Are Hispanics Gonna Keep Acting Like They Aren't of Arabic Origin?
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Wait what
I can understand more Italian words than Arabic words. But anyway you saying that South America and half of North America was being ruled by Arabians
no...im saying the country that colonized modern day spanish speaking countries was under Muslim rule
It goes by region too,
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So if this is all true, we can trace our origins back to Africa
I keep saying Mexicans and blacks are one n the same
I keep saying Mexicans and blacks are one n the same
Mr.Big Meat McGee
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No. Just cause Moors / North Africans ruled Spain and some parts of Europe for 500 years doesn't make them Arab. Spaniards do have some Arab blood and influence in their culture tho.
LuckyLibra619
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There def is some Arabic influence on Spanish. I might be wrong but I believe the word "Alfombra" (Carpet in Spanish) is either an Arabic word or a variation of it. There's quite a few words in Spanish that have Arabic origins.
Hispanics are mixed for the most part. Most Hispanics have some degree of European/Native American/African DNA, usually depends on the region you're looking at.
Hispanics are mixed for the most part. Most Hispanics have some degree of European/Native American/African DNA, usually depends on the region you're looking at.
Turks never ruled Spain are you delusional? It was Arabs who ruled it and that's why they have Arabic influence. Turks speak Turkish.
ShenJingPoQi
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Just look at the Spanish national soccer team. Their phenotype basically the same as North Africans.
Most def a lotta people from spain look arabic...
There were also huge migrations from countries in the middle east and turkey into the caribean 100 years ago
I think the US has to rethink their use of hispanic... because even tho they speak the same language or come from south of border they are very different from one another...
A lot of these latinos white as fukk blonde hair blue eyes and all, there are also a lotta black ones from dr venezuela and cuba who be on that
And the natives lookn ones who 5'2 and look half asian
There are also the long nose ones hairy as fukk and darl skin who look arabic
There were also huge migrations from countries in the middle east and turkey into the caribean 100 years ago
I think the US has to rethink their use of hispanic... because even tho they speak the same language or come from south of border they are very different from one another...
A lot of these latinos white as fukk blonde hair blue eyes and all, there are also a lotta black ones from dr venezuela and cuba who be on that
And the natives lookn ones who 5'2 and look half asian
There are also the long nose ones hairy as fukk and darl skin who look arabic
mbewane
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The term "hispanic" never really was clear to me. Is a Black Cuban "Hispanic", since he's from Cuba and speaks Spanish? Or is he not because he's Black? Is a native south american "Hispanic" if he speaks spanish, even though he has no link with the conquistadores?
Anyways in Spain the arabic influence is indeed quite obvious, especially in Andalucia. It's not something they try to "hide" either, at least not to my knowledge. And later on you had Spanish rule over parts of Morocco I think, plus the fact that both countries are separated by like 10 kms of water only.
But there's a difference between Arabic influence on the Spanish language (which is quite obvious), and "genetical" influence or whatever; which is what the Coli obsesses about. Not all of nowadays Spain was under Arab rule, there's no reason to believe that every single conquistador had Arab blood. Actually quite the contrary since the Reconquista led to mass killings and exodus, wouldn't be surprised if lots of "mixed" people fled Spain, just like the Jews did. And the Conquistadores were not all from Spain (we all know Columbus was from nowadays north Italy).
And obviously when in Spain you will see what you call "Arabic" looking people...that's really Mediterannean looking people. That ocean has seen people going from one part to the other for thousands of years, it's no surprise they look similar.
Something totally different though is the Lebanese and other Middle-Easterners who emigrated to SA later on. But that has nothing to do with the whole Spaniard thing.
Anyways in Spain the arabic influence is indeed quite obvious, especially in Andalucia. It's not something they try to "hide" either, at least not to my knowledge. And later on you had Spanish rule over parts of Morocco I think, plus the fact that both countries are separated by like 10 kms of water only.
But there's a difference between Arabic influence on the Spanish language (which is quite obvious), and "genetical" influence or whatever; which is what the Coli obsesses about. Not all of nowadays Spain was under Arab rule, there's no reason to believe that every single conquistador had Arab blood. Actually quite the contrary since the Reconquista led to mass killings and exodus, wouldn't be surprised if lots of "mixed" people fled Spain, just like the Jews did. And the Conquistadores were not all from Spain (we all know Columbus was from nowadays north Italy).
And obviously when in Spain you will see what you call "Arabic" looking people...that's really Mediterannean looking people. That ocean has seen people going from one part to the other for thousands of years, it's no surprise they look similar.
Something totally different though is the Lebanese and other Middle-Easterners who emigrated to SA later on. But that has nothing to do with the whole Spaniard thing.
NoChillJones
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....nikkas think too damn much....
Trajan
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The fukk do Salvadoreans know about Arabs
Lmaoooo at them nikkas playing along
Spanish did borrow vocab from Arabic but I wouldn't say they have an Arabic heritage. And certainly not central Americans who are crazy admixed and whose ancestors could've come from anywhere and not just the Muslim parts of Spain.
Stop it beloved.
mbewane
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They could've found better examples prob, because most words are the same/very similar in french too (except oil and scorpion) despite France never having been ruled by Moors/Arabs. Even back in CAR we said "sikir" for sugar.
I do remember one spanish dude who had never learned arabic that went to Palestine and understodd tons of words. Words that were not similar in other romance languages (French or Italian for example), so that influenc was more particular to Spanish. I always say that's why Spanish is harder for a french-speaker like myself to learn than Italian for example, because of the Arabic it contains.
But one has to remember that the Arabic world in the olden days was what Europe became later : the center for culture, arts, innovation, science, etc...so the influence it had (including linguisticaly) was huge.