Am I More A Saxon A Norman Or A Basque Ethnicity / Genetically?

1. Steffan Says

   well the guy aboves an idiot (not you Jim L, but Jim C, the one with the strangely similar name), but if youre mother is fully northern French, and youre father half french then youre 3/4 French, i’d say that pretty much makes you french, rather than norman which i believe would only be the case if your mother was from the Normandy region, but you didnt say so i dont know, and you’d still be more french anyway, but forgive me if being called french is a deep cultural issue in normandy, im not a French regional politics expert

2. Anonymous Says

   Cadiz is in Andalusia, which is in Southern Spain, where as the Basque region straddles the Spanish-French border, on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. On the Mediterranean coast, the old Northern Catalonia is in France, but modern Catalonia is south of the French border.
   Northern France is quite a large area, of which Normandy is only a small part, and roughly covers the area between Avranches, Evreux and Dieppe, if your mother is not from within that area, there isn’t much of a case to say that she is a Norman.
   I am not sure where Saxon comes into it. The term Anglo-Saxon, in England, is only used as a term for people of Anglo-Saxon descent.
   Genetically speaking, you are French. But genetics don’t decide identity, only you can do that.

3. MagpieRh Says

   given that ethnicty is a social construct based on culture, language, religion, values… and far more than just ancestry, you’re ethnicity is whatever you identify it as being, and you can have more than one

4. Jim L Says

   Does it matter? Dna research has proved the Brits are very close ethnically to the basques anyway.

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