Does footballer Jack Grealish look more Spanish or English?

[Oliver109]

I thought it was 10% in England who had recent Irish background? France is difficult to say due to the dumbass laws. Around 12 % of the population is immigrant, in the mid 00s over 20% of kids born had a foreign grandparent, and its something like 30% with a foreign parent in metropolitan cities (as of 2010); then you have lots of long standing migration which took place over 3 generations ago. Wouldn't surprise me if over 50% of French have recent foreign ancestry, but who knows.

I judge by surname data, Facebook turns up majority English names virtually anywhere in suburban London or outside London and so does the national surname databases, i am not sure about Irish ancestry but i think the 10% figure is for those with an Irish parent.

[Vasilisk]

Mixing is more common but the groups that are mixing are almost identical genetically, culturally etc. There is a miniscule genetic difference between Cornwall vs Orkney on the other side of Britain; where as individual Italian, Greek regions have huge genetic differences to the point in which they could be separate ethnicities.

You have a point but you can't expect for example a pontic Greek and a Cypriot Greek to be identical to me a mainland Greek. These differences between the Hellenic groups have been there for thousands of year.

[Ayetooey]

You have a point but you can't expect for example a pontic Greek and a Cypriot Greek to be identical to me a mainland Greek. These differences between the Hellenic groups have been there for thousands of year.

Among Greek Greeks the distances can be pretty big also; on k13 for example Cornish/Orkney have a distance of 2.8, Peloponnesians and say Cretans have a distance of 11. Not questioning the identity of any ethnicities here ofc, but just putting into perspective that the "mixing" between English and other British isle groups is very minor. People here mixed with non B/I ethnicities are more uncommon outside of a few major city centers.

[Vasilisk]

Among Greek Greeks the distances can be pretty big also; on k13 for example Cornish/Orkney have a distance of 2.8, Peloponnesians and say Cretans have a distance of 11. Not questioning the identity of any ethnicities here ofc, but just putting into perspective that the "mixing" between English and other British isle groups is very minor. People here mixed with non B/I ethnicities are more uncommon outside of a few major city centers.

Yes but we both know that northern Europeans are really close from one to another.For example a ducth can get British populations if i am not mistaken in a distance of about 5 (correct me if I'm wrong) all this is of course not direct recent ancestry but close genetic similarity shared since the Bronze age

[Ruggery]

Ben White probably yes. Pickford may have some Irish too though there has always been a Catholic minority in Eng.

Are British Catholics of Irish descent or is there a minority of English Catholics like Tolkien?

[Ruggery]

Steve Jones looks stereotypically "dark Welsh" to me also.

Tom Jones?

[Tooting Carmen]

Tom Jones?

Real name Thomas Woodward and he has a lot of English ancestry. Furthermore, his 'exoticness' is often exaggerated as he has really aged badly. Some younger photos of him:

[Tooting Carmen]

Anyway, in answer to the OP's question, he looks more English - his colouring is far from unusual for England (England isn't Denmark ffs), and his facial expression certainly is quite English.

[Oliver109]

Anyway, in answer to the OP's question, he looks more English - his colouring is far from unusual for England (England isn't Denmark ffs), and his facial expression certainly is quite English.

Thanks, i would argue that that Scottish player Billy Gilmour looks more Spanish, he lacks any facial robustness that Grealish has always had and so i think he totally passes in Spain.

[Narrator]

Looks pure English to me as a brit. Personally I don't see any spanish in him at all.