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But that begs another question. What is the genetic source of the phenotypic features (brown skin, black hair, dark eyes) associated with "Mexicans"?
And the answer, as you correctly recognized in the case of George Lopez, is their Native American genetic admixture. I'm not Mexican, because that is a nationality, and I am exclusively a U.S. citizen. I am an Indian, but we're plagued by a misleading nomenclature that associates more Indian features with being "Mexican."
And the answer, as you correctly recognized in the case of George Lopez, is their Native American genetic admixture. I'm not Mexican, because that is a nationality, and I am exclusively a U.S. citizen. I am an Indian, but we're plagued by a misleading nomenclature that associates more Indian features with being "Mexican."
That is very interesting. That is compounded by the fact that many people known as Indian (rather than Mexican or Mexican American) in the Southwest have Spanish surnames. I have a friend from Tucson, Spanish-surnamed, who says he is half Apache (father) and half Mexican (mother). I really had to think hard about why they weren't the same thing.
I also have a Puerto Rican friend (we'll call him Jose) who likes telling me who is and who is not Latino....We know this guy, from California, surname Spanish (we'll call him Mike), but my friend Jose says that Mike is not Latino because he self-identifies as Yaqui Indian. He says he's Native American.
So I asked Jose if Mike would be Latino if he were a Yaqui Indian from Mexico rather than California. He says yes, because he would be Mexican. I said, well, he'd also be Native American because he's Yaqui. And Jose responded, sure, Latinos can be Native American.
So then I asked if Mike's parents are Latino. After all, they're from Mexico. Even though they're Yaqui. Jose said they were.
A lot of people seem to think I'm French or English.
My dad's side of the family is 100% Polish, with my mom's side being about 50% German and French with a bit of English thrown in. Maybe some Irish too.
But, I probably look French because my great-grandmother came straight from there, and my mom looks exactly like she did. I look almost exactly like my mother. (Brown hair, green eyes, slightly olive skin that tans easily)
I don't think people are crazy for suggesting I'm primarily English b/c the French side of my family descends from Normandy, which was linked with England before the English Channel flooded.
I'm not sure what I look like, but I seem to blend in most places I've been to. My ancestry is Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino and Spanish on my mother's side, and Basque, Spanish (and Cuban and Puerto Rican), Taino, African, French and Norwegian on my father's side. When I was 16, my Dad's company moved us to Iran, and while sightseeing one day, I noticed that a group of Iranian 20-somethings kept looking at me and talking amongst themselves. I just smiled, looked away and forgot about it. A little while later, one of the young women tapped me on the shoulder and told me that the others had made a bet with her. She said I was American, but they had said that I was Iranian. She won the bet, and I asked her how she knew I was American, and she said she'd gone to college here in the U.S. and had had more contact with other nationalities than her friends had. I thought it was pretty funny.
I'm not sure what I look like, but I seem to blend in most places I've been to. My ancestry is Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino and Spanish on my mother's side, and Basque, Spanish (and Cuban and Puerto Rican), Taino, African, French and Norwegian on my father's side. When I was 16, my Dad's company moved us to Iran, and while sightseeing one day, I noticed that a group of Iranian 20-somethings kept looking at me and talking amongst themselves. I just smiled, looked away and forgot about it. A little while later, one of the young women tapped me on the shoulder and told me that the others had made a bet with her. She said I was American, but they had said that I was Iranian. She won the bet, and I asked her how she knew I was American, and she said she'd gone to college here in the U.S. and had had more contact with other nationalities than her friends had. I thought it was pretty funny.
Did you learn Farsi so you could talk to some of those beautiful 20somethings?
I'm 3/4 French and 1/4 Algonquin(dad is full French from Paris, and mom is half French/half Algonquin). My mom is more fair-skinned and my dad has a dark complexion(I take after my dad). Most think I'm Italian.
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