I wonder if there is a mention of me in ItalicRoots lol
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I wonder if there is a mention of me in ItalicRoots lol
As a boy with Apulian origins, I met more Apulians and people with Apulian origins in Milan than in Apulia, not counting Calabrians, Sicilians, Neapolitans, etc. I don't think it is a city that can be taken into consideration to make a phenotypic average of northern Italy, it is from all points of view an extremely multiethnic and multicultural city, I would add also really very rich even if very expensive, which makes us understand how much the rhetoric of "bad multiculturalism" is bullshit, multiculturalism also brings development and well-being if exploited well, however among the few Northern Italians (ethnic Lombards) that I have known the most frequent phenotypes were Alpinid, Sud Nordid, Atlanto-Med dinarized with a fair amount of Norid, the complexion was very clear
Both of these populations are Southern European and Mediterranean populations. However, they are far from being identical, differ a lot. The Spanish population are more purely Med in race, while Italy is more diverse ( Mediterranean, Alpo-Mediterranean or Dinaro-Mediterranean , Dinaric) . Italy has regions which are lighter-pigmented than anywhere in Spain and at the same time there are regions which are darker-pigmented which are darker than Spain’s darkest.
Nobody in Spain uses the term Ibérico (Iberian). There are two excepctions, as Gallop pointed: the jamón ibérico (Iberian ham) and Iberia (a Spanish airline). Ah, a third one, of course: we do say península Ibérica (Iberian peninsula).
But it is a chimera to think we use the term Iberian to refer to ourselves. We say just Spaniards.
The expert on South Europe has spoken :lightbul: