Welsh people why do many of the look mediteranean or like Arabs?
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The Welsh are decended from the original Brythonic tribes of Britain.TheseCeltic people traded ,and presumably interbred with, various other peoples from the Mediterranean area during the Pre-Roman period.The Roman occupation added to this genetic mix.
More recent immigration during the industrial revolution and after has diversified the racial mix ,so you can't assume that all Welsh people are similar.
You are more likely to find dark people in Welsh speaking North and West Wales .
I've never seen a mediterranean-esque Welsh person. Are you sure you're not confusing them with the Guelsch, who at one time vied for power against the Hapsburgs in southern Europe?
Eh?
Do Glyn and Imogen of BB look like Arabs?
welsh people are from england, they look nothing like what you say. they look like my pasty, blue eyed husband
Loads of Italians moved there to work in mining and before that a lot of Spanish sailors from the Armada got ship wrecked along the Welsh coast line and settled there
It all dates back to the Spanish Armada. Several ships got wrecked out that way and the surviving sailors couldn't be bothered to find their way home properly.
Eh!!! I have never seen an arab looking welsh person!!!
I haven't seen many Mediteranean or Arab people with ginger hair before, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places though?
I think you mean that they have dark hair and striking features and that is because they are Celts, the same as the Irish and the northern spanish (Basques).
Before anyone yells, the Scottish are also Celts and have fair skin and fair hair due to a different lineage.
Great question..many answers.the first two are.
There was a large influx of Italian people into the region between the wars.
Further back than that, there was a massive migration to Patagonia (Argentina) a hundred years before: the farming dried up there but not before people started coming back with the new mix of races from the south americas.
Further back than that..well you will have to look up the mixture of races that made up Britain.I can't be bothered to go into that any further.
and where have you been living? under a rock?
Originally, the early Britons were nomadic visitors from asia/india. Then we were invaded by other cultures with more blonde attributes driving us into Wales and the West Country. The only reminders of this are the old tales and the fact that Welsh call themselves CYMRW which has the same meaning origins as comrades or brothers. Now, the descendants of the original Britons are pretty much strangers in their own country.
Its due to their Celtic origins, which came from India via a long route with much mixing.
The person who just said the Welsh come from England wouldnt last too long at my local rugby club!
Hmmm, guess you're right. Tom Jones DOES kinda have that look.
if u mean some are coloured, or mixed race thats to do with the colonies - the welsh had colonies in caribbean during industrial revolution and many landowners had relations with some of their workers, still standing by their responsibilities to the child
Ask Sir Tom Jones!
Im welsh and ive been asked on numerous occasions if im Mediterranean,i think its down to me having long dark hair,brown eyes and dark complexion.An aunt of mine done the family tree and went back as far as having family in spain.My father used to get asked if he was italian.
It is Italian you see in them. From when the area was occupied by the Romans.
I couldn't say. I'm a fair-skinned redhead myself.
Maby your thinking of welsh who work on the land, the sun for 3 days a year and the wind the rest of the year tans the skin
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