I have a Spanish relatives, they look Caucassion, people think their British, until they speak, then they think theyre Spanish - apart from the younger ones my cousins people still think theyre English when they speak becasuse they speak English with an English accent must be becasuse theyre English eh!
I've heard rumours that some Spanish people can easily be mistaken for somebody French or even Portuguese!! I once saw a Spanish person with blonde hair!!! Is Fernando Torres really Spanish! He looks like he comes from Luxembourg to me!
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Additional giveaways are planned. Detailed information about all U. Search this Thread Advanced Search. With dark Mediterranean features, but white. In , I moved to Miami and soon I became aware of the deep racial divide that still exists in this country.
Genetically speaking, we Spaniards are a mix of the different civilizations that have settled in the Iberian Peninsula throughout the centuries: the Visigoths from northern Europe, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans from the Mediterranean region and the Moors from northern Africa.
That's why in the same family you can have someone with blond hair and blue eyes and someone with darker features. In Spain we have had cases of racism in football stadiums and other instances, but race is not something we talk about. Unlike in other countries, in official documents you are never asked to choose your racial background.
When I moved to the US in , because I am from Spain I was labeled Hispanic or Latino, a category that has been used by the US government from the s to define the people from Spanish-speaking countries.
Without debating the accuracy of those words, there is agreement that Latino refers to a common language and cultural heritage. Spaniards tend to be darker skinned than English, Germans, and Scandinavians, but then you are looking at some extremely light skinned people. It all has to do with vitamin D levels and deaths of children due to rickets in low sunlight regions in paleolithic times. As an average, european spanish people from Spain are white and most have brown hair, brown eyes although it may vary.
That said, in latin american countries original civilization were indigenous. Most Spaniards do not have olive, or darker skin they rarely have the greenish tint of olive, anyway but are pinky-fair-skinned, nor are the6 all dark eyed and dark haired.
Genetically speaking, we Spaniards are a mix of the different civilizations that have settled in the Iberian Peninsula throughout the centuries: the Visigoths from northern Europe, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans from the Mediterranean region and the Moors from northern Africa. A Guide For The U. Presidential Campaign. After all, Spaniards are technically considered Hispanic by the U.
Some have drawn sharp distinctions between these two terms, saying for example that Hispanics are people from Spain or from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America this excludes Brazil, where Portuguese is the official language , while Latinos are people from Latin America regardless of language this includes ….
But generally, this is not as common as it may seem because many people cannot afford it: they have classes or to work during that time. When you meet a friend, you give each other two cheek kisses : left and right. That is also something you do when you meet someone new or when you are leaving. So you will be sharing plenty of kisses there as it is considered rude if you do not do it.
It is a common way of greeting someone in France and Italy as well, but not in my country where even a hug is considered a bit much in many cases. Here when you meet someone, you just wave to them or shake hands if it is somebody new. People living in the eastern country of Iberian peninsula are passionate.
It can be about football where you can see thousand of fans cheering their team with all the amenities needed: dresses, logos, whistles - you name it. It can also be about bullfights. I attended one of them and I saw how loudly they cheer and how much they enjoy watching it. I could not help seeing a poor bull suffer but still - it was also a way of seeing their passion come out. It can be about politics where opposite thinking sides quickly get to a heated conversation with a high conversation volume.
It can be about dancing, such as flamenco. Not all Spaniards are passionate about all the typical things but one could say that they have it ''in their blood'' to commit themselves to something they care about by defending it till the last drop of blood. In general, Spaniards are more open to chat than most other european cultures.
You can find yourself in the middle of a conversation as randomly as getting on a night bus where you are talking to a lady about her flat she is trying to rent. When you ask for help, they will try to help you as much as they can. They can also give you something for free after making a short friendly talk to them. Madrid is a big city with all kinds of people with different styles which is why they are used to differency. There is also a gay friendly neighborhood called Chueca with vivid colors and themed bars.
There are also many things that are more problematic. For example, they may see people from Latin America as "socially inferior". That is what happened when I was in Mallorca with three girls from there and all of a sudden, a car stopped and guys started calling names to my friends only because they were from a different area.
Also the '' machismo'' culture can be perceived because women are believed to be somewhat less than men. They use WhatsApp very often. I do not know how it is in other countries, but in Slovenia not many people even have an account on WhatsApp and the social media used instead is Facebook. In our Facebook group of pharmacy I find the context of the conversation much more transparent as well as the documents and old texts published there.
People also do not write in our school group so often as they did in Spain. One time, I did not check the WhatsApp conversation for two hours and when I did, I had to go through new messages only to see there was nothing really important.
Most people have their own Facebook account but many do not use it very often or as they told me only when they get really bored so your chances of getting someone's reply soon are much higher if you have their phone number and text them on Whatsapp instead. Also, it is a more discrete method of communication since you do not get to check their previous posts and pictures and often you do not even know their full name. Spaniards in general speak a lot.
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