I think the french are more pasty? Any child of a frenchman had lots of rights. That’s how Haiti got to rebel, no?
Comment on Native Americans?
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lots. The Spanish were pretty pasty compared to most Latin Americans. Where do you think that came from?
obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 2 days ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Some Spanish were French-pasty; others were Berber-brown. This is because there were lots of waves of people from Europe and North Africa and the Middle East who settled in Spain.
But the Spanish were also known for being pretty rapacious in the New World; this would mostly have resulted in Spanish blood in people who were indigenous by heritage, but I’m sure over time some of those “Spanish-looking” indigenes would have passed themselves off as Spanish for a better station in life, rejecting their heritage in the process. The Spanish didn’t do the whole “reservation” thing after all, they just moved in and set up camp where they wanted and mixed with the locals — kind of like the French in Canada.