What is more common? Olive-skinned Europeans or fair-skinned Middle Easterners?

[Tooting Carmen]

It makes no sense. What is your basis for olive skin and fair skin?

I gave examples at the start of the thread.

[brennus dux gallorum]

If by olive skin you mean the majority of middle eastern skin tone, then I would say fair skinned middle eastern

[Tooting Carmen]

If by olive skin you mean the majority of middle eastern skin tone, then I would say fair skinned middle eastern

Alexis Tsipras and Alex Dimitriatis would be Greek (descended) examples of olive skin.

[brennus dux gallorum]

Alexis Tsipras and Alex Dimitriatis would be Greek (descended) examples of olive skin.

OK, then it's probably the first, with exceptions of northern Italy, probably galicia too, and I think it's mostly about climate, even though In Europe as a whole this skin is not rare

But in that case, the most common skin in middle east is darker than that.

[Ziveth]

Olive-skinned Europeans

[Isleño]

Olive-skinned Europeans are more common.

[Root]

fair-skinned Europeans

[alnortedelsur]

Olive skinned South Europeans. Judging by the Portuguese customers I saw at work this week (mostly Madeirans), the average one is quite dark skinned for European standards..

Very likely you mistook mixed Brazilians as Portuguese, because from my experience with Portuguese and Portuguese descendants back in Venezuela (many of whom have roots from Madeira), most of them had a very standard European pigmentation. And light eyes and blondish hair tones were not uncommon among them, just like anywhere else in Europe.

[alnortedelsur]

I reckon about 75% of southern/south-eastern Euros are Olive skinned.
I guess it's about 20% in other non-Scandinavian nations.
All assumptions but close to reality.

whereas standard-Euro skin is quite rare among middle-easterners.

Olive skinned people are minority everywhere in Europe (even in southern Europe, even accepting that their percentage is higher in there than in Central or Northern Europe). Most people EVERYWHERE in Europe have a standard fair (not too pale and not too swarthy) pan European skin tone.

Stop watching so much Hollywood.

[alnortedelsur]

I think there are more olive skined europeans than white people in midle east, take southern europe (spain, italy,greece, portugal) for example they are mixed with arabs who always migrated there.

Stop talking out of your ass.