Andalusians

**Gallop** · 05-06-2021, 01:43 PM

Son temas muy aislados y prefabricados habitualmente por personajes adinerados y fantasiosos, como andaluz cien por cien nunca en nuestra crianza se produce algo así sobre determinado momento histórico, las cuatro piedras que quedan en pie. El caso de Blas Infante es un caso personal el cual no trasciende a la vida cotidiana y tradicional de las gentes reales, todo muy artificioso y prefabricado partiendo del intelecto no de la práctica, ni siquiera de la memoria ya que la única memoria tiene nombre y no es otro que el de La Reconquista.

**andrzej** · 05-06-2021, 10:35 PM

A couple years ago me and my friend were travelling through France and Spain and we travelled through little towns along the coast from Catalonia until we arrived in Andalusia and visited small towns around the region, since then I've been going constantly as I met my girlfriend in Ubeda. I'm not going to lie before that I had a very ignorant perception of Andalusia in general. I feel it's one of the most misrepresented areas in Europe, people make it out as if it were some heavily Berber admixed enclave, when Andalusians, in my opinion, are very western European looking people. Their swarthiness particularly on this forum, but even among many Spaniards outside of the region is heavily exaggerated. The majority of Andalusians have pale white skin like other continental Europeans with darker hair and eyes, but of course due to how hot in most of the region people tend to be tanned for a good part of the year, which might add to the perception and of course the history of Moorish propaganda against the region (and Spain in general). However, the region also has a lot of people with light hair and eyes, maybe more than most people would assume. It is far from being the darkest region of Europe, which is another thing I see people claiming. Also, unlike France in many rural parts of Andalusia you could drive for hours without seeing non-white people. North Africans, including lighter Berbers tend to stick out especially in groups, there is a very slight overlap but it's usually with the lightest Berbers having a certain look you find more in Andalusia, but that's about it. Occasionally some exotic looking Andalusians can possess looks you see more frequently with Berbers, but I mean you can also find those looks in southern France. So I think physical admixture from any of the Moorish invasions is rare, which makes sense, considering through most of history the Moors were predominately native Europeans who converted to Islam rather than actual North Africans or Arabs, and the initial waves of the latter never made up a significant population. If anything any overlap is probably more prehistoric than from the Moorish era. I'm just stating this because I've noticed there's a lot of trolling of Spaniards and particularly Andalusians and as a foreigner who has actually traveled through most of Spain, I feel I have some form of experience but also impartiality.

Anyways, here are some people from the province of Jaen:

**Gallop** · 05-07-2021, 11:21 AM

A Sevillian, the only winner of the Kemper scholarship to study in the United States

Her name is María Duro Sánchez-Cid, she is 16 years old and she is the only Spaniard who has won the Kemper scholarship to study for a year at one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the United States. The young girl from Seville, who studies at Albaydar School, has been selected for this scholarship valued at 70,000 dollars and which involves studying for the next academic year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

The daughter of an industrial engineer and an architect who works as a housewife, she is the first of five siblings.

https://sevilla.abc.es/sevilla/sevi-...1_noticia.html