Different Mestizo races

What if the Americas was populated by a people who weren't descended by Iberian colonists? What are the other possibilities.

To be blunt, most of North America was populated by people who were not from Iberia. Also, many "white" people in America are some part Indian. The thing is that the ratio of Indians to Colonists was too small in North America to have a separate Mestizo "race".
 

mojojojo

Gone Fishin'
lets try it a different way, what non-Iberian nations would be realistic candidates to colonize latin america
 
...and then interbreed and interact with them in a way that would lead to the creation of a distinctly different-looking Mestizo race? I know not all Mestizos are equal, but you have to admit they look different from your Iberian or full-blooded Indian.
 

ninebucks

Banned
lets try it a different way, what non-Iberian nations would be realistic candidates to colonize latin america


None.

The Iberian peninsula is geographically predetermined to play some part in the colonisation of the Americas. About the only way you are going to avoid that is by surrounding the peninsula with sea serpents... but that's just ASB.
 

mojojojo

Gone Fishin'
Well, try this on for size . The Moors keep control of the Iberian peninsula and go on to colonize the new world.What do you think?
 
...and then interbreed and interact with them in a way that would lead to the creation of a distinctly different-looking Mestizo race? I know not all Mestizos are equal, but you have to admit they look different from your Iberian or full-blooded Indian.

Well, there are black mestizos in many places. One example are the Miskito Indians who don't look Indian at all.

How about Chinese Mestizos? If Zheng He kept up his exploring, maybe the West Coast would be Chinese.

Scandanavian Mestizos? Blonds with a good tan?

Irish Mestizos? Red Haired Indians?
 
Well, try this on for size . The Moors keep control of the Iberian peninsula and go on to colonize the new world.What do you think?

Well, ethnically (or racially, if you will), that propably wouldn't make a difference at all.

The Iberian Moors were enthically Andalusians, and the only difference between them and the Roman Catholic Andalusians of the later periods was that most of the ancestors of the latter had converted to Roman Catholicism.

And coincidentally, many (if not most) of the Spanish who settled in the New World were in fact Andalusians...

So if the Moors (especially the Iberian Moors) colonize the New World instead of Spain or another Christian Iberian kingdom,
the Moorish-Indian Mestizos will be pretty much identical to the OTL Spanish-Indian Mestizos.
 
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Thande

Donor
I'm inclined to point at Thermo's Coronation of the Hun timeline (where IS Thermo, anyway?) which sees an early colonisation of the Americas by, among others, Germanic peoples.
 
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