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A majority of Scottish people have brown hair. I met and know Scottish people and I can't recall a majority of them blonde or redhaired. Scotland may have the same latitude as Denmark, yet there are higher percentage of Blondes in Denmark than Scotland.
Absolutely, I traveled around Scotland during 1 month...and really few blond people compare to Denmark.
But Brits firmly believed they were pure Anglosaxons during centuries, if you read any literature of their Empire era, they viewed themselves as Anglosaxons purebreeds against "Celtic monkeys". So when they realized they were basically the same people living in all the isles during 7.000 years it was a big shock to them.
So basically, as French User stated, Brits are fairer than French because they live in a rainy rock on top of France, no sun and lots of water, and probably when Romans arrived they had a similar aspect, probably smaller.
All Romantic hogwash, really, I don't think that the population of large European nations have changed much in 3.000 years....but after Enlightment came Romanticism, people started to believe is ghosts, Frankensteins, Draculas, elfs, anglosaxons, ostrogoths and strange people living in the depth of caves.
You're mixing things , the British did not believe that they were "pure" Anglo-Saxons! That's not true. The English were proud of their Anglo-Saxon heritage and since the English were the larger and dominating people of the British Isles! While the Welsh, the Cornish, the Scottish did not consider themselves Anglo-Saxon, but were subjugated to English rule by force and treaties. In the Celtic languages of Welsh, Scottish, even Irish the term for the English is Saxon("Sassenach"). Obviously the creation of England within Britain was due to the Anglo-Saxons who brought their culture, language, traditions to the Isles. The term "Anglo-Saxons" came into being to differentiate between the continental Saxons who primarily lived in northern Germany, southern Denmark and those in Britain. Without the Anglo-Saxons, there would be no England, which means "Land of the Angles". Anglo-Saxons only means English Saxons. Of course as they became the dominant people of Britain, they uplifted their Germanic heritage over the Celtic ones, Celts were called Welsh(Wahla/foreigner) for example. Well in Britain, Germanic ancestry is more frequent among the English than say the Welsh. Celtic tribes lived all over Western Europe at one time, however due to Roman, Germanic and other forces invading, they were "squeezed" into the northwestern quadrant of Europe. So anyway Celts and Germans are similar people.
Brits are light eyes, very light skin, dark hair! Among Welsh and Irish people, blondism is very rare.
Germans are light eyes, medium light skin, light hair!
But both countries have few blond people and have totally different features.You can easily pick a British among germans even if they all have the same hair color.
Blondism is not rare in Ireland at all! You don't know what you're talking about. And you cannot always pick a British person from a German! That is a lie. Boris Becker, German tennis player, Sammer the German soccer player could be easily confused for British people. The average Brit has a very light skin, brown hair not dark, and usually light eyes. Germans also have on average brown hair and light eyes and not necessarily a very light skin as the British/Irish. Anyway as a whole, Northern Europeans have somewhat a light pigmentation.
Could you differentiate these Irish children from the German children in earlier pages of this thread which I posted earlier. I think not! http://fethard.com/photos_2004/camp_0213.jpg
Absolutely, I traveled around Scotland during 1 month...and really few blond people compare to Denmark.
Denmark along with Scandinavian countries are the blondest countries in Europe! So your point is irrelevant, obviously Scotland as a whole will be less blonde-haired than Denmark. Scotland is one of the reddest-haired countries on the planet, so your jokes about Scottish folks being "dark" don't make sense.
Grape growing is common in Atlantic climates too, not only Mediterranean.
Grape is common only in the warm-summer oceanic climates. All climates classified as "oceanic" are not similar, but can have lors of climatical diversity especially in summer. Grape need near mediterranean tupes of summers to be able to produce wine, especially true for red wine. That the reason wine is not produced in the oceanic climates of northern Europe but in iceanic climates further south yes.
Celts were light haired and light featured and originated approximately in mid to southern Germany. They migrated across to the most western parts of North West Europe. They must have left influences along the way.
Look people are not denying that there are no blond or red headed people in the UK they are just telling you that you are wrong to suggest they are the 'majority' and its not even close! A majority of British people are dark haired NOT blond and NOT red headed, this is coming from somebody who actually LIVES in the UK!!! If you don't believe me why don't you actually try coming here and looking for yourself, just look at all the famouse Britons you know and you will see that most are NOT blond signed
A dark haired Briton (yes a 'proper' indigenous Englishman who does NOT have pale skin that 'burns easily' just like the rest of his family and 90% of his British friends!)
I said most Britons are brown-haired not blonde/red-haired, the same applies to Germans and Dutch people. Hey I know plenty of famous Britons who have light hair, and also since I'm a rugby fan, I know many English players who are blnde-headed/red-headed. You and some other dreamers wanted to make Britain/Ireland as if it was some Mediterranean country, it is definitely not! Brits/Irish are way too pale for that. Yes you are a dark-haired Brit, with a relatively dark skin as you quote, well that doesn't make up for all the vast majority who are pale. I have English ancestry too, so do you think you're fooling?
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