Are Italians lighter skinned than Spaniards? (characteristics, Norwegian, cons, Spanish)
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Actually they somewhat are! Here we are looking at average and typical people. Obviously there are Italian individuals who are quite blonde, that's true. There are plenty of French people who are dark especially in southern France. When I went to France for first time, there were quite a few Frenchmen whom here in America we could call White Hispanic because they were of a more brunette pigmentation.
Brunette suggests Hispanic in America? Since when?
Brunette suggests Hispanic in America? Since when?
Not brunette, rather people who are darker than what is common in northwestern Europe. There are plenty of whites who are brunettes, but when someone is darker than the average northwestern European brunette, then one can suggest that the individual is either Hispanic or Italian(Sicilian) or of mixed ancestry . This is not always true, but someone can suggest that, when you look different from "the mainstream White folks" see. So just by being very brunette doesn't mean necessarily that you're a immeditely Hispanic, but people could think that you are.
Not all white Americans are from NW Europe, there's some from southern Europe and obviously they count as "mainstream white folks" whatever that's supposed to mean. I don't think people would assume Hispanic.
Not all white Americans are from NW Europe, there's some from southern Europe and obviously they count as "mainstream white folks" whatever that's supposed to mean. I don't think people would assume Hispanic.
Sure, but the majority are descendants from northwestern and central Europe according to the US Census Bureau statistician estimates show about 86% of European Americans tend to be from those regions with a large minority from southern Europe. That is the difference between the U.S, Canada and the other nations of South America whose European population came mainly from Spain, Italy, Portugal and they have a northwestern and central European population as a minority. Nothing to be surprised of, the colonial stock was primarily Anglo-Saxon(English) and Celtic (Scottish, Scots-Irish and Welsh).
Yes, there's more northern European ancestry than southern European ancestry but that wouldn't mean southern Europeans in the US would be thought of as looking "hispanic", rather than just white or maybe Italian-American.
Of course. Italians are much lighter than Spaniards in every way, skin, hair, eyes. In fact most of them have light hair and eyes. They look mostly northern European to me unless they're not really ethnically Italian and have ancestry from another country
Yesterday they published for the first time a genoma of an European hunter-gatherer from 8.000 years ago found in Braña, Leon. He had dark skin, black hair and blue eyes and his genoma does not exist in Spain nowdays, but in parts of Sweden and Finland. It seems that at that time, Europeans were very dark.
[url=http://www.dicyt.com/noticias/ojos-azules-y-piel-oscura-asi-era-un-cazador-recolector-europeo-de-hace-7-000-anos]Ojos azules y piel oscura, así era un cazador-recolector europeo de hace 7.000 años[/url]
Of course. Italians are much lighter than Spaniards in every way, skin, hair, eyes. In fact most of them have light hair and eyes. They look mostly northern European to me unless they're not really ethnically Italian and have ancestry from another country
I found it the opposite. Italians even in the north looked stereotypically Italian with dark features and Roman features.
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