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Post by nordicyouth on Apr 19, 2004 15:02:13 GMT -5
I'm trying to find out which nation has the highest % of blondism - I would assume it is Sweden, but I don't know its percentage. Does anybody have any info detailing blondism for each European country? Much appreciated!!
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Post by Loki on Apr 21, 2004 16:50:09 GMT -5
I'm trying to find out which nation has the highest % of blondism - I would assume it is Sweden, but I don't know its percentage. Does anybody have any info detailing blondism for each European country? Much appreciated!! It would be either Norway, Sweden or Estonia, I think.
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Post by alex221166 on Apr 21, 2004 17:01:04 GMT -5
The correct answer is Finland.
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Post by executiona9 on Apr 21, 2004 17:08:50 GMT -5
Indeed, Finland is the blondest.
Most people in Norway have blond hair, however Norway is the darkest country in Scandinavia. Danes, Finns and Swedes are all blonder than Norwegians.
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Post by berschneider on Apr 21, 2004 17:22:00 GMT -5
Finns are probably the blondest (it's not uncommon to be the only person with brown hair on a domestic Finnish flight:) BUT if you base your conclusion on the news story about extinction of blond people, which is a battle cry at SKADI, which mentioned Finland as the blondest nation then it is was a total FRAUD and a JOKE, although the scummies mistook it for real thing.
The article, claiming that blond/e/s are dying out and that Finland has Europe's highest percentage of blonds first appeared in Spiegel (German "Mirror"). The article mentioned scientific studies of blondness and that blonds are going to perish and that Finland has Europe's highest ratio of blond people and that the world's last blond will be born in Finland. Then it was taken on by foreign media, first by the BBC. The story was a fake. Spiegel issued a statement saying sorry it was a fake - there was no study of Finns being the blondest people and positively no study of blonds disappearing from the face of earth.
On the other hand, I believe Finns are the blondest people in Europe (although Estonia across the gulf of Finland would come close)
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Post by berschneider on Apr 21, 2004 17:24:50 GMT -5
Indeed, Finland is the blondest. Most people in Norway have blond hair, however Norway is the darkest country in Scandinavia. Danes, Finns and Swedes are all blonder than Norwegians. You are right, Executiona9 the CheeseXXX:) - Norwegians are the darkest and the furriest people in the region
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Post by nordicyouth on Apr 22, 2004 0:21:15 GMT -5
I guess Finland is the blondest nation followed by Estonia, and the rest of Scandinavia. I have other questions -
(a) do all blondes turn darker i.e. to dirty blonde, are there any that remain blondes (not bottle) throughout their lives, and to what degree does this occur?
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Post by berschneider on Apr 22, 2004 4:15:18 GMT -5
I guess Finland is the blondest nation followed by Estonia, and the rest of Scandinavia. I have other questions - (a) do all blondes turn darker i.e. to dirty blonde, are there any that remain blondes (not bottle) throughout their lives, and to what degree does this occur? You can only guess because you cannot know it for sure. It's not science although I *guess* such a study is possible as long as we develop a precise blondishness measurement system - to begin with we could use a system akin to the one metal dealers use for measuring rust. We would most certainly be nominated for the Ignoble Prize otherwise awarded for most stupid and pointless scientific projects and "inventions" (http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html) but I agree that the project itself would be immense fun
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Post by Praetor on Apr 25, 2004 18:24:03 GMT -5
Indeed, Finland is the blondest. Most people in Norway have blond hair, however Norway is the darkest country in Scandinavia. Danes, Finns and Swedes are all blonder than Norwegians. According to Danes that I know, the darkest scandinavian country is Denmark.
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Post by Graeme on Apr 26, 2004 10:10:08 GMT -5
As far as I know the centre of maximum blondness is in the not Sweden, Denmark or Norway, but the other side of the Baltic from Poland to Finland.
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Post by executiona9 on Apr 26, 2004 13:59:53 GMT -5
Poland is much darker than Scandinavia. Poland is comparable to Germany and England when it comes to haircolour.
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Post by Volksdeutscher on Apr 30, 2004 10:59:52 GMT -5
The Frisians are very blond, with rufosity. The Estonians who lack rufosity are probably the blondest people on earth, but it is more East Baltid than Nordid. (Jordens Människoraser och Folkstammar, Kärntryck, Åstorp, 1943).
The Danes are, from what I have read and observed, the Scandinavians with darkest hair. Norway got some dark haired pockets in the west and southwest. It is because of the Strandid type.
Finns, especially in the southwest are also very light haired, like the Western Estonians.
Swedes are lightest in the southwest, e.g. Dalsland and Västergötland.
You will find more rufosity in southwestern than northeastern Sweden. There is also more rufosity in southern than northern Norway. Denmark got some rufosity of probably Phalian origin.
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Post by executiona9 on Apr 30, 2004 18:17:08 GMT -5
It would be nice if you state which Frisians you are refering to : dutch-frisians, german-frisians or danish-frisians. I dont know much about German-Frisians and Danish-Frisians, perhaps they are very blond. Dutch-frisians are a different case, the great majority of dutch-frisians have brown hair. Furthermore rufosity is rare among dutch-frisians. Only 2 or 3 % of them have red/ginger hair. a pic of a dutch-frisian team :
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Post by Volksdeutscher on Apr 30, 2004 20:29:14 GMT -5
Mainly Ostfriesland.
That is a small sample you showed. 7 or 8 in that group of 14 got one shade or another of blond hair. Also keep in mind that hair usually look darker in pictures. There is only one, he on the lower right, who may have dark brown hair. The rest are medium brown or lighter which many anthropologist (e.g. G Backman, B Lundman) count as blond.
That group of people are almost fully Nordid, perhaps except 1 or 2 individuals with seemingly non-Nordid traits as well. I think that around 60 % in that sample can be counted as blond. That is a high number.
Ostfriesland, especially so in Spiekeroog, have around 7 % (Nordenstreng, Coon etc.) or more of red hair. Red hair is a minority everywhere.
There are many more with strawberry blond hair.
"The Frisians are among the blondest people in the world."
Coon, Carleton Stevens Chapter XII, section 4, The Netherlands and Frisia, The Races of Europe, 1939.
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Post by executiona9 on May 1, 2004 7:55:19 GMT -5
Most people on the pic I posted have medium brown hair. There are ofcourse also black, darkbrown, darkblond, blond and redhaired Dutch-Frisians, but the most common haircolour in Dutch-Frisia is medium brown hair. Medium brown is not blond, medium brown is a medium version of brown, just like the name sais.
Im aware that some anthropologists want to put some countries/regions were brown hair is most common (like England, Holland, Flanders) into the Nordic category. But personally I disagree with this. In order to be nordic you have to have blond hair. A brownhaired person can never be nordic in my opinion. Therefore most English, Dutch and Flemish people are not nordic.
Coon makes the mistake by judging Dutch-Frisians, Danish-Frisians and German-Frisians on the same level. You cannot compare a dutch-frisian with a german-frisian. Dutch-Frisia (just like the rest of Holland) has a lot of celtic, roman and iberian blood mixed in besides the Germanic blood. German-Frisians are much more Germanic than Dutch-Frisians and therefore German-frisians are much blonder.
Furthermore I dont really care what Coon sais. Coon was an American. I live in Holland, I come into contact with Dutch-frisians everyday.
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