People of Spain and People of Portugal - very similar or very different? (experiences, famous)
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Thanks for the link really enjoyed it although I don't understand why the blond percentages were higher for women at 23.23 vs 17.75 for men seems a bit fishy.
For the Azores the red haired girl is a very rare look, number 126 has features frequently found in the Azores. The men look about right number 243 resembles me much more than the other two, although he is older.
It's always not that accurate to distribute as the whole national scale so the given link would be still quite debatable and subjective but yes I thought it was interesting to see another wide research project about Portuguese people.
Many Spanish behave in an arrogant manner because they feel superior, such bad manners are typical of Madrileños.
Sorry but this is bull****, I come from Madrid myself and we don't feel superior towards anybody.
If you've seen some young people from Spain drinking and yelling means nothing.
I've also seen young people from England, from the Netherlands, from Germany, from the USA drinking and being loud, and this doesn't mean that people from those countries are like that, it means that young people are sometimes like, they like to drink and make party, it has more with their age to do than with their procedence.
Take it easy please. The studies show very well that the Portuguese are far from Nordic, since the vast majority is dark-haired and dark-eyed and light-pigmented people are in the minority.
I was referring to the claim of 15+% for light blond hair, which is ridiculous. The number is more like 1.5% on a national level. There are some pockets in the north where more people than usual have blond hair, but they all but get lost on the national level.
Regarding skin color, many Portuguese are indeed relatively pale, but unlike Europeans further north they have the potential to turn much darker. One can see it now in the spring, those who have the time and desire to tan, do so very easily. Many people here work the whole day, from 9 to 7, and they don't tan during the lunch break obviously. Many also work on Saturdays and/or Sundays, others do their weekly shopping at the weekend. So, a lot of people simply don't get out in the sun enough to tan.
Both photos seem to have been photoshopped, not just the eyes by the way...
Those photos are undoubtly photoshopped.
If you want to have a look how people in Spain, Portugal or Irland look like, just need to watch some soccer matches, most players on their national teams are still originals from the land, still almost no one with immigrant background, still...
I'm spanish and have green/brown eyes, which aren't a rarity in our country but anyways not the most common eye color. My skin is darker than the skin from most Germans, English or Scandinavian people and lighter than most people in arabic countries, that's very common here, I don't see any problem with that.
Yes, Hazel eyes (i.e. mixed green and brown) are not rare in Portugal, either.
At the weekend there was a kind of confirmation of my view regarding the preference for light-eyed and Nordic people in Portugal. I was watching some cooking competition show on TV and it turned out to have been the final episode. One of the finalists was of Scandinavian origin and one of the Portuguese chefs/judges said to the audience that that girl of Scandinavian origin did not make it to the finals because of her beautiful blue eyes, her blond hair or her height, but because of the quality of the dishes she had made so far. That indirectly showed that there is a preference for that Nordic look in Portugal, and it explains why so many people, mostly women, dye their hair, a silly kind of inferiority complex.
Yes, Hazel eyes (i.e. mixed green and brown) are not rare in Portugal, either.
At the weekend there was a kind of confirmation of my view regarding the preference for light-eyed and Nordic people in Portugal. I was watching some cooking competition show on TV and it turned out to have been the final episode. One of the finalists was of Scandinavian origin and one of the Portuguese chefs/judges said to the audience that that girl of Scandinavian origin did not make it to the finals because of her beautiful blue eyes, her blond hair or her height, but because of the quality of the dishes she had made so far. That indirectly showed that there is a preference for that Nordic look in Portugal, and it explains why so many people, mostly women, dye their hair, a silly kind of inferiority complex.
Yes, I think there's some kind of attraction to that what's considered exotic.
Many friends of mine in Spain do find scandinavian girls pretty because they are blond and have blue eyes. Here where I live, northern Germany, many man and women like people with dark hair and dark eyes.
As you say for now african or southamerican men are welcomed by northern girls because they don't see that exotic thing in mediterranean men anymore, they are way too near and most of this women have been already in Spain, Italy or Greece as they were still teenagers, so now they need something more exotic.
Yes, Hazel eyes (i.e. mixed green and brown) are not rare in Portugal, either.
At the weekend there was a kind of confirmation of my view regarding the preference for light-eyed and Nordic people in Portugal. I was watching some cooking competition show on TV and it turned out to have been the final episode. One of the finalists was of Scandinavian origin and one of the Portuguese chefs/judges said to the audience that that girl of Scandinavian origin did not make it to the finals because of her beautiful blue eyes, her blond hair or her height, but because of the quality of the dishes she had made so far. That indirectly showed that there is a preference for that Nordic look in Portugal, and it explains why so many people, mostly women, dye their hair, a silly kind of inferiority complex.
The preference for lighter features is very old has nothing to do with wanting to look like people from Nordic countries. It has it's origins on the concept of limpieza de Sangre(racial purity), and that only dark people worked with their hands originating during Reconquista and it was brought to Portugal during the Iberian Union from Spain, the history is sad, it was also easier to pass if you were lighter and could bribe someone to falsify documents, read this link.
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