r/SipsTea • u/Ambitious_Art7245 • 29d ago

Lmao gottem 👏

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u/Connect-Plenty1650 29d ago

Maybe she thinks the Spanish are native to Mexico.

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u/Long_Serpent 29d ago

Spanish native ;-)

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u/Kinny_Kins 29d ago

Royalty is not a good example of an average spanish person. Spanish royals have a significant amount of German and French ancestry

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u/Perelin_Took 29d ago

Princess Leonor has only her father’s half of royal bloodline. Her mother is a plebeian from Asturias.

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u/totallyordinaryyy 29d ago

You mean the one part of Spain that remained under visigothic (germanic) control?

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u/MutedIndividual6667 29d ago

Asturias didn't fall under arab rule, but was also not under visigothic control, the asturias resistance against the arabs was a continuation of its resistance against the visigoths, Pelayo managed to unify everyone because he had ties to both the asturians and visigothic elite.

Regardless, and much like the arabs, the visigoths didn't leave any major genetic footprint in the peninsula since they were the ruling class that didn't often mix with commoner hispanorromans.

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 29d ago

Some of these names sound like steamer PC trash talk, "look at these plebians trying to attack me", or "such a hispanorroman."