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To: cll

Amen...God knows how many Castillian, etc friends I made in Colegio de Mayaguez, and they were all “blanquitos”


65 posted on 05/21/2014 1:34:49 PM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968

And to confuse the issue further, many if not most families from southern Spain, and most if not all of those who migrated to the Americas, are recently found to be actually Sephardic Jews in origin!

There’s a wave now in Puerto Rico of people reconnecting with their Jewish roots. I found that my four last names (one Andalusian, one Basque, and two Galician), are all actually Sephardic Jew surnames.

Check out Sephardim.com


67 posted on 05/21/2014 1:40:45 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: JRios1968; cll

Most of my ancestors were Basques from the Pyrenees-Basque surnames are common in the SW TExas ranch country where I’m from-Basques were keepers of sheep, goats, etc and the country in the SW is good for that-part of my family still does it. Lighter skin and eyes, red and dark blonde hair are not uncommon, either.


69 posted on 05/21/2014 2:24:47 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: JRios1968; cll
Actually, most of the people that I see in PR do not look Andalusian. The kinky hair, dark skin, music, and many socialcultural mores are from subsaharan Africa. Genetic testing doesn't lie either. ;)

Puerto Ricans = mulattoes (really quadroons) who think they are white until they come to the mainland.

Dominicans = blacks who claim to be mulattoes until they move to the US or PR. ;)

82 posted on 05/22/2014 8:38:31 AM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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