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Re: Are Spanish nationals and Spanish citizens the same thing?

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Originally Posted by Pocaloca (Post 10491301)

I agree accept for

Despite wiping out most of the locals we managed to salvage potatoes, tomatoes, pimientos, maize, chocolate, pineapples, mangos ...

And these days most of the best literature written in Spanish comes from the Americas, no?

Then there is the music - salsa, rumba, merengue, tango ... All very popular here. Zumba comes from Columbia, there is a zumba plague in this country at the moment with sessions in every village!

Point taken, I had overlooked the zumba. I must get out more.:)

Re: Are Spanish nationals and Spanish citizens the same thing?

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Originally Posted by guirijohn (Post 10491237)

North Africans have had a continuing relationship with Spain for thousands of years, their DNA is in the Spanish population

There is some North African DNA in the Spanish population, but actually Spaniards have less North African DNA than the French or even the British. The Spanish are primarily of Greek and Celtic origin. Darker skinned Spaniards will normally be on Gypsy (Indian) origin, or some will have native Latin American decent like my wife, who is one sixteenth native Mexican. Thanks to the rich links between Spain and Latin America - the whole North is littered with impressive "Casonas de Indianos" which the Spanish built after making their fortunes in Latin America. Cities like Seville were entirely built of the money made in LA.

Many Spanish families have spent some time in Latin America over the past few hundred years and then returned to Spain with their money, of course, many also stayed in Latin America.

The Moors had a big influence on the administration and finances of Spain for many hundreds of years, as did the Jews, but there is very little evidence that the gene pool became enriched by North Africans. The Moors ruled in Spain very much like the British did in India - they kept themselves in their small colonies and ciphened off the profits from the land back to their homelands