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Originally Posted by Crawford
The vast majority of peoples from the Maghreb would not be mistaken for Europeans.
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That assertion is simply wrong.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
The Berber-Arab mix is not similar to most Spaniards, Italians, or even Greeks or Turks.
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North Africans are not just Berbers and Arabs. They are also Romans, Vandals (i.e. Germanic people), and southern Europeans raided by their pirates for more than a millennium. That plus also some Phoenicians, and some Jews converted to Islam, and also some Black slaves who mixed with the local population.
Tunisia is where there was the strongest presence of Romans and Vandals, and that shows in the faces of people, who look more European than in the rest of North Africa. Algeria also had Vandal presence plus lots of Southern European slaves over more than 1,000 years (plus the native Kabyles who often have North European traits). So European faces are frequent in Algeria too.
Morocco is where people look the least European in general. It's also where there are the most Black people (in the southern oases of the country, like in the Draa Valley).
These are Black people from Southern Morocco (not immigrants):
And this guy is Tunisian (name is Omar Rekik). If this is not a European face, then nothing is.
Eyes as blue as his Vandal Germanic ancestors:
There's a reason why in the 1900s Tunisia was the most sought destination by French homosexuals (upper class homosexuals back then). It still is today to some extent. I'm not an expert in this, but I once met a gay guy (rather old, like in his 50s) who told me he travels to Tunisia often because it's very easy to pick men there. He even got laid with policemen there (for free! it's all about flirting there, charm, not money). And the men are known to be gorgeous there (the women have less of a reputation for some reason).
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