I think she meant to say that Spanish people, like italians, portuguese and french are considered latins, and in the US white usually means anglo saxon, east european or nordic.
European would be any part of Europe, Anglo Saxons, Nordic are Northern Europeans, Eastern Europeans would be Slavs, Russians, etc. Spain is on the West coast of Europe, and British islands are North West of Spain.
@@pawelkrowalski3730 french are latin If you don't know latin means someone that speak a romance language. If you don't know what romance language is, they came from Latin. Latius was a region in Italy and latin was the language from that area. French people are also from Roman roots. If you don't know what latin culture means, you don't have to talk here. Latin Americans are called latins because of latin europeans! The real latins are europeans. Most french people have Brown hair/eyes like others latin europeans. Please, go study more! From a latin American and european person
however so is Italy, yet they are significantly non european, rather a lot of arab, west asian and other similar ancestry. But yes for Iberia, they are mostly european
@@JM-vr6ii yeah, most of us are black actually Now in all seriousness, are you kidding me? Not being caucasian doesn't mean not being white, and most of us here are white
no one who is actually Spanish (you know , the ones born in Spain ) says they are not white. it's usually the ones who are from South America that call themselves Spanish.
The race "Spanish" and "Latin" is a creation of americans. People from Latin America have a complex ethnicity but they never say they are "latin" or "spanish" outside USA. Im Brasilian and if u ask someone on the streets about theirs races they would probably say they are white or black or mixed-race or asian, but never "latin".
She asked if Spain counts because the interviewer said to her that she was whiter than "x" person. Well, if you know about the "Geography" of phenotypes, there are a lot of light dark skin (non white) Spaniards.
Lol. No there aren't. All of Europe is white. Spain is white. Having a tan doesn't make you not white. White = European, European = white. Americans really struggle with this stuff. Europe has been spectacularly homogeneous throughout its history. Spain is hot. White people tan.@@godelneumann3932
How the hell was she expecting "mostly native American" when she already knew her mom is white? She wouldn't be "mostly native American" even if her Mexican dad was 100% indigenous. If she had any sort of knowledge she would realize her Mexican dad is mestizo, which is a mix of European(Spanish) and indigenous peoples. But then again she didn't even know Spain is in Europe. She's lucky they only revealed her ancestry results and not IQ.
@It's Okay What nonsense. You know half of present day contiguous US was once a Spanish colony? White just means a person of European descent and Christian background. Skin color doesn't make much difference. So yes, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese French all are whites.
You are correct! It’s a shame that most Mexicans don’t know this! Especially in 2021. And it’s not all on jessica ... george Lopez didn’t know enough to correct her. 99.99% of mexicans think Mexican is a race. They also think you are less Mexican or white washed if you don’t speak Spanish. Heres some math :Spain is in Europe = Europeans are white= so Mexicans are white washed too and speak a white language lol oh the ignorance my ppl please stop getting defensive an look at the signs right in front of you . Your flag has a native America legend on it (eagle w/snake in mouth) , you literally have pyramids, you country is named after ONE tribe indigenous to Mexico and you speak a white language! Us natives in US don’t have none of that yet we still know our languages and know our culture and still fight US wars and are great full to be Americans! Two can racist at the same time !
Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. Not hard to believe that a dark akinned Mexican like her father turned out to be Native
She’s grown up and been treated like and raised as a Mexican American. She was raised in a very traditional Catholic Latin American family. So I think to find out your DNA is mostly European and not indigenous would be confusing. She may not have a great understanding of Mexican people as their DNA (unless they’re purely indigenous) is from Spain and mixed with indigenous. But even those people can be very dark skinned, like her father in the crowd. You never would think white when looking at him, and we white people definitely never saw Jessica Alba as a white girl either
@@lillitudesaulniers9275when you say we white people you can’t speak for all of us because I definitely thought she was white. But I’m guessing you’re American because it’s all mixed when it comes to race there. And yes dark skin can be found in Europe in some places e.g Spain like you said and even England/wales.
It's actually NOT. Iberian pensuila is something totally different. Iberian pensuila includes Spain. So Spanish people area totally different people group. Well technically since it is placed IN Europe the ethnic group is completely different.
2000un2000 Never use absolutes. If we don’t count Moorish, Moroccan or obviously mixed Spanish ppl then they aren’t. So most Spaniards are Caucasian white & European, but there is a small faction that aren’t due to admixtures.
@@realjohnlove That Berber mixture that you are talking about is extremely small and confined to the south. Just like Germanic influence from the Visigoths and is confined to the north. If you don't know crap about the subject, don't go around making dumb assumptions.
@@christopher1474 oh please. Don’t even play that. We take so much shit.. if you replaced European (Caucasian) with any other race and said some stereotypical thing like that. There would be so much rage.. it’d be talked about in the news 🙄
The word "Alba" means white in Latin :) "Alb" is a common prefix for names/words meaning white throughout the European cultures, hence we get Albany, Alabaster, Albus (think Dumbledore), Albania, Albion, Albino. Of course her first name is a feminin form of the Hebrew Jessie :)
@@RonsquaremyAlba comes from latín "albus" White, But means sunrise in spanish, But It's not conmon Here in Spain surnames about this kind of phenomenons, I'ts a toponímic surname( because of the land, village, town..) there's Alba in Teruel, Alba de Tormes in salamanca and many others. Alba also It's used as a femenine First name.
I remember when I was in High-school (When Jersey Shore was at peak popularity) and getting in an argument this Mexican girl because I said Italian people were white and she acted like I was insane for saying that. It lasted for that entire class period (so an hour) and she walked acting as if I was an idiot. Lol
What about Jennifer Lopez? Her mother is European and her father is a fair-skinned, fair-haired Puerto Rican. Yet-- especially when she sprays her body tan-- she is considered "exotic" as well. JL's really less exotic-looking than Catherine Zeta-Jones, who's Welsh. I don't think I've ever seen full-blood Amerindian person whose features were similar to Alba's. She looks far more Southern European than Amerindian to me. I've seen French actresses who resemble her more than Amerinidans do.
Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. Her Mexican mixed -Native Grandma is her twin
How is she surprised? Her granddad were ethnically danish, her mothers surname was even “Jensen” (most common surname in Denmark) before she married Jessicas mexican father.
Just because she’s not knowledgeable in one subject does not make her dumb. We all have weaknesses in some areas and this is not about iq it’s about not being taught those things in your life which anyone can learn about later on in life so shut it
@@jairar2587 It does. General knowdlege is tied to intelligence. Shes simply and ignorant dummy thats it. Wait till they find Spanish is a Indo European language that comes from the Celto Italic languages.
Well, I'm spaniard, I was born in Spain, I live in Spain, I've been sorrounded by spaniards all my life...I know perfectly what's my history. Yes, I've heard of genetics. You can read about the genetic history of the iberian peninsula if you want. As I said, most people from spain are totally white as newborns (it doesn´t usually happen with mestizo people). There are brown skinned people in Spain too, but the higher percentage by far have white-tanned skin.
@@Ronsquaremy Right and she's 75% european ergo she is quite White. I don't understand why so many latinos deny their european roots and culture? They speak Spanish, are mostly Catholic and have european surnames and traditions.
Brown skinned people are mostly immigrants they are not real Spanish they have parents who come from different background but Spain is white not black peoples country
@@hasseaouled6032 Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. The ALBA's got the name due to Colonization bro, not their race
"Mediterranean" features are as native to Europe as "Nordic" features. Southern Euros are barely more mixed with anything else than non-Europeans. The most "mixed" Europeans of all are Lapps, who are N. European.
Spain ( i/ˈspeɪn/; Spanish: España [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), [d] is a sovereign state and a member state of the European Union. It is located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe.
@Anonymous226 I believe you. I'm just saying Spain wasn't always 100% European (ie white). Like Israel isn't 100% Jewish. Gaza, West Bank, etc. I'm not trying to make this political and I wish more people didn't. History should be celebrated and studied.
@@SB-qm5wg they have the highest rb1 haplogroup in Europe and so so the irish the irish were orginally for the basque and spain and it was not arab for 700 years, you have to look the map of the iberian peninsula in 1200, almosta all of spain and portugal were liberated, and also they only occupied 80 percent of the peninsula 300 years, and also they never conquered north spain.
I thought her mother's name was Catherine Jensen and her father had a Spanish (Mexican) surname. So she is Spanish/German (Mexican). Of course that's European ancestry. Who cares anyway, she looks absolutely stunning.
Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. The Name Alba was forced into them because of colonization. This part was clarified in the episode
Dear Americans, The Spaniards, Greek, Germanic, Celtic or Slavic people etc. all belong to the Caucasoid race (incl. Subfamilies: Aryan, Semitic, Hamitic). And the Caucasoid race is commonly known as white. Discussion over!
The most funny about all of this is that Alburquerue is also a municipality in Spain, in Extremadura region, whose name comes from the latin albus quercus, meaning white oak. And, of course, Alba means white XD. So here in Spain actually exists an Alburquerque since at least one thousand year ago. So yeah, Alba´s surname could in fact come from Alburquerque as he´s saying... but in Spain ;P
@@asturiasceltic3183 estás de coña? Mi familia es extremeña y hay un montón de rubios con ojos azules y pelirrojos super blancos de piel, en cambio he visto a muchos asturianos morenos de pelo y piel, solo tienes que ver algunos ejemplos como David Villa, Lara Álvarez, luis enrique, el cuento de que los del norte de España están relacionados con los irlandeses es una patraña, de hecho hay más ADN del norte de África en Galicia y Asturias que en el sur de España
urban7rat Shes 25% NONWHITE . I even have her family photoa as proof on my channel. Her Family was discriminated against in CLAIREMONT California. Do your Damn Research
I know this is an old comment but you did not see what I saw. She did not like that man… that was disappointment. She doesn’t wanna claim being white just like anyone else who is “ambiguous” rides with the “ima minority” train.
I'm Spanish, in Spain, people consider themselves white, but we don't see it as something negative, on the other hand we are descendents from Roman Empire, so we are latinos (but latinoeuropeans) as latin was the Roman's language. We know that several civilizations have lived in Spain and we are a mix of all of them, but Romans are the ones who have been for longer and have had more influence on us, Spanish come from latin,... However, I've seen many comments from North Americans don't considering us white because of this mixture or debating if we are Latinos too, or Hispanos,..
XxAleenazxX I just copied the words from a website haplogroup T is middle eastern in origin and no, not all europeans have this haplogroup infact its rare within the european population
Julio Lohaiza all Spaniards are predominately IBERIAN. If not then they're not really spanish. All have a bit of northern euro% from the Celts & Visigoths but it does not trump Iberian.
Yes, but out of all those, Italians are the original Latins, and strangely most people do not consider us to be Latin at all. Most people think Latino = Spanish only.
Since her father is of Mexican ancestry, he is statistically much more likely to be of Spanish descent (or even French or German or maybe Irish) than Scottish descent.
No you aren't you look whiter than most white people, you look almost literally white.You definitely haven't taken a dna test one of your parents probably told you they were hispanic and you believed that was a race, and that one parent is probably in a similar situation as Jessica here.
Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. And her grandmother Isabella Martinez Alba couldn't go to school with white children because she looked indigenous. She looks exactly like Jessica Alba.
Infelizmente nos EUA pensam que os colonizadores espanhóis e portugueses da América do Sul, se tornaram indios, ao contrário dos colonizadores britânicos! Curioso que as ilhas britânicas foram colonizadas por povos com origem na península ibérica e ambos partilham muitos marcadores genéticos...
@Khaagon bueno, eres Español de Barcelona, verdad? Claro, como esta todo en Barcelona? Si, hay muchos descendientes Canarios en Luisiana, USA. Saludos desde Luisiana con un fuerte abrazo para mi hermano Español de Barcelona! Viva Canarias! Viva Barcelona! Viva España! y Viva Luisiana!
Since her mother is supposedly of Danish and French ancestry, it is most likely that it came from her father. There is much more Amerindian blood in Mexicans than there is in French Canadians.
It is a joke! Spaniards are white. But the majority of Americans can’t and won’t except it! I grew up with a bunch of Spaniards they are Blondes, Gingers, brunettes so I do know what a Spaniard looks like. Ask and average American what a Spaniard looks like they will give you the silent treatment or say they are Mexicans or Central American.
emmm, have you ever been to Spain? People from Spain are caucasians and mostly white skinned. I'm from spain and my skin is completely white. Many people from mediterranean european countries have olive skin because they had to adapt their skin to the sun, but even so, most of them are totally white as newborns. There aren't many brown skinned people in Spain, mostly are simply tanned. Besides, the north of Spain isn´t mediterranean. Jessica's skin is more brown because of her mestizo genes.
@Steadno Being native american is something to be proud of as well. In fact, there's nothing wrong with being any race. It just seems like the audience is prejudice in favor of blacks and hispanics only.
Yeah, I will admit I was upset when I saw this video, when it was being read out to her she reacted like she was being diagnosed with a illness.Im proud of being white but I just hate how everyone sees white as horrible and even minorities are so happy they aren't white, they act like they aren't but it's very clear.I kinda ranted, and not all minorities think that obviously.
Does she not know Spaniards are white? The Spanish language originated from white people. Original Latin people (romans) are white. What do they teach y’all in America ?? 😂
PC. When I was in high school, not too long ago, everytime "Latin" was discussed, it was referring to people of Central and South America. Never in reference to the founding ethnic group of Rome, their language, or the other groups of cultures and languages that came from them like French, and Romanian. I pointed it out once and was called "racist", but its 100% true and not racist at all.
Reading these comments make me laugh. I can’t believe people are so pressed about someone questioning more about their dna which is not even her own fault but the education systems fault that should be teaching those things.
That's what I'm saying. Anglos are no more a race than Latinos are. If George Lopez feels connected to Jennifer Lopez or Antonio Banderas because he has a Spanish surname or has Spanish-speaking ancestry, then all people with Anglo surnames and/or English-speaking ancestry are connected. "Latino" is a nonsense form of taxonomy, created for political purposes.
@MangoMass77 Tutanhkamun, who lived around 1353 B.C., was a minor king of the 18th Dynasty. Tut was the son of Pharaoh Ahkenaton (and grandson of Amenhotep III), a Nubian, He took the throne at age eight and died at 19. What makes him significant is that his tomb was found intact.
Origin can be viewed as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race.
@@ChrisCanomi Some people of Spanish blood in the New World don't let the Communist globalist run up on them. Thankfully they don't get suckered in to the guilt thing like too many Anglos do.
@@SRBOMBONICA86 I’m in Europe. The first time I saw her I just thought white. I’ve got family with darker skin than her. Look at all the different shades of ‘black’ that people still call black. But when someone has a tan they’re a different race?
It's certainly not a race, but I do have Argentinian friends who consider themselves Latino. Latino(a) is commonly used in the Spanish speaking world. Although they may not be speaking of it as a race, the word latino is surely apart of their vernacular.
@CrociatoAzzurro From a newspaper article on Madeleine McCann: Abdul Jamoussi, a spokesman at the Moroccan embassy in London, said: "The people of northern Morocco are often blonde-haired. Also from the article: The predominance of blondes in this African desert region might explain why so many tourists claim to have seen Madeleine. You see, blonde hair is common amongst the Riffian and Kabyle Berber peoples of North Africa. They are White Caucasian North Africans.
This makes sense. Her father is Mexican and Mexicans are a mix of Spaniard and Native American. Most Mexicans are more than 60% European (Spaniard). Her mother is White. She is still HALF Latina for all you haters. Latino just means a mixture, so if you mix a Latino with a White person, that is going to be mostly White. Even African Americans often times come out 20-30% White due to slavery.
@@goodaimshield1115 Watch Finding Your Roots she's 25% Mixed. Her Dad and both of grandparents were all part Native American---. Her Dad is just as Indigenous as George Lopez.
Jessica Alba is still mainly Latina. She is 87% LATIN EUROPEAN. Spain is a LATIN EUROPEAN country. The term 'Latin America' comes from the fact that mainly Spain and Portugal (Latin countries) colonized the continent. The Latins were a tribe from Italy and one of the early inhabitants of Rome. Their language, ethnicity and culture spread mainly through Southern Europe (Mediterranean). Therefore: Spanish, Italians, Portuguese are all LATIN PEOPLE. The French also have a big latin influence and some other Southern European/Mediterranean nations as well. Now, whether you would consider them white or not is a different story. Some people only consider white those who are of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic or Northern European genetic backgrounds. Others consider the whole of the European continent as being white (white variations). There are plenty of Spanish, Italians and Portuguese people with blue eyes and blonde hair, but there are also plenty of Spanish, Italians and Portuguese with dark eyes, dark hair and darker skin. So it's debatable. Still, they are all undeniably European, in terms of geography.
Jessica Alba is Spanish ( Latin European) from her father side also descended from ancient people of what is now America on father's side, Mother's side is English, German, French, and Danish. According to what I recall from Wikipedia.
hydrolito oh my God! She's part European and part native Indian which is a mestizo from Mexico... What makes a Mexican is half native and half Spanish blood... Learn your history people!
imemine imemine Latin is found in the English language as well 80-90% of our big words are Latin root and are the same as Spanish or any Latin based language with a slight twist at the end. But you can't expect kids educated in public schools to be taught a decent vocabulary. As far as a strictly Latin people genetically be serious. Probably 2500 years ago maybe when people were tribal. But every European country has had major conquest , migration and blending and countries as we know them today are relatively new.
rubyray777 that's so ridiculous. I'm sure Mexican don't go around taking blood sample to find if one is half Spanish half Indian. Some more this than that some pretty much all white some native American. And so forth and so on.
She said “The Spain count, because Alba counts Spain….?” The question is right, listening all phrase, and she knows Spain is in Europe when Lopez said “87% European” without adding which country. Alba’s origin roots is in Italian and Spain but spread in my country, Northern Italy. She has got mexican roots so her question has sense
LOL I bet you got all your booster shots. Dude, the category of "European" is ridiculously broad. DNA tests that look for neanderthal, cro-magnon, homoerectus and denisovian might be adequate, but lumping the average DNA from a population in a region that has no real indigenous population that hasn't not been spoiled by conquest for thousands of years is ridiculous. It's hilarious to me that people are so stupid they don't even understand the statistics let alone the science
Interesting. That means that either her great-grand father or mother was a First Nation person as she is 1/8th indigenous. But could also be the result of one ancestor intermixing for 2 centuries at least already.
@MangoMass77 Many berbers are pale, blond-headed, and blue eyed. Especially in the Kabyle and Riffian Berber groups. They are North African Caucasoid. Also Mediterranean looking Berbers are the norm also. Many get mistaken for Italians in neighboring countries. Some get mistaken for Germans.
@@lil_weasel219 Oh yeah you're right, it's not like France is on the Mediterranean or anything...no, France is in Scandinavia right next to Siberia, I forgot. Technically France is the most southern EU nation, as part of it is in South America and even further south of Africa / near Antarctica.
@@shrek19yearsago78 Slovenia and Croatia are literally on the Mediterranean ocean, it's pretty much as south as you can get without being Cyprus or Malta, aka islands in the Mediterranean. How do you people not know geography???
Ultizer thank you for clearing that up with a term that is no longer in scientific use. BTW where do you get your information. I mean, making a scientific statement using unscientific terms is pretty retarded, especially without facts to back it up. If I remember my studies correctly, You are correct about the Arabs, however, I believe people from India are Sinhalese Mongoloid....since were using out dated terms.
Of course because her whole entire BRAND is racially ambiguous Latina. That’s how she was marketed. It shouldn’t matter but that’s the narrative they pushed. So, of course she’s shocked.
@@Born2BFly well, she shouldnt be. Imagine being a fully grown adult and not even knowing ur own history, and believing ur something ur VERY CLEARLY NOT 🤦🏻♀️
In spain jessica alba f Jessica Alba lived in Spain, she would not pass for Spanish, she would pass for the typical immigrant who comes to work in Spain
I mean…. Everyone wants to talk about how the white mans “the devil” (cancelling out all the wrongdoings of all other races throughout history of course) but love to ignore all of the amazing accomplishments we have made for humankind, as well as abolishing a lot of terrible things BEFORE anyone else. lol so yeah, it’s ok to be proud 👍
Pfft. Nice joke there! It’s the Asian race, without Asia you would’ve never gotten out of Europe. Without China, no guns or gun powder. Without the Phoenicians, Europeans wouldn’t have a simple alphabet. Roman and Greek Alphabet deprives from the Phoenicians, which the rest of Europeans alphabets deprives from the Romans/Greeks. Let’s not forget about the simple wheel, which also came from Asia. Should I continue?
@@ocelotl7416 that's hilarious, they didn't create antibiotics or penicillin did they? Or the internal combustion engine, printing press, telephone, internet, light bulb, airplane, semiconductors... Should I go on? You can try your best to make arguments for contributions to world history but at the end of the day the white race is the most influential.
@@ocelotl7416you said the ‘Asian race’ but mentioned Chinese and Phoenicians which are not the same race. Also those that you listed don’t even come close to what the Europeans made
Alba and Albuquerque are both Spanish names. So what's your point George? You should know something before opening your mouth and making yourself look like a fool. Spanish are European.
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