Why do Southern Europeans look Nordic/Scandinavian much more often than the other way round?

[JMack]

Rare and negligible cases. The point of this thread is to ask why is it more common for people from Southern countries to look stereotypically Northern than the opposite.

That's not so rare.

Irano-Nordids and Nord-Indids have Nordid influence. Some of them show this.

[JMack]

What about Romans though? Didn't they migrate all over Europe, including Scandinavia?

I don't think so.

Most of the Roman army was multi-cultural and the occupation was based mostly in romanized natives in all regions. I don't think the Romans were enough to change the phenotypes of the Northern Regions. I don't know about any Roman occupation of Scandinavia. Even Germany was not fully occupied.

[Tooting Carmen]

That's not so rare.

Irano-Nordids and Nord-Indids have Nordid influence. Some of them show this.

Light eyes do occur from time to time in Iran and even Pakistan and parts of India, but light hair is negligible in those countries.

[Fantomas]

Why do Southern Europeans look Nordic/Scandinavian much more often than the other way round?

Because depigmentation is an acquirable recent feature as result of individual variability

[The Blade]

Because the North of the continent never experienced any serious influence from Southern civilizations, including Rome and Byzantium.
With the exception of some slight Mediterranean influences in Britain, the rest of the Northern European regions - like Scandinavia, The Netherlands and the Baltic states - experienced zero to very minimal Southern impact.

[The Blade]

I don't think so.

Most of the Roman army was multi-cultural and the occupation was based mostly in romanized natives in all regions. I don't think the Romans were enough to change the phenotypes of the Northern Regions. I don't know about any Roman occupation of Scandinavia. Even Germany was not fully occupied.

True.

[Dandelion]

The funniest-sounding Sicilian I've ever heard can pass in the North.

[Tooting Carmen]

The funny thing is that pan-Europeanists, when discussing the (lack of) diversity of European phenotypes, always love to point out the considerable numbers of Southern Europeans with archetypal Nordic looks, but deliberately overlook the fact that the opposite is much rarer, thus it is NOT the case that all European phenotypes exist in all European countries at all.

[nafz]

As some other individuals have said it is of matter of Northerners invading / migrating /relocating to the south rather than the other way around. There are myriad examples of Northern invasions and migrations to the south throughout history but the opposite is not true.

For example the Varangian Guard which served for 4 centuries as the elite guard of the Byzantines (south east Europe) were mostly comprised of Scandinavians and Anglo Saxons. Chances are that after 4 centuries of continuous presence in the area nd even though they were a small army, they must have left some of their genes in the south.

[Sikeliot]

Even in Sicily and the Dodecanese, more people look northern than do people in Sweden or Finland look southern.