What are the Whitest countries on earth? (assess, Lebanese)

[hkgal]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Japan

This answer highlights the idiocy of the original question.

There are many very pale-skinned Japanese people so you could argue that it was well in the running.

However, the OP seems to be asking two different questions - which country has the greatest proportion of people of european ethnicity, and which has the greatest proportion of people with the palest skin.

Pointless question.

[TylerJAX]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

I am not sure who is right in this thread, but I can say with a great degree of certainty that this is not the right answer.

They seem pretty pale to me. What type of ******* would care about something like this in the year 2009 anyway?

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by hkgal

This answer highlights the idiocy of the original question.

There are many very pale-skinned Japanese people so you could argue that it was well in the running.

However, the OP seems to be asking two different questions - which country has the greatest proportion of people of european ethnicity, and which has the greatest proportion of people with the palest skin.

Pointless question.

Taken from the OP:
I mean the countries that are the most European,

Seems pretty cut and dry to me.


Valid question in my book as well.

[hkgal]

Taken from the OP's message header:
What are the Whitest countries on earth?

Not so cut and dried. Perhaps a clearer title would have been beneficial to the original question.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by hkgal

Taken from the OP's message header:
What are the Whitest countries on earth?

Not so cut and dried. Perhaps a clearer title would have been beneficial to the original question.

I'm sure virtually everyone who looked at this thread title knew exactly what he was talking about. You probably did too. Honestly, I think you're just trying to be difficult.

Anyways, the original topic is what are the whitest countries on earth. Let's get back to it.

[big daryle]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

I am not sure who is right in this thread, but I can say with a great degree of certainty that this is not the right answer.

It is if you consider Japanese to be 'white' which many people do.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by big daryle

It is if you consider Japanese to be 'white' which many people do.

No, no one does.

Back on topic....

[rickers]

Originally Posted by big daryle

It is if you consider Japanese to be 'white' which many people do.

White is slang for Caucasian, ethnic Japanese are Asian. I agree the entire post is silly.

Like I said before in my opinion AUSTRIA is the whitest country.

[mrkool]

Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

[internat]

It's usually understood white is Caucasian=Europid. It's not easy though. I've noticed people have different definitions of white. I make the assumption the OP is thinking of places with the highest percentage of white people. I would say most of Eastern Europe. I think their closed political systems during a long time has been the reason.

Russia is very white. An English friend of mine (I know there are many people from Caucasus there but that's more a social difference) of mine visited Moscow (which is the most multi-cultural Russian city) and was surprised to see very few non-whites.

Finland is another good examples. The country is considered to be western European in a political sense. But it has taken very few non-white immigrants. Then again immigrants are also more attracted to Sweden than Finland, for a number of reasons.

Large cities will have more non-whites because that's simply where immigrants settle. You may compare Oslo to west coast Norway.