The Portuguese freed their land of moors some 400 years before the Spanish did comment comment

That is not a question, is it ? More like a statement.
It is totally baloney what you are trying to imply.
The spanish are much, much darker than the Portuguese. Trust me. I know both countries well.
I also know that the spanish are extremely complexed about their darker skin colour and constantly lie to themselves that the Italians, Portuguese and the French are darker than they are.

Relax. There is nothing wrong about being dark skinned.
The Portuguese freed their land of moors some 400 years before the Spanish did. While Portuguese erected and guarded the oldest borders in Europe and started going around the world giving new worlds to the world, the spanish continued to live and mix with arab muslims for another 500 years, hence your darker skin colour.
Spain is also only 7 kilometres (5 miles) from north Africa and that alone is responsible for your skin colour.

I read somewhere that the Spanish hve between 2 and 4% arab blood. The Portuguese do not

I also read an article recently that there is a much higher PERCENTAGE of blond and blue eyed people in Portugal than there is in Spain and in Italy


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