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    Question The spanish and the basque

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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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    s 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.
    I am just talking with a friend of mine who is Spanish and she said that guy is a Basque most probably.

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    I am Basque.. Check out my phenotype..
    "Free, do you call yourself? Then I would hear your ruling thought, and not merely that you have escaped from a yoke. Are you one of those who had the right to escape from a yoke? Many a one has cast away his last worth when he has cast away his servitude. Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! But your fiery eyes should tell me: free for what?" - Thus Spoke Zarathustra


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    I think the guy is joking...I can tell from his tone.

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    The Basque apparently have no Moorish admixture:


    They do not have any E (or its subclades) Y chromosomes, unique among the various ethnic groups of the Iberian peninsula.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Veritas Aequitas View Post
    I am Basque.. Check out my phenotype..
    But you are mixed, no?


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    Thankyou everyone who posted. Until I can learn more about my mothers-side family or get a dna test, I think I will consider myself part-Basque in particular rather than part-Spanish in general.

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    He could be Basque or from anywhere in the rest of Spain,but not the most typical type.

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    The "pure" (not that you can find those types in abundance anymore) Basque face is very long,and resembles often an inverted triangle.The nose is quite prominent and the ears too.

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    I go to school with a Basque who says one of their most recognizable features is that they have a cleft in the tip of their nose. I'm not sure if this is true; anyone else know?

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