Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/what-kind-of-white

Comment #4042

2018-02-12T12:31:56Z

ñ it needs a semicolon at the end of your &ntilde.

Comment #4041

2018-02-12T12:09:08Z

well, I tried to do the html for the enya but obviously it didn't work.

Comment #4040

2018-02-12T12:07:55Z

I suspect the vast majority of people aren't going to think about genealogy at all. They are going to fill in whatever they think they probably are. ("Oh, I think I've got mostly German" or, "my grandmother was Italian" etc.)

Diane - it was neat to see a glimpse into your origins - and now I know how to pronounce your name! (since the &ntilde doesn't print usually)

Comment #4039

2018-02-10T19:23:17Z

Other:Mixed Hispanic (not a race, but part of a group of peoples that have some degree of Spanish colonial ancestry, and speak Spanish)

Comment #4038

2018-02-09T14:25:31Z

So how do you plan to fill in the form? I've modified the post to show all choices. "Other" is tempting, but still doesn't give enough room.

Comment #4037

2018-02-09T14:02:16Z

I am not "white".

My father was Puerto Rican. The first Villafañes to come to Puerto Rico arrived in 1512. They were servants to the first Roman Catholic bishop the King and Queen of Spain sent to Puerto Rico. These two Villafañe men came from the town of Villafañe in what was then the Kingdom of León, in the northwest corner of Spain, now called Galicia.

Now, there have been many groups of people who came to Spain: Prehistoric Megalithic Cultures, Bronze Age people, Celts, Roman soldiers (a motley crew from all over the Empire...) Suebic invaders, Visigoths, Britons...

The Spaniards who came to Puerto Rico with and after Columbus mixed with the local native Taínos, and later with the African slaves. So most Puerto Ricans are not lily white.

My maternal grandfather was born in Italy, but he was of Dutch descent. My maternal grandmother was descended from Italian peasants(in themselves a mixture of all kinds of people).