they often say it is the spanish equavalent of alexander... is it true? im not a spanish, anyway.
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From the Greek name Αλεξανδρος (Alexandros), which meant "defending men" from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, help" and ανηρ (aner) "man" (genitive ανδρος (andros)). Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, is the most famous bearer of this name. In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India. This was also the name of emperors of Russia, kings of Scotland and Yugoslavia, and eight popes. Also, Sir Alexander MacKenzie was an explorer of the north and west of Canada in the 18th century.
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I entered "Conquests of Alexander the Great" in the search box under your question and here is the first hit:http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/boy.mp.html
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If I were Armenian, I would also be proud of it.  Anyone whose last name ends with "ian" is probably Armenian ("Guderian, Nahikian, Ohanian, etc.).  \nI am Faroese.
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The word is "estrepito," not "estriepito."  It means "noise" in Spanish.
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How can anyone say that a group of invaders "never" mixed with the conquered??? that is about the stupidest thing i've ever seen.  Yes, Arab culture is part of spain, morrocco, italy, ethiopia, sudan, etc.  Arabs were everywhere!  and yes they had sex with the people they conquered.  That is one way to assert your power over a people.  Next, people will be saying that slaveowners never screwed their slaves and produced mixed kids!  get real!
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It is a good question.\nIt reminds me of a conversation with this south American person.\nwho said Italians Are different to Spanish. (racially) but  I Knew what  he's real meaning was., as you could see Spain doesn't have any fame but Italy does. Ferrari, the God Father,Alfonso Capone,etc,etc.\nThat's why I think you're not talking about white people but English people. I don't know if you're confuse or not sincere like the South American.\nwhen you're on top (everyone) sees you different.\nbut this person was talking about a studio & you about the World Trade Center, as most of the above say the big fish eats the small.\n \nOnceupon a time, in Rome. thought pure white bloond people how to develop themselves. off coure in exgange of money and slavery.\nThe last Roman empire discovered America. this time under Christianity. as you know this empire moved to germany and the Spanish Queen with the German King decided to send Colombus. the reason colombus was sent to jail, in my opinion it's cause he talked.\nSpain wanted to keep America hidden to built the promised land under one language and one religion.\n\nToday what we used to call Empires they're now potencies.\nWhat we have today it's\n\n. \n\nreach, middle class,and poor. while in the pass. \nhigh class, and slaves.\npeople in the future will travel where they really like not where they need to. why? because what is left from those natural close minds it's vanity.\ntime doesn't pass in vain every century human mind gets more civlized and understand more god's messege.\nwe have about 125 years of Anglosaxon progress.\ni think that's what you meant.\n\nPS everything it'ts written.\nSince Spain could not keep America hidden, and today-\nit's not a potency like in the old days
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no it wasnt the spanish who made KKK flag...mind you its not the KKK racism thing... its actually against the spaniards..seem to me you're intrested to know the pihilippines..holla me if u want to know all about it... \n\nand it was discovered first by spanish so nobody knew what its called before. email me for more info
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Have you ever heard of Charro? Then there is Jeff Garcia, fair complexion, red hair freckles....need I go on? As was pointed out, Spanish for Arroyo and like Charro a blonde. Latin Americans are Indian, or Indian and Spanish etc.
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You have never met Alexander the Great and yet you believe what you have heard about him. Interestingly enough the first books were not written about him until 500 years after he was dead. Christ was written about from the beginning of time and again within 55 years of his death and resurection.  You cant see the wind just the effects. Yet I believe there is wind.
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Your Spanish ancestry is coming out.  Spaniards are white.  People in this country are so culturally ignorant that they associate Hispanic with dark brown people.  The people they are referring to are Indian...ie  indigenous peoples of the area.
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The spanish are caucasians..\nThere are also some Spaniards of moorish / arab heritage  in Spain...
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It is of Spanish origin, and its meaning is "courteous." May also mean "court-dweller."
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His real name could be Alexis you know.  Or Alexander.  Why don't you check a bio for one of his siblings maybe its in there.
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Jesse Jackson is the one who made that name for us some time ago.I was born here and my ancestors are African,European and Indian.So what do I call myself,African,European,Indian-American? I know white people who come from Angola and they are Portuguese(European).I just consider myself a Black Latina,that's it.
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YOU BET IT IS...I AM OF ENGLISH HERITAGE,AND PROUD OF IT,BUT IT SEEMS EVERYONE HAS A SLUR FOR SOMEONE,AND IT'S FUNNY TO THEM--UNLESS YOU PICK ON "THEIR" HERITAGE!...BY THE WAY,LET ME STATE HERE I AM SO PROUD TO BE YOUR FRIEND!!! SHOUT OUT TO ALL YALL PANAMANIANS!!!..snoopy
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I'm not too sure, but I think that they could be Spanish
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Speakers of different dialects of Spanish have different names for the language they speak.  People from Spain and Argentina call the langauge "castellano" and people from Mexico call it "español" for example.  I don't think they really do it to avoid confusion; I think that's just what they call it.\n\nThese days when a person from Argentina says that they speak "castellano", it has a flavor that they think they speak more like Spain than other places in the Americas.  In fact, throughout my interactions with Spanish speakers from different places in the Americas, I have noticed that many people express a desire for their language to be like the language of Spain.  For example, before I went to a Spanish-speaking country to study Spanish, I would sometimes ask Spanish speakers where they thought I should go.  With very few exceptions, people would tell me that I should go to their home country, and one of the reasons they would give me was, "Porque allí hablamos exactamente como hablan en España."  I wasn't a well-educated linguist at the time, but even then I could tell that they did not sound like the people in Spain!  But they WANTED to think that they did.  I find it very telling that some people in the Americas would want to be like Spain, since there are so many more of them.\n\nAccording to the study that I've done on the linguistics of the conquest of Mexico, the conquistadores who first arrived there said that the place they came from was "Castilla".  It might be that "castellano" was originally, then, an identifier for the language of people in Castilla.  However, I suspect that these days it has been reanalyzed as a name for the language that people in Spain really use, and how much a person or culture wants to identify with Spain might have a lot to do with whether or not they call their language "castellano".\n\nMy advice to you?  If you've been using "español", you can probably stick with that.  Your choice is one of which dialect of Spanish you want to identify yourself with.  I, for example, having lived in Mexico, often use the vocabulary of Mexican Spanish when I speak Spanish, so I would say "español".  (Also, my original teachers were from Mexico and Venezuela, so that was the word that they used.)  If you desire to identify yourself with another dialect, such as Chilean Spanish or Argentinian Spanish, you might want to go with "castellano".  I don't think they are often used in the same dialect.\n\nI actually believe that Spanish teachers do their students a disservice when they gloss over the differences between the dialects of Spanish, which are pretty major.