Should the French be counted as Germans or Latinos?

It should be Latin. I don't think these things are absolute.

France and southern Belgium were Celtic (Gaul) areas before Roman occupation. After the Romans immigrated to Gaul, southern France and Belgium gradually became Latin. After Rome, Germans, especially Bilkendi, entered the French lineage, and France and Belgium were relatively close to Northern Europe, which made France's national characteristics, language, culture and natural environment somewhat different from other Latin countries.

So many people think that France and southern Belgium are impure Germans or Romanized Celts. In fact, in ancient Europe, due to the advanced civilization of the Roman Empire, life was much more comfortable than that of the Germanic Celts, and Latin people in the whole western Europe multiplied in large numbers. After Rome occupied Gaul, a large number of former Italian nationalities moved to France, which stabilized the region and became the main ethnic group here, while the vast majority of indigenous Celts were sold to Italy as slaves (Rome conquered Gaul and gained 6.5438+million slaves, exceeding the total number of slaves gained by conquering Greece, Sardinia, Catalonia and other densely populated areas). Gaul was once the administrative region of the Roman Empire, ranking second only to Italy. After the fall of Rome, although the Germans migrated everywhere, their population in Europe was still far less than that of the original Roman descendants (during the Renaissance, the population of Italy was the sum of the Holy Roman Empire, Britain, huge Poland, Northern Europe and Russia, the GDP of Venice exceeded that of Britain and the Holy Roman Empire18th century, and the population of France was180,000, which was higher than that of Germany, Poland and huge Austria. This is why, during the expansion of Germanic forces in the Middle Ages, other places conquered and invaded by Germans were Germanized (such as Britain), while France and Italy still had obvious Roman characteristics and vulgar Latin was transformed. Latins were surpassed by Germans in population, culture and science and technology, which was the Baroque period from modern 17 to 18 century. Spain and Portugal were occupied by Arabs, so Spain and Portugal have unique Islamic characteristics, but they are still typical Latin countries. Due to the rule of Arabs in the Middle Ages, the two countries in Iberian Peninsula were ahead of European countries before modern times.