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Post by kingpin on Nov 1, 2005 20:41:00 GMT -5
Me and my dad,grandpa etc can not grow beards and have no chest or arm hair. We are southern German with back hair. Is this common among any specific groups. Seems like people from that area of europe are usually hairy fellows.
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Post by kingpin on Nov 1, 2005 20:43:50 GMT -5
*black hair not back ;D
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Post by Educate Me on Nov 1, 2005 20:47:08 GMT -5
maybe you have tatar/mongol/hun mongoloid in your genepool that keeps you hairless
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Post by Crimson Guard on Nov 1, 2005 21:37:29 GMT -5
Yeah you sound like my favoite second cousin whiskers....
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Post by Hairless on Nov 1, 2005 22:49:31 GMT -5
My family is this way, but with no leg hair either
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Post by MC anunnaki on Nov 2, 2005 2:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by asdf on Nov 8, 2005 6:04:12 GMT -5
My dad seems to have lost all his leg hair as high as he wears his socks after 50+ years. I on the other hand have brown legs because of the hair.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Nov 8, 2005 8:20:40 GMT -5
Non-Jewish, non-Turkish Germans--that is to say, ethnic Germans--usually don't have black hair. It's extremely rare even among the darker Dinaric types of Southern Germany. Can you be clearer about your background? --I mean, you're not a Turk born in Germany and calling yourself "German," are you? [That would, of course, make your analysis quite different.] The added hairlessness--in addition to the black hair--hints at distant Mongol admixture. Carletoon Coon had photos of some Germans with clear Mongol traits--even all these centuries later. But that's extremely rare. Are you sure you;re being 100% clear about your ethnic identity? --I mean, what if you were born in Germany but of Balkan ancestors (from the Ottoman Empire)? That would make everything vastly different, because then a clear source for Turkic or Mongolouid admixture could be traced with reasonable accuracy).
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Post by Hairless on Nov 8, 2005 15:12:15 GMT -5
One of my g-grandfathers was German with black hair (fair skin) with origin in Hannover and most of his family there for at least 500 years (we think originally from Norway). I am not sure if he had trouble growing a beard or not. I asked my grandma about it and the best we can tell is that his mother had origin nearer the French border, so I assume some Mediterranean influence on her side.
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Post by Yankel on Nov 8, 2005 16:36:29 GMT -5
For a lot of people hair color is subjective. In Germany, black hair is probably what people around the Mediterranean basin would consider dark brown. It's rare in most of Europe.
On the other hand, in the Middle East, brown hair is considered blonde.
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Post by kingpin on Nov 8, 2005 22:27:59 GMT -5
Interesting..., maybe i am part mongolian, if im am it is from a long time go. All my grandparemts are from southern germany(austria,munich). I consider myself to have black hair
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Post by yigal on Nov 8, 2005 23:01:01 GMT -5
OMG its David Hasselhoff, Halo David Ya mein name ist hanz und i think david hasselhof is voonderbar, your hair is black/brown not what we usually mean by black
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Post by MC anunnaki on Nov 9, 2005 3:35:12 GMT -5
On the other hand, in the Middle East, brown hair is considered blonde. Light brown hair, yes, but not the darker shades of brown. Any nation where the majority have pitch-black hair will probably consider light brown hair blonde.
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Post by Yankel on Nov 9, 2005 3:46:13 GMT -5
Indeed. That is what I had in mind when I said brown.
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Post by MC anunnaki on Nov 9, 2005 3:49:44 GMT -5
Cool.
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