Comments on: Marine Le Pen descended from Maltese woman in Alexandria (no surprises there)

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:35:00 +0000

I’m sorry to have to point this out, but ‘mixed blood’ does not mean an ancestral heritage of different nationalities, but an ancestral heritage of different races.

The English/American equivalent is ‘mixed race’.

A person born to an Italian mother and a French father is not “mixed blood” (both parents are European) or mixed race.

A person born to a European father and an African or Asian mother is.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:21:00 +0000

It was Britain which declared Malta to be part of Europe by an Act of Parliament in the 19th century. This was because soldiers serving in Europe had different (less beneficial) conditions of pay and service than soldiers serving outside Europe (hardship postings). Geographers had previously always classified Malta with Africa, so to avoid having to pay their soldiers at ‘African deployment’ rates, they legislated to have Malta classified as part of Europe for the purpose of military service.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:19:00 +0000

Well duh.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:10:00 +0000

With a surname like Fenech, and born in Algeria, she couldn’t be anything other than Maltese.

Fenech is one of the few surnames that actually are Maltese rather than originating anywhere else.

An American Fenech is an American with Maltese ancestry. But a Fenech born in Algeria is Maltese: Maltin ta’ Bone (which gave us the surname Tabone).

She doesn’t look even remotely French. She is very typically Siculo-Arab-Maltese – especially those striking eyes.