We ,Spaniards, are Europeans,and we were European even under the muslim rule of the Iberian peninsula, but I consider Geogia and Georgians very close to Europe and Europeans.
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We ,Spaniards, are Europeans,and we were European even under the muslim rule of the Iberian peninsula, but I consider Geogia and Georgians very close to Europe and Europeans.
Spaniards.
There are lots of Basque citizens who have Spanish and Galician surnames like Rodriguez, Hernandez, Pereira, Saavedra, etc. and this can be found in athletes, celebrities, and politicians born in the Basque Country. Keep in mind that the Basque Country was the most industrialized Spanish region for a really long time, even more than Catalonia, so it was bound to attract immigrants from other parts of Spain. Many Basques left for the New World in the 19th and 20th centuries, and non-Basque migrants took their places. Under Franco's dictatorship non-Basques were encouraged to immigrate to the Basque Country, while native Basques were not allowed to speak their own language or practice their own traditions. By the time Spain transitioned to democracy in the 80s, around 20% of the total population of the Basque Country and Navarre was fully Basque, with other 80% either being partially Basque or not Basque at all.
If your parents are genuine Basques with no recent non-Basque ancestry, then it's safe to say that you have minimal Moorish admixture. So you're all good bro :thumb001:
Because they are not enough "pure basques", same as Catalonians, we are all mixed.
Nationalists/independentist they would never get so much support if they only accepted as Basques or Catalonian those who have 8 Basque or Catalan great-grandparents.
In reality, the entire nationalist phenomenon of the independence regions of Spain is a question more social and economic than genetic or racial issue.
You cannot differentiate, except in very extreme cases by appearance, a Catalan, an Extremadura, a Basque, a Galician or an Andalusian.
One of the great references of "democratic" Basque nationalism, Xabier Arzallus said: "I prefer a very black person who speaks Basque, than a very Basque Basque who does not"
(Yo prefiero a un negro, negro, que hable euskera que a un blanco que lo ignore )
The only ones that in a group could have more differences, would be the Canaries that have a lot of native base, and I don't know if nowadays, not even half of the Canaries can not differ so much from the peninsular ones.
The Basques also used Castilian patronyms such as López, or Ruiz. In fact there are Castilian patronyms that were created in Basque areas, such as Martínez or Ibáñez. And in the Iberian Peninsula, there are several times more people outside the Basque country and Navarre with Basque surnames than in those two regions. You confuse Basque surnames with surnames "in Basque". Not to mention the Alava and Navarrese compound surnames, with Castilian patronymic.
I don't blame you for not knowing all these things, after all, here they have been making any difference for 45 years enormous and minimizing or hiding all the similarities.
What is really special about the Basques is the Basque language. And although there has been an attempt to unify dispersed things such as Basque culture, the reality is that most of what is considered culturally Basque today was not even remotely common to all Basque areas.
The Basque language is the authentic treasure, and using it as a political weapon is what will make it lose.