cullen
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Post by cullen on Apr 13, 2005 19:47:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I have a relative who married an Irish man. They are both short, both Catholics, of course. His relatives have very light skin and thin fair hair, almost nothing on the head, grey eyes. She has very thick, curly hair, big brown eyes. I was sure that a nephew would look like Italian side, but he looks exactly like his father.
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Post by SensoUnico on Apr 13, 2005 21:16:46 GMT -5
I think that some interethnic mixes start off looking like the lighter non Southern European parent and gradually become more like the darker parent as they age. It is interesting to look at pictures of Jewish actors when in their less Jewish looking younger days,and see how they have become progressively Jewish looking as they have gone into middle age.
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Post by buddyrydell on Apr 14, 2005 0:40:54 GMT -5
I think that some interethnic mixes start off looking like the lighter non Southern European parent and gradually become more like the darker parent as they age. It is interesting to look at pictures of Jewish actors when in their less Jewish looking younger days,and see how they have become progressively Jewish looking as they have gone into middle age. I'm an example of this. Some (though by no means all) half northern/southern Europeans do indeed take on more of the southern European traits as maturity sets in. As I've gotten older, I've looked more and more like my Italian father as opposed to my northern/central European mother. I'm essentially the spitting image of my father now. What happened as I got older was the darkening of my hair to its present dark brown/black color, the elongation of my face, and the taking on of Med/Dinaric facial traits. Still, I know many people of a similar combination who look very much like their northern European side.
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KULL
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Post by KULL on Apr 14, 2005 2:46:28 GMT -5
I know instead some couples North-Italian/Scotch-Irish, that means Central-European+ Northern european. The sons approach more the northeuropean side.
Anyway, the immigration in american continent (i mean Brazil and Argentina too) was made not only by Southern italians but by Northern italians too; And on this i repeat what i said before : between north Italy(mostly celtic in origin) and british isles inhabitants (especially the celtic ireland), the phenotypical subracial differences are very little. They're very similar.
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Post by SensoUnico on Apr 14, 2005 10:50:19 GMT -5
I think I did not explain myself well before. I was thinking more of the shape of the face, nose, mouth and the shape of the body after maturity not so much the coloring of skin, eyes or hair. I think a lot of times people just look at the pigmentation rather than other features.
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KULL
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Post by KULL on Apr 15, 2005 20:09:25 GMT -5
I think I did not explain myself well before. I was thinking more of the shape of the face, nose, mouth and the shape of the body after maturity not so much the coloring of skin, eyes or hair. I think a lot of times people just look at the pigmentation rather than other features. Well, in the previous posts, many have spoken about the pigmentation principally. Anyway, even on height structure and perhaps facial traits, North italians and Irish people are not too different. Italians, are NOT all southern european and Mediterranean.
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Samhain
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Post by Samhain on Apr 15, 2005 22:14:14 GMT -5
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