a white guy with an Australian accent is a Spaniard?
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ready-for-the-good-times — 11 years ago(June 04, 2014 01:26 PM)
I'm a European person who has lived with Spanish people and visited Spain a hundred times. It is a European city like any other and the native people are certainly white. Some are tanned and few in the South even have some Arab ancestry from a long time back - but Spaniards are definitely considered white. Some are tanned, but I can't believe the replies saying that they are not Caucasian. This is a joke, almost certainly not a European or anyone who has been to Europe who wrote that. They are European white people, not Mexicans. Latin Americans are generally 'dark' because they are generally more mixed - Spanish conquerers, native South Americans, some African blood etc. I know Spanish people way whiter than Russell Crowe.
Spanish people from Spain are often blonde, brown haired, black haired, pale, tanned, blue eyed, green eyed, brown eyed.
The accent wasn't right, but as English speakers they make an Archaic 'accent' as this fits our view of history. I think it was fine. -
ledge12-1 — 11 years ago(July 22, 2014 12:03 AM)
Spaniards Decended from the Iberians, who IIRC were probably offshoot tribes of Gauls (the modern french) the Italians/Romans came from Etruscian societies.
Julius Ceasar was from Spain also and a bull fighter even back then. -
bigmyc04 — 11 years ago(January 05, 2015 08:36 AM)
I'm sure that you've realize by now that Spaniards, in the traditional sense, are white. You do know this, right? Is Penelope Cruz anything but white? Antonio Banderas? Andy Garcia? Is there much difference in the look of Spaniards, Italians or even Greeks, for that matter? I don't think so. Furthermore, Crowe didn't employ an Australian accent in the film..or at least, he tried not to. You must be confusing "Hispanic" with "Spanish." In North America, we are more familiar with the multi-bred Hispanics that are from Puerto Rico, Mexico and Central American and Caribbean regions. Many of these people and their look is the result of hundreds of years of breeding with the indigenous populace (indians) and blacks.
So yeah, Spaniards are caucasianlike any other nationality in southern Europe. -
dontbsme — 11 years ago(March 03, 2015 09:46 PM)
I can never figure out why anyone would care about the actor's accent in a movie like this. The English language didn't even exist when this movie is set (the closest thing to it is the language spoken by the Germanic people at the beginning of the movie). Nobody knows what ancient Latin sounded like. Nothing matters less in this kind of movie. I mean, did you think Charlton Heston used a proper Hebrew, or Egyptian accent in The Ten Commandments? It's ridiculous.
But I can guaranteed you that you can find people in Italy, France, and Spain who look just like Russel Crowe, although I don't believe that matters much, either. -
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cusca — 10 years ago(October 07, 2015 11:06 AM)
You are quite an ignorant on Geography and History, or you should know that Spain is a country in Southern Europe and most Spaniards are as white as Italians, Frenchs or Portugueses. It's not Spain's fault that many dumb Americans think Spanish is a race. Open a book about Latin America's History and you'll learn why most people are mixed race there.
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Yngelheim — 10 years ago(December 03, 2015 01:39 PM)
Dude, I'm Spanishwe are white.
Some people (mostly americans) think that we are like Mexicansno. We are as white as the French, British or Germans. I have blond hair and grey eyes.
Actually, the only Spaniards with a darker skin come from the shouth, where the Moors ruled for nearly 800 years.