Portuguese Phenotype

[Gaijin]

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[Slycooper]

Had an argument with people I know. They said your Portuguese if your just born in Portugal which I disagreed. Got pretty heated lol.

[Sikeliot]

Most Portuguese are Atlantid or Atlanto-Med and look Western Euro. Berid elements are also common, and are what distinguishes them, occasionally, from other Western Europeans.

[HispaniaSagrada]

dgd

[Anthropologique]

I hope you told them that the law in Portugal is jus sanguinis and not jus soli like in the USA/Canada and that there is a difference between being Portuguese and being a Portuguese citizen. If they don't know what it means you can tell them to look it up. People in north America think that the laws in other places are the same as where they live. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, most of the world goes by jus sanguinis.

Yeah, like the Cape Verdeans in the U.S. who try to pass themselves off as native Portuguese. LMFAO!!

[Sikeliot]

Yeah, like the Cape Verdeans in the U.S. who try to pass themselves off as native Portuguese. LMFAO!!

Well what I have found out is that a lot of Portuguese Americans have some Cape Verdean ancestry and then the rest is Portuguese, but they just identify as Portuguese. As such, many of them will be dark and even often Puerto Rican or "Hispanic" looking and so people then associate that look with Portugal.

[Gaijin]

Most Portuguese are Atlantid or Atlanto-Med and look Western Euro. Berid elements are also common, and are what distinguishes them, occasionally, from other Western Europeans.

There is no such thing as Berids, in Portugal.

The Portuguese are neither different from their fellow Iberian brothers, the Spanish.
Both look alike, since both suffered the same invasions of people, and expulsions, in an historical parallel.

Berids are characterized for their Brachycephalic skulls.
The Brachycephalic Index in Portugal, only accounts for 5% of the population, and those same 5% are of Cro-Magnon extraction, as the Portuguese Anthropologist António A. Mendes Correia stated in his book, "Raizes de Portugal".

Further, the Portuguese Professor Eusébio Tamagnini noted that, the Cephalic index of the Portuguese population is defined as Dolicho-Mesocephalic, after making an observation in 11.658 adults.

Below is the Cephalic Index for Portuguese Males and Females, by Dr. Luís de Pina in Centro de Estudos Demográficos do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (1931):


Below is the the Cephalic Index for the overall population, by Prof. Eusébio Tamagnini in "A proposito do indice cefálico dos Portugueses" (1954):


Below is a piece of cartography, locating Berids in Europe.

I don't know who is the author of this map, but if it serves it right. There are no Berids in Portugal. Let alone 'common' as you claim it. There are more Berids in France, than there is in Portugal.

[Atlantic Islander]

Well what I have found out is that a lot of Portuguese Americans have some Cape Verdean ancestry and then the rest is Portuguese, but they just identify as Portuguese. As such, many of them will be dark and even often Puerto Rican or "Hispanic" looking and so people then associate that look with Portugal.

In certain parts of the East coast maybe.

If you look through this thread, I only see a handful of people that probably are part Cape Verdean or Angolan, etc.

[Sikeliot]

In certain parts of the East coast maybe.

It's true in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where Portuguese Americans are notoriously darker than anywhere else. I even have Cape Verdean ancestry but my relatives, for the most part, look regular Portuguese on that side.

[Atlantic Islander]

It's true in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where Portuguese Americans are notoriously darker than anywhere else. I even have Cape Verdean ancestry but my relatives, for the most part, look regular Portuguese on that side.

I doubt the Azoreans there are darker than average.

There are only 95,003 Cape Verdean Americans, they must all be concentrated right there.

Edit: Yep

Massachusetts 52,753 (0.7%)
Rhode Island 17,685 (1.5%)
Connecticut 4,270 (0.1%)
Florida 3,554 (0.1%)