Caliph in Spain could look so northern European, some members of the Spanish royal and noble families must have looked like northern Europeans instead of southern Europeans. Thus Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, could
possibly
have looked like Charlton Heston. Since he was a great war leader El Cid might also have been a great warrior, and so he might have been as big and strong looking as Charlton Heston, and he might also have had as light skin, hair, and eyes.