Phenotype overlaps that are overstated in anthrofora

[Tooting Carmen]

(1) British and French people. While Britain and Northern France are very similar, much of France from the Auvergne southwards is considerably more brunette and Mediterranean-shifted than anywhere in the British Isles. Many French people look closer to Northern Italians, Basques and Catalans than to Brits.

(2) Greeks and other Balkanites. Gorids and Baltids are rare in Greece compared to most other Balkan countries, and in any case they are rather darker and more Mediterranean-looking even compared to Bulgarians, Romanians and especially Serbs and Croats.

(3) Cypriots and mainland Levantines. While there is overlap, Cypriots rarely look truly Arabid like most Palestinians and Jordanians and even many Lebanese and Syrians do. Instead, many Cypriots just look like a more uniformly brunette version of Greeks, Southern Italians, Spaniards etc.

(4) Iranians and Afghans. While quite similar, Afghans nonetheless have a notable Mongoloid/Central Asian strain that is much rarer in Iran.

(5) Finns and Russians. Although the Baltid types can often look similar, Russians look distinctly Slavic in a way that isn't really the case with Finns, who look closer to Danes and even possibly Germans than to most Russians.

[Bell Beaker]

Outra vez arroz?

[The Blade]

Finns and other Scandos (especially Danes or Norwegians) look quite different as a group. Russia is, however, a very large state with phenotypical variations. There are regions in Russia that Finns have stronger overlap with than with other Scandos but there are others that are quite different from Finland.
Another myth is how different Hungarians are from Romanians (Stears) and Bulgarians (Procsel). From personal observation, I can tell you this is pure BULLSHIT.

[Sikeliot]

Greek and southern Italian. While many Aegean islanders look similar to southern Italians if not most, due to them being more gracile, darker, and slightly more Near Eastern than the mainland, most people on the mainland have a facial structure, body build, and vibe that is too much Indo-European/Balkan/Slavicized for southern Italy, with the exception of regions that have received post-Slavic Greek influence (like Enna, Ragusa, and Apulia).

I do, on the other hand, think Greeks fit well in the Balkan spectrum.

[Bell Beaker]

One of the things that bother me in Anthropology is no one aknowledging the real fact that Iberians are not only the whitest Southern Europeans but also the whitest Europeans.

Every time I am on the street, out of 10 Portuguese people I see, 11 are light haired.

[Bell Beaker]

Btw, the myth that Scandinavians are light haired hits me bad.

Henrik Larsson is your everyday average Swedish male.

[Sikeliot]

Btw, the myth that Scandinavians are light haired hits me bad.

Henrik Larsson is your everyday average Swedish male.

He is half Cape Verdean.

[Tooting Carmen]

Btw, the myth that Scandinavians are light haired hits me bad.

Henrik Larsson is your everyday average male from a poor area of Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmo.

Fixed.

[Philip Latinowitz]

Poles and Russians (both have kind of special look easy to notice)

[Bell Beaker]

He is half Cape Verdean.

Shut up, he is and looks more Swedish than most of the Swedes.