My last thread on anything “anthropology” related… as I said I originally came from anthropology sites. 
This is like the other one (North African) with the same options. It’s multiple choice.
I thought you said the other thread was the “last time.”
I think people from the Levant look like Mediterranean people, so I voted for all of them. Portuguese may be pushing it a bit, now that I think about it.
Portuguese, despite not being on the Mediterranean, are generally grouped in with them too though
I know one Syrian (he’s half-Croatian though) who looks a lot like Klaus Von Stauffenberg.
Sicilian again, of course, though not as close a match as with North Africans. So I’m afraid I haven’t any Levantine-looking Sicilians to cite this time.
In the USA people were always assuming I was hispanic, I actually had two Lebanese guys start speaking arabic at me assuming I was Lebanese and then when I said I didn’t speak it they made a comment about my parents letting me not learn arabic!
I think black hair throws everyone for a loop.
If you’re not Hispanic nor Lebanese, what’s your background? You don’t have to share but I am just curious given the context of your comment.
My dad is from the US and my mom is from Germany, both call themself white.
My nephew says I look like Snape from the Harry Potter movies.
I’ve never been to Syria or Lebanon, so I can’t say.
By this point in the series, it’s appropriate to mention the Italian WWII movie Mediterraneo. Bunch of Italian sailors who don’t know how to navigate get marooned on a Greek island. They get to sit out the war, drink weird muddy coffee, and make Greek girls pregnant. Anyway when they first show up on the beach, the Greeks are not thrilled about playing host to a bunch of Fascist military, even comic ones. The Italians persuade the Greeks to let them stay by saying “Una faccia, una razza.” (One face, one race.) In other words, Mediterranean peoples all share similar features, so let’s all be friends.
Then a Turk shows up on the shore. The Italians are not thrilled to have his company. So he appeals to them by calling out, “Una faccia, una razza!” and they let him land his boat and he breaks out the hashish…
Is this movie where that saying first came from? I hear it used often now when discussions come up about Greece and Italy.
I don’t know how it got started, the only time I came across it was in Mediterraneo; no doubt the movie helped popularize it whether or not it was the origin.
I know the saying applies mostly to southern Italy, as they were the ones who had the most contact with Greece.
Bumping this one more time in case anyone wants to give their opinion, but then that’s it.
Why don’t you post links to pictures of those examples of Levantine-looking Sicilians you mentioned to me? I thought you made some good picks.
It was Enrico Lo Verso, Corrado Fortuna, and these two girls from Google Images
Although now that I searched, this came up and might be a good example too.
Hmm, that last guy has the Libyan eyes I mentioned in the other thread. I googled a picture of Corrado and thought he looked more Jewish or Israeli than anything else, but maybe that was a function of the beard-and-fedora combination.
As for the women’s pics, gamberdella.jpg is an excellent example. I kind of think I see Libyan eyes on Simona.jpg too.
Jews originally came from the Levant themselves (and would have been similar to today’s Lebanese pretty much) so that makes sense as well.
Not sure if it’s against the rules to bump threads, but any other opinions?