Who, all things considered, should be considered the closest foreign "kin" of southern Italians?

[Sikeliot]

When considering EVERYTHING -- culture, phenotype, genotype, and history -- should be considered southern Italians' closest kin? I narrowed it down to five choices.

Western Jews
Iberians
Mainland Greeks
Aegean islanders and Cretans
Christian Levantines

[JMack]

Other Italians.

Curiously you didn't included that option.

Ashkenazis as an option is also a good joke.

[Sikeliot]

Other Italians.

Curiously you didn't included that option.

You clearly missed the word "foreign."

[JMack]

You clearly missed the word "foreign."

Ok.

My answer is this one:

''Culture, phenotype, genotype, and history''

Greeks (all of them)
Iberians
Christian Levantines
Jews (all of them)

[Sikeliot]

Ok.

My answer is this one:

''Culture, phenotype, genotype, and history''

Greeks (all of them)
Iberians
Christian Levantines
Jews (all of them)

You put them in the order that you think?

Grouping all of the Greeks together makes no sense because of the "genetic" part of it, where there is no one in southern Italy comparable to Epirotes or Thessalians.

[Longobarda]

Other Italians.

Curiously you didn't included that option.

Ashkenazis as an option is also a good joke.

He did not include "other italians" because we are not similar. Which resemblance do you see between a "typical" sicilian or neapolitan and a venetan or a piamontese? NONE

[EuroProgressive]

Ashkenazi Jews.
Mainland Greeks as in Peloponnese Greeks are a close match too.
Cretins share close genetic proximity to Sicilians.
Sephardi Jews are really shifted closer to Greek Cypriots and only have minor overlap with Sicilians.

LOL some troll named "Longobarda" gave me a thumbs-down.
I'm assuming he/she is an Italian fascist that is in denial about the close genetic ties between Ashkenazi Jews/Sicilians and some Southern Italians?
Too lazy to check his/her profile, so I will just block the troll.

[Sikeliot]

Ashkenazi Jews.
Mainland Greeks as in Peloponnese Greeks are a close match too.
Cretins share close genetic proximity to Sicilians.
Sephardi Jews are really shifted closer to Greek Cypriots and only have minor overlap with Sicilians.

Vote something?

[MinervaItalica]

Other Southern Europeans.

[JMack]

You put them in the order that you think?

Grouping all of the Greeks together makes no sense because of the "genetic" part of it, where there is no one in southern Italy comparable to Epirotes or Thessalians.

Yes, they are in order.

Culturally and historically is nonsense separate the Greek Islands from the rest of Greece that's the reason I didn't voted. There's no single reasonable choice.