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Post by ProdigalSon on Jan 27, 2004 8:40:04 GMT -5
Here is a correlation between the Bunak hair color scale and the Fischer hair color scale:  Bunak classes I, II, and III (Fischer #s 8-26) are considered "blond". By this definition of blondism, 33% of Russians are blonde:  If we limit the label "blond" to Fischer #s 9-26, 22% of Russians are blond. In comparison, 21.3% of Finnish Swedes are blonde by this definition. |
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Post by Satyros on Jan 27, 2004 10:12:54 GMT -5
Why are the Russians called Russians? There are also the Prussians. Is there a relationship between the name of the Russians-Prussians between Russia-Prussia?
Maybe a shared place of origin or something?
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Post by ProdigalSon on Jan 28, 2004 23:38:11 GMT -5
Why are the Russians called Russians? There are also the Prussians. Is there a relationship between the name of the Russians-Prussians between Russia-Prussia? Maybe a shared place of origin or something? To be honest with you, I have no idea. |
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Post by Praetor on Jan 30, 2004 14:51:51 GMT -5
The term Russian probably comes from the Rus people which were connected to Swedish Vikings.In fact Swedes were the Rulers of Novgorod and Kiev in the 9th century AD. The viking elite soon adopted slavic language and culture.Rus people became infamous of their attacks against Constantinople in the mid 900's.
Prussia started as a German state between Danzig and Lithuania and gradually evolved into a blend of German states incorporated into a single imperial unity. It covered most of todays' Germany (minus Bavaria,Baden,Hamburg etc) and some current polish,Russian(kalingrad-east Prussia) and lithuanian territory. There is no etymological relation between Rus and Preussen (Prussia in German) afaik.
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Post by Melnorme on Jan 30, 2004 15:04:02 GMT -5
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