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Old 08-26-2015, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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I have German ancestors and I would like to know if I appear to have good German facial features.

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Old 08-26-2015, 08:51 PM
 
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Your look is too "generic" as in you could be *anything.*
I live in the area where there are a lot of German surnames and a lot of German ancestry.
The looks of SOME people around here - I sometimes wonder why they even speak English as their native tongue))) But on a few occasions when I asked them about their ancestry they admitted it was German, however they seemed to be oblivious to their looks.
 
Old 08-26-2015, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada
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Anyone who claims they can tell apart ethnic faces from countries whose whose population and borders hasn't remained insanely homogenous for hundreds of years is completely full of it (exceedingly few). Sorry but no, there is no way of telling if you have a 'German face' because that doesn't really exist.
 
Old 08-27-2015, 03:27 AM
 
Location: Europe
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You have a generic look yeah, you can look Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish, German... whatever
 
Old 08-27-2015, 04:46 AM
 
Location: Morgantown, WV
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In before Saxonwold takes over the thread.
 
Old 08-27-2015, 05:28 AM
 
Location: SE UK
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Originally Posted by Bryce7454 View Post
I have German ancestors and I would like to know if I appear to have good German facial features.

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Oh no! What have you done!! Saxonwold is going to have fits over this one! You must be an American? Perhaps you can tell me what 'German features' are exactly? And then you can tell me why only Germans have these features?
 
Old 08-27-2015, 06:00 AM
 
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Germans as a whole don't have super obvious facial features. But there are regional similarities.

A Swabian has a distinct look, as does a Hamburger (really anyone native to the far north is likely to have a "look"). A Rhinelander, not so much. Bavarians, not as much.

But there are still differences. Bavarians and Swabians are obviously darker than Northerners; Rhinelanders are somewhere in the middle. The areas bordering Netherlands are probably the blondest/palest/tallest; mountainous areas bordering Switzerland and Austria are probably the darkest/shortest.
 
Old 08-27-2015, 10:48 AM
 
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Germans as a whole don't have super obvious facial features. But there are regional similarities.
SOME of them do, some don't.
But it's true that there is no one single "German" type of look.
Their looks indeed are regional.
 
Old 08-27-2015, 10:59 AM
 
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Default lol

Looks South Italian to me.
 
Old 08-27-2015, 11:06 AM
 
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Originally Posted by NOLA101 View Post
Germans as a whole don't have super obvious facial features. But there are regional similarities.

A Swabian has a distinct look, as does a Hamburger (really anyone native to the far north is likely to have a "look"). A Rhinelander, not so much. Bavarians, not as much.

But there are still differences. Bavarians and Swabians are obviously darker than Northerners; Rhinelanders are somewhere in the middle. The areas bordering Netherlands are probably the blondest/palest/tallest; mountainous areas bordering Switzerland and Austria are probably the darkest/shortest.
Thank you for the good laugh. You forgot to mention that all Americans look like Abe Lincoln.
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