Interesting explanation to Canelo's heritage

[cat1144]

huge amount of ignorance on this thread tbh

1. unless a Mexican or other Latin American has all 4 grandparents directly from Europe, they are very unlikely to be 100% Spanish or other European. Even the whitest looking Latino who has ancestry in the Americas that goes back more than a couple of generations will have some Native American and/or black ancestry

2. Majority of Mexicans including Canelo are a blend of European (mainly Spanish) and Native American

3. Look at Canelo's facial features. The high cheekbones, eyes...very obvious he has Native American admix, like almost all Mexicans

4. The red hair and pale skin, could be from Spanish ancestry. Although rare, you do get the occasional ginger Spaniard

5. Mexico being just south of the USA has had some gene flow from their Northern neighbour. It's not improbable that a great great etc grandparent of Canelo was of Anglo/Irish stock and introduced the ginger gene into his family

[cat1144]

This is absolutely correct.

Except the bit where he says Canelo is probably close to 100% Spanish
He absolutely won't be for the reasons I stated in my earlier post
Also people are getting far too hung up on his red hair & pale skin. That is just one aspect of phenotype
Look at his facial features and that of his brothers

Obvious native American admix there. I'd say Canelo and his brothers are in the Castizo range...maybe 60-70% European, 30-40% Native American