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Around a week ago, I made a montage video on YouTube educating ignorant people that Mexican is not a race, I combined many videos into one, check it out.
These are Mexican Criollos (who are genetically 80% or more Spanish), but of 100% colonial Origins, with no recent immigrant ancestry from Spain, the vast majority of Criollos in Mexico fall under this category, they are mostly found in Northern Mexico, the state of Jalisco, & Mexico City, but...
Italian Libyans (Italian: Italo-libici) are Libyan-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Libya during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Libya. Most of the Italians moved to Libya during the Italian colonial...
The Pled-Noirs were those of French & other European descent (including many European Jews) who were born in Algeria during the French colonial period, in 1959, they made around 13% of the population in Algeria, the vast majority of them left during or after Independence, especially due to the...
Mainly descendants of British colonists who settled in Kenya in the 19th & 20th centuries, a good chunk of Whites left Kenya after Independence, today they make around 0.1% of the Kenyan population, mostly concentrated in Nairobi, Rift Valley Province, & Coast Province.
The Philippines was a Spanish colony for around 400 years, many Spaniards settled in the Philippines, but not as much as Latin America, after Spain ceded the Philippines, some Spanish Filipinos chose to return to Spain, while many remained there, many of the Spanish settlers in the Philippines...
I'm posting famous examples of those who are half Mexican (whether it's Mestizo, Castizo, or Criollo), of 100% Colonial roots & half Peninsular Spanish (100% directly from Spain).
The Non-Mexican side is 100% recent immigrant ancestry from Spain, colonial Criollos (even if they are fully...
My paternal grandfather & his brothers:
My great-grandparents (1st photo is my maternal grandmother's father & other 2 photos are my paternal grandfather's parents):
My father's cousins:
My great-great grandparents & my great-great-great grandmother (my paternal grandfathers grandparents &...
Looks like Biden is running for a 2nd term in the White House.
Despite being a Republican, I voted for biden in 2020, & he's the 1st president I ever voted for, I voted for him to get rid of Trump, however the Biden/Harris administration has really disappointed me, everything is going up (gas...
So I never been to Lithuania, & I don't have any Lithuanian blood in me, I know a few Lithuanian-Americans from church, I'm friends with a lady who is half Lithuanian & half English-American, she runs a college club for Catholic students, she's really nice & has a very positive personality, I...
Los Altos de Jalisco, or the Jaliscan Highlands, is a geographic & cultural region in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Jalisco, famed as a bastion of Mexican culture, cradling traditions from Tequila production to Charrería equestrianism. Los Altos are part of the greater Bajío (The...
I been watching walking tour videos on some areas in Southern Europe, & here's what I concluded.
Iberians (Spaniards from Andalusia, Barcelona, & Madrid, as well as Portuguese from Porto, Algrave, Lisbon, & the Azores) tend to be of lighter complexion than some Southeastern European groups like...