Why are Germanics (Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy, UK, France) the most rich and successful?

[Nordim]

They are called that primarily in your country because they come from Latin America where they speak Spanish and Portuguese, languages derived from Latin. Italian,French and Romanian are also Latin derived languages. In Europe at least the term Latin is used for Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Romania and not just for Latin America.

There are countries that speak French but they aren't considered "latino" here. Why is that then? French and Italians aren't considered latins and neither are they mediterraneans either. Romanians are eastern European

[Ülev]

Russia has more R1b than Poland - 144,5 millions vs 38,5 millions = 3,7 times more than Poland, so 5% in Russia gives more than 15% in Poland

http://dna-academy.ru/haplomaps/

http://генофонд.рф/?page_id=5629

in the Ural mountains region which is highly industrialized region - coincidence?


In 2006, the district provided 90% of Russian natural gas production, 68% of oil and 42% of metal products. Industrial production per capita in the district is about 2.5 times higher than the average value throughout Russia. The district provides about 42% of Russian tax incomes, mostly from industry. Its major branches are fuel mining and production (53%), metallurgy (24%) and metal processing and engineering (8.8%). The latter two are especially developed in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblast which, between them, constitute 83% of Russian metallurgy and 73% of metal processing and engineering. Whereas fuel and mineral mining has been providing a nearly constant outcome between 1990 and 2006, metal processing and engineering are declining, despite the fact that they employ up to 30% of industry workers of the district. Local ore processing plants can provide only 20% of required copper, 28% chromium, 35% iron and 17% coal, and many of these resources are nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, the average distance to import them to the Ural is 2,500 km.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Federal_District

[oszkar07]

I think the best way to determine Germanic superiority would be to focus on the most purely Germanic lands, namely those I mentioned. Dutch, Frisians, Northern Germans, and Scandinavians. Can we say that these places compare to the Hallstatt/La Tene domination, followed by Roman domination, followed by Frankish domination (with power mostly centered in the more Celtic Northeastern France/Belgium/Rhineland), and with the great powers then coalescing as Spain, France, and Britain?

Dutch economically were a powerhouse during their Golden Age, Sweden had a century long age of power, and then Prussia became the most successful and dominant of the more purely Germanic areas. Again while these all are admirable, I don't think they are number one.

A lot of english people on Gedmatch cluster closely to many of those North western european Germanic populations eg ...Southern Dutch,Norwegian, north and west German.

[Pausanias]

Marshall plan

[MinervaItalica]

Excluding parts of Switzerland, Northern Italy (which isn't a country nor Germanic) and France. Are they?

In terms of history, Latin Mediterranean Europe + Greece is way more successful.

[iranianwarrior]

It doesn't matter that in history Latin/Med Europe were more successful. The more important thing is being successful now. Those who are obsessed with success in the past will always be stuck there mentally and won't improve their present situation. Its like the Indians constantly babbling about their history.

[♥ Lily ♥]

There are countries that speak French but they aren't considered "latino" here. Why is that then? French and Italians aren't considered latins and neither are they mediterraneans either. Romanians are eastern European

I think you're confusing the terms 'latino' and Latin.

Neither 'Latino', 'Hispanic' nor 'Latin' is a race. There's no such race as 'Latino'!!

People living in South and Central American nations who incorrectly refer to themselves as 'Latino' or 'Hispanic' - could be of any race (white, black, Amerinidian, mixed, Asian, etc.)

'Latino' is simply a cultural term applied to Southern and Central American people -- although looking at the cultures of Southern and Central Americans, I just don't see similarities between them and the highly advanced and sophisticated ancient Roman Latin culture of Europe - which is authentic Latin culture, and white and European.

An Austrian neoclassical and darkwave band made the song below with authentic Latin lyrics on-screen. (Gothic artwork in the video is by the renowned Spanish Gothic illustrator Victoria Francés, and the video was made by a Spanish metal music fan.)



I think a lot of Southern Americans have completely hijacked and stolen the term 'Latino' and applied it to themselves. I don't like it when Amerindian people keep putting the false label of 'Latino' and 'Latin' on themselves, because it's a misnomer.

Look at these ignorant non-European people in the video below incorrectly calling their race as 'Latino' and 'Hispanic', when they're asked what race they are. They even have to be told that there's no such race as 'Latino' or 'Hispanic'. They're Native Americans and Amerindians who don't look like Romans, nor look like Spaniards. Both Spaniards and Romans are white people from Europe. The so-called 'Latin/Latino' culture in 'Latin America' is not even a small fraction as highly advanced as the authentic and genuine white Latin European culture of the Roman Empire.



An analogy could be drawn by looking at lots of people of many ethnicities (black, asian, etc,) who speak English and have been culturally raised in an Anglo-derived culture in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, SA, etc... but that doesn't make them all ethnically white people just because they speak English and live an Anglo cultural way of life.

You don't see black and asian people calling themselves as 'Anglo Saxons' just because they speak English. They know what race they are and they don't pretend to be something else. But Amerindians in Southern American and Central American nations don't know their own race and they pretend to be white Europeans by putting the incorrect labels of 'Latin' and 'Hispanic' on themselves whenever they're asked what race they are.

What would Amerindian people think if this was reversed and if people started to incorrectly call white people as 'Amerindian'?! They'd also think it's absurd. But yet Amerindian people call themselves something which they're not.



Latin is an extremely noble and sophisticated and very ancient European language which was spoken by the mighty Romans.

In terms of language, a third of the vocabulary in English is derived from Latin which arrived here via the Roman Empire, (and if you add in all the French-derived vocabulary within the English language which arrived here via the Norman Conquest - over 15,000 words,) you could consider two-thirds of the English language as having Latin roots and origins, despite the English language having a Germanic grammar base and structure and 1/3 Germanic vocabulary, with some Norse and Scandinavian words added-in too (about 600 words in the English vocabulary.)

Although Latin is considered as a dead language today, unfortunately, as Europeans don't communicate to each other anymore in Ancient Latin, but Latin is still used as the sophisticated language of science and medicine, etc.

Many Latin words are commonly found within legal terminology and medical terminology and also in the official long scientific names for plants, insects, wildlife, etc.

Eg;- anything ending with the suffix -itis means 'inflammation, ie; 'appendicitis,' 'meningitis,' 'bronchitis,' 'laryngitis', etc. ('Et cetera' is also Latin!) Ad nauseum.

We still keep some Ancient Greek scientific and medical words in the English vocabulary too.

Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian are all Romance languages which originated from Ancient Latin.


This video below was made by a white Mexican of Spanish descent.

[MinervaItalica]

It doesn't matter that in history Latin/Med Europe were more successful. The more important thing is being successful now. Those who are obsessed with success in the past will always be stuck there mentally and won't improve their present situation.

But they aren't that successful even nowadays. Germany today is successful in economy because is favorited and privileged inside the EU.

Its like the Indians constantly babbling about their history.

I doubt Indians love to talk about their past especially when they were ruled by Britain

[Cristiano viejo]

If you say so. I mean how can a guiri white guy like me know more about latinos like you

Latino comes from Italy, you retard.

If Iberians weren't dark in general than they wouldn't have words like guiri and rubio for very white looking people

stop inventing things, guiri just means tourist from North Europe, USA and France, and even a black can be a guiri.
We dont use the word rubio for very white, or just plain white people

French and English are Germanic, but not German. Northitalians are Germanic too. Germanic tribes after the Völkerwanderung founded those nations. Franks in France, Saxons, Angles in England and Lombards and Goths in Italy. Even the spanish elite are visigoths, the spanish king descendets from visigoths. Russia was founded by vikings(who are also germanic). Even Hitler acknowledged the germanic element in many of those nations. He considered the czar and his family as germanic. But germanic=/=german.

Not true, what a bullshit

[Rumata]

Morty sounds very Germanist for a Gypo-Serbian.

Administration, thanks for removing Fractal.