south spainards?

Question

how come antonio banderas is not white hes from spain and my great-grandmothers mother wasnt that white she was from spain she was like ginobli from the spurs

if this is true that moors didnt very little toe population than why are people in south coming out dark

how come people in south spain look so much hispanic

Answer 1

Aires is ABSOLUTELY wrong. Where one is from (originally) determines one's skin color (and other attributes, as well). In general, the closer to the equator, the darker the skin. The farther away from the equator, the lighter the skin.

Skin color is determined by the amount of melanin that the body produces. Melanin is a protection from solar radiation. Those in he equatorial belt have the most exposure to solar radiation and produce the greatest amount of melanin. Those closest to the North Pole (like Norwegians) produce the least amount of melanin. Albinos have a genetic defect that prevents them from producing melanin.

Now, how do we account for color variations within certain countries?

Remember that for hundreds of years, tribes and empires invaded one another. In the case of Spain, with the exception of Catalan, it was occupied by the Moors (from northern Africa) for many generations until Ferdinand and Isabella drove them out. (By the way, by not being subject to Moorish rule, Isabella acquired enough wealth to finance Christopher Columbus' trips to the New World.)

A percentage of the Spanish population possesses genetic heritage from the Moors. They would have darker skin and hair than those from Catalan who maintain mostly European genes.

Also, remember that the spread of the Roman Empire had a huge effect on the populations from the Middle East to England.
There were also the Viking Invasions (from Denmark).

The net result is Irish people with red hair, and Irish people with black hair.

In Spain, there are not only physical differences but language differences. The people in Barcelona pronounce their home "bar-thel-ona," but those from Madrid would say "bar-sell-ona."

And there are huge differences in culture between the southern spaniards and the Basques, who live in the Pyrenees mountains, on the border of France. They have their own language, too. It's called Euskera, and it's older than any Indo-European tongue.

Answer 2

The previous answer is hugely informative but to a different question. After 1000 years in a place, differences of colour have nothing to do with genetic forebears and everything to do with the circumambient climate. That's why today's Faeroese are the lightest skinned people in the world, though genetically they are Danes.

And the climate of south Spain is warm in winter and hot and sunny in summer. The rest of Spain has cold winters and/or somewhat rainy summers.

Answer 3

Not all Spaniards have to have clear complexion. Could be of Slavs decedent.

Answer 4

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo que tonterias soltais, no se escribir bien en ingles, pero pondre un texto, he puesto varias veces esas 2 páginas



Anthropology
"Two widely observed racial characters serve to differentiate the Spaniards from most of the living inhabitants of Arabia and North Africa: hair color and nasal profile. In Spain, as a whole, some 29 per cent of the male population has black hair, some 68 per cent dark brown, while traces of blondism are visible in 17 per cent. In most of North Africa and Arabia, the black hair is commoner than the dark brown. The nasal profiles of some 120,000 Spaniards are convex in 15 per cent of cases, straight in 72 per cent, and concave in 13 per cent. In Arabia and North Africa east of Morocco, the commonest profile form is usually convex, and concaves are very rare. The prevalence of these two features, dark brown hair and a straight nasal profile, indicates that the bulk of the Spanish population is derived from the earlier Mediterranean invasions of Mesolithic and Neolithic date. The Spaniards are more like the most marginal and fully sedentary of the brunet Berber groups in North Africa than like the more recently settled transhumant ones or the Arabs."
"The most striking results are that contemporary NW African and Iberian populations were found to have originated from distinctly different patrilineages and that the Strait of Gibraltar seems to have acted as a strong (although not complete) barrier to gene flow.... The Islamic rule of Spain, which began in A.D. 711 and lasted almost 8 centuries, left only a minor contribution to the current Iberian Y-chromosome pool.

"...the origins of the Iberian Y-chromosome pool may be summarized as follows: 5% recent NW African, 78% Upper Paleolithic and later local derivatives (group IX), and 10% Neolithic (H58, H71). No haplotype assumed to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa was found in our Iberian sample. It should be noted that H58 and H71 are not the only haplotypes present in the Middle East and that the Neolithic wave of advance could have brought other lineages to Iberia and NW Africa.


"A small NW African genetic contribution in Iberia is also detected with mtDNA, the female counterpart of the Y chromosome. ... [North African] haplogroup U6 is found at very low frequencies: it has been found in 3 of 54 Portuguese and in 2 of 96 Galicians and is absent in Andalusians and in 162 other Iberians (Bertranpetit et al. 1995; Côrte-Real et al. 1996; Pinto et al. 1996; Salas et al. 1998)."

(Bosch et al., Am J Hum Genet, 2001

Two subclades of North African Y-chromosome haplogroup E3b and Middle Eastern haplogroup J (labeled E-M81 and J-M267) are considered unrelated to the Neolithic migrations into Europe, making them useful in detecting historical admixture from Berbers and Arabs or earlier Semitic peoples. These markers exist at combined frequencies of 3% in Catalans of Northern Spain and 6.4% in Andalusians of Southern Spain (for a total of between 1.5% and 3.2% admixture), confirming that gene flow from Phoenicians/Carthaginians and Islamic Moors was minimal.

An analysis of 11 Alu insertion polymorphisms...has been performed in several NW African...and Iberian...populations. Genetic distances and principal component analyses show a clear differentiation of NW African and Iberian groups of samples, suggesting a strong genetic barrier matching the geographical Mediterranean Sea barrier. The restriction to gene flow may be attributed to the navigational hazards across the Straits, but cultural factors must also have played a role. ... Iberian samples show a substantial degree of homogeneity and fall within the cluster of European-based genetic diversity
Here, we present an analysis of a data set of 10 allele frequencies in 39 populations of the Mediterranean region. ... The main boundaries separate the northern and the southern coasts, especially in their western portions.... The comparatively high genetic differentiation across the western Mediterranean, where the sea distances between localities are shorter, strongly suggests that the sea distance by itself can hardly be regarded as a major isolating factor among these populations. ... The genetic boundary separating northern Morocco and Algeria from southern Spain appears as the zone of sharpest genetic change using Prevosti's distances and as the second most significant zone of change...using Nei's distances."

Answer 5

he's I think it's genetics maybe? where your from should'nt determine your colour