Canarians (Canary Islanders)

[Chacho]

While we are politically a part of Spain, we are geographically situated in Africa, off the coast of Morocco to be exact. Thus, we are as much North Africans as we are Spanish. Our geographic location and history has made our culture unique in that we are essentially a crossroad to Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Our original inhabitants were Berbers (Amazigh) known collectively as Guanches. They were a primitive "stone-age" people at the time of the Spanish conquest, and sadly were overwhelmed by European colonisation. Many were killed, sold into slavery, faced forced assimilation, and in some cases relocated to mainland Spain or to the American colonies. European slavers would also raid the North African coast and their muslim captives whom we call "moriscos" (the meaning is different from the Moriscos of Spain) were brought to the eastern islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Gran Canaria. Much like the Guanches before them they faced forced assimilation and conversion. This North African element along with that of the waves of colonists from Spain and Portugal that settled throughout the islands formed the basis of our Canarian culture. A hybrid culture that links us forever to both Europe and North Africa. I therefore submit to you several pictures of Canarian people.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/27166.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/985784UD.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/9518.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/Dianaysusamigas.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/MisprimosLoshijosdePino.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/3757220747_12c6622400_o.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/l.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/800px-Paulino_Rivero_campaign_billboard.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/2262294559_027f60c9bc.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/2010060308323332490.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/pedritoypaulino.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/DSilvaconelpresidente.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/MANITAMADABA021.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/Manifestacionindependentista2.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/PC170007.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/K-narias.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/JoseV_1-1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/Braulio_HRp.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/laura-ojeda.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/joana-sanz.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/Kevin-Miranda.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/oliverperez.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/dnicanario.jpg

[jibarodepr]

I am 1/16 Canarian. ;)

---------- Post added 2012-07-21 at 22:27 ----------

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/800px-Paulino_Rivero_campaign_billboard.jpg
This guy looks like a male version of my grandma.

[Archangel]

My Canarian great grandmother, who family were from a town call Hermigua. Some of the branches in her family tree have been traced back to the 1630's.

http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/r639/archangel102/3d9c7b41-6c29-4412-b687-4b9a985006a6-1.jpg

[BerberWarrior]

The Guanches had villages , kings , priests and all , not all of them were stone-aged living in caves like the Spaniards liked to pretend. In North Africa , there still are some isolated Berbers living as troglodytes (http://lm-rentacar.com/img/tataouine-ksar.jpg), they make houses in caves.

Guanche chiefs:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Bencomo.jpg

http://www.easyvoyage.com/images/attractions/3836/570x360/4323.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F5BSgWRVGlU/SSHsLuWH5KI/AAAAAAAAAwA/LOGPXnQhou0/s400/Canaries+137+Tenerife+Guanche+6.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rqUDdbnTk1Q/TpGVJad8S4I/AAAAAAAABYs/H8SRWz2DTjE/s1600/guanche.jpg

These Canarians look like they could be from North Africa :


http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89669&d=1308435528

http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89708&d=1308435728

http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89734&d=1308435851
http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89722&d=1308435776
http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89693&d=1308435642
http://www.forumbiodiversity.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=89716&d=1308435776

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/oliverperez.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/K-narias.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/pedritoypaulino.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/2010060308323332490.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/MisprimosLoshijosdePino.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/27166.jpg
more specially the little girl
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/l.jpg
the guy on the left with his tongue open , maybe some others but I can't see well.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/Dianaysusamigas.jpg
The three girls on the right , the two others on the left look Spaniards

These two girls could pass too:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/joana-sanz.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/Apollo3000/laura-ojeda.jpg

[Chacho]

The Guanches had villages , kings , priests and all , not all of them were stone-aged living in caves like the Spaniards liked to pretend. In North Africa , there still are some Berbers living as troglogytes (http://lm-rentacar.com/img/tataouine-ksar.jpg), they make houses in caves:



I agree with you. The Guanches had a high degree of civilisation, however, by "stone-age" I meant that they did not have the metallurgy with which to fashion metal weaponry, tools, and other devices.

---------- Post added 2012-07-22 at 02:49 ----------




These Canarians look like they could be from North Africa :

Naturally, because we are North Africans. ;)

[joseph capelli]

Canarians are ~ 90% Spanish genetically.