Where does she fit? Pick all that apply

[Sikeliot]

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[exceeder]

(I should have changed my vote a bit... didn't think hard enough :P )
She looks like some people I know who are half french canadian and have lebanese. To me she kind of looks like a greek islander, cypriot or sephardic jewish (the armenoidish nose and the east medish eyes...yes I'm stereotyping but she looks like a sephardic french jewish comedian I've seen before...and also looks like a family of sephardi i know in toronto).

I debated what to vote and some I am still not sure. I voted for france, portugal and spain but to be frank I don't think she is at all typical there...probably could barely fit... I perhaps should have also voted for berber but she would fit better as a pied noir then an arab in north africa...

What is her background?

[Sikeliot]

Algerian.

To me she looks very Iberian.

[Slycooper]

To me. Lebanese.

[exceeder]

Algerian.

To me she looks very Iberian.

Somewhat surprising. Whats her name/who is she?

[Damião de Góis]

To me she looks very Iberian.

:blink:

I get it now. That's why you say i don't look iberian. It all makes sense now.

[Sikeliot]

:blink:

I get it now. That's why you say i don't look iberian. It all makes sense now.

I still think you look British.

[Damião de Góis]

You could say she resembles a certain type of iberian look (who isn't that mainstream anyway), superficially. But that's far from looking very Iberian.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Idsrvlp37OU/TGEDslUvsqI/AAAAAAAAAwA/ZEKtYh0gLTE/s1600/Teresa.Salgueiro00.jpg

[Sikeliot]

I see a Penelope Cruz type look to her.

[Alvarado]

I see a Penelope Cruz type look to her.

But you said Penélope doesn't look Iberian at all :confused:

[Sikeliot]

But you said Penélope doesn't look Iberian at all :confused:

I've changed my mind when I realized her and Paz Vega look alike, and after seeing Cruz without all the exotic makeup.

[Rouxinol]

Algerian.

To me she looks very Iberian.

How is that? She has a clearly Semitic-inspired hooked nose. Moreover, her eyes are big and droopy - not quintessential Iberian features whatsoever. She actually could pass in Saudi Arabia and approaches a pure Arabid phenotype.

[exceeder]

I clicked on her picture. Her name is Geraldine Nakache. I looked her up, and I only found one source that said she was algerian. The others said she was either sephardic jewish, lebanese, or french-lebanese... so I'm not so sure she is algerian...it would be good if we could get that verified.


How is that? She has a clearly Semitic-inspired hooked nose. Moreover, her eyes are big and droopy - not quintessential Iberian features whatsoever. She actually could pass in Saudi Arabia and approaches a pure Arabid phenotype.

I wouldnt go so far as to say that. She has something of an armenoid influence going on there with meditteranid (east med imo) but certainly to not arabid, at least not in any predominant or strong influence. Arabia would certainly not be my first guess. I could see her better in the levante and certain isles of the east meditteranean (cyprus), as a sephardi jew, and even as a north african or european before saudi.

[Alvarado]

I've changed my mind when I realized her and Paz Vega look alike, and after seeing Cruz without all the exotic makeup.

No offense, but that sounds like bullshit. We have been posting pictures of her without makeup since the first thread.

[Rouxinol]

I wouldnt go so far as to say that. She has something of an armenoid influence going on there with meditteranid (east med imo) but certainly to not arabid, at least not in any predominant or strong influence. Arabia would certainly not be my first guess. I could see her better in the levante and certain isles of the east meditteranean (cyprus), as a sephardi jew, and even as a north african or european before saudi.

I understand what you mean, but she would definitely suit in this Saudi group as well:

http://ciyaaro.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Saudi-Alympic-Women.jpg

But I agree she could pass in the places you mentioned as well as among these Saudi women (in my opinion).

[Sikeliot]

No offense, but that sounds like bullshit. We have been posting pictures of her without makeup since the first thread.

Well, regardless what I think, others have confirmed she looks Iberian, so now, anyone who looks like her, I will call "Iberian" looking, since I trust that you all know their appearances better than I do.

[exceeder]

I understand what you mean, but she would definitely suit in this Saudi group as well:

http://ciyaaro.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Saudi-Alympic-Women.jpg

But I agree she could pass in the places you mentioned as well as among these Saudi women (in my opinion).

Are all those girls saudi? A few of them i would question (especially the girl with glasses). ;)

Hehe, either way I guess we'll agree to disagree on that one :)

I do agree that I wouldn't guess Spanish as Mme Nakache's ethnicity as my first pick... still, I am very curious about her background now!

[Portukalos]

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[Sikeliot]

So she's not Berber at all?

[exceeder]

She is Algerian Sephardic Jew.

Her brother Olivier Nakache :

http://www.fiff.be/galerie/d/19862-2/EZ__1686.jpg

Didn't think she was Algerian arab/muslim/berber either. ;)

[Rouxinol]

It makes sense that she is Jewish as Jews have Arabid/Semite admixture.