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Old Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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I've never understood why people claim to be Celtic, Swabian or Visigothic. When people ask me what I am, I just say "Spanish".

If I do have ancestors that were Germanic or Celtic, then so what? I'm not Germanic, nor am I Celtic, nor do I live in old days when there was a Germanic and, perhaps, a Celtic presence in the Peninsula. I live here and now, and I am Hispanic.

I'm a little more open to the term "Celtiberian", though. I guess because it is more regionally specific; that is, it refers specifically to the past inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula which I believe I descend from. I suppose I just don't like being clumped together with people I feel I have no present relation to...
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