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Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 06:07 PM
From my experience, having seen pictures of fully white Puerto Ricans, they can really go either way. I'd say a good number do look Spanish or Portuguese, but I have seen, and heard from other users that a significant number would fit better in the Canary Islands, coastal North Africa, and as East Med due to a combination of Spanish, Sephardi, or Canarian ancestry.

I have met one Puerto Rican girl in person who looked very Portuguese, but she is the only fully white-looking one I have met.

What would you guys say?

Tropico
02-23-2013, 06:11 PM
Well idk about fully white, but my sister and father who have been said can pass in Europe could only pass in East Med, Canary Islands, Sicily etc. Camilo could pass in a lot of places. Ddbrainer could too.

Madonna
02-23-2013, 06:12 PM
this thread will be interesting :D

Camilo
02-23-2013, 06:12 PM
I think for us the caucasoid PRs can range from Iberian, Western Euro, pan Med, and Canarian. Most PRs in general look Canarian IMO.

Camilo
02-23-2013, 06:13 PM
Oh and Sephardi looking as well.

Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 06:13 PM
Well idk about fully white, but my sister and father who have been said can pass in Europe could only pass in East Med, Canary Islands, Sicily etc. Camilo could pass in a lot of places. Ddbrainer could too.

Camilo looks Western European to me, could even be British. dbbrainer more Sephardi, Greek, Italian etc. To me neither your father nor sister look European but could both be North African.

But I am looking for a general trend. Since you guys have said most Puerto Ricans are phenotypically white, do they look actually Iberian or is there enough other ancestry in there to make that not be the case?

Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 06:14 PM
Most PRs in general look Canarian IMO.

So essentially that's Iberian with some sort of a North African influence? It can be hard to tell northern Moroccans from Canarians.

Tropico
02-23-2013, 06:14 PM
Camilo looks Western European to me, could even be British. dbbrainer more Sephardi, Greek, Italian etc. To me neither your father nor sister look European but could both be North African.

But I am looking for a general trend. Since you guys have said most Puerto Ricans are phenotypically white, do they look actually Iberian or is there enough other ancestry in there to make that not be the case?

I think most white Puerto Ricans are more Canarian looking than anything else.

Camilo
02-23-2013, 06:16 PM
Yeah I think that's definitely the most common look that can be found on the island. That mix of Iberian and Berber/North African=Canarian.

Tropico
02-23-2013, 06:16 PM
So essentially that's Iberian with some sort of a North African influence? It can be hard to tell northern Moroccans from Canarians.

Well Puerto Rico's Euro components are from Iberia and the Canaries so I guess a mix of those would look like they have a bit of MENA. A lot of Puerto Ricans have pretty significant MENA.

Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 06:16 PM
I'm going to make a thread with Canarians and Moroccans and see if you guys can tell them.

Tropico
02-23-2013, 06:21 PM
I'm going to make a thread with Canarians and Moroccans and see if you guys can tell them.

Pick typical Canarians and typical Moroccans. Not ones who obviously over lap.

Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 06:22 PM
They are northern Moroccans and Canarians from La Gomera island.

Stefan
02-23-2013, 08:37 PM
They're not a homogenized group. To be honest, most white Puerto Ricans (who record it on the census) aren't European/Middle Eastern/North African.

Camilo
02-23-2013, 09:52 PM
Jeeze, fucking tags again. Haters

Baldur
02-23-2013, 09:55 PM
how does a white puerto rican look like then?

Sikeliot
02-23-2013, 10:05 PM
how does a white puerto rican look like then?

To me they look somewhere between a Spaniard and a Moroccan but that is just me. Some of them, if they have Sephardi ancestry can look similar to Southeastern Europeans too.

Baldur
02-23-2013, 10:06 PM
what comes to my mind is marc anthony.

Tropico
02-23-2013, 11:41 PM
They're not a homogenized group. To be honest, most white Puerto Ricans (who record it on the census) aren't European/Middle Eastern/North African.

That makes no sense. Then what are they?

thetank
02-23-2013, 11:43 PM
I agree that they look canarian... predominately Spanish with some north African heritage from Berbers and Sephardis...I don't think they specifically look Iberian nor Sicilian or Greek

Tropico
02-23-2013, 11:46 PM
I think most white and off white Puerto Ricans have the Canarian or North African feel. Then some others are Iberian/Canarian and some East Med.

thetank
02-23-2013, 11:49 PM
for example I think jon bernthal could pass as a white Puerto rican in my opinion

Stefan
02-24-2013, 12:04 AM
That makes no sense. Then what are they?

I omitted the word "fully" by accident.

Sikeliot
02-24-2013, 12:09 AM
what comes to my mind is marc anthony.

He's clearly mixed though, not white.

Baldur
02-24-2013, 12:14 AM
yeah well i have never seen a white puerto rican.

Camilo
02-24-2013, 12:23 AM
yeah well i have never seen a white puerto rican.

Check my classification posts for myself and my parents. We would be white Puerto Ricans.

rashka
02-24-2013, 12:30 AM
I found this video about the 1950 assassination attempt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WF9sJzOf8

dbbrainer
02-24-2013, 01:08 AM
Well it is not true that most islanders are white but that we are vastly pred med of any given sort. Having said that more than half of the people I see around fit in the Canary Islands first. The ones who would be called white (I always think of it as strictly European not Euro + MENA) in any part of the world like Camilo do pass in the UK. However, in P.R. white is anyone who more or less can pass in the med zone not restricted to Europe. Some may not agree with this; certain types of criollos and it is understandable for it is the polysemy of the word which brings different senses the word might have. Hence I use caucasoid instead.

Here are a few Caucasoid PR's: Of all ranges

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/29570_10200426042482062_250581077_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/64592_10151231282534089_2076542260_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542481_10151815081065538_1311173165_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/734904_10151213876905785_1461618684_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/734178_10151185847150785_551971921_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/734743_10151313805438886_2118069712_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/530348_4313152555473_2084644484_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/268379_1858805878337_6057433_n.jpg

A very Canarian looking one in a stereotypeable way;
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291779_10151316539515409_132926413_n.jpg

Sikeliot
02-24-2013, 01:13 AM
This is where I think the above could pass..




https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/29570_10200426042482062_250581077_n.jpg

Anywhere from southern Italy to the Levant... the girl looks like the Greek singer Despina Vandi


https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/64592_10151231282534089_2076542260_n.jpg

Iberian


https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542481_10151815081065538_1311173165_n.jpg

pan-Med


https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/734904_10151213876905785_1461618684_n.jpg

Canarian


https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/734178_10151185847150785_551971921_n.jpg

Canarian



https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/734743_10151313805438886_2118069712_n.jpg

British


https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/530348_4313152555473_2084644484_n.jpg

European Jewish, of any kind



https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/268379_1858805878337_6057433_n.jpg

Castizo

Tropico
02-24-2013, 03:09 AM
I omitted the word "fully" by accident.

Sure. But I mean I'm like 72% Euro/MENA so we def exist. And Im by no means above average in my Caucasian admixture. There are more with more Euro/MENA than me. Especially on the West Coast and Central Mountain regions.

Sikeliot
02-24-2013, 06:09 AM
What region of PR is most populated? and if most of the ones in the US are mixed race and obviously so, does that mean they more likely came from the east, where people are more mixed?

Tropico
02-24-2013, 06:19 AM
They tend to come from the East. I think 1/3 or a bit less is around San Juan. To the east of San Juan in Loiza it's pretty SSA.
The other 2/3 it depends but on the west the Canarian/Iberian and heavier MENA are common with smaller admixture than the east.

Camilo
02-24-2013, 01:42 PM
http://vimeo.com/50400781

dbbrainer
02-24-2013, 07:08 PM
Canarian type pheno:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/285262_10151408070579861_655922670_n.jpg

Modern Day Canarian females for Comparison with a pair of Galicians and a group of mainland spaniards:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/481596_4605122659872_127632437_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/181949_1834018255950_6746234_n.jpg

HispaniaSagrada
06-25-2013, 08:27 PM
yeah well i have never seen a white puerto rican.

I have. They usually work as managers at McDonald's. It's funny seeing them walk up to the PR or Latin American employees and making it clear they speak Spanish :rotfl: The undertone is usually "Don't think I'm white! I'm Puerto Rican!"

Sikeliot
06-26-2013, 12:25 AM
I have. They usually work as managers at McDonald's. It's funny seeing them walk up to the PR or Latin American employees and making it clear they speak Spanish :rotfl: The undertone is usually "Don't think I'm white! I'm Puerto Rican!"

They are white. ;)

Tropico
06-26-2013, 01:44 AM
They are white. ;)

I dont think a lot of Hispanics understand that one can be White AND Hispanic or Black AND Hispanic, etc.

Sikeliot
06-26-2013, 01:45 AM
I dont think a lot of Hispanics understand that one can be White AND Hispanic or Black AND Hispanic, etc.

I thought Hispanics understood it but everyone else did not. :lol:

Tropico
06-26-2013, 01:48 AM
I thought Hispanics understood it but everyone else did not. :lol:

lol HELL NO. Hispanics do NOT understand that. I tell Indigenous ass looking Hispanics that I have Amerindian blood and they look at me like Im crazy. Plus Hispanics mostly never admit to being white, being black or mixed, to them their nationality suffices.

HispaniaSagrada
06-27-2013, 06:52 PM
lol HELL NO. Hispanics do NOT understand that. I tell Indigenous ass looking Hispanics that I have Amerindian blood and they look at me like Im crazy. Plus Hispanics mostly never admit to being white, being black or mixed, to them their nationality suffices.

That because being white to them is corny. There's a stigma and they want to be accepted in their group and not be "white boys" One Puerto Rican guy once told me that the worst thing you can call a Puerto Rican is "white boy"

But yea even the black/mulatto puerto ricans don't like being called black either.

I see the whiter Puerto Ricans, and sometimes even Mexicans but where I am there's way more PRs, dress a certain, have the goatee and certain haircut and whatever it takes just so people don't mistake them for white.

In the past I've had some PRs tell me they don't consider me white and even a couple of Jamaicans, too. I ask them why. They can't give a good answer. That's just how the see it. I guess white means anglo. Among Portuguese people (in my experience) when they say "americano" they mean anglo. You could be american and be black, italian, puerto rican, white immigrant or whatever but you'll get called those things - except if you're white and american and have no foreign accent and your name is Robert Clarkson or something then you're "americano"

Peyrol
06-27-2013, 06:56 PM
Can we see pictures of ''white'' puertorican instead of read pseudoscience?

HispaniaSagrada
06-27-2013, 07:00 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQfGN0fsT8

I know you're not gonna consider them all white but at least a couple should be.

Tropico
06-27-2013, 10:27 PM
My dads a White Puerto Rican and can pass in North Africa better than Spain I think. My grandmother though looks more Iberian. I think it just depends.

RMuller
06-29-2013, 08:03 AM
That because being white to them is corny. There's a stigma and they want to be accepted in their group and not be "white boys" One Puerto Rican guy once told me that the worst thing you can call a Puerto Rican is "white boy"

I find that hard to believe.The triracial Boricua's on the Anthro forums who score 15-30% nigga- amerindian try hard to convince people that they are white. Like Acevedoricky when he arrived on the anthro forums thought he and all his familia fit perfectly in Spain. :picard2: There is some Boricua who scored 25% nigga-amerindian named ddbrainer who thinks his phenotype is super rare in latin america because he is 'white'.He probably percieves himself as Nordic looking?:confused:

Most Puerto Ricans in the island claimed they were white on the census, 95% claimed to be white. :picard2: Puerto Rico is a triracial island.

Tropico
06-29-2013, 02:05 PM
TROOOOOOOOOOOLING. All I ever said was that my SSA in my genotype was all but absent from my phenotype. Which the majority of people agree with on here BUT the second one says that you're a whitewasher or a mongrel in denial.

101DT
06-29-2013, 02:08 PM
Arent most European Puerto-Ricans either Spaniards or Corsicans?
So why shouldnt they resemble Spaniards and Corsicans?

Tropico
06-29-2013, 02:19 PM
You'll find the people who post here with rude comments and trolling attempts are almost completely Mexican. I have no idea why the Mexicans on these type of threads are the biggest trolls.

Anthropologique
06-29-2013, 02:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQfGN0fsT8

I know you're not gonna consider them all white but at least a couple should be.

A handful do look fully white.

Brighton
06-29-2013, 11:00 PM
TROOOOOOOOOOOLING. All I ever said was that my SSA in my genotype was all but absent from my phenotype.
If you came to Chile people would think you're from Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela or some country like that, because of your lips, which are quite African.

Han Cholo
06-29-2013, 11:03 PM
If you came to Chile people would think you're from Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela or some country like that, because of your lips, which are quite African.

I don't think he shows overt African features, but I can clearly see his non-Euro admixture is not just Amerindian. He wouldn't fit easily in any truly Mestizo country.

Tropico
06-29-2013, 11:34 PM
If you came to Chile people would think you're from Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela or some country like that, because of your lips, which are quite African.

Really think so? From profile they look more pointy but from the front they do look fuller.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/941995_647289675284547_916408758_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/401954_647289665284548_1951027267_n.jpg

Brighton
06-30-2013, 03:29 PM
Really think so? From profile they look more pointy but from the front they do look fuller.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/941995_647289675284547_916408758_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/401954_647289665284548_1951027267_n.jpg
Your nose is really Caucasian but your lips keep telling me something weird.. I don't know, here people don't have full lips so it gives me an African vibe when someone has them..

Anyway, maybe you jut got some collagen recently.. Don't you? Any surgeries?? haha

Methusalem
06-30-2013, 03:46 PM
White Puerto Ricans? Oxymoron.

Methusalem
06-30-2013, 03:54 PM
I find that hard to believe.The triracial Boricua's on the Anthro forums who score 15-30% nigga- amerindian try hard to convince people that they are white. Like Acevedoricky when he arrived on the anthro forums thought he and all his familia fit perfectly in Spain. :picard2: There is some Boricua who scored 25% nigga-amerindian named ddbrainer who thinks his phenotype is super rare in latin america because he is 'white'.He probably percieves himself as Nordic looking?:confused:

Most Puerto Ricans in the island claimed they were white on the census, 95% claimed to be white. :picard2: Puerto Rico is a triracial island.

Amen brotha. I will send you some burritos for your effort to present us the truth.

Methusalem
06-30-2013, 03:55 PM
I don't think he shows overt African features, but I can clearly see his non-Euro admixture is not just Amerindian. He wouldn't fit easily in any truly Mestizo country.

I don't see the Negro or Amerindian in acedevoricky. He look fully (south)mediterranid.

Peyrol
06-30-2013, 04:17 PM
This reminds me the ''taino pride'' of Santo Domingo while in reality they're triracials.

Methusalem
06-30-2013, 04:21 PM
This reminds me the ''taino pride'' of Santo Domingo while in reality they're triracials.

Elaborate. Sounds interesting.

Tropico
06-30-2013, 04:28 PM
Your nose is really Caucasian but your lips keep telling me something weird.. I don't know, here people don't have full lips so it gives me an African vibe when someone has them..

Anyway, maybe you jut got some collagen recently.. Don't you? Any surgeries?? haha

Haha. No dude, BUT sometimes people say they know im Puerto Rican from my lips so... lol It tends to be white people so they probably see some Non-whitenss going on in them.

Tropico
06-30-2013, 04:29 PM
This reminds me the ''taino pride'' of Santo Domingo while in reality they're triracials.

That was due to the HORRIBLE Trujillo regimen that happened that shamed African ancestry in DR due to their complex racial/colonial history with Haiti.

Methusalem
06-30-2013, 04:32 PM
Haha. No dude, BUT sometimes people say they know im Puerto Rican from my lips so... lol It tends to be white people so they probably see some Non-whitenss going on in them.

There plenty Euros with similiar full lips. Buddy relax.

Tropico
06-30-2013, 04:34 PM
Amen brotha. I will send you some burritos for your effort to present us the truth.

So you'd want Puerto Ricans like these two adults to identify as Triracial when they clearly dont look it ALL and the only way to even know they were triracial by genotype was by a DNA test?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/316386_635899813090200_1875616572_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/577717_635900019756846_1989050532_n.jpg

Tropico
06-30-2013, 04:34 PM
There plenty Euros with similiar full lips. Buddy relax.

Im relaxed.. lol This isnt an argument its a discussion. Simmer down Tupac. lol

Peyrol
06-30-2013, 04:41 PM
That was due to the HORRIBLE Trujillo regimen that happened that shamed African ancestry in DR due to their complex racial/colonial history with Haiti.

I read something similar...even during haitian occupation of D.R.

Tropico
06-30-2013, 04:44 PM
I read something similar...even during haitian occupation of D.R.

Since Haiti was viewed as the enemy "blackess" was viewed as an enemy. Trujillo even had 15,000 Haitians and Dominican-Haitian families or mixed people killed on the Haitian/Dominican border.

Brighton
07-01-2013, 02:44 AM
Haha. No dude, BUT sometimes people say they know im Puerto Rican from my lips so... lol It tends to be white people so they probably see some Non-whitenss going on in them.
Told you..

Anyway, do you have a tattoo/sentence written in your chest?? do you happen to be poor? :)

Tropico
07-01-2013, 03:00 AM
Told you..

Anyway, do you have a tattoo/sentence written in your chest?? do you happen to be poor? :)

lol Nice trolling and no. My father is in the military and makes a good amount of money, enough that my mother does not have to work, we have NO assistance from government programs and 2 kids are in college without a single taking out of a student loan.

Brighton
07-01-2013, 06:02 AM
lol Nice trolling and no. My father is in the military and makes a good amount of money, enough that my mother does not have to work, we have NO assistance from government programs and 2 kids are in college without a single taking out of a student loan.
Does your mother stay at home cleaning and cooking?? That's really picturesque :)

What's assistance from government programs?? Like subsidies and stuff??

Are 'the kids' in a decent University?? like Ivy League or something?? or are they just in a regular community/State school like any peasant??

Tropico
07-01-2013, 11:26 AM
Does your mother stay at home cleaning and cooking?? That's really picturesque :)

What's assistance from government programs?? Like subsidies and stuff??

Are 'the kids' in a decent University?? like Ivy League or something?? or are they just in a regular community/State school like any peasant??

Why are you trolling so hard? I go to USF (University of South Florida and my sister HCC (Hillsborough Community College). Hers was due to the fact her SAT scores weren't high enough for USF but she did get accepted to others, just HCC is an easier stepping stone to USF. And yes my mother's life is "picturesque" except shes the wife of a soldier which isn't so "picturesque". And as in ANY assistance from the government. The military pays well and has some great benefits. Where do YOU come from, a poor family?

Brighton
07-01-2013, 07:06 PM
Why are you trolling so hard? I go to USF (University of South Florida and my sister HCC (Hillsborough Community College). Hers was due to the fact her SAT scores weren't high enough for USF but she did get accepted to others, just HCC is an easier stepping stone to USF. And yes my mother's life is "picturesque" except shes the wife of a soldier which isn't so "picturesque". And as in ANY assistance from the government. The military pays well and has some great benefits. Where do YOU come from, a poor family?Oh fortunately no, I'm not, my dad is an engineer and my mum works at this foundation http://www.fundacionchile.com/home At home the person who cleans is señora Isabel, whom I love very much.

I study Law in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In the world ranking (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2013/law-and-legal-studies) it's ranked after the following American Law Schools: Harvard, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Georgetown, UPenn, Michigan, UCLA, Cornwell, Duke.. my university would be 13th if it were in the US. In Chile it's in the 1st place. In the world it's 45th.

About government aid, I don't even know how you get them.. I guess you go to the Ministry of Social Development or whatever..

Anyway, I just asked because here it's very typical in people from jail (not Yale) to get tattoos with sentences and stuff.. that's why I asked. I thought maybe you were in jail or your family is really humble or something..

See you :)

Camilo
07-04-2013, 07:47 PM
Anyway, I just asked because here it's very typical in people from jail (not Yale) to get tattoos with sentences and stuff.. that's why I asked. I thought maybe you were in jail or your family is really humble or something..


Or getting tattoos is extremely popular and socially acceptable now, at least in the United States it is. I can't say how it is in Chile. Tattoos aren't a signifier of socioeconomic status as you imply they are.

Brighton
07-05-2013, 01:02 AM
Or getting tattoos is extremely popular and socially acceptable now, at least in the United States it is. I can't say how it is in Chile. Tattoos aren't a signifier of socioeconomic status as you imply they are.I've got one, but 1) not in the chest 2) not a sentence.. that's very trashy. But then again, I've heard people in Florida aren't exactly characterized by their class or good taste.

Camilo
07-05-2013, 06:13 AM
I've got one, but 1) not in the chest 2) not a sentence.. that's very trashy. But then again, I've heard people in Florida aren't exactly characterized by their class or good taste.

Yeah the US is very different than Chile. A sentence isn't trashy. The only trashy tattoos are those tribal tats and Asian character tats. Shit popular in the 90s.

HispaniaSagrada
07-05-2013, 06:53 AM
I find that hard to believe.The triracial Boricua's on the Anthro forums who score 15-30% nigga- amerindian try hard to convince people that they are white.

[...]

Most Puerto Ricans in the island claimed they were white on the census, 95% claimed to be white. :picard2: Puerto Rico is a triracial island.

Well then that must be a recent phenomenon or it's mostly PRs directly from/in PR. My experience tells me way different!

Tropico
07-05-2013, 03:32 PM
Well then that must be a recent phenomenon or it's mostly PRs directly from/in PR. My experience tells me way different!

It's just difficult with the US census in Puerto Rico. No category fits us correctly racially so they choose the one they are closest too which in MANY cases in PR is white. Of course PR isn't 95% White but anyone holding a US census in a Latin American country should know it will not work.

Brighton
07-06-2013, 01:36 AM
Yeah the US is very different than Chile. A sentence isn't trashy. The only trashy tattoos are those tribal tats and Asian character tats. Shit popular in the 90s.
Yeah different cultures..

If a friend of mine showed up with a sentence tattooed in the chest all my other friends would be like where have you been, jail?? but anyway..

Cheers mate

JP1981
07-07-2013, 02:22 PM
I feel I look more Canarian than mainland Spaniard and the same goes with a lot of my family members. As for the census there was no option for Puerto Rican so its basically whatever they want to claim or what they feel closer to.

Sikeliot
07-07-2013, 02:28 PM
I feel I look more Canarian than mainland Spaniard and the same goes with a lot of my family members. As for the census there was no option for Puerto Rican so its basically whatever they want to claim or what they feel closer to.

I've seen Moroccans looking Puerto Rican before. There is a Moroccan woman in my town who looks Iberian but slightly "off" (i.e. admixed) and her husband looks mixed with black, but still kind of Iberian in features.. so they could very easily pass as a Puerto Rican couple.

Tropico
07-07-2013, 03:11 PM
I think PR in general has a much closer tie to the Canary Island than to the Iberian Peninsula in general while Cuba has more Iberian roots.

Sikeliot
07-07-2013, 07:12 PM
I think PR in general has a much closer tie to the Canary Island than to the Iberian Peninsula in general while Cuba has more Iberian roots.

Yes that is true. And I think it shows in their appearance. Although would you say some Andalusian Spaniards and southern Portuguese resemble Canarians due to higher North African input?

Tropico
07-07-2013, 08:31 PM
Yes that is true. And I think it shows in their appearance. Although would you say some Andalusian Spaniards and southern Portuguese resemble Canarians due to higher North African input?

The North African of Portugal and Andalusia is GREATLY exaggerated. Simply because they have North African admixture does not mean it's heavy.
Both have shown to be very low , below 7% on average. Only on Spain and Portugals exotic types is it seen but they are a relative minority and should not be seen as Portugals or Anadulias common phenotypes.

bezant
07-26-2013, 02:22 AM
for example I think jon bernthal could pass as a white Puerto rican in my opinion


He doesn’t looks like an average white Puerto Rican.

Tropico
07-26-2013, 03:06 AM
I didnt even know he was Puerto Rican.

Philo
07-26-2013, 03:07 AM
Puerto Ricans and Iberians look-alike.

Tropico
07-26-2013, 03:09 AM
Puerto Ricans and Iberians look-alike.

SOME Puerto Ricans and Iberians look alike. Certainly not every Puerto Rican looks Iberian, obv.

WOOHP
07-26-2013, 03:10 AM
White Puerto Ricans look Spanish, they would blend in for sure.

Tropico
07-26-2013, 03:13 AM
White Puerto Ricans looks Spanish, they would blend in for sure.

Most Puerto Ricans look either Iberian, Canarian, North African or distinctly New World. The ones with the low Native or which their Native can look Pseudo MENA are the ones who can pass in Old World regions. Or the ones who look plainly Mulatto (outside of passing in Cape Verde).

Methusalem
07-26-2013, 10:32 AM
White Puerto Ricans looks Spanish, they would blend in for sure.

That's an oxymoron.

alnortedelsur
02-16-2018, 03:19 PM
The full Euro ones in Spain (if they are Spanish descent, and most white Puerto Ricans are), and the ones with some substantial non-Euro admixture look Canarian or something else.