Originally Posted by
Iltirbas
Nonsense. The Romance character of a country has nothing to do with genetics or a particular array of looks. France is as much of a Romance nation as Italy or Romania are since all those three countries have a Romance language as their mother tongue. Romance as a meta-ethnicity only works as a loose linguistic group as opposed to other Indo-European language families such as Germanic, Slavic, Baltic or Celtic, which are ethno-linguistic groups, that is to say, not only they do tell us about the linguistic affinity of the languages belonging to every aforementioned branch, but also denote shared ancestry and genetics between the native speakers of said akin languages; the latter is not the case for the Romance family.
The only people with a valid claim to be considered "genetically Romance" would be the Italians native to the region of Lazio, birthplace of the Latin language.
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