Talk:Castilians

message: I created the article
I created the article, but it's just an stub for the moment.
Onofre Bouvila 00:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

message: It was just because the conquest of the new world was made only by Castilla, and only Castilians paid it, while Aragón was involved in its own wars in the Mediterranean. Even in Flanders, you can see which Kingdom the troops were coming form, because until the Bourbons took over, there were internal borders, taxes, different armies, currencies, courts, &c.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.16.31.100 (talk) 03:32, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Castilian was not transfered to the new world because it was predominant

message: Why is Enrique Iglesias' picture here? He was merely born in the region that's all. He's a world baby, raised abroad/from place to place. Ethnically his Spanish dad is Galician & Andalusian-Jewish, not Castilian and his mom is Filipina! He is not a good representation of a authentic Castilian person! I think his picture should be replaced preferably a woman. Why Only men pictured? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.213.248.116 (talk) 21:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'm glad someone agrees with me. Isabella I of Castile would be fine I just don't know how to update that picture since it's not mine and don't know how to change it.--76.213.251.144 (talk) 00:01, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Enrique Iglesias Not Castilian

message: The administrative inclusion of Cantabria in Castile during a period of the history is a fact that although with tinges, cannot be discussed. Nevertheless I don’t agree absolutely in the ethnic “castellanity” of the Cantabrian population, shortly: 
- Genetic studios: "Even today, Cantabrians (the Pasiego included, Lebaniegos excluded), at the North of the Iberian Peninsula, seem to be a genetically well differentiated community, as deduced from uniparental and autosomal markers, perhaps to a higher degree than their neighbours, the Basques". [] 
-First “historical” inhabitants of Cantabria are celts, while in most of Castile they are Iberian people, later we have to add a degree of much smaller romanization in the mountains, a little visigotic control and a null Muslim penetration  behind the Cantabrian Mountains. 
-Culturally, there is a completely different way of life in a mountainous and coastal region with abundant precipitations and smooth temperatures, as opposed to a dry interior plateau with great variations of temperatures. 
-Finally, the perception of almost null castellanity. Historically, still with Cantabria in Castile, was obvious the difference between The Mountain (Cantabria) and Castile (ej: I´m going to Castile to…) and also there was different between being Montañés (Cantabrian) and Castilian (people from the plateau, on the south of The Mountain).
With this I don’t wanna give the idea that Cantabrians are a separate race, but if we speak of cultural and “ethnic” groups of Spain, not only separate by ancient kingdoms or “national realities”, but also by natural regions, and is obvious that the Cantabrian Mountains has represented during centuries a great barrier. In fact, within the own Cantabria, the “pasiegos” represent a differentiated ethnic, cultural and linguistic group that has been object of many studies. Equally Cantabrian and Asturian people probably  form a group more homogenous than the one here proposed.
With this I request to retire cantabrian people of the article castilian people.
Uhanu 02:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cantabrian people

message: Why has the image of the footballer Fernando Torres been removed ? - he is one of the best known Castilians in the world at the moment.Provocateur (talk) 00:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fernando Torres 

message: One province in Castile, which is now a region in it's own right, is Madrid.
Even though Madrid is the capital and it has welcomed people from other regions of Spain and indeed the world, especially from Latin America, the Castilians from Madrid, deny that they are Castilians by saying that they have a regional identity distinct from Castile. People from Toledo, Segovia and Valladolid see themselves as Castilian so why not Madrid people? Many of there ancestors came from Castile!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.107.81 (talk) 00:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madrid is in Castile, even though it is an administrive region in it's own right! 

message: the Castilians and Castile have their own flag, the golden castle in the red or purple, background. Why not show it? It is their ethnic flag, the flags of the autonomous regions that make up Castile, are seperate flags that use the Castilian flag, like Castilla y Leon, which uses it with the Leonese symbol and Castilla-La Mancha which uses it with a white background. If you are going to show these flags with the Madrid flag, why not the Castilian one as well? even though Castile is not an official administrive region any more!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.247.15 (talk) 09:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castilian flag should be show with flags of autonomous regions. 

message: the firsts castilian people are not iberian they are celts like cantabrians,  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.152.30.111 (talk) 22:57, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  cantabros 

message: One woman only? This is ridiculous! There should be at least several more images of women, including Queen Isabel I, who is, after all, among the most important figures in world history.Provocateur (talk) 12:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Women