Are Spaniards closer to Moroccans than to Swedes?

[Ibericus]

Shouldn't a better question be to ask if Spaniards are closer to Basques or to Jews?

lol, Is this a serious question ?

Spain vs Basques : 18.4
Spain vs Sephardic: 44.3
Spain vs Ashekanzy : 42.3

Eurogenes MDS plot :

[Sikeliot]

Going by looks, Moroccans (but only Riffians and other ones not mixed with Sub-Saharan African).

[Siegfried]

Eurogenes MDS plot :

How can anybody see anything on that map?

[Raikaswinþs]

Basques closest Relatives in the world are Spaniards.

In fact, most serious scholars consider Basques as a case of founding effect in which the original populations where the same blokes than in the rest of the Peninsula and part of southern France where called "Iberos".

That's why the closest cluster of Basques is with Spain. They are genetically isolated Spaniards. That all. Much like menonites and Amish are isolated Germans, with a comparable distance to European germans of that of Basques with "lowland" Spaniards (or other basque people, such as Alavese and Navarres)

Actually Basques aren't even the most interesting people genetically speaking of Iberia.

Attentions are being turned now to what was long known by many here. That is the "Valles Pasiegos" In The southern Santander and northern Burgos provinces

[Ibericus]

How can anybody see anything on that map?

Here is the original size :

[Siegfried]

Here is the original size :

Thanks. Why are Hungarians so close to western Euros?

[Styggnacke]

Thanks. Why are Hungarians so close to western Euros?

Did you expect them to be some steppe Mongol people in a racial sense?


I don't feel particularly close to Spaniards and I don't think Spaniards feel any big closeness to us.

[Comte Arnau]

Going by looks, Moroccans (but only Riffians and other ones not mixed with Sub-Saharan African).

Unmixed Riffians account for less than 10% of the Moroccan population...

I lived in Stockholm for a while. A higher percentage of Swedes would fit better in Spain.

[Siegfried]

Did you expect them to still be a steppe Mongol people in a racial sense?


I don't feel particularly close to Spaniards and I don't think Spaniards feel any big closeness to us.

No, I expected them to be closer to Slavs, not to Germans, Frenchies and others.

[Styggnacke]

I lived in Stockholm for a while.

Cool. Where, if I may ask?