That's about what I anticipated. I consider those very small numbers of European soldiers. There for a very brief period. Probably gringo tourists have had a greater genetic impact on Mexico.
Way more Mexicans volunteered for the left leaning Republicans during the Spanish Civil War against conserative Generalisimo Francisco Franco and his fascist Falange Party.
Did you know there are still Mexicans serving in the Spanish Foreigh Legion? I visited their museum in Ceuta, the tiny Spanish enclave on the north coast of Morocco, directly adjacent to Gibraltar and Algeciras.
I believe Mexicans are the largest single nationality to serve in the Spanish Foreign Legion. They saw duty in Ceuta, Melilla, Spanish Sahara, Spanish Equatorial Guinea... Quite a few died in the line of duty.
So. there has been a two way transatlantic exchange of genes between Iberia and the Amricas for five hundred years. Someone named it the Columbian exchange.
Yet, I think we would be hard pressed to isolate a visible Mexican genetic presence in Spain.
Racial Perceptions
-To this day Mexico presents a very modern and European face to Europe.
In France Mexicans are considered the rich relations, Spaniards the poor cousins because its mostly wealthy Mexicans who make it to Paris, and the Riviera. There was a Mexican expatriate community in France at the time of the French intervention. They conspired with Napoleon and his Spanish born wife, I believe her name was Empress Eugenie, to place Maximillian on the Mexican throne.
My father went to Paris to celebrate Mexican Independence one year. Its quite an event there, I'm told.
Mexico has an extremely wealthy elite. Only the United States has more multi-millionaires than Mexico.
Yes, Porfirio Diaz is the bogey man of recent Mexican history. It was a reaction against him in particular that sparked the Mexican Revolution.
That revolution gave birth to the political system that still dominates Mexico today.
A six year term for the president without reelection is one of the basic tenets of post revolutionary Mexico. A cycle now unfolding south of the border.
Racial Perceptions
The Empress was Eugenie Montijo--she also had Scottish blood...and she
was very proper. Napoleon III was unfaithful to her from the
beginning. She and Napoleon had one son, who died during the Boer War,
in the late 1890s. At any rate, her life was not a very happy one.
Marge:)
On Jul 2, 2006, at 2:53 PM, erniealderete@charter.net wrote:
> -To this day Mexico presents a very modern and European face to Europe.
> In France Mexicans are considered the rich relations, Spaniards the
> poor cousins because its mostly wealthy Mexicans who make it to Paris,
> and the Riviera. There was a Mexican expatriate community in France at
> the time of the French intervention. They conspired with Napoleon and
> his Spanish born wife, I believe her name was Empress Eugenie, to
> place Maximillian on the Mexican throne.
>
> My father went to Paris to celebrate Mexican Independence one year.
> Its quite an event there, I'm told.
>
> Mexico has an extremely wealthy elite. Only the United States has more
> multi-millionaires than Mexico.
>
> Yes, Porfirio Diaz is the bogey man of recent Mexican history. It was
> a reaction against him in particular that sparked the Mexican
> Revolution.
>
> That revolution gave birth to the political system that still
> dominates Mexico today.
>
> A six year term for the president without reelection is one of the
> basic tenets of post revolutionary Mexico. A cycle now unfolding south
> of the border.
>