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Post by alexandrian on Feb 28, 2005 19:53:07 GMT -5
LOL, what's wrong with being part Albanian? Actually, many Albanians can easily pass as Greek or Italian. The Dinaric type is dominant there, as it is also quite strong in Greece and Italy. I think the only difference is that Albanians are more Dinaric and Alpine and less Med. I'd say they're more Dinaric, more Med, and less Alpine, but thats just my opinion.
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Post by hansel on Feb 28, 2005 20:43:02 GMT -5
LOL, what's wrong with being part Albanian? Actually, many Albanians can easily pass as Greek or Italian. The Dinaric type is dominant there, as it is also quite strong in Greece and Italy. I think the only difference is that Albanians are more Dinaric and Alpine and less Med. well for the most part they do not they are pretty easily recognisable both in greece and in italia
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Post by Liquid Len on Apr 10, 2005 9:51:21 GMT -5
I think de Vito is certainy not alpine, since I don't believe he's brachycephalic. In my opinion he always was a good example for the so called berid type, a mediterranean "subrace".
As Bertil Lundman put it: "Within this region, however, there are remnants of the still smaller Berid race. This race is broader-formed in face and nose, but very similar to the West-Mediterranean race in the other anthropological traits - such as head form and pigmentation. The Berid race is also low in the frequency of blood type genes p and q."
Typical is also the so called "infantile" bodycast. They've got the proportions of a three-year old child an often a steep, round forehead.
btw: I thought I' heard his ancestors were from Sicily, but I'm not sure.
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Post by jojoscircus on Apr 10, 2005 18:15:57 GMT -5
I think de Vito is certainy not alpine, since I don't believe he's brachycephalic. In my opinion he always was a good example for the so called berid type, a mediterranean "subrace". As Bertil Lundman put it: "Within this region, however, there are remnants of the still smaller Berid race. This race is broader-formed in face and nose, but very similar to the West-Mediterranean race in the other anthropological traits - such as head form and pigmentation. The Berid race is also low in the frequency of blood type genes p and q." Typical is also the so called "infantile" bodycast. They've got the proportions of a three-year old child an often a steep, round forehead. btw: I thought I' heard his ancestors were from Sicily, but I'm not sure. I always want to talk about these berid types because I have some members of my family that fit the description very well. The problem is that Meds on this board get offended because the description of Berid or Coarse types is so negative sounding. Then they claim that the type doesn't exist at all or that if it ever did exist it just arose from poor diet. Let me just say though that when the Berid type is mixed with other types, the look is less extreme and more 'cute.' People look cuter with a somewhat round face, big eyes, and a rounded nose. Those in my family who are of this type retain their youthful face and don't change drastically from childhood to adulthood.
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Post by Dodona Underground on Apr 10, 2005 19:31:44 GMT -5
I think de Vito is certainy not alpine, since I don't believe he's brachycephalic. In my opinion he always was a good example for the so called berid type, a mediterranean "subrace". As Bertil Lundman put it: "Within this region, however, there are remnants of the still smaller Berid race. This race is broader-formed in face and nose, but very similar to the West-Mediterranean race in the other anthropological traits - such as head form and pigmentation. The Berid race is also low in the frequency of blood type genes p and q." Typical is also the so called "infantile" bodycast. They've got the proportions of a three-year old child an often a steep, round forehead. btw: I thought I' heard his ancestors were from Sicily, but I'm not sure. Welcome aboard, Liquid Len. I'm enjoying you already. Now then, I think that the only way that that little man with the massively wide face and temple can be long-headed or even mesocephalic is for him to have a kind of mutant-like occiput like you'd see on space aliens. By the way, per Lundman, what exactly is mediterranid about his head form?
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Post by Drooperdoo on Apr 11, 2005 4:27:01 GMT -5
Whoever guessed that Devito has some Albanian blood is brilliant! --I knew long ago that Danny Devito was one-fourth Albanian from some online "Famous Albanian-Americans" websites. He's something like 3/4ths Italian and 1/4 Albanian. And, yes, Albanians are mostly Dinaric, dark. John Belushi--who shares Danny Devito's stocky build, short stature and dark hair--was called "Paco" by the neighborhood as a boy. Sandra Bullock is also half-Albanian--which helps explain her olive skin and raven hair. [Such was her Mediterranean coloring that I assumed that she must be part-Jewish.] As it turns out: No. Part-Albanian. Albanians are Europe's Muslims and the sweethearts of the Turks when they owned parts of Europe. There's no doubt that gene-flow occurred between these Balkans and their Ottoman overlords. [On the whole, of course, they're just Dinarics--the kind of people who gave Southern Germany its pockets of dark phenotypes.]
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