Study : Spaniards not darker than other europeans

[Septentrion]

False, all mediterranean area have similar pigmentation, and italian, spanish, greek, portuguese although non identical are considered of similar type of people, however French are perceived as typical western european rather than Southern european... but not fully Central/Northern European... Western european people (Typical french atlantic types, Irish, most brits and even quite a few belgians..) are darker than Northern/central or eastern europeans, they lack of strong teutonic, nordic and slavic-baltic component, and clearly have a more old european genetic stock when people used to have darker hair and overall features... (although not as dark as mediterranean who historically had contact with near east and north africa..)

False. According to a much more credible study, the World Health Organization, the fairest-skinned people in the world are Celtic people of North-West Europe. They are also the most vulnerable to skin cancer.

[Septentrion]

Same way that People from Ireland ,the UK are far darker than other Northern Europeans, true blonde hair in british and irish women (and america save for some pockets in the upper midwest) is uncommon.

Wrong! The people of the British Islands are the lightest-skinned in the world! This is due to the fact that they have the highest frequency of red hair genes which are linked to an increase of lighter and freckled skin types and also an increase to the vulnerability to skin cancers. No wonders ( White) Australians have the highest ratio of skin cancers due to the fact that most of them are descendants of the pale people of the British Islands. Other Northern Europeans such as Scandinavians, Balts, Dutch, northern Belgians, northern Germans, northern Russians, northern Poles , etc... as a whole tan or darken their skins naturally much better than the British Islanders.
Blonde hair is more prevalent in Scandinavian and also northern Baltic countries than in the British Islands, but northern Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium are not blonder rather similar.
We may associate blonde hair, blue eyes, a fair skin with the people of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland while that of red hair, blue or green eyes, very fair or freckled skin with the people of Ireland, Scotland, northern England and Wales, in fact slightly more than 20 million British people are carriers of the red-head gene and over 75% of the Irish population have skin type I/II! Blue eyes are also the commonest eye colour in Britain and Ireland (ScotlandDna Project).
So stop exaggerating the "darkness" of British/Irish people, they might have less blondness than Scandinavians, but they have more red hair than anyone. The vast majority of Irish, Scottish men have some reddish tinge in their beard colour regardless of their hair colour according to recent studies.

[Septentrion]

Same way that People from Ireland ,the UK are far darker than other Northern Europeans, true blonde hair in british and irish women (and america save for some pockets in the upper midwest) is uncommon.

Americans are a mixture of all Europeans. Your point is?
Recent studies by the GWAS in 2012 have shown that Irish women to have a much higher frequency of light hair( blonde and red) than their male counterparts. And as a whole, they were shown to be lighter than Poles, Italians, Portuguese groups involved in the study. So you don't what you are talking about and you are just being bias.

[Septentrion]

It actually doesn't matter how light your skin is when unexposed, since most Europeans will have a light to fair skin under those circumstances anyway. What matters is, how your skin reacts to tanning or natural darkening. The truly fair skin doesn't tan at all or tans with difficulty.

Iberians for example as a whole tan much better than Northern Europeans, for example. However in the winter or cooler months, their skin might be light because they are Europeans to begin with. No one is saying that Iberians are non-Europeans! They are White people. British are the fairest due to the fact that they as a whole don't tan naturally as much as most Europeans unless they're wearing some fake tans as many of their stars do! In fact they even tan less than the predominantly blond Scandinavians too!

[Cristiano viejo]

Septentrion@
LEARN TO MULTI-QUOTE, FOR GOD SAKE.

[Enflamme]

I am almost never exposed to the sun and my skin is really tanned...

[Bloody]

Americans are a mixture of all Europeans. Your point is?
Recent studies by the GWAS in 2012 have shown that Irish women to have a much higher frequency of light hair( blonde and red) than their male counterparts. And as a whole, they were shown to be lighter than Poles, Italians, Portuguese groups involved in the study. So you don't what you are talking about and you are just being bias.

I have lived in both countries, Irish people have far darker hair in average than poles. The English people have slighty lighter hair than Irish, and even them are on average darker haired than poles, mediterranean looks is highly underrated in Ireland and the UK, lots of dark folks in those nations.

[DarknessWin]

All Europeans have similar color in the skin , the only difference is during the summer.
Its natural during the summer Spaniards would have darker skin because they have stronger sun but this is just a tan

[Cristiano viejo]

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[Cristiano viejo]

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