What the hell are YOU? Really???

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I have family & friends who have always been Puerto Rican (on both sides), consider themselves traditional Puerto Ricans like any other, Grandparents are the same, BUT, they have ITALIAN last names!
Some of the Italian last names my cousins or friends have:
Tomassini
Donato
Taralli
Di Santo

So somewhere along the line, some ancestor must have mixed with an Italian.

I for one, as many on here, consider myself 'Puerto Rican'. (although 2 of my Grandparents DID come from Spain directly, as children, to Puerto Rico).
Many of all the Latin/Hispanic races have similarities, & share a few mixes.
Being Puerto Rican alone (along with Cuban) is a mix of 3 races:

#1 Native Indian - (natives of the land, hence our cinnamon or 'Latin Tan' skin color, sharp features).

#2 Spanish/Spaniard (from Spain, Europe) - (took over alot of the land, hence our Euro-Caucasian features & colors, some Pirates of other Euro countries came as well).

#3 African (the slaves brought in by the Spaniards, hence the dark skin tones & African features).

Therefore, some look white, black, or mixed. Like Gloria Estefan is light toned, so she has more of the Euro/Spaniard, & Celia Cruz looks Black, yet both are Cuban.

Now the tricky part about the EURO mix, is that yeah many look Caucasian, but many DON'T. There are many Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, etc, that naurally have dark tones & features. Many look Arabian, Egyptian, Eastern Indian or Persian. WHY? Because some of the first original settlers in Europe ARE from those countries. The 'Ancient' Lands.

Some of the first people to migrate & settle in Spain, Italy, Potrtugual, & Greece, were Egyptian, Arabian/Israeli, & Moroccan. That's why many people who have NOTHING to do with the western Native American Indians or Island/Carribean Native Indians STILL carry similar colors & looks. Many Italians from Sicily seem to carry these traits.

I myself have been mistaken for Italian, Mexican, Arabian/Pakistan, Persian, Brazilian, & even Asian mixed. & the same goes for my friends of those races. We get mistaken alot. I have the "Latin Tan" skin tone, dark straight thick hair (almost black), & sharp Indian features. Especially the nose, lol.
Now do my Indian features come more from My Puerto Rican Natives? My Euro-Arabian ancestors? Or Both?? Kinda hard to tell.

If I, and some of my family members, as well as some of my Italian & Jewish friends get tegother, they be thinking we family. We really DO look related.
If we dressed in a Turbin they would right away think we are from Iraq or terrorists. If some of my mother or aunts put a red dot on their forehead, they can easily pass as Eastern Indian or Gypsies. Some of my moms friends are Lebanese, & when I was younger, they thought my mother, my siblings, & my aunts were Lebanese too. lol.

But no, most of us just consider ourselves jus' Puerto Rican. (or NuYorican).🙂

Or just Italian, or Greek, etc. But many fail to know how much culture & history actually goes into our backgrounds, you sometimes can't help but wonder, ...now where the hell do I REALLY come from??? - lol.
Cuz as much as we MAY NOT want to admit it, We are NOT just ONE race. We consider ourselves just one race in todays world.

So what the hell are YOU??? ...REALLY???
 
Funny thing also,

is that alot of the Latin & Southern European - Mediterranean countries still hold ancient traits, like our MUSIC. Many of the traditional folk music is with small guitars, or other string instruments,
hand-clapping clickety-clacky instruments, along with chanting, and special dances.
Which originates from Egypt & the Arabian "belly dancing" countries.
The similarities & ancient fusion can still be heard in traditional music from Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. Spanish music from Spain for example with the guitars, & the Gypsy King/Azucar Moreno-chants & the girls with the "Castinettes", is definately a tradition influenced & fused with Arabic traditions.

I once had a History teacher, a white American Republican as Patriotic as you can ever be, who once told me: "Anyone who with white skin or any other race other than Native American Indian, who says they are a 'real' American, is unknowingly lying through his teeth. Technically, if you are anything other than Native American Indian, you are then from somewhere else. If you are 'white', you may be Irish, Polish, English, German, etc. Do your homework."
 
I come from a family of mutts LOL!!

My great-grandmother is Puerto Rican/Haitian and my great-grandfather was Puerto Rican/Cuban. She was dark skinned and he was light skinned and they had 3 daughters and 4 sons....but the women came out light and the men came out dark. One daughter married an Ecudorian and had 3 daughters...all of them darker than the parents. Another daughter married a man who was an Irish/Cherokee/Cuban mix and had two sons and again they came out darker than the parents. My father is Puerto Rican/Italian. I consider myself to be Puerto Rican because that's how I was raised, however my last name(Ojeda)is of Spanish origin. The first Ojeda that I know of sailed with Columbus.
 
I always say that I'm 100% Italian, but I don't know if there are any other nationalities floating through my family history.

I know that all four grandparents, and my great grandparents were all Italian.
 
LOL!
True, Brklyn. Just about all of our Latin/Spanish last names derive from Spain/Europe.

Chuck, u are our "Italian Stallion" after all, lol.
But i'm sure tracing back to some ancient ancestry, you as an Italian alone, have some type of Arabic or other Mediterranean race in your background.

Another funny thing, is that some ancient Arabic & Egyptian words are almost the same as in Latin. (when I say Latin as the Language, i'm refferring to the 4 "Romance Languages": Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, & French).
 
well me im puerto rican born in puerto rico ...................
 
Carlito: ...."I'll see YOU after the FUNCTION!!! ...Hola Senorita cosa!" - LOL!

djlos05, yeah, you're Puerto Rican, born in P.R., .....but which background do you resemble the most? 'Indio', 'blanco Espanol', o' trigueno/moreno?
 
Well both of my parents were born in Puerto Rico...on my mother's side...my grandfather look Filipino (his mother was Taina Indian, I don't know what his father was), my grandmother had a very fair complexion with green eyes and that was because my great-great grandmother was from Corsica...my grandmother's mother was Taina Indian...on my father's side I really don't know what they are...I believe that his mother's family came from Spain and I believe my father's father did as well since the last name Burgos is a province in Spain but they also have some african roots up in there as well as Taino...

I myself look like a Puerto Rican - mixed of different cultures, the olive skin, not too dark, not too light, the dark hair- curly at that representative of my african roots, the dark eyes...
 
im this 'blanco Espanol', pure puerto rican from best place in the worldddddddd.......................puerto ricooooooooooooo
 
Hmmmm...where do I begin? Well I'm mostly Irish (2 grandparents and 3 great grandparents were from Ireland) and then the mix starts. I'm Polish (my mom's mom was straight off the boat from Poland) Swedish (my dad's mom was born in Sweden, but came to the US very young, so her parents are from Sweden) and my dad's dad, his parents were one from Ireland and one from Scotland.

When people meet me, they think I'm Spanish, even though I'm like Casper. LOL And also my best friend is Colombian, yet people sometimes think she's white, and also we've been told numerous times by people on this site, and people in general that we look like sisters.
 
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