Do Modern Spanish and Portuguese People have North African or Arab Blood?

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  • čas přidán 3. 08. 2017
  • Are Spaniards and Portuguese today mixed with North Africans or Arabs? Today we're going to be following up our last video on Latin America, and digging up the roots of the Iberian people groups.
    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.
    Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Iberia and the rise of the Spaniards and Portuguese in the comments below. Thanks for watching!
    Be sure to subscribe to my new channel here, where we will be discussing issues in a less professional environment. / @masontheman
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  • @Masaman
    @Masaman  Před 6 lety +549

    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: czcams.com/channels/zQ_KS2ikIc_sLtZBmZBWOw.html

    • @RoccosVideos
      @RoccosVideos Před 6 lety +34

      I'm 1/4 Portuguese so I found this video particularly interesting, although I like all your videos.

    • @zeklung6111
      @zeklung6111 Před 6 lety +19

      Masaman Do a Video about the different races of Afghanistan

    • @nandanemwang6034
      @nandanemwang6034 Před 6 lety +27

      I haven't slept in 32 hours but im going to stay up another 10 minutes to watch your video masaman

    • @skynetradio4810
      @skynetradio4810 Před 6 lety +28

      Tou left out the Blacks in this video.

    • @latintrader
      @latintrader Před 6 lety +36

      I'm interested in knowing more about the history of gypsies in Spain .

  • @clarenceeugene9692
    @clarenceeugene9692 Před 5 lety +5425

    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.

    • @DonJulio510
      @DonJulio510 Před 5 lety +566

      Clarence Thompson yup. Or that latinos isnt a race.

    • @itsgwen7606
      @itsgwen7606 Před 5 lety +1143

      Ah, America. So quick to to denounce or hate other cultures and races when they don't know a damn thing about them.

    • @Herr_Artago
      @Herr_Artago Před 5 lety +396

      Same here, when I was in the US many people there were shocked when they saw a white Spaniard who spoke British English, of course many thought I was Mexican.

    • @Herr_Artago
      @Herr_Artago Před 5 lety +512

      @The Perfectionist Wrong, our ancestors stayed in Spain, it was the Mexican's ancestors who conquered and colonized Mexico. And let me remind you History changes a lot, there was a time when Latin-America was much richer and civilized than North-America. Besides, the US has played a big role in shaping the current situation in many Latin-American countries, in order to get free access to their resources. Of course their corrupt politicians and the huge inequality are also to blame, but Spain is hardly responsible for the current situation, when those countries got their independence in the early 19th century, their situation compared to other countries was way better than it is today.

    • @superlornilla
      @superlornilla Před 5 lety +102

      Clarence Thompson well I am Puerto Rico and many get surprised that my skin is on the fair side. Same thing happens to my dad, because he is very fair skinned and green eyes 🤦🏽‍♀️

  • @rdevil25
    @rdevil25 Před 5 lety +1154

    I'm Portuguese, once I was very tanned, after living in England for years now, I'm very white 😭😂

    • @nizarherculanonizartangero7450
      @nizarherculanonizartangero7450 Před 5 lety +66

      love from morocoo 🇲🇦

    • @brunocodagnone7523
      @brunocodagnone7523 Před 4 lety +173

      Because south europeans are white too!

    • @joaosoares3349
      @joaosoares3349 Před 4 lety +70

      Im Portuguese i live in Canada but im dark all year round. Its just more natural skin color

    • @danythrinbell1596
      @danythrinbell1596 Před 4 lety +22

      ya you been there brainwashed so you become more white , no thanks i do prefer be more darker and keep ancestry pure linked to my ancestors in Anatolia

    • @danythrinbell1596
      @danythrinbell1596 Před 4 lety +8

      stop stealing your mothers flour to make bread boy , i got you

  • @victorrenanleitao5438
    @victorrenanleitao5438 Před rokem +56

    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.

    • @helenanha4
      @helenanha4 Před 5 měsíci +3

      That's why I prefer Ibero América and Hispano América as geographical and cultural references for our region [besides Spanish and Portuguese languages also share 70% of the lexicon], instead of "Latin" - a label that came from a french geopolitical move and later an angloamerican census.

    • @jovemgafanhoto4512
      @jovemgafanhoto4512 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@helenanha4 True, we are more than latin brothers, we have more in common with the hispanic countries of south america than with Spain, Portugal, Italy, or France, ibero america or Hispano America is the perfect way to name the place.

    • @lamoskgr
      @lamoskgr Před 4 měsíci +4

      Not all Latinos are descendants of the Iberian peninsula. That's a fallacy. We are very mixed. Many are Scandinavian, Italian, Western Asian and African

    • @VictorHugoAlvarez-eternelymiss
      @VictorHugoAlvarez-eternelymiss Před měsícem

      ​@@lamoskgrLmaaaaaaaao Scandinavian Latino 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Latinos are Not from Iberian Peninsula, Latinos are Latinos, The Colombiam, Venezuelan, Boliviam are mostly Native from there, a ton of Latinos are Asian Descendants cause they have asian eyes, me I'm from Brasil, I'm white, my grandfather was pure with father and mother from North Spain Galicia, In Brasil you may Find Real Mestizos who have mixing with Europeans and Others like in Brazil Mostly Probably Africans from South with Europeans and or Middle East and also a bit asian people, also Argentina and South Latin America is Like That, Mestizos That Have a Little European DNA Along with Much African or Middle East, Me as I said my Great father is Very European so my mother is white Spaniard Genetically and my Father has Mixing but in the end he born with Genetics from the White Part of His Family, my Father Side had Native Indian From Brazil, Syrian People from Syria, Dutch People From Netherlands (My Great Grand Father) and Portuguese I think all on my father side, but he, my father looks very European to me, he has skin tone like Portuguese but European bone Structure and Nose, and again my Mother Real Spaniard, so yes I'm real descendant from Europe, while Mestizos Latinos are Actually Not Really Because they have so little of European DNA Left on their Genetic Codes.

  • @juanfrancisco9417
    @juanfrancisco9417 Před 2 lety +115

    According to recent genetic studies, the Spanish the genetics hace a genetics of between 70 to 80 % Celtic (depending on the área of Spain), followed by Latín (by the Romans) and Germanics (by the Visigoths, Suevi, Vandals and Alans). However, the Bereber/Arabic component does exist, but it is minimal (Spain expelled all Jews in the 15 th century and the few remaining Arab in the 16th century after J.C.).
    You can see the Spanish genetic map on the Internet.
    In the United States, they think that Spaniards are the same as Mexicana mestizos, but they understand each other by proximity and having no other reference. But physically, Spaniards are very different from Mexicans.

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +8

      IBERIANS ARE MOROCCANS.

    • @juanfrancisco9417
      @juanfrancisco9417 Před rokem

      @@omarioussaidene4917
      Spaniard=Indo-European (halogrup R1b).
      Marrocans=Semites (halogrup E1b1b)
      (See European genetic map and from North Africa).
      Please don't tell líes!.

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +1

      @@juanfrancisco9417Well WE do NOT care about your haplogroup. I have Nevers Heard about iberian technology or cars or fashion brands or anything else you produce nothing. Thé only thing your IBERIAN peninsula produce is UNEMPLOYMENT AND OF COURSE RACISM TOWARDS MOROCCANS. PFFF THANKS TO GOD I LIVE IN THE USA. AND YOUR LANGUAGE IS A SECOND CLASS LANGUAGE USED BY SERVICE PEOPLE.

    • @luismanueluseroliso7683
      @luismanueluseroliso7683 Před rokem +34

      @@omarioussaidene4917 You are moroccan

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem

      @@luismanueluseroliso7683 MOROCCAN AMERICAN speak

  • @jorgematos8482
    @jorgematos8482 Před 4 lety +1741

    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%

    • @max-qq8rl
      @max-qq8rl Před 4 lety +189

      U know your history u don't deny it 💯👍latin bro

    • @danythrinbell1596
      @danythrinbell1596 Před 4 lety +42

      a ganda lusitanian , that is ancestry , that shows that the lusitanian like to mingle with people

    • @barbatvs8959
      @barbatvs8959 Před 4 lety +171

      You get different results from different companies. It's a farce and a scam.

    • @sopadomacaco8470
      @sopadomacaco8470 Před 4 lety +41

      you are not portuguese

    • @jorgematos8482
      @jorgematos8482 Před 4 lety +235

      @@sopadomacaco8470 I am, according to my ID card....

  • @XavierbTM1221
    @XavierbTM1221 Před 6 lety +1236

    I would like to know why Americans are so OBSESSED with the concept of "race" and all that has something to do with it
    It is almost like their entire perception of the world, history and the foundation of their country is based primarily in that concept
    There is no other Culture that I know of, that has that kind of fixation with the "race" and its classifications

    • @bobsaget7315
      @bobsaget7315 Před 6 lety +203

      Probably because it's a salad bowl of different ethnicities and most other countries don't have to experience that and are pretty homogenous or have people from the same geographical area while the US has large minorities from all over the world besides Europe who make up about 40-50% of the population. The only other country I can think of is Brazil which is arguably more racist than the US, nearly half of their population has a strong African heritage yet all their politicians look 100% European.

    • @XavierbTM1221
      @XavierbTM1221 Před 6 lety +151

      "it's a salad bowl of different ethnicities"
      I come from Latin America (one of the most if not the most hetereogeneous cultural region in the world, you can find people with roots from anywhere else in the world, and Africans, Middle Easterns, mixed race people, Amerindians, East Asians and Euros live in quite harmony) and AFAIK since the fall of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the end of the "Castas" system race has never been a mayor topic of disscussion
      Its quite shocking for us to see people live togheter for hundreds of years and still not knowing how to get along like in the US

    • @bobsaget7315
      @bobsaget7315 Před 6 lety +221

      Lol bullshit. Latin Americans treat Africans like shit. My father is an immigrant from Latin American and he'd tell me stories about how blacks and the more native looking Hispanics were treated by him and his friends and the rest of the more European looking people/ruling class/elite. He regrets it now after coming here. There is a reason that so many poor native looking Latinos and blacks want to come to the states friend. It's a place of opportunity for all races.
      And I would still say that the States are way more heterogeneous than Latin America and any other country in the world. It's not even worth having an argument over... 95% of most Latin Americans are on a spectrum of a mix of native and spanish/portuguese, and some other small amounts of other European. The States on the other hand have immigrants from ALL over Europe, not just mostly Spain/Portugal. There are also way more Africans and Asians here as a percentage of the population.

    • @XavierbTM1221
      @XavierbTM1221 Před 6 lety +123

      "Latin Americans treat Africans like shit"
      The fuck are talking about?? in Mexico the government offered refugee status for the Haitians that fled from their country after the earthquake that hit their country
      African Colombians, Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians, etc, can like fully and happy lifes without worrying about being killed by the police for no reason
      And also people here are CLASSIST (discrimination based on income, NOT RACE) and even rich Africans, Natives look down under their fellow countrymen not because they are "racist" but because they are CLASSIST (why do you think the "Drug lord" life is so prevalent here? bc people seek a bigger income and want to brag about it)
      "There is a reason that so many poor native looking Latinos and blacks want to come to the states friend." White latinos also go to the US, not because the racial/social problems but bacause the bad ECONOMY among all the LA nations
      "most Latin Americans are on a spectrum" you just said it a FUCKIN SPECTRUM is not the same as a real people group, you can take a couple of dudes from the exact same country but different region and they wont look/act/talk the same
      And as you said you have never experienced Latin America in PERSON, you are just making assumptions from your daddy's own resentful perspective, STFU if you have NEVER been here

    • @basedguy1236
      @basedguy1236 Před 6 lety +46

      It is what unites a people, having things in common like culture, faith or racial background. It is also interesting to know what impact it had on the conquered people. Don't be a fucking SJW please.

  • @denisdooley1540
    @denisdooley1540 Před 2 lety +124

    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.

  • @rafapazos06
    @rafapazos06 Před rokem +54

    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.

    • @wonderwiseS2
      @wonderwiseS2 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Sad thing that Galegos hardly speak their language these days, that is why i say Spain is not a union, it's Castille assimilating everyone else. It's a blessing that Portuguese always fought to keep their essence.
      And i mean no disrespect i love Spanish people, just a personal thought.

    • @rafapazos06
      @rafapazos06 Před 10 měsíci +5

      @wonderwiseS2 That's quite a stretch mate. Galicia is mainly rural where Galician language is mostly spoken. People there will speak back to you in Spanish out of respect. The capital Santiago mostly speaks Galician. Spain has regions with their own parliaments, languages that are co-official and mandatory in those adminsitrations etc. That's quite singular.

    • @pays-de-vitae
      @pays-de-vitae Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@wonderwiseS2Not true. Galician is fully official and everyone must learn it in school alongside Castilian. Castilian is just the most common language in the major cities, like Vigo or A Coruña, except Santiago like another user pointed out.

  • @miamiexplorer6451
    @miamiexplorer6451 Před 3 lety +592

    Not mentioned in the video is the strong presence of Celtic genes in the Iberian gene pool.

  • @davidmcoker8700
    @davidmcoker8700 Před 6 lety +790

    By the way there are more Arabs in England, France, Sweden by far than Spain.

    • @Pedro4490
      @Pedro4490 Před 6 lety +154

      yupe. Which makes this conversation even more odd. In Portugal we are gaining European population. Thirdworlders want to go to Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the UK. Europeans want to go to Portugal and Spain! Even inland Europeans want to live there, which is great, because the Portuguese do not like to live away from the seashore.

    • @FantasmaOlvidado1
      @FantasmaOlvidado1 Před 6 lety +77

      Pedro4490 Sorry man I dont know if i should believe you, i went to Lisbon this year, I was impressed by the amount of blacks, it was full of africans. Not that is a bad stuff.

    • @Pedro4490
      @Pedro4490 Před 6 lety +62

      yes it is... it is a particularity of Lisbon. Yet that migration is mostly stagnant (after decolonization - 1980s). and some moved to other European countries during the eurocrisis (2010s), as many have Portuguese citizenship and birthplace. they are African-Portuguese, Portuguese blacks, some mixedraced who are considered to be black. It is more similar to the African-American issue, rather than simple African alien migration, even if they derive from migrants, not slaves. But yeah, even in my city we have blacks, even if not in the same numbers as Lisbon.

    • @FantasmaOlvidado1
      @FantasmaOlvidado1 Před 6 lety +7

      Thank you for your clarification.

    • @a_bone_in_the_ocean2276
      @a_bone_in_the_ocean2276 Před 6 lety +29

      all of them were thrown out after the reqonquista

  • @jonathansgarden9128
    @jonathansgarden9128 Před rokem +8

    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

  • @isabelpico-massey2810
    @isabelpico-massey2810 Před 2 lety +185

    I was born in Spain with a mother from Sevilla and a father who’s parents were from Asturias. It’s interesting that you mentioned how many Spaniards have North African DNA. I recently had a DNA test and have 2% North African DNA as well as 1% Sardinian DNA. 68% Spanish as well as some French and Portuguese.

    • @johnathanmay9143
      @johnathanmay9143 Před 2 lety +13

      North African most likely came from Sevilla. You accounted for 71% of your ancestory, so what is the remainder from? I don't get it. If both parents are from Spain with one from the South and the other from the North why aren't you almost 100 Iberian with some celtic and North African?

    • @di3486
      @di3486 Před 2 lety +3

      That’s very small percentage

    • @sensun5039
      @sensun5039 Před rokem +12

      im moroccan and I had like 35 percent Iberian and 2 percent Sardinia while my entire family claim themselves to be full on moroccan.

    • @timmcpherson737
      @timmcpherson737 Před rokem +3

      I did mine as well. I only came up little more then 1%. But my DNA came up with some Arab traits from Jordan area. Also said I was blood related to King Tut and Rameses the Great.

    • @ldfreitas9437
      @ldfreitas9437 Před rokem +3

      @Cedric Celt As is Galicia and the Minho, Tras os Montes & Miranda in Portugal.

  • @gromenawuer1
    @gromenawuer1 Před 3 lety +538

    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).

    • @TaercEum
      @TaercEum Před 2 lety +35

      ...not to mention the Visigoths at the end of the Western Roman Empire as well as 1,000 years earlier when it was colonized by Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians (descended from Phoenicians). There were also pre-Celtic inhabitants even earlier.

    • @serserrano1
      @serserrano1 Před 2 lety +33

      Iberians, Celtics, Francs, 💪 bloodlines in Spain let us not forget. Coming from a gallego/Catalan Spaniard. Our history is a thing of beauty.

    • @bouzoukiman5000
      @bouzoukiman5000 Před 2 lety +25

      People think light hair and colored eyes are inherited from the north and that is also false. There is plenty of dark hair and eyes in the north too! Depictions and descriptions of northerners over 1000 years old prove my point

    • @serserrano1
      @serserrano1 Před 2 lety +9

      @@bouzoukiman5000 I’m sure most people know and understand that. Makes the blond blue eyed amd especially green eyed all that much more unique ;)

    • @midloran
      @midloran Před 2 lety +7

      No Spanish people looking like that cuz arabs

  • @Anna-vf9gx
    @Anna-vf9gx Před 5 lety +767

    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.

    • @shehtaelhadad4895
      @shehtaelhadad4895 Před 5 lety +41

      Cuz spnish not native people of spain ... It was andulsia catlan . spinsh people group from west Europe and. Never called spain before them

    • @shehtaelhadad4895
      @shehtaelhadad4895 Před 5 lety +4

      @@zaphodtrillian5237 lol I'm American...where are you from

    • @GY-bd9bo
      @GY-bd9bo Před 5 lety +122

      theres a reason americans have a reputation for not being fluent in english

    • @shehtaelhadad4895
      @shehtaelhadad4895 Před 5 lety +4

      @@GY-bd9bo you act like trash from east Europe 😂😂😂😊😂

    • @GY-bd9bo
      @GY-bd9bo Před 5 lety +46

      hey, eastern europeans are really funny.

  • @user-hx1eh9jv2b
    @user-hx1eh9jv2b Před 11 měsíci +39

    I am from the North of Spain and I got 98% Iberian and 2% Irish. I didn't get absolutely no MENA... Many of my friends got similar results.

    • @adspur
      @adspur Před 11 měsíci +9

      Southern Spain may have more admixture

    • @marinettiFuturismo
      @marinettiFuturismo Před 11 měsíci +4

      You are basically Celts. Galicians do have some Arab/Moor DNA, and Canarians are half African and half European.

    • @user-hx1eh9jv2b
      @user-hx1eh9jv2b Před 11 měsíci

      Galicians do not have Moor or Arab dna. That was one UNSCIENTIFIC article written by a jealous, swarthy Andalucian. Galicians look like Emilio Estevez, light, fine featured, white and handsome.

    • @user-hx1eh9jv2b
      @user-hx1eh9jv2b Před 11 měsíci +13

      @@marinettiFuturismo Not all Iberians are celts only Asturias, Basqueland and Galicia are.

    • @clo8862
      @clo8862 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@user-hx1eh9jv2basturias isnt even purely “celtic “ the visigoths and other hispano roman christians from the south actually took refuge an settled in asturias , cantabria anywhere in northern spain and galicia .. also right after the reconquista the moriscos and jews were converted and to disband them from their ethnic identity it is speculated they would move groups of moriscos and conversos into different areas of spain like to galicia , central spain , some even went to the kingdom of navarre and succesfully settled and integrated with basques and later mixed into the basque gene pool as also happened with the rest of spain the moriscos and jew converts eventually integrated and forgot their ways and mixed into the rest of spain so even northern spaniards might have slight traces of north african or middle eastern because it is also homogenized and so blended after many centuries with the more mainstream european that the “foreign dna “ gets diluted and simply becomes apart of the main regional dna and foreign dna gets diluted in our genetic material and becomes so low to the point where sometimes it cant be traced anymore and gets expelled out of your genetic code ..

  • @beingfrank40
    @beingfrank40 Před 2 lety +5

    THAT WAS A VERY GOOD ,YET CONCISE VIDEO! THANKS

  • @greenbean5333
    @greenbean5333 Před 5 lety +638

    I've been to both Spain and Portugal and can say both countries are beautiful. The people are lovely too, friendly and welcoming.

    • @susanaalves4383
      @susanaalves4383 Před 5 lety +22

      Royston Woy Portuguese are lusitanos they have a unique dna.

    • @richardsonrichly8456
      @richardsonrichly8456 Před 5 lety +3

      youre welcome

    • @portuguesemimi5988
      @portuguesemimi5988 Před 5 lety +6

      Thank you!! My family is from portugal

    • @davidspaniard9382
      @davidspaniard9382 Před 5 lety +6

      @Jercu11 RMUR1919 Spanish of south have Germanic and Slavic dna too.

    • @davidspaniard9382
      @davidspaniard9382 Před 5 lety +3

      @Jercu11 RMUR1919 Muslims had mercenaries slavic and slaves of Europe East. Some Slavic muslims arrived Spain, they are a caste , in Al Andalus were castes racials...history of Spain is very complicated.

  • @FollowingTheDream455
    @FollowingTheDream455 Před 2 lety +51

    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.

    • @aldofromsf
      @aldofromsf Před 2 lety

      @Alicia
      You're not going to learn it from mamasan. Not serious.

  • @JOHN-ht6zc
    @JOHN-ht6zc Před 2 lety +6

    Thank you for sharing this wisdom..im gonna start learning

  • @richardsonrichly8456
    @richardsonrichly8456 Před 5 lety +507

    im blond and lightskinned but i live in the south of portugal

    • @fesoytamss2114
      @fesoytamss2114 Před 5 lety +20

      blond but i am sure that you race koming from arabs

    • @richardsonrichly8456
      @richardsonrichly8456 Před 5 lety +80

      I would say we are Europeans with arab genes mixed in @@fesoytamss2114

    • @fesoytamss2114
      @fesoytamss2114 Před 5 lety +14

      also arabian are bit mixed with portuguese and spanish people so is life

    • @helviesmithe7717
      @helviesmithe7717 Před 4 lety +19

      haha lol their are also blonds in brazil argentina chile and uruguay🤦‍♂️

    • @saccure0128
      @saccure0128 Před 4 lety +54

      @@helviesmithe7717 Thats because those were colonies of portugal and spain

  • @fernandocosta7784
    @fernandocosta7784 Před 4 lety +1141

    The World still is flooded by ignorance, namely at USA ...

    • @jarretdietzler7750
      @jarretdietzler7750 Před 4 lety +78

      I promise we’re not all as stupid as our celebrities and politicians

    • @unimmature2088
      @unimmature2088 Před 4 lety +37

      @@jarretdietzler7750 oh come on! I meet so many Americans on the internet who call India a rapist country even though it has one of the lowest rape capitas in the world, america having on of the highest

    • @refractorymercury
      @refractorymercury Před 4 lety +23

      Unimmature statistics avoiding records have no value, as chinese had such low deads for covid19, liars.

    • @unimmature2088
      @unimmature2088 Před 4 lety +14

      @@refractorymercury The rape rate in India is 1.8 in India while it's 28 in the USA, even if we consider only 1 out of 10 rapes being registered (which is totally absurd) in India, even then the rape rate will be 18, STILL a lot lower than USA (also we're not considering how only 60% of rape cases get registered in the USA, because that would make it even big of a difference)
      I rest my case

    • @aitortilla5128
      @aitortilla5128 Před 4 lety +14

      I agree. I have spent the last 20+ years meeting people from all over the world and I'm sick of having to fight the same stereotypes especially when I'm talking with an American.

  • @inveritategloria
    @inveritategloria Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @FLAMENCODELACOSTA
    @FLAMENCODELACOSTA Před 6 měsíci +2

    Loved this Video. I have done a lot of research on the history of Spain and Flamenco but it is hard to find this type of information. Thank you so much for making this video.

    • @atomfallen2409
      @atomfallen2409 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I read we kind of borrowed it from gypsy flamenco and made it our own

  • @hmtlemos
    @hmtlemos Před 4 lety +673

    Biology, ethnicity and nationality are three diferents things. The territories can be conquered, the genes can be mixed, but traditions can remain along the centuries. Before Romans, Germanics and Moors, the Iberic Peninsula was already inhabited for thousands of years. Portugal is a small country, but the accent, the traditions and the way of living can be very different from region to region. The North of Portugal as a ancient celtic territory it's still nowdays diferent from the South of Portugal.

    • @coraliasanuade9641
      @coraliasanuade9641 Před 3 lety +19

      True.

    • @t90tankrr31
      @t90tankrr31 Před 3 lety +14

      South Portugal is "Algarves" ex Kingdom of Algarves

    • @reidparker1848
      @reidparker1848 Před 3 lety +8

      "Celtic" is a nonsense word. So is "Germanic".

    • @joaosoares3349
      @joaosoares3349 Před 2 lety +11

      It was a mix of Celtic Iberian tribes Iberian were not Celts but inter mixed with the Celts.

    • @reidparker1848
      @reidparker1848 Před 2 lety +15

      @@joaosoares3349
      Central and Western Europeans are R1b. Your general, broad range non-Slavic "white". Scandinavians are slightly different (I1?), accounting for their marginally different phenotypes. "Celt" and "Germanic" are neither cultural nor ethnic descriptors. They didn't view themselves as such, it was imposed by Romans at the Rhine arbitrarily, who even admitted they had a hard time identifying the "difference" themselves.

  • @Angie-zk4ei
    @Angie-zk4ei Před 5 lety +503

    Portuguese was born from medieval Galician, and not the other way around. Look it up.

    • @gabrielaponte6403
      @gabrielaponte6403 Před 5 lety +23

      Angie clearly a Galician talking

    • @Angie-zk4ei
      @Angie-zk4ei Před 5 lety +104

      @@gabrielaponte6403 You can look it up. In the medieval ages Latin branched into a language that originated and was spoken in the Reino de Galicia (which comprised Galicia and the north of Portugal). When Portugal separated into a different country, that common language branched again into Portuguese.

    • @Angie-zk4ei
      @Angie-zk4ei Před 4 lety +32

      @@srl2485 I agree with you :). When I go to Portugal it still feels like home, not like a foreign country. Then again, I live by the border, so I encounter Portuguese people all the time. I wasn't trying to argue, just stating an inaccuracy in the video.

    • @Trikipum
      @Trikipum Před 4 lety +21

      No, just a person who knows history. It is called "Galeo-portugues" in origin for a reason. Galicia was already there, as a kingdom, with its own language before "portuguese" was even a concept... if you negate this fact you are a damn fool...

    • @Smoug
      @Smoug Před 4 lety +12

      @@gabrielaponte6403 its true, thats why medieval galician is also called galaico-portugués

  • @alexadair5871
    @alexadair5871 Před rokem +2

    Love your videos. You do excellent research and are very thorough.

  • @lukedacosta1401
    @lukedacosta1401 Před rokem +44

    Thoroughly enjoyed your breakdown on the genetic & cultural pool that exists in the Iberian peninsula. Having Tuga heritage myself, I have keenly studied the impacts of the differing cultural groups that have shaped my ancestors of my male lineage. Lusitan, Celtiberian, Roman, Visigoth, Moorish/Morisco & Cigano/Gypsie to get a sense of self.
    I would love to see a similar study on the Cigano influence & origins in Europe, & how they r linked. It would b an interesting subject to look at, which I imagine might require DNA analysis as a basis, as much as cultural similarities.

    • @brixcosmo6849
      @brixcosmo6849 Před rokem +2

      I think we have a lil' bit of Quaresma in all of us if you're from Lisboa, Alentejo and Algarve. Mouros somos de certeza! 😂 Basta veres o Cristiano, Cancelo, Daniela Melchior, Daniela Ruah, Sara Sampaio, Nelly Furtado. Persian/Arabic features. Jews also. And Gipsy maybe 'cause Gipsies are kind of closed in their culture/ethnicity. Gipsies almost never marry outside their culture/ethnicity. At least in Portugal. In Spain they seem to be more open. A lot of People in the South in Sevilla, Malaga, Almeria, etc you can't really understand if their Gispsies or Moors (Mouros, Morenos). Aquele Abraço de Portugal

    • @joaosoares3349
      @joaosoares3349 Před rokem +2

      All Portuguese have North African DNA. Its highest in the west of the Iberian peninsula, Portugal and Galicia, it decreases to the east, but all Iberians have a degree of North African genetics

    • @farm9052
      @farm9052 Před 8 měsíci

      @@brixcosmo6849Mediterranean is a European race, morenos doesn’t mean invaders. Even old paintings already show portuguese similar to what they are today.

    • @brixcosmo6849
      @brixcosmo6849 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@farm9052 Mediterranean is not a race 🤣 At the max is a mix of ethnic groups. You do know there's Mediterranean coasts in Europe, North Africa and Middle-East (Asia) right!? I won't even ask you if you know anything about the history of the Civilizations 'cause you clearly don't. Maybe you should research the Iberomaurusians from North Africa and understand that those were mixed of Iberians and Maurus (Moors) thousands of years ago. Maybe that will free your mind of those racist dumb concepts. Maybe. And by the way Morenos for us Portuguese/Spanish means you're tanned or melanated like Cristiano Ronaldo for example. We also use it for brunette hair. We go to the beach to get Morenos. Get it!? What's that gotta do with invaders!? Moorish never meant black for us! Moorish is having Arab, Amazigh, Persian, Syrian, etc ancestry. There was a time when any Muslim was called "Mouro" (Maure/Mauri/Maurus/Moor). People in the North of Portugal still call us People in Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve as "Mouros" 'cause in the Reconquista thousands of Moors gave up without a fight, converted to Christianity and embraced the Portuguese flag. That's why Millions of Portuguese and Spanish have "Moorish" ancestry. Again like Cristiano Ronaldo. Like the great majority of People in Alentejo and Algarve Regions. And in Madeira and Azores that were mostly colonized by Moorish-Portuguese a.k.a "New Christians" in the 15th Century.

  • @PossibleBat
    @PossibleBat Před 4 lety +559

    I would say 80% of the population has at least 5% or less. I myself did a dna test a few years ago, I don’t know how much you can trust them, but here go my stats: 84% Iberian, 12% Northern European, 2% Balkan, and 2%. North African. Both my grandparents from my mom side have gallego, and Portuguese heritage, and my other grandparents are Catalan.

    • @M.Ghilas
      @M.Ghilas Před 4 lety +114

      You know North African doesn't necessarily means Arab right???

    • @MisterPyOne
      @MisterPyOne Před 3 lety +15

      these test have just 50% certanty, if you search around on some test you can change the accuracy to be up to 90% but it often just tells you continents.

    • @jhonmikeal2625
      @jhonmikeal2625 Před 3 lety +29

      not all people in Iberia have similar DNA to yours AND definetly not 80%

    • @victorhenriquez2925
      @victorhenriquez2925 Před 3 lety +4

      @@M.Ghilas amazig

    • @radizonsama684
      @radizonsama684 Před 3 lety +12

      @@NBBeska the olive skin did noth come from the arabs if north africans and south europeans where mixed with arabs they would have looked north indian hella no

  • @flaviopitanga65
    @flaviopitanga65 Před 3 lety +149

    What you said it makes perfect sense. I was born in Brazil and I took a DNA test and came out with Portuguese Spanish Celt DNA and 2% of North African but my brother took it and had 0% of North African

    • @chimpodabananalover4031
      @chimpodabananalover4031 Před 3 lety +18

      That's how DNA works, I had a test done too and my sister had for 7%irish but I didn't

    • @Hi-lg1lz
      @Hi-lg1lz Před 3 lety +27

      I think its a scam

    • @joaosoares3349
      @joaosoares3349 Před 2 lety +15

      What they call Iberian DNA already has some more ancient north African DNA apart of that

    • @iskinder008
      @iskinder008 Před 2 lety +45

      Quite undertandable. Your brother did not inherited that 2% North African. Not everyone in one family will receive the same DNA of mother/father. In my family we are 4 sisters, we all got different results. Just identical twins have the same DNA.

    • @iskinder008
      @iskinder008 Před 2 lety +7

      @@joaosoares3349 = The Iberian DNA - Celti-Iberians.

  • @djooraTech
    @djooraTech Před 2 lety +14

    If you go all the way to the beginning, we are descendants of Adam and Eve, may God be pleased with both of them. Which makes all of us brothers and sisters.

  • @mariadavis3797
    @mariadavis3797 Před rokem +1

    Very instructive; thank you.

  • @abdullahalshehri7050
    @abdullahalshehri7050 Před 3 lety +546

    The thing that I noticed on
    Arabs, Spanish and Italians
    When we speak We must use our hands 🤣😂

    • @Souliban
      @Souliban Před 3 lety +89

      That's happen around all Mediterranean sea...

    • @leonardofonseca4598
      @leonardofonseca4598 Před 3 lety +70

      Arabs, turks, greeks, armenians speak loud and fast hahahaha

    • @Souliban
      @Souliban Před 3 lety +22

      @@leonardofonseca4598 well, that's a symptom of intelligence and happiness...

    • @leonardofonseca4598
      @leonardofonseca4598 Před 3 lety +14

      @@Souliban Surely, andalusian people do the same, that is funny.

    • @Souliban
      @Souliban Před 3 lety +5

      @@leonardofonseca4598 well, they are not zombies definitely. They enjoy their lifes...

  • @jameshasapoint7628
    @jameshasapoint7628 Před 4 lety +316

    By the way, I would like to suggest another topic: After the Reconquista, when Spain forced Muslims and Jews to convert, many Muslims and many Jews continued to practice their faiths in secret.
    The Muslims in particular produced fascinating texts, including the first translation of the entire Quran from Arabic to Spanish, in 1606. The final documented instance of a crypto Muslim in Spain was 1725, about 200 years after the forced conversion. This would be a fascinating topic. Give it some thought!

    • @marioformosa4259
      @marioformosa4259 Před 4 lety +21

      Even more fascinating would be the Murder of the Friars in Cordoba, crucified by the Muslims or the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa when the Christians ambushed the Muslims who had hundreds of chained African "soldiers" guarding the Emir thus losing out on a possible BLM production

    • @werewolfhunter2011
      @werewolfhunter2011 Před 4 lety +100

      Mario Formosa classic whataboutism there pal. You act as if the Iberians conquered the Americas by spreading love and peace lol. Seethe harder.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 Před 3 lety +12

      @@werewolfhunter2011 What wrong with his comments? He just speaking fact. Conquest and war occur all the time in history.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 Před 3 lety +31

      @hussami khaldoun The Muslim rulers did not force conversion and was generally tolerant. This doesn't mean there was equality. Christian and Jew could not rule over a Muslim although there was some exception. Christian women could be taken as wives or concubines by Muslim men but not so the reverse. The moors integrate themselves and intermarried quite often. Many Moors and Caliph of Spain were surprisely white. They had blonde and red hair, blue and green eyes taking it from their mothers.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 Před 3 lety

      @hussami khaldoun What is your point?

  • @Davii1
    @Davii1 Před 2 lety +5

    Mason i could watch your videos all day , your videos are better than history class! Please don't stop uploading this content!

  • @daniele.f.2963
    @daniele.f.2963 Před 2 lety +70

    Spanish history is fascinating to say the least. I did a deep study of Iberian peninsula about a year ago. Columbus' timing have been better considering Spain was a new nation. The gene pool is crazy.

    • @jorgebarriosmur
      @jorgebarriosmur Před 2 lety +11

      If a spanish citizen tells you that he has not muslim, jewish, and cristian ancestors, he is lying to you........

    • @iskinder008
      @iskinder008 Před 2 lety +23

      @@jorgebarriosmur _ Not so, not so. What happens is you don't quite know the history of Spain, and go by what most people think they know about its history.

    • @joyperez2430
      @joyperez2430 Před 2 lety +4

      And it genetically enriched the native populations in the Americas who also had their own genetic diversity closely linked to the asians according to genetic studies I read about and will search again

    • @joshuafult84
      @joshuafult84 Před 2 lety +14

      @@jorgebarriosmur Many don't . Arab/moor blood being in Spaniards is highly exaggerated.

    • @cmontes7961
      @cmontes7961 Před rokem +9

      Spain has the most Celtic blood in Europe. Celts are hardly ever blond. They are mostly brown hair brown eyes and pale to olive skin. They are then mixed with mostly Germanic followed by Jewish and then lastly Moorish genes and also some middle eastern genes. Typical Southern European just like Italy and the Balkans.

  • @northlist
    @northlist Před 4 lety +733

    The Iberian peninsula had the most volatile and violent history
    Balkans: Pathetic

    • @MrPantheraUmbra
      @MrPantheraUmbra Před 4 lety +46

      Balkans were just recent wars and it has a lot to do with outside influence from greater powers. If there wasn't that influence then they could do a proper battle royale to settle the score of powerplay, to be finally at peace.

    • @basicallyimtomss
      @basicallyimtomss Před 4 lety +53

      The Iberian peninsula had the most volatile and violent history
      former african colonies: that's cute

    • @deanfirnatine7814
      @deanfirnatine7814 Před 4 lety +22

      That is what you get living next to Islam, talk to the Greeks they know all about it

    • @simaozinho37
      @simaozinho37 Před 4 lety +58

      Well here in Iberia we had Carthaginian,Roman,Germanic and Arab invasions, we had the reconquista that lasted 800 years, then we fought between each other Spanish and Portuguese for another 800 years too, then Napoleon came here to get fucked too.

    • @darcius7725
      @darcius7725 Před 4 lety +4

      I am Spanish

  • @YatsuNoko
    @YatsuNoko Před 3 lety +275

    I am Moroccan and I had my DNA analyzed - apparently I am 25% Iberian (Spain, Portugal)

    • @Josouto1
      @Josouto1 Před 3 lety +15

      So Nice. I am Brazilian, i probably have a similar DNA to yours

    • @YatsuNoko
      @YatsuNoko Před 3 lety +5

      @@EarlRegent not at all. My wife is black so...

    • @YatsuNoko
      @YatsuNoko Před 3 lety +6

      @@EarlRegent you don’t even know 1% of all Moroccans - so for you to say that that is rare: I call BS on that one

    • @sammygarnaoui7907
      @sammygarnaoui7907 Před 3 lety +8

      @@YatsuNoko most Moroccans are black , most of them have a huge black ancestors

    • @hassanjamal4212
      @hassanjamal4212 Před 3 lety +13

      The ruling Idrisid family of Islamic Spain moved to Morocco after the defeat by Catholic forces

  • @ThePmfatima
    @ThePmfatima Před 11 měsíci

    Really nice to learn of these things. Thank you.

  • @alicemeliksetian7981
    @alicemeliksetian7981 Před rokem +1

    Thank u for this bro

  • @teddayer6523
    @teddayer6523 Před 5 lety +25

    I like the way you mention the genetic heritage too.
    You are damn good man. Love it.

  • @torlegalle5492
    @torlegalle5492 Před 4 lety +302

    The mayority of DNA of Spain is not Arab or Roman, the mayority is still today Celt and Iberian, the preroman people. Cavalli Sforza one of the best experts om genetics in history did study that in the 80s.
    The dominant culture is of course Roman culture which is culture which takes a lit from every country they conquered.

    • @spacejaime
      @spacejaime Před 4 lety +18

      David- 100% correcto!

    • @gio_toro856
      @gio_toro856 Před 4 lety +13

      Los ibéricos eran un pueblo celta....creo que solo los vascos son los misterios que no se sabe sus orígenes

    • @torlegalle5492
      @torlegalle5492 Před 4 lety +19

      @@gio_toro856 no del todo, los iberos eran una etnia y una cultura diferente, igual que la vasca. Su idioma no estaba emparentado con las lenguas celtas ni con ninguna otra lengua indoeuropea, eran lenguas aisladas. Por eso España ha sido siempre un país diverso en razas, nunca fue indoeuropeo puro en el sentido que les gusta a los supremacistas blancos. Los iberos sólo se encontraban en la zona del mediterráneo, en el Este peninsular. En el oeste sí que eran pueblos celtas pues todos hablaban lenguas de este tipo.

    • @gio_toro856
      @gio_toro856 Před 4 lety +6

      @@torlegalle5492 interesante.....pero el pueblo español ya de por si es mestizo iberos celtas romanos germanos y arabes . Vaya mezcla

    • @spacejaime
      @spacejaime Před 4 lety +8

      @@gio_toro856 - eran y somos eso + francos/visigodos/alanos/fenicios/berber/cartagenos/vandalos y otras tribus que se me escapan los nombres. Mi lado vasco (25%) ya se sabe de donde somos - Venus! :)

  • @76456
    @76456 Před 2 lety +8

    The mostly remaining Arab things in Portugal are on Our Language Words started by Al, (Algarve, Alfena) citys, xarope too.
    Including some castles, Fruits/Trees

  • @guysolis5843
    @guysolis5843 Před 2 lety

    Interesting channel..I'll be sure to continue to explore it's content.

  • @meep3035
    @meep3035 Před 6 lety +365

    You also forgot to mention that the Spanish have a lot of Celtic roots as well, but still fantastic video.

    • @richardkinbell3457
      @richardkinbell3457 Před 6 lety

      jim Morrison! jejejjejejeje.

    • @Pedro4490
      @Pedro4490 Před 6 lety +23

      the other way around. Local genetic and cultural input is very relevant in Portugal at least. In my city we still have a religious site inherited from prehistory... and we still use it with Christian cover... in fact, people who do not care about religion any longer still care about the site out of superstition. I've used it with others myself. And this is not new age wicca... Also archaeologically pre-Roman sites are the most relevant too.

    • @marioRamirez-sv3hm
      @marioRamirez-sv3hm Před 6 lety +2

      Nigel Thornberry only northern Spain.

    • @miguel813
      @miguel813 Před 6 lety +5

      Not really...

    • @jacobgarcia6760
      @jacobgarcia6760 Před 6 lety +17

      Nigel Thornberry you Celtics are Iberian :)

  • @connorleonard4047
    @connorleonard4047 Před 6 lety +226

    Moors weren't black. They were a mix between Arabs and Berbers who also weren't black. The Nilotics, Cushitics, and Bantus are black.

    • @brooklynknite
      @brooklynknite Před 6 lety +2

      Cristiano Ronaldo actually, in states they are not but, in the African continent they are.

    • @connorleonard4047
      @connorleonard4047 Před 6 lety +13

      no they're not lmao. And no it defines Moor as "an expense of open rolling land"

    • @basedguy1236
      @basedguy1236 Před 6 lety +13

      It comes from the name 'Mauretania', a former Roman state in modern Marocco.

    • @oussamamarroqino2579
      @oussamamarroqino2579 Před 6 lety +29

      Im moroccan moor and when i hear someone say moors were black i just laugh

    • @ryantheberber
      @ryantheberber Před 6 lety +3

      We say Andalusians and why keep saying moors lolll Andalusians are the inhabitants of Andalus (muslim Iberia).

  • @carmenkernan4477
    @carmenkernan4477 Před 2 lety +78

    I’m from southern Spain (Jerez) and had my 23andme test done. I have no Northern African dna. The difference in culture and religion kept the Christians and Muslims apart.

  • @mlpires1815
    @mlpires1815 Před 2 lety +2

    Hi, surely DNA results depend on which part of Spain or Portugal your ancestors come from? example, my family is originally from North Eastern Portugal. My DNA results show 0% north African. Mostly, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scottish and some italian?

    • @smal750
      @smal750 Před 4 měsíci

      your neither french nor scottish. more like syrian and algerian

  • @djplatex3782
    @djplatex3782 Před 5 lety +48

    I am from Portugal and Portuguese people are a Romance ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese . Their predominant religion is Christianity , mainly Roman Catholicism . Historically , the Portuguese people's heritage includes the pre-Celts Tribes it calls (Celtiberians , Lusitanians , Gallaecians , Oestriminis , Turduli and Celtici ) , from whom the majority of the population descends . My land used call Lusitania and we call ourselves Lusitanians and the Roman Republic conquered the Iberian Peninsula during the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C , from the extensive maritime empire of Carthage during the series of Punic Wars . The Romans were also an important influence on Portuguese culture , the Portuguese language derives mostly from Latin . The Lusitanians (or Lusitānus/Lusitani in Latin) were an Indo-European speaking people (likely Celtic Tribes ) living in the Western Iberian Peninsula long before it became the Roman province of Lusitania (modern Portugal , Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca in spain )The Turduli , Celtici and the Cynetes Tribes of the Alentejo and the Algarve . They spoke the Lusitanian language , of which only a few short written fragments survive . Most Portuguese consider the Lusitanians as their ancestors . Although the northern regions (Minho, Douro, Tras-os-Montes) identify more with the Gallaecians north of spain . Other minor influences included the Phoenicians/Carthaginians from north of africa , small semi-permanent commercial coastal establishments in the south before 200 BC .The Visigoths and Suebi Tribes , and including the Buri Tribes , permanently established in the early 5th century of Slavic Tribes origin , who also settled in what is today Portuguese territory in north of Portugal . The Berbers Tribes is other minor influences in the portuguese culture , migrated from North Africa in 7th century A.C , they used settled themselves in Alentejo and the Algarve .

    • @eball2k9
      @eball2k9 Před 5 lety +1

      DJ PLATEX !!! Very interesting. A Spaniard that isn’t actually German

    • @mannyoliveira8271
      @mannyoliveira8271 Před 5 lety +9

      Good comment. You know your stuff. Unfortunately, 90% of people are ignorant and don't know shit about our history. Thanks for your information!

    • @batmanismexican1873
      @batmanismexican1873 Před 3 lety +8

      lol the Arabs and Moors conquered Portugal and Spain for 800 years literally Lisbon was founded by Arabs and Moors Goofy

    • @joseluisdesousa9385
      @joseluisdesousa9385 Před 3 lety +9

      @@batmanismexican1873 ur so wrong....

    • @ade910
      @ade910 Před 3 lety +7

      Portuguese are on average around 12% Berber by DNA. Its the second largest influence after the original pre-Roman peoples.

  • @shikov111
    @shikov111 Před 3 lety +212

    When it comes to Galician and Portuguese. It's like we're both speaking galician-portuguese but galicians grow up with spanish television and portuguese with portuguese television. So when you cross the border you get pretty much the same language but COMPLETELY different accents lol

    • @M4th3u54ndr4d3
      @M4th3u54ndr4d3 Před 3 lety +16

      Exactly! The galician and portuguese have veeery different accents, but the language is almost the same.
      Galician accent from 50 years ago was closer to brazilian portuguese. Check on youtube. The galician accent is closer to spanish now, but it was closer to portuguese

    • @eduardothiagomonteiro980
      @eduardothiagomonteiro980 Před 3 lety +9

      @@M4th3u54ndr4d3 Vi uns senhores falando galego e para um brasileiro o sotaque parecia algo entre o nosso e o português europeu.Já os dos jovens é um português com sotaque espanhol.

    • @c3phs
      @c3phs Před 2 lety +3

      The problem in Galician is that some words are in Spanish... Because you know...

    • @Islie_
      @Islie_ Před 2 lety +6

      The oldest galicians still sound exactly like a Portuguese from the north. But younger generations, as their first language is castillian speak with a very heavy castillian accent

    • @washussan
      @washussan Před 2 lety +1

      @@M4th3u54ndr4d3 I am Brazilian and lived in Galicia for a long time. In my view Galician accent is still much closer to Brazilian Portuguese. I actually had less problems understanding Galician than the current portuguese Portuguese accent.

  • @dargotravelshope1612
    @dargotravelshope1612 Před 2 lety +15

    I'm algerian from north Africa zone and I did DNA with results 94% north African ( Amazigh) 2 % iberian 2% Italian 1% Nigerian, we shared blood with iberians

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +7

      Same moroccan born and raised in usa 77.6%north Africa rest iberian and sardinian and of course Muslim

    • @Holybatman3603
      @Holybatman3603 Před rokem

      @@omarioussaidene4917 Mostly Andalusian refugees who were in majority E1b1b haplgroup and Sardinian female slaves.

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +1

      @@Holybatman3603 LOL what i noticed from iberians is that they hate moroccans because of the proximity and religion.because Heck i have Seen TONS of videos on CZcams about iberians pointing at morocco and some of them not having our blood and being happy which i find disgusting and pathetic.if you are racist at least Do it right.show us that you are superior. BECAUSE I Live in the usa and raised as a moroccan which means i speak both amazigh and arabic and raised as a Muslim and sourrounded by muslims of course.and here your language is a second class language used by service people from latin America narcos drug dealers and criminals and unwanted immigrants from latin America. AND If YOU ARE PROUD of your iberian peninsula Well i have Never Heard about iberian technology or cars or fashion brands or anything else you produce nothing the only thing you produce is UNEMPLOYMENT AND OF COURSE RACISM TOWARDS MOROCCAN people. At least be developed at least you will show your superiority be developed produce something export technology be like japan or korea or china or canada or usa or australia be useful because right now you are worthless. You have high UNEMPLOYMENT RATE at least deal with that instead of bashing moroccans.

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +1

      @@Holybatman3603 Jacob Al manzor LOL your name says it XD

    • @filipasales9291
      @filipasales9291 Před 11 měsíci +3

      In many places here in the South of Portugal you wouldn't be able to tell the difference bettween us😂. My own Grandfather looked like an arab, my Grandmother however looked Nordic with blonde hair and blue eyes😂. We are all mixed indeed. Maybe your ancestors were here and returned back. Hugs from Portugal.

  • @gabriellabaia856
    @gabriellabaia856 Před 2 lety +9

    It’s crazy because I’m Portuguese by blood but my father believes we have north African or Jewish descent in our family Because of our facial features and physical appearance. From what I know I am white and I come from Northern Portugal but I have extremely curly curly hair and my undertone is all over! I also get extremely dark in the summertime that people mistake me for South American, middle easter or even Egyptian ! So crazy My brother literally looks like an Arab man and always gets mistaken for it where my father can also pass as Arab or Jewish, very interesting video and so cool to see this

    • @Muhammad-pz1bp
      @Muhammad-pz1bp Před rokem +1

      Yeah you look like us 😂

    • @s66s46
      @s66s46 Před rokem +1

      @@Muhammad-pz1bp they dont

    • @joaosoares3349
      @joaosoares3349 Před rokem

      Yes all Portuguese have some North African ancestry. It is a part of what makes up Portuguese genetics

    • @riche1601
      @riche1601 Před 7 měsíci

      @@s66s46cope

  • @migukmoonpark4312
    @migukmoonpark4312 Před 4 lety +342

    Columbus wasn't Italian either. He was Genoese. The country "Italy" doesn't exist then.

    • @charadradam9985
      @charadradam9985 Před 4 lety +42

      i do not understand such smartass comments... yes italy united later, indeed, but as far as we know he was native, so he was italian native. its another thing the kingdom and another thing the political union or the native population of an area. in this point of view all states in the world became states in the form we know them today after many years and epsecially the last 300 years. holy roman empire was not german this not mean that there were not germanic tribes..italy the same...there were many different kingdoms with native italian population. except the lombards that were another tribe. genoese was because he was from genoa as a citizen of genoa. geoese is not a national identity but a political identity. wtf with such comments??? also the byzantines themselves first talked about them like latins and italians. there is not a geonese identity. are you serious???

    • @rowen42069
      @rowen42069 Před 4 lety +11

      @@Boykofan he spoke ligurian. Standard Italian didn't exist then

    • @francissullivan6582
      @francissullivan6582 Před 4 lety +8

      @Serjeant typical...The criminal Columbus was a catalan jew. Inform yourself before talking trash.

    • @francisco-vd9yv
      @francisco-vd9yv Před 4 lety +11

      @@Boykofan He spoke italian... maybe. There are many letters Columbus wrote to his brothers and sons and they are writen in Castillian and only Castillian, never in Italian. If you are Italian and have a brother, would you write him in Spanish?

    • @RAmi_RAmi247
      @RAmi_RAmi247 Před 4 lety +2

      in 1492 genova and napoli part from aragon .. so he is catalonian not italian or spanish

  • @elisalobo8875
    @elisalobo8875 Před 5 lety +419

    Yes, I travel to Barcelona and Madrid Spanish are whites, people confused burn skin in summer with real skin colour white.

    • @Nminteresa
      @Nminteresa Před 5 lety +54

      Finally someone said this. Of course the're people naturally tanned, because we're mediterranean like italian, etc, but the most of spanish are not naturally tanned. If you live in a zone where the sun is really strong, of course your skin will be tanned (we go out a lot), specially in summer. In Andalucia people go a lot to the beach from May until September. In summer they go almost every day (hours and hours) to the beach or at the swimming pool, and naturally they get super dark skinned. Imagine doing that every year of your life.... In autumn the most of people get their natural skin colour back. Of course some keep being tanned. Also we have gypsies. I had a friend that descended from gypsies and worked in a touristic place, because she could speak french. A moroccan tourist thought she was moroccan or from another muslim country and for that reason he complained about her clothes (not wearing hiyab). A moroccan girl who worked with her had to explain to him that my friend was spanish gypsy and not moroccan and/or muslim.

    • @starks8501
      @starks8501 Před 5 lety +14

      @@Nminteresa Catolonia is hot until October too..all coast Mediterranean.

    • @Nminteresa
      @Nminteresa Před 5 lety +5

      @@starks8501 Of course, in general Spain is really hot, but the south, Extremadura, Murcia, maybe Valencia ¿? (not sure about this one) have been always the hottest. It doesn't mean that other cities in Spain can't reach similar temperatures sometimes. I talked specifically about Andalucia, because I´ve read some comments saying we're more dark skinned due to we have more moorish blood and that is stupid. Yes, there're people who can have a very low % of North Africa like in the rest of Spain, but it's not like people are saying. In fact I've seen more people and with higher % North Africa in Portugal. It really surprised me :O. In Spain you can find dark skinned persons everywhere, for example, in Catalonian. It makes me laugh xd.... the fact almost the whole Spain were ruled by muslims X time it doesn't mean people who converted to islam they changed physically too. In those times there were not "invasions" like we see nowadays. Oh btw they ignore the jewish because they didn't rule, but they were here before and more time. The history of Spain is long and everyone is a world.

    • @clod8
      @clod8 Před 5 lety +11

      Some white people like Irish don’t tan, they stay white or they blister red. I am pale in the winter and tan in the summer, that is called versatility😎

    • @joaocarlosfilho
      @joaocarlosfilho Před 5 lety +3

      clod8 not really, I’ve met an Irish that was tanned. Also you need to consider that one of the oldest bones remains like Loschbour man at Central Europe has a likelihood of 97% of dark skin...

  • @josephphoenix1376
    @josephphoenix1376 Před rokem

    Excellent Episode 👍

  • @lawr3nc3mann84
    @lawr3nc3mann84 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this.🙂

  • @editorrbr2107
    @editorrbr2107 Před 3 lety +439

    I don’t particular care what the admixture is, it produces beautiful women.

  • @Ares-eu7hm
    @Ares-eu7hm Před 6 lety +52

    Racial purity, blood and bloodline was very important in Spain before the Inquisition, but people who are not white try to ignore this.

    • @andresspain3198
      @andresspain3198 Před 6 lety +2

      brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/ *THIS IS THE TRUE BLOOD AND DNA IN SPAIN AND REST OF EUROPE.*

    • @nicolasdearguizasotomayor9144
      @nicolasdearguizasotomayor9144 Před 6 lety

      czcams.com/video/51XI624YU0s/video.html *SPAIN-IBERIAN DNA-GENÉTICA DE LOS ESPAÑOLES-GENETICS OF SPANIARDS.*

    • @glimmeringsea5105
      @glimmeringsea5105 Před 6 lety +4

      I just simply think one should not deny one's ancestry and DNA no matter what it is. Also, that one should accept the DNA and color differences within the people of one's country. The mixture in Spain is what many inhereted in the Americas too. I think you guys should b proud of that mixture that for centuries made you. When you have mixture it is like a good paella with lots of flavors and delicious spices. If you have too much of one thing, it becomes bland or horribly tasting. Mixture is good.😁

    • @gonebymidnight2881
      @gonebymidnight2881 Před 5 lety +1

      CynthiaSantovena CynthiaSantovena i’m from Asturias and I know Galicia well. People are much more tolerant towards different races than in The USA and some other countries I have lived. That story about the girl is pure demagogy. On the other hand it’s true people are proud of not being conquered by the Moors but it’s more of a cultural thing and not based on a perception of racial supremacy if you can put it that way.

    • @NoName-be8vp
      @NoName-be8vp Před 5 lety

      IS THAT MANU RIOS ON YOUR ICON? 🗿👄❣️💗 He’s fine

  • @vitorjpereira2547
    @vitorjpereira2547 Před 2 lety +24

    if we have this mix?
    I do not know.
    but I'm not ashamed of my ancestors.
    I don't care if they mixed with other people.
    without each one of them, I wouldn't be here.
    That's why I'm proud of them all.
    and I'm Grateful.
    Greetings🇵🇹

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před 2 lety

      You are from Brazil not Spaniard

    • @vitorjpereira2547
      @vitorjpereira2547 Před 2 lety +12

      @@asturiasceltic3183 I Am Not Spaniard.
      I Am Portuguese.
      You Are From USA.
      And You Think You Are Spanish and "Celtic". LOL
      Get Out.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před 2 lety

      @@vitorjpereira2547 You don't know where I am from. You neither look Spaniard nor represent the peninsula. You are very mixed looking like the way Brazilians are, you are Afro-Portuguese, and do not mention that. I thought you were not ashamed of your race anymore

    • @vitorjpereira2547
      @vitorjpereira2547 Před 2 lety +13

      @@asturiasceltic3183 I Know Where You Are From.
      You Are From USA.
      If You Were Spanish, You Would Be Talking To Me In Spanish.
      Not In English.
      You Don't Know The Difference Between The Portuguese Flag and Spanish Flag.
      🇵🇹🇪🇦
      You Are North American Trying To Pass By Spanish. LOL
      Stop To Do That.
      That's Is Cringe.

    • @luisteixeira1099
      @luisteixeira1099 Před 3 měsíci

      Não sabes eu explico,, sexo..

  • @jaimeflor4181
    @jaimeflor4181 Před 11 měsíci +14

    I enjoy these videos a lot and I hope there’s more about different areas of the globe. I think some things I noticed, were the use of “El and Al” in both Arabic and Spanish. Also, the city of Medina and people from Spanish speaking countries with the surname Medina. The migration of people and languages has always interested me.

    • @CarvedStones
      @CarvedStones Před 10 měsíci +4

      the El and Al thing are actually just a coincidence. El in Spanish came from Latin ille, it’s just that both vulgar Latin and Arabic have similar definitive articles. They don’t relate at all. Arabic influence on Spanish was minimal at best because the cultures didn’t mix well. Most of the influences came from Mozarabs, native Iberian Christians who adopted Arabic culture for living within Muslim territory.

    • @Louie-pq3kv
      @Louie-pq3kv Před 6 měsíci

      The Ottomans were Turks and the Moors were North African Berbers.. not Arabic. They spoke Arabic yes, but weren't Arabic. But that's just a word meaning "mixed ppls."

    • @craigime
      @craigime Před 6 měsíci +1

      Pretty sure those have nothing to do with each other

  • @robch.2901
    @robch.2901 Před 3 lety +294

    I'm spanish descended and I've always confuse with iranian or arab. 😅 Anyways I love middle east peoples

    • @celticlilly5832
      @celticlilly5832 Před 3 lety +30

      Then you are not a real Spaniard but a recent immigrant.

    • @robch.2901
      @robch.2901 Před 3 lety +73

      @@celticlilly5832 I never said I was a spaniard , read carefully. And I'm not an immigrant , I've always leave in my country , I'm Argentinian with spanish blood.

    • @robch.2901
      @robch.2901 Před 3 lety +29

      @@celticlilly5832 my grandfathers are from albacete in case you are wondering

    • @celticlilly5832
      @celticlilly5832 Před 3 lety +3

      @@robch.2901 That is not ancient like the days from Pelayo

    • @celticlilly5832
      @celticlilly5832 Před 3 lety +19

      @@robch.2901 Whatever you say you are I can tell you are not Spaniard

  • @athena8030
    @athena8030 Před 4 lety +148

    Im Tunisian and i have Spanish origins from the side of my mother's family (they are white with black hair and eyes) and half italian, half berber from the side of my father's family (they are white, but more with green or blue eyes and blond hair) ! I really like how history participate in this beautiful mix ♥️
    Finally im a pure child of Mediterranean 💙

    • @edensolomon23
      @edensolomon23 Před 4 lety +3

      @Athéna not really, all humans have origins from Eastern Africa so...

    • @athena8030
      @athena8030 Před 4 lety +5

      @@edensolomon23 et bah moi je parle de mes ancêtres de 10 à 15 siècles au maximum ! Sinon je sais rien avant comment c'était ! Il y avait certainement du métissage à droite et à gauche mais j'en sais rien !
      Quant à l'idée que le premier homme sur terre soit de l'Afrique de l'est, et que tout les hommes sont ses descendants, bah ça reste à prouver quand-même !
      Salut ! 🍷

    • @edensolomon23
      @edensolomon23 Před 4 lety +1

      @Athéna tf I can’t understand Italian or Spanish okay 😂

    • @Wiktorino1984
      @Wiktorino1984 Před 3 lety +1

      @@edensolomon23 Maybe but this is many thousand years ago, and human with traveling and using Clothes not changing now.

    • @Seifounage
      @Seifounage Před 3 lety +4

      I'm Tunisian too and I feel lucky to be in the middle of all those races, it's a really good mixture

  • @MushtaqAhmad-jg3bn
    @MushtaqAhmad-jg3bn Před 2 lety

    Thanksso much very interesting video nice to see you in video

  • @allthecolors6900
    @allthecolors6900 Před rokem +5

    North African ≠ Arab
    Thats like calling Sicilians Roma Italianos. Just because a group of people come from the same land, doesn't mean they're all the same!!

  • @andeezaima319
    @andeezaima319 Před 5 lety +50

    The comment section is far more interesting than the video itself xD

    • @Adrian-if8el
      @Adrian-if8el Před 5 lety +1

      brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/ *BLOOD-DNA IN SPAIN AND REST OF EUROPE. Where are the blood Arabs?. RB1 CELTIC-IBERIAN-BASQUE 88%*

  • @fernandaenos7773
    @fernandaenos7773 Před 4 lety +342

    Omg ! Portugal is also a “ melting pot “ of races ! We have blonds and red haired people or blue eyed or green eyed more in the North of Portugal, or Olive color people in the south, but we all Portuguese !

    • @brazuka1371
      @brazuka1371 Před 4 lety +45

      Portuguese girls are pretty :).

    • @M.Ghilas
      @M.Ghilas Před 4 lety +41

      Same here in Algeria
      Ther are blond ,red head ,brown people
      Green eyed people you'll find them all here.

    • @Alvaro-em1dj
      @Alvaro-em1dj Před 4 lety +12

      brazuka thank you man, we also have a lot of brazilian and portuguese girls out here they are stunning!

    • @PhlilipeAlves
      @PhlilipeAlves Před 4 lety +35

      @NorthernLights ofDemons welcome to the stupid multiculturalism of Europe. Which already have proven to be a failure (just look at americas)

    • @juanma5272
      @juanma5272 Před 4 lety +13

      We are all iberians! And @ first ALL humans

  • @SuperSlik50
    @SuperSlik50 Před rokem +1

    Would you please discuss these topics in relation to the Azores and Madeira? I’m from Hawaii and our ancestors came from there exclusively? Thank you

  • @asielregueiro7953
    @asielregueiro7953 Před 2 lety +10

    I'm from Cuba but my 23andme results were 95.4 % Spanish and Portuguese, 0.3 Jewish, 1.9 north African. 1.5 SSA, 0.8 native American and 0.1 unassigned

    • @pricklypear6384
      @pricklypear6384 Před rokem +4

      You are one of the rare ones. Cuba is one of the Latin American countries with a lot of African ancestry.

    • @1stEarlOfSurrey
      @1stEarlOfSurrey Před 5 měsíci +1

      0.1 intergalactic-ancestor

  • @somuchsecrets2375
    @somuchsecrets2375 Před 5 lety +20

    Maybe mixed with north africans but definetly Not arabs

    • @somuchsecrets2375
      @somuchsecrets2375 Před 5 lety +8

      @Spain Ph i meant that north africans once conquered spain not arabs

    • @lilisworld1923
      @lilisworld1923 Před 5 lety +6

      @aka _drb Sameeee I'm from Algeria and when people tell '' oh so you're arab '' I'm like hell nah I'm amazigh so Mediterranean

    • @brahimkhaim2344
      @brahimkhaim2344 Před 5 lety +1

      Those asswholes! Keep using the arab term to describe north africans!! I hate that!

    • @combatarmsio6916
      @combatarmsio6916 Před 5 lety +4

      The majority in north africa is arabs and some of you berbers want to ascribe north africa just for berbers but it's not...
      If you dont like"arabs" then get the fuck out from our countries and don't speak our language.

    • @mocro4life5713
      @mocro4life5713 Před 5 lety +1

      @@combatarmsio6916 i am moroccan and we speak arab but we aren't real arabs north afrcians are culturly arab i am a jebli from north morocco many of us deny that we aren't arabs but amazigh but i don't deny it

  • @beautifulmic
    @beautifulmic Před 6 lety +16

    Can you do a video on the places ancient Phoenicians dispersed to after their empire fell, and ancient immigration waves of Southern Italy?

  • @jordiking2481
    @jordiking2481 Před 2 lety +7

    Thank you for a great look at the history of the Iberian peninsula... my ancestors are Spanish Jew/Moor... it's been an interesting journey discovering the family history...

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před 2 lety

      Descendants?

    • @bobdopsopdap4583
      @bobdopsopdap4583 Před 2 lety +1

      The Sephardic Jews thrived under the caliphates of Andalusia (Iberian peninsula). They lived well and held top jobs under Moor rule.
      Look it all even.
      The Jews were expelled from Spain the Muslims. They were forced to convert or into exile,but many other died horrible deaths under torture during the Spanish Inquisition, they massacred a lot of Jews and Muslims in the most sadistic inhumane ways due to their religion.
      The Christian reconquest of Spain was brutal,many Jews forced to convert or die,like the Muslims.
      That is how many Jews ended up in Morocco, Algeria,Tunisia,Libya and to a lesser extent Egypt.
      They lived in mostly peace in those countries and co existed mostly in peace but violence was rare, that is until Zionism established the state of Israel and killed and drove out many innocent unarmed Palestinian civilians from their towns and villages. More violence started because of the politics.
      Even so,the Jews of North Africa then mostly immigrated to Israel but some still live there, but a very small communities in Morocco and Tunisia only today.
      The Jews of Spanish origin lived well under the Ottoman Empire caliphate too,one of the Ottoman sultan's best personal doctors was a Jewish man of Serphadic origin.
      Compared to medieval Christian kingdoms,the Jews much better and prosperous and in peace under Islamic rule in Spain and other Caliphates like Ottoman. The Jews were more oppressed and experienced more pogroms and attacks in Christian Europe than in Middle-Eastern,North-African and Anatolian(modern day Turkey), Andalusian (Spain), Islamic kingdoms. Fact check it .
      Your Moorish and Sephardic Jewish (Spanish/Portuguese Jews) because they co existed together and the Moors and Jews left Spain together after been forced out and slaughtered by the Christian armies of the Spanish monarchies after the recapture of Spain from Moorish Islamic rule. The Jews were more prosperous,lived better and were free do worship as Jews until then.

    • @angelosaleh8344
      @angelosaleh8344 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bobdopsopdap4583 I totally agree Bro, You told the truth. This is the true side of what happened in Andalucia. My mother is from Granada and I am sure I have Moorish blood.

  • @HamptonGuitars
    @HamptonGuitars Před 2 lety +1

    Where do you think all the names like Alcaraz and Aldama come from?

  • @user-cx5mq6nk1b
    @user-cx5mq6nk1b Před 5 lety +49

    5:30 Galician is impossible to be a dialect of portuguese. Both came from old galician or what is called now galaico-portuguese. Galician exists even before Portugal was created. Also, catalan is not a dialect. ¿A dialect from what language?

    • @jaimedegonzaga9722
      @jaimedegonzaga9722 Před 5 lety +8

      Galician is a different evolution of latin than castillian or catalan. Just that. Portuguese IS DESCENDANT of galician because the first rulers of Portucale county were from Leon and the King decided to repopulate the north of Portugal with galicians and astur-leonese.

    • @diogorodrigues747
      @diogorodrigues747 Před 2 lety +2

      It was a mistake on the video.

    • @miguelpadeiro762
      @miguelpadeiro762 Před 2 lety +4

      @@jaimedegonzaga9722 Portuguese isn't a descendant of Galician. They both diverged from the same common language. They split because Portuguese was independant and Galician got Castillian influence

    • @pays-de-vitae
      @pays-de-vitae Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@miguelpadeiro762Now guess where the so-called "Galician-Portuguese" language came from? Galicia. Portugal wasn't a country at the time, the first Europeans to settle in Muslim-occupied Portugal were the people of Galicia and Leon to a lesser extent.

  • @BoneMachine28
    @BoneMachine28 Před 3 lety +42

    Every autosomal (full ancestry - determines phenotype) DNA study has the Portuguese strongly clustering with Spaniards, French and North Italians. There is also some closeness with the Swiss. The Portuguese are predominantly an Atlantic Facade population group. In addition, the ongoing DODECAD ancestry autosomal project has recorded European and West Asian (Anatolian) DNA affinities close to 90% (~ 80% European and ~ 7% Anatolian) for Portugal. Portuguese also have more than 36% N. European input, third highest in Southern Europe behind France (~ 50%) and Spain (~ 38%). One study actually has Portugal with more Balto-Finnic than Poland, 3.5% for the former and ~1.25% for the latter.
    As far as Haplogroups are concerned, check the Eupedia tables. Combined Y-DNA and mt-DNA shows a hugely dominant percentage of Western European Haplogroups. There are also some Balkanite and Anatolian (Y-DNA J2) markers (due to ancient Greek and Phoenician settlements, jews and muslims couldn't marry people from other faiths). Near Eastern frequencies in total are rather minor.

    • @Farrukhsiyar159
      @Farrukhsiyar159 Před 2 lety +1

      Millions of Spaniards converted to Islam. At one point the majority of Spaniards in Muslims controlled Spanish cities were Muslims (majority of southern spaniards). The not being able to marry out of the faith doesn't have anything to do with genetics as tens of millions of Iberians themselves were Muslims.

    • @rass4609
      @rass4609 Před 2 lety +3

      The ties to swiss people could be because of the old suebic kingdom

    • @dinamycvideosgaming1597
      @dinamycvideosgaming1597 Před rokem

      @@rass4609 suebi old samples plot in scandinavia but the Celts plots in alpine region

    • @luistroops3341
      @luistroops3341 Před rokem +3

      I am portuguese, and I am 10% balto- Finnic, was never expecting that.

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@Farrukhsiyar159 The descendants of the converted were muslims and went to North Africa after the Reconquista. The converted were not millions, however. You have exagerated. A part of the nobility converted to Islam, but the people, who were Christians and who were forced to always give way to Muslims, to pay special taxes, to be discriminated, were not very inclined to become Muslims. Some rich people did it for convenience, when they saw that the situation did not change.

  • @flipwhale5494
    @flipwhale5494 Před 2 lety +2

    Thumbnail photo should include Portugal written as well. Also I wonder if French are included in this because wasn’t part of France conquered by the Moors as well. Not to mention a bit of France is Iberia as well so, which doesn’t mean they would have to be conquered by the Moors.

  • @elle2702
    @elle2702 Před rokem +3

    I am Iberian and also have just a little Moroccan / North African. I always had a feeling this is why we have that mix. Thank you for this beautiful video!

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před rokem +1

      Who is "we?"

    • @amayafarki
      @amayafarki Před rokem +1

      @@asturiasceltic3183 Stop trying to flex your “pure” Celtic identity because no one cares it’s just dumb

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před rokem

      @@amayafarki it bothers you sooooooooo much that you are crying and begging for me to stop posting and you even replied. There was no MENA in my family's DNA and it shows.

    • @amayafarki
      @amayafarki Před rokem

      @@asturiasceltic3183 It’s not bothering me it’s just dumb and looks petty

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před rokem +1

      @@amayafarki You are petty. I stated a fact and you started to get all insecure, started to cry and begged me to stop. It's a fact. There was no MENA DNA in my family and it bothers you.

  • @xmaverickhunterkx
    @xmaverickhunterkx Před 6 lety +10

    One thing the Columbus comment: I researched a bit a month ago, and nobody knows where he is from, since he didn't want people to know. However he left some clues and it has been mentioned more than once that he is from Genoa, which although is now a part of Italy, it was an autonomous state back then.
    He wasn't Italian, but from Genoa. (Saying he was Italian is like saying Romans were Italians).

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 Před 2 lety

      Wow... what a conclusion
      Italy exist before Roman time
      So according to your vision of the history the Romans were from the moon and Columbus from the another planet?

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 Před 2 lety

      @@diocassius8199 I will add to my collections of jokes so I can be in good mood...

  • @thetruth495
    @thetruth495 Před 3 lety +107

    Race is a slippery concept. There are too many 'grey areas' to categorise racial differences precisely. Culture and heritage are more important.

    • @MatameVideos
      @MatameVideos Před 3 lety +8

      Now sciencists talk about ethnicties instead of race, is a far mor accurate model since it not only bases it's parameters on appearance as the racial model, it also considers migratory history, all different genetic heritages and lineages, geography, language and culture. That model IS much better as it is actually based on empirical evidence and can explaon the way humans migrated from Africa to the rest of the world as well as human evolution instead of just lumping together different people that just so happen to share certain superficial similarities from a certain perspective.

    • @thetruth495
      @thetruth495 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MatameVideos To a large extent, ethnicities are incipient races anyway.

    • @berjastkjuklingur1914
      @berjastkjuklingur1914 Před 3 lety +4

      @Kalid Ibrahim Not entirely though, for instance if you plot all european ethnicities on a map then they would be a lot closer together than any non european ethnic group thus making the race.

    • @lubu2960
      @lubu2960 Před 3 lety +2

      Don't tell that to racists. It's all genetics.

    • @ungeimpfterrusslandtroll7155
      @ungeimpfterrusslandtroll7155 Před 2 lety +1

      @Derek Chauvin It is exactly the other way around.

  • @EuropezonUruguayo1
    @EuropezonUruguayo1 Před 2 lety +26

    anyone thinking that italians, spaniards, and portuguese (from portugal) are not white is a complete fool

    • @giogiosepicchannel5195
      @giogiosepicchannel5195 Před 2 lety +2

      In the late 1800s/ early 1900s, they were not considered whites by anglo-saxons. F. Now they are though, duh.

    • @nothin12r88
      @nothin12r88 Před 2 lety +2

      Were diverse lmao. We range from blond hair blue eyes to dark brown.

    • @EuropezonUruguayo1
      @EuropezonUruguayo1 Před 2 lety +5

      @@nothin12r88 diverse in hair color, yes, absoloutely. Not all are dark-haired. But still more than 97 percent of southern europe is white

    • @s66s46
      @s66s46 Před rokem

      @@nothin12r88 lmao since when were whites only blondes??? Get a fkn grip all europeans are white

  • @Night_Dragon11
    @Night_Dragon11 Před rokem +13

    No, Spaniards hardly have Arab or North African blood, most have Neolithic Farmer ancestry from Anatolia which Arabs also share but Arabs also mixed with South Asians and other populations whereas Spaniards also have the Western Hunter Gatherer and Ancient North Eurasian ancestry that other Europeans have in higher amounts, Spaniard genomes have Neolithic Farmer ancestry predominantly.

  • @wendeln92
    @wendeln92 Před 3 lety +9

    Interested in this video because I just received my DNA results from 23andMe. I was almost certain that my Sicilian ancestry would have strong Greek associations but according to the results I have Spanish/Portuguese associations; plus some Arab/Egyptian/Lavantine and Anatolian components. I'd like to find out how long ago this may have happened. Both maternal grandparents were Sicilian (born and raised). There was never any talk of Spanish/Portuguese or North African/ Middle Eastern associations. Sicily was occupied over time by many different groups - after reviewing the results my first thoughts were Carthaginians or Moors. The Italian.Sicilian component is 43.2%; Spanish/POrtuguese is 5.7% and the Greek & Balkan is 0.2%.

    • @norwegianfellow7457
      @norwegianfellow7457 Před 3 lety +1

      Your Iberian ancestry is miniscule. So why worry about it.

    • @geostrofico
      @geostrofico Před 3 lety +4

      Sicilia was part of kingdom of Aragon, then Spain, for a while, can be it.

    • @hannibalbarca4372
      @hannibalbarca4372 Před 2 lety +2

      Sicily was part of the kingdom of Aragon (Heart of Spain),Arab established Emirate of Sicily 10th-11th centuries, before Roman expansion Sicily changed hands few times between Greeks and Carthaginians...

    • @lynxlecher9547
      @lynxlecher9547 Před rokem

      That's cause Sicily too was infested by arabs

  • @polopisto
    @polopisto Před 3 lety +35

    A little of history: The conquer of the Iberian peninsula by the Muslims was in 15 years. The form to conquer this territory was intelligent and quick and it's not how the speaker is imaging. The Muslim army defeated the last king of the Visigoths who in this period was inside a civil war. The Muslims did pacts with the local noble and they respected the properties and titles only with one condition, they should use the Muslim religion. A lot of nobles changed their religion and stayed in their places and their cities and the same with the people. When the Muslims conquered the peninsula they not killed all inhabitants and replaced them with others from the north of Africa. The war's conflicts were a few.
    Really the people were the same but the governors were Muslims and Berbers. The Christians who didn't want to stay with the Muslim governors went to the north of the country and found Asturias a new Christian kingdom. It's the reason then you can discover that the people in Spain and Portugal are white, amazing.

    • @sevendaysaweek2622
      @sevendaysaweek2622 Před 3 lety

      Didn’t the Spanish and Moors not mix culturally and if they did most “Moors” weren’t actually Arab but Spanish themselves just converted to Islam?

    • @antonioribeiro6119
      @antonioribeiro6119 Před 2 lety +3

      @@sevendaysaweek2622 the term moor refers to north African berbers converted to islam. IIn a very unassertive way we can say that the Moors are actually the Moroccans.
      And they mixed but in a superficial level, since the ones that married converted to Islam and after reconquista they were "kindly" invited to return to Morrocos. Of course there were bastards, Childs resulting from rape and sexual slaves ....
      Despite the time that Islam dominated the peninsula, we can say that Roman culture remained dominant in this area. Of course there was influence, not least because most of the time was during the golden age of Islam. Its techniques of agriculture, irrigation, medicine, mathematics and other sciences contributed greatly to the Portuguese overseas expansion. Obviously there are many words of Arabic origin in Portugues and Castilian.

    • @JHA12121
      @JHA12121 Před 2 lety +1

      @WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Menos mal que ha venido alguien con empaque y presencia a dejar las cosas claras y a hablar el idioma de Cervantes. Con dos cojones !

    • @astrofabio68
      @astrofabio68 Před 2 lety

      muslim pink legend!

  • @JurassicB8245
    @JurassicB8245 Před 2 lety +4

    My (northern Portugal) manager calls me, a southern Portuguese, a "moor". I love it so much :D

  • @WompWompLilNgga
    @WompWompLilNgga Před 3 měsíci +2

    Only the South is mixed, not the North. However, I saw Portuguese people who looked exactly as Ronaldo and several Moroccan footballers but Ronaldo has Cape Verdean ancestry from the Azores but most of them I met were Lisbonese citizens.

  • @-i-2872
    @-i-2872 Před 6 lety +154

    Spain is white, some Spaniards are dark skin, but are Caucasian.

    • @AK56xXx
      @AK56xXx Před 6 lety +50

      also north africans are Caucasian ,this prove nothing , and spain are not white only fool believe that , majority look exact like north africans , and always when i saw spanish players in football teams they look exactly like berber from north africa

    • @fantasyamerindianarabic.7657
      @fantasyamerindianarabic.7657 Před 6 lety +17

      spanish players in football are from Brasil or Colombian origin Spain have a lot of inmigration of Latin American countries.

    • @mariaferreroserna2129
      @mariaferreroserna2129 Před 6 lety +7

      Diego Acosta is Brasilian LOL

    • @alexandre007opa
      @alexandre007opa Před 6 lety +39

      Carthage Empire you clearly have never been to spain

    • @GherkinBitchs
      @GherkinBitchs Před 6 lety +17

      alexandre007opa I have been to Spain 5 times in my lifetime and they look extremely similar to North Africans along the South coastline. But what do you expect? Both are Mediterranean and neighbouring countries with similar weather.

  • @latinoveteran8342
    @latinoveteran8342 Před 5 lety +199

    My parents are from Mexico and I have an Arab last name.

    • @shehtaelhadad4895
      @shehtaelhadad4895 Před 5 lety +79

      Omar is arabic name ..here in usa i met so many latino call omar

    • @felixmora665
      @felixmora665 Před 5 lety +24

      congratulations, you are a world citizen

    • @abdulshakoor582
      @abdulshakoor582 Před 5 lety +70

      Your grand grandfather was probably Muslim, and forced to convert in catabolism.

    • @TheLittledikkins
      @TheLittledikkins Před 5 lety +41

      Lebanese immigrated to Mexico in the 19th Century, it is from their vertical grills Mexico got their gorgeous Carne al pastor

    • @shehtaelhadad4895
      @shehtaelhadad4895 Před 5 lety +10

      @pepe0801 tell us what spanish army did for jews in andlusia 😒😒😒😒 just nazi trash weak nasty stupied

  • @spiritwomanwarrior4211
    @spiritwomanwarrior4211 Před 3 měsíci

    Excellent!

  • @satoshibitcoinsaki6532
    @satoshibitcoinsaki6532 Před 2 lety +1

    This is a very good video, very well made. I'm a descendant, a mixture of Spaniards and the wild savages who populated the Americas before their arrival.

    • @seabap5673
      @seabap5673 Před 2 lety

      Way to be racist to your own ancestors

    • @Joker_Voorhees
      @Joker_Voorhees Před 2 lety

      I'm surprised I think I recognize you from bsm's channel. I thought u were a Japanese quapa or something

  • @luongo7886
    @luongo7886 Před 6 lety +215

    As a Vietnamese, I find many Portuguese and Spanish people to be very beautiful. I especially love the nice Portuguese people and their warm welcoming culture. And the Portuguese cuisine is one of the best in the world! I wish to revisit this fascinating land again.

    • @joaoteixeira7410
      @joaoteixeira7410 Před 6 lety +29

      YOU ARE WELLCOME..

    • @milagromilagro1761
      @milagromilagro1761 Před 6 lety +4

      thank you visit vila Valencia which is in the lisban

    • @luongo7886
      @luongo7886 Před 6 lety +26

      I prefer Portugal over Spain any day of the year. Portuguese are very friendly and warm people. Plus, your food is much better tasting. And Portuguese language sounds much more prettier than Spanish.
      I live in California and I refuse to learn Spanish. Instead, I would like to learn Portuguese.

    • @Alxon79
      @Alxon79 Před 6 lety +1

      Ask Mexico...

    • @bluedamsel1185
      @bluedamsel1185 Před 6 lety +7

      Luong Do; my being Spanish, I agree with you that the Portuguese people are quite warm and welcoming. Language wise there is a totally different intonation and cadence between them; Spanish is quite guttural and harsh whereas Portuguese is softer. I also enjoy their cuisine! :)

  • @christianhinojosa848
    @christianhinojosa848 Před 4 lety +273

    I'm Spanish and I'm super white

    • @spacejaime
      @spacejaime Před 4 lety +12

      Y yo parezco un fantasma...y bronceo muy poco. Ya el dermatology me lo dijo hace muchos an~os….poco sol y mucho bloqueador solar.

    • @jurajfilin7180
      @jurajfilin7180 Před 4 lety +8

      Vamos a la playa

    • @ordrecosmique4719
      @ordrecosmique4719 Před 4 lety +73

      I'm north African and I'm super white

    • @bucktooth002
      @bucktooth002 Před 4 lety +1

      My last names are Perez & Borbon & some people confuse me with White even thou I'm %100 Yaqui.

    • @marwan4233
      @marwan4233 Před 4 lety +15

      @Easter Worshipper This is very common all over North Africa, Im very white and have orange hair and blue eyes, obviusly this isnt the majority but still there are many like me

  • @joshuafult84
    @joshuafult84 Před 2 lety +23

    I've been to Portugal and Spain. I was shocked to see how so many Portuguese are very dark while the majority of the Spanish were rarely tanned.

    • @Guillermo153
      @Guillermo153 Před 2 lety +6

      @Martin Salazar eso no tiene nada que ver
      Es imposible distinguir entre un español y un portugués
      AMBOS SOMOS IBÉRICOS

    • @jeanrafael873
      @jeanrafael873 Před 2 lety +6

      Because the Portuguese live near the beach and tan a lot, spaniards not so much on the ones living in the south.

    • @Timeisntgood
      @Timeisntgood Před 2 lety +3

      Most of people of South eu and North Africa are having ssme features

    • @joshuafult84
      @joshuafult84 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Timeisntgood lmao I've been to both they definitely don't look the same occasionally a southern Italian may have a similarity to a northern African.

    • @TradWest
      @TradWest Před 2 lety

      The Portuguese are not dark. Fuck where you lmao.

  • @markledbetter1439
    @markledbetter1439 Před 4 měsíci

    Fascinating history along with the genetic story!
    As a linguist, I’d point out a small flaw, though.
    You propose that the Basque languages are related either to the Celtic languages or that they preceded the linguistic takeover by Indo-European languages of Europe. It can only be the latter. If Basque were related to Celtic (and therefore Indo-European), five or so thousand years is not long enough to eliminate systematic phonetic, lexical, and grammatical correspondences between Basque and Indo-European. I.e., Basque was already there when first Celtic and then other Indo-European waves swept across the continent,
    But that aside, a very nicely done video!.

  • @patrioteuropean3332
    @patrioteuropean3332 Před 5 lety +58

    Spaniard are whites i was living in Madrid for 4 years
    They are whites and very patriots

    • @ehenri1438
      @ehenri1438 Před 5 lety +11

      they are dark in the south thanks to the arabs influence

    • @MainstreamPoPsucks3
      @MainstreamPoPsucks3 Před 5 lety +2

      @General ZX1 To say spaniards are supposed to be 100% descended from Romans is ridiculous.

    • @ashrafnimr3388
      @ashrafnimr3388 Před 4 lety

      Iniesta MR shut up

    • @MrKlipstar
      @MrKlipstar Před 4 lety

      Iberians have a few North African mix like North Europeans have Mongols ,Huns and those Indians from the Artic Áreas.They are mixed too..They ONLY try to put US down,because They want to take our countries.

    • @lucialopez4253
      @lucialopez4253 Před 17 dny

      No they are olive

  • @joaocarlosferro
    @joaocarlosferro Před 6 lety +33

    Hello, interesting video but went a bit short in those mentioned influences not talking about the main substrat of Iberian people, as the name says the Iberians (modern Basques), formed the bulk of the population that colonized the region up to all Western Europe in pre historic times with the expantion of agriculture, these people substituted the original hunter gatherers. But the most important that missed in your video was the enormous influence of the Celtic culture around 500 BC. The Celts had such a cultural and genetic influence mostly in the western half of the peninsula that still today the region of Galicia presents the name of one of those tribes (the Galli), and Portugal name is a composit word for Portu+Galli = meaning the port of the Gall tribe. Depending on the region up to 60% of the population has Celtic genetic roots and this is evident in so many ways in the culture specially in the NW. Just have a look to these videos from Celtic Portugal and Spain: from NE Portugal - czcams.com/video/OK-Es0RXBnk/video.html Bagpipes, kilts, war dances and sward dance are not exclusive from the British islands - Another intersting video: the celtic type of dancing from different regions of Portugal, Spain, France, UK and Ireland - czcams.com/video/pMwuOIipOAw/video.html. Cheers!

    • @user-yl6ng4uj2k
      @user-yl6ng4uj2k Před 6 lety

      ...

    • @daevidl1424
      @daevidl1424 Před 6 lety

      Al Andalus (Spain ruled for Islam), was racist like the north Spain. Muslims and Jews were victims of racism and religious discrimination. Christians create the Holy Inquisition and expel these minorities in Spain.

  • @AdryanRMC
    @AdryanRMC Před 2 lety +11

    More than 700 years Spain was under Islamic domination , but this doesn't mean arab , at the beginning a very small part of islamic army were ethnically arabs , most of the were berbers and other north africans , arabs were only the top elite who ruled the Al Andalus , the most rich country in the world at that time , Cordoba was the second largest city in the world next to chinese Shenyang (current Xi'an). It was actually the most beautiful,peaceful and cultural part of the Europe

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Před 2 lety +1

      You need to read the "Myth of Andulucian Paradise." They practice jihad on Christians regularly

  • @V.Oliveira
    @V.Oliveira Před 2 lety +2

    Yes, we do have some of those genes... pretty cool imo!

  • @yassine0798
    @yassine0798 Před 3 lety +22

    Hi I'm from Morocco and I have dna from Europe and all of north African people that I have seen have some European dna especially morocco Tunisia Algeria here is my dna test :
    North African 50%
    Senegal : 9%
    Italy/Greece : 11%
    Iberian peninsula : 9%
    Middle East : 21%

    • @omarioussaidene4917
      @omarioussaidene4917 Před rokem +5

      Me moroccan born and raised in usa 77.6% North African and rest iberian and sardinian and 1.6% sub Saharan.

    • @ANDATV1
      @ANDATV1 Před rokem +7

      That may be because a large part of the Muslims expelled from Spain ended up in Morocco, and those Muslims were Mozarabic. The Mozarabs were not African, they were Ibero-Romans who converted to Islam after the Muslim invasion, therefore they were originally from the Iberian Peninsula.

  • @ew5153
    @ew5153 Před 5 lety +28

    Columbus wasn’t Italian because Italy wasn’t a country at that time yet. They had kingdoms at that time.

    • @gordusmaximus4990
      @gordusmaximus4990 Před 5 lety +12

      He was Italian, but not the Italian state. Like Portuguese and Spaniards are Iberian, but there is no Iberian state. Like Bavarians and Hamburgers are German, but there was no German state in the first half of the XIX century.

    • @diegoluisribeiro9219
      @diegoluisribeiro9219 Před 5 lety +1

      João Silva the best!!

    • @gonzalovalencia7866
      @gonzalovalencia7866 Před 5 lety +1

      Yes that is true Columbus was from geneva not Italian The fanny thing Italians Americans mosly sicilian celebreta Columbus day with moder Italian flag that is wrong for European especially for genovetians and Italian peaple

    • @GFSLombardo
      @GFSLombardo Před 5 lety

      @@gonzalovalencia7866 Italian-Americans fly the national flag of the modern nation state of Italy because they came from every part of the Italian peninsula and not just Sicily and other islands which were or are part of Italy. To fly historic, traditional regional or city/state flags,etc. on Columbus Day would be confusing and basically meaningless in the USA. For another example: Ireland is also an ancient culture and nation but when Irish -Americans celebrate St. Patricks Day on March 17th they fly the national flag of the modern Republic of Ireland which was only recognized as a fully independent nation, separate from the UK, after WWII. BTW most ethnic Americans do not really care what the people from the "old countries" in Europe think about them, and it should be vice versa.

    • @JoeRafinski
      @JoeRafinski Před 5 lety

      @@GFSLombardo Irish have been free since 1919.

  • @huliohuliohamijo
    @huliohuliohamijo Před 4 měsíci +3

    There was actually very little mixing between the muslims and the christians in Spain. Genetic studies show that spaniards are much closer genetically to germans than to moroccans.

    • @jojolafrite9265
      @jojolafrite9265 Před 3 měsíci

      Et les gêne Ibériques hindigenes vous les mettez ou ??? 😂😂

  • @MichaelWolfe1000
    @MichaelWolfe1000 Před 10 měsíci

    I just wondered,how can DNA tests be accurate, which is their starting point if most people seem to have a mixture to start with?