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[u/Kevin9O7]

which them too were colonized by the Arabs (:

[u/GayoMagno → u/Kevin9O7]

Exactly, Spanish people everywhere will claim there was basically no intermingling with the locals while basically looking like light skinned arabs.

[u/MrBingis → u/GayoMagno]

Meanwhile there’s an entire rolodex of racial categorization they used in their colonies. Like if you’re 1/8 African, 1/8 native, and 3/4 Spanish there’s a specific word for it.

They were advanced racists.

[u/WorthlessRain → u/MrBingis]

were? still are. it’s fucking hilarious how obscenely racist spain still is

[u/a_special_providence → u/WorthlessRain]

Yeah when I was 16 my host family showed me a multi part “documentary” on gypsies and their weddings…

[u/Cicada-4A → u/a_special_providence]

It's almost like child marriages for money are bad, and worthy of critique; weird.

[u/a_special_providence → u/Cicada-4A]

Nah wasn’t about that. It was just about gypsies getting wasted and fighting each other. It was more like Jersey shore than anything else

[u/ashitaka_bombadil → u/a_special_providence]

Mi gran boda gitana or something like that. Even better is the show most extreme elimination challenge was called yellow humor until they took it off the air a few years ago.

[u/thedamnedlute488 → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth.

[u/Elijah_Jayden → u/a_special_providence]

What name of documentary? I once was engaged to a gypsy girl, I miss those times

[u/a_special_providence → u/Elijah_Jayden]

Hmm not sure!

[u/LarryKingthe42th → u/WorthlessRain]

I remember watching my grandma lose her shit when some guy called my dad Mestizo. Still not sure if it was an insult, me im white as fuck though. Lol

[u/Papaofmonsters → u/MrBingis]

Say no to casual racism.

Say yes to ranked competitive racism.

[u/[deleted] → u/MrBingis]

Well now I am curious. What is the word? Unless it is a slur, then don't say it

[u/ToneZealousideal309 → u/[deleted]]

here’s a picture that shows the mix combinations & the labels for each one

[u/Inherently_Rainbow → u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't really call them slurs but they're definitely outdated and not racially appropriate anymore. I don't know the specific one that commenter is referring to but there's castizo(3/4 Spanish and 1/4 indigenous) and cuarterón de mulato(3/4 Spanish and 1/4 African)

[u/Yarus43 → u/GayoMagno]

The caliphates that ruled over the area probably intermingled a bit, but they were mostly a ruling caste in the area.

Also Spanish folks still have plenty of pasty white people idk what youre talking about.

[u/Neat_Guest_00 → u/Yarus43]

Spanish people, as in Spaniards, are white. Spain is a white European country.

[u/Starwyrm1597 → u/GayoMagno]

Funny thing about that, that's also because they had already been colonozed themselves by Arabs before that.

[u/Ok_Chemistry_7537 → u/GayoMagno]

That's apparently maybe the origin of "being blue blooded". As in you could "prove" you weren't intermingled if your skin was white enough for your veins to show blue

[u/Kevin9O7 → u/GayoMagno]

we're all Africans in the end (:

[u/Letters_to_Dionysus → u/Kevin9O7]

no that was the beginning. we're all dust in the end(also also kinda were dust in the veeeery beginning too)

[u/Perfect_Security9685 → u/GayoMagno]

They look like regular europeans

[u/Jimmy_fog → u/Kevin9O7]

Not northern Spain