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My surname is a Welsh name, and my father is Welsh/Scottish/English, but when I was younger, people would often tell me that I took more to my mother's side than my father's. My younger brother however is very much like my father. I think my younger brother has a slightly different eye-area shape, and has my father's light (in thickness), gently curving brown hair.
I am also fair bit taller than him and he is full-grown now.
So I was wondering about my mother's side of the family and what impact they have had, problem is is that I know hardly anything about them at all. While my father's side has astronomers in NZ, professors in France, and well-to-do individuals in wales and England, on my mother's side they weren't fond of their father, who lived in a poorer area of Melbourne, Australia, and committed suicide while they were younger, and the mother has long-since passed away from lung cancer, unfortunately.
So all I know is that my mother's side are from Spain. But when most people here that I am presumably half Spanish, they are shocked because I don't look like some Mexican gangster or something, even though everybody knows that the Spanish conquistadors where white skin black hair somewhat like the Romans. Well I don't know how true that is anymore, I have search this website and google for the difference between Spaniards in general, and the Basque in particular, and I have a question:
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Is that guy what the Spanish look like? Because I look quite a bit like that, but maybe with a bit of a different head shape. But let's just say that I was him. Should I assume to be basque in particular, or just Spanish, or can you not tell?
I have seen pictures of Spanish basketball players with weird, more boney faces and really thick hair that looks nothing like me. Or if you know any good visual references besides the pictures on wikipedia that weren't much help, then that's fine too.
I just want to understand if there is any phenotypical differences between Southern or mid Spanish and Basques.
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