To me he looks much more like Sephardi Jews.
To me, Sephardic Jews just look like southern Europeans, or sometimes Middle Easterners of the more Turkish or Levantine variety, and even, occasionally, more western European, so that's a bit of a meaningless statement, in my opinion. It's too general. You certainly don't think there's only one Sephardic "look"? They're not genetically like the Ashkenazim, you know. They never suffered an extreme genetic bottleneck, which could be held to have led to the development of a "few" distinct looks, although there is variety even among the pure Ashkenazim.
This is Benjamin Cardozo, one of the finest jurists ever to sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. I don't think he looks a bit like Cotugno.
How about this French Jew of Sephardic extraction? Nope, I don't see it.
Maybe Hank Azaria? Other than coloring, I don't see that they have much in common in terms of facial features. BTW, nobody in Italy would question Hank Azaria if he said he was Italian.
Or how about the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel? Definitely not.
People don't fit into these constrictive little boxes that people try to put them in, particularly people who have no real experience with the people they're trying to "analyze".
Many Sephardic Jews, and many Italians, look like people of the Mediterranean basin, which is what they are. So, you're going to find people in each group who might resemble one another slightly. It's not any more complicated than that, and doesn't have any more significance than that, other than to strange people with strange agendas.
And I never said that Toto Cotugno looked like a Native American. I said that
from certain angles, he sometimes gave me a Native American
vibe. Please don't put words in my mouth. Certain people,from southern Europe, like Cody, or North Africa, or even NW Europe, like an idiot Indian studies professor who was just recently unmasked, can, with the right hair style and costuming, pass as mixed Native Americans. I meant nothing more than that.
