THE BLONDEST PEOPLE

[berschneider]

executiona9 said:

Germany is certainly in Central-Europe when it comes to geography.

England is usually called North-West Europe when it comes to geography.

Holland is actually on the border. Sometimes Holland is called Central-Europe, and sometimes Holland is called North-West Europe when it comes to geography.

However I wasnt refering to geography when I said Holland and England are Central countries.

Holland and England may be situated in North-West Europe when it comes to geography, but when it comes to looks/appearance the English and Dutch look central-european.

almost all Central-european countries share the following looks :
-most children blond
-most adults brown hair
-most people blue or green eyes, however a strong brown eyes minority (between 20 % and 40 %)

Scandinavian (northern) countries share the following looks:
-most children blond
-most adults blond
-almost everyone has blue or green eyes, brown eyes are a very small minority

English and Dutch people fall into the Central-European category when it comes to looks, thats why I classified them as central

Well, if you take European continent from the Urals to the Atlantic then Germany is in Western Europe and Poland is Central Europe - leaning to the West. This is if we were to devide Europe into:
Northwest
Northeast
West
Center
East
Southwest
Southeast

Your visual classification makes a lot of sense though (by how people "look") because more or less Europe then can be split into three bands of looks - North, Center, South, and England and Holland are distinctly in the Center, not in the South or the North.

[buddyrydell]

Question: If most central European children have blond hair, would that happen to include French children as well? I know France is western Europe geographically, but I always thought the French looked like a blend of central and southern Europeans. Is this correct?

[executiona9]

Question: If most central European children have blond hair, would that happen to include French children as well? I know France is western Europe geographically, but I always thought the French looked like a blend of central and southern Europeans. Is this correct?

Yes, you are correct.

When it comes to looks France is on the fence of the Central-European and Southern-European worlds. French people are darker than central-europeans and lighter than Southern-Europeans.

When it comes to geography France is mostly in Central-Europe. Southern-France is considered Southern-Europe, but Northern and Central France are considered Central-Europe

[buddyrydell]

I think that the French are most similar to the northern Italians, predominantly Alpo-Dinaric, in between the central and southern European spheres with regard to appearance. Southern Italians strongly resemble the Greeks from my experience (for obvious historical reasons), and are within the typical southern European range of appearances. Most children are brown-haired, and it usually darkens to a very dark brown, almost black color. Interesting how the hair darkens with puberty.