K Le Blanc, I totally agree with you. I'm Irish,she would easily pass as an Irish girl. I'm learning French and Portuguese,both are romance languages and very similars. Well,I visited Portugal in 2017,and I was really impressed how similars are Portuguese people and Irish people,specially traits,eyes,etc...Some people say many clichés about Portuguese, some say they are swarthy. But in general they're pale. Portugal had a huge celtic influence in the past. Celtic people from Iberia migrated to British Islands. That's why Irish,Portuguese,Spanish and French have many traits in common. The truth is that French,Spanish,Portuguese and Irish have over 70 per cent of celtic DNA.

I’ve done a genetic test and I am 96% Portuguese of Celt ancestry... the other 4% is minor from the British isles. I’m blonde, very pale with green eyes!

The moors never conquered northern Portugal, that’s why we are retain our native Portuguese features!

@Kassandra. You got me interested with your insightfull comment so i've looked up Portugal history and it looks like Portugal have been conquered by the moors ( If your interested search for "The iberian peninsula in 750" ). Correct me if i'm wrong because i didn't go in depth in my research. What is even more interesting for that matter is the Portuguese colonial empire. Slaves were brought from Africa and India to Portugal. You'd think that children of these slaves would end up being portuguses and influencing the traits of todays portuguese traits. I was really interested in doing one of those DNA test but after finding out that it was not as accurate as i thought it was, i gave up but i love the idea of knowing where your ancestors lived. What i love even more is how going back in time makes us Humans more than anything else because you'll always find that you share DNA with human beings coming from various places of the plante. just like Chá das cinco beautifully said:"That's why Irish,Portuguese,Spanish and French have many traits in common". France, Spain, Portugal,etc. all those countries seem to have always been a crossroads in human routes of migration so it's like we shouldn't even be surprised with all the DNA meltingpot at this point. Edit: Saunders, A. (2010). A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal. pp. 19-21: "The records of the royal chronicler Zurara claim that 927 African slaves were brought to Portugal between 1441 and 1448, and an estimated 1000 black slaves arrived in Portugal each year afterward. A common estimate is that around 2000 black slaves arrive in Lisbon annually after 1490." Magalhaes, J.R. (1997). "Africans, Indians, and Slavery in Portugal: "Slaves were able to buy their freedom by saving any earnings, so long as their masters allow them to keep their earnings, or purchase a slave to replace them. Women slaves could be freed if their masters chose to marry them, but this was more common among the colonies. When Lisbon was on the verge of being invaded in 1580, slaves were promised their freedom in exchange for their military service. 440 slaves took the offer and most, after being freed, left Portugal. Black female slaves were desired by portuguese men, resulting in many mixed-race offspring. This prompted the Council of Trent in 1563 to denounce the widespread immorality. Mulattoes had the ability to integrate into society, some would even command whole fleets of ships. Slavery did little to alter society in Portugal, due to the slight ease of enslaved people’s integration."

There was a slave market in the South of Portugal. And again in the South, some wealthy individuals did have slaves until it was banned by the King. I don’t know what happen to them. Back then people were very prejudice against outsiders and people that looked different. I know that prior to 1974 no one from the empire could come to Portugal without a license and no Portuguese could leave the country without a license too. I’m know men misbehaved in the colonies that’s why the vast majority of the population of Brazil are mixed by white men and Native American women and black women. I don’t think those men were allowed to bring their families to Portugal due to the racism back then but they could do pretty much what they wanted in the colonies! I know, it’s so disgusting!

Bruh for Portuguese ppl that's normal 😂😂 my gran has 6 names

Hmm that really funny

I´m blonde, green eyes and pale as well, from Northern Portugal, Barcelos :D

I´m blond, green eyes, pale from Northern Portugal too, Barcelos

Anna Lots of fair people in the south too. Difference is the climate. In Algarve they get many more days of sunshine in a year, compared to the north, so many are tanned .

Lots of my immediate family have blue or green eyes, pale skin and light coloured hair too. I’ve actually traced my family tree back to the 1600s are we are 100% from Algarve.

@@lorenam.l.5788 How do you know your family is in Portugal since 1600? Realy I want to know mine too, I know my great great grandfather was in America in 1880 but I am not sure if he was American or Portuguese, you must tell me please.

hahahah No, I guess you really need to be rabugento to be a true portuguese xD

I love Portuguese woman .can we know each other? I am an oriental man .

we have 6.5% of G2a from causcasus. Georgia, Chechenya etc. Brown Hair and Pale skin are common, Brown eyes but not dark eyes, and also lighter eyes. Im about to do my DNA test but MY GUESS it will be 10-20% jewish-North african. And also G2a but mostly Italian and Western european as main 50%. i do have brown hair same as the Bon Amie , and brown eyes also not that dark. , i had ambar Hazel eyes sometimes green on the light when i was younger for some reason i got alot of pigmentation. I would LOVE to have Hazel eyes again, it's one of my goals in life ahahaha.

Portuguese as well, very pale, very tall ( 178cm), with green eyes ( actually one is green and blue and the other is hazer, but usually they look green most of times) and golden brown hair. Usually i'm mistaken for English, Russian or Ukranian and so are my sister and mother.

Yep, I'm Portuguese as well, dark green eyes, dark hair, and a kinda white skin, and I've been mistaken as Greek, Italian and Turkish

Italians tho have the same physical traits as Spanish and greek and Portuguese, tanned skin, dark hair and dark eyes cause all of those are Mediterranean countries

@John Kelly yes in climate we have 2 major types Mediterranean and Atlantic, culture Portugal is considered Mediterranean

Maria Da Conceicao Barros Goncalves Da Silva that’s the point, this girl (she’s probably from the south,) described Portuguese women as mixed Brazilians. If she lived in the north or central area she would know that she’s not that white compared to some portuguese girls for the north, she doesn’t have even straight hair.... terrible how someone can screw up his own compatriots !

that is the point , Portuguese were special people with strong isolated culture and costumes other people don't know a shit about other peoples so that is the answer

Hmm that really shows in your face, so how is your family and your friends doing

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Que optima ideia!!! hahah

Hi Sonia how are you doing today

@@MonAmieDesserts hi

@@luandeoliveira144 Tu é que renegas a própria raça queres ser preto. Não é o que querem ou deixam de querer é o que é, os portugueses têm origem em povos brancos e são maioritariamente brancos, um branco queimado do sol continua a ser um branco. Alguns tem mais ou menos mistura que outros de povos semíticos de 1 a 10% de mistura devido à invasão Arabe mais nada.

Very true! However from what I understand in the North they tend to be lighter fair haired and South darker? I've known many red head Portuguese as well!

Luan de Oliveira nos gostamos de ser morenos, em facto no verao parecemos todos arabos ou tunisianos. Mas quando o sol sai ficamos brancos como a neve (no porto)

Trish156 thats true, although we kind of change colors depending on the time of the year lmaoo, in summer we are very dark but when winter comes its a different story!

So christiano is not Portuguese since not white enough for you? You are ashamed of some of your compatriots, in addition the most beautiful and the most beautiful are the browns not too white. I discover Portuguese complexed, it's sad

Eu trabalhei 2 anos com sevilhanos cá em Portugal e fui obrigado a falar portunhol com ele pq não entendiam nada. Sou grato porque essa experiência deu me a possibilidade de ser práticamente fluente em espanhol. É raro aprender se espanhol na escola em Portugal precisamente por ser muito fácil de entender.

It is noticed that you do not know Italians and Greeks to believe that they are even more brunet in pigmentatio of skin than the Portuguese. Even Southern Italians and Greeks are whiter than the Portuguese and the Southerm Spanish. In general I would say that Italians and Greeks are whiter in skin color than Spaniards, but Spaniards have a higher percentage of light eyes than Greeks. The Portuguese, on the other hand, are only compared with the Italians from Sardinia and with the Spanish from the south.

@@douglassmith5188 Portuguese are lighter than Italians. Italians are darker. Read the study as follows: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485197/

There is a big variety in phenotypes in Italy, too. Lots of fair skinned and also blue-eyed Italians in the northern parts of Italy. Northern Italians look more like Austrians, Swiss or Southern Germans than they look like Southern Italians.

@@maximilianmustermann5763 In fact, the phenotype differences between northern and southern Italians have been greatly exaggerated for reasons of a political nature, since the north has always wanted to separate itself from the rest of the peninsula. In the north of Italy as well as in the south of the peninsula it is possible to find a great number of dark and Moorish-looking types as well as a great number of fair skinned types as well as blond and red-haired blue eyes. From north to south of Italy, you will find people who look like Turks or Lebanese and people who look like Austrians or Irish. But in general, the pigmentation that predominates in most Italians is brown in the color of the hair and eyes, whereas in the color of the skin it is on average half olive color and the other half is pinkish or pale with variations from north to south.

@@maximilianmustermann5763 But I insist on saying that the Portuguese and the South Spaniards in terms of pigmentation only compare with the Italians in Sardinia and with the darkest parts of Calabria and Apulia. And it is clear that even in these regions it is possible to find a significant minority of fair skinned and light-eyed people and even some blond and redheads. But the pigmentation is predominantly dark.

Cool .norway is beautiful too.where for you live there ?

Hi good day

Hello how are you doing today. Am Lucas Andy from the United States and you

Thank you!!!

they seem to also forget that eastern europe exists. haha. which also tends to have brown hair

haha I think Daniel would disagree with you with the rabugenta subject hahahah I would love to make a part 2 ;)

we could even compare three different women characteristics - Norwegan or "Nordic" (Maria), Portuguese or "southern" (you) and Slovak or "Slavic" (myself) and see how the different cultures view women and their position in the society and what is "expected" of a typical women in each culture or something... just an idea ;)

Hmm that great I love portugal.. But I don't know how to get there

@@lucasandy4226 Marry a girl or move as digital nomad.

Haha that's very good to hear! I do think we portuguese have a lot to do with the Brazilian :) I would love to visit brasil one day!

I don’t think Portuguese in general look similar to typical Brazilians. Most Brazilians are mixed race, native Portuguese are of EUROPEAN ancestry.

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Yes, that is our Portuguese ancestry

It is good to remember that we were colonized by Portugal, and there is a lot of people in Brazil who has portuguese ancestry. I am brazilian, and have pale skin and green eyes. And as Bea said, i also recognized our country in many of the characteristics that were told by her.

Woow. It sounds very sexy.

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Miss you too! (very very much!)

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Same ! I am from Madeira though !

I’m half Portuguese and half Australian:) I know it’s a strange mix I have dark hair, blue eyes and somewhat tanned:)

Olá, desculpa por te incomodar. O Lucas e tu dos Estados Unidos e tu

Os brasileiros são muito diferentes dos portugueses.

Yes! My family is 100% Portuguese+Spanish

Where do you live now ?

@@souiritv8355 miami

@@BellsBooksAndCoffee nice to meet you .you looks beautiful 😍. I am an original man from Morocco. I see you have a youtube channel too.😊

mark sousa Very cool. I have many Azorean Portuguese matches which is via my paternal great grandmother.

I agree, I’m not at all surprised she is Portuguese!

People think all Portuguese look like Cristiano Ronaldo and our immigrant football team I guess?

If you went to Portugal, you would be treated nicely like everybody else but they would not consider you Portuguese because you were not born there, that’s not your culture and your parents are not Portuguese. Many Brazilians of Portuguese ancestry that move to Portugal are considered foreigners. Unless their parents are native Portuguese and moved to Brazil then they decided to move back again.

You are mix race, not europesn

@@NacerDeArriba YES I am European. My European Ancestors are my only real ancestors.

@@anna3046 I am Biologically closer to my Portuguese great-great-great-great grandfather than a parent that is not, so I am the same as everyone else in Portugal.

@@AzureKite191 if you look black you cant be european by race.

Nah she looks irish.

Susana Alves yup that is me except I am a girl with black hair

Olá, como está hoje. Lucas Andy e você...??

That's very funny! xD Rabugento in portugal can be used in a more "cute" way. ;)

That is mexico

Do you mean the celts and germanic tribes?

The Lusitanians and the Celtiberians

Our ancestors are also from Germanic tribes... France and Germany did not exist as nations during that period! And all Western Europe with some exceptions were colonies of the Roman Empire!

It’s true, the lands of Portugal were inhabited by the Lusitanians

Let's laugh each other! 😊

Ana My Heritage is from Algarve in the south. I have hazel eyes, but my dad has bright blue eyes and other side of family list of green eyes. Both sides have lots of pale skin that does not tan and blond or light brown hair. I live in Australia where we have lots of people from all over Portugal and Madeira and there is absolutely no difference ....can’t say there are more pale skin or light eyed people from the north. I’m going to mention particularly people from the Algarve country towns of Salir / Alte and surrounding areas, which was once inhabited by the Celts. I personally know lots of people from there and most are fair skin and blue eyed. Algarvios might appear dark and that’s because generally they are tanned due to all that sunshine in the south compared to northern Portugal.

Não compara não tá os são europeus capachos dos americanos

You are beautiful.

the vast majority of portuguese people don't have blue eyes or very pale skin in fact there are millions of brazilians who have those traits that in portugal