Is this the result of recent Near Eastern admix or the lack of Germanic/Barbarian influence?

[sk3da]

In ancient Roma the light featured people were called Barbarians and seen as inferior compared to the native Mediterranean looking Romans who used to make the majority. (still make the majority, especially in the south)
I saw that on the older paintings the pre-Roman natives of modern day Italy (Etruscan for example) appeared somewhat darker, the same goes for everywhere in the Mediterranean world. So I assume in the last 1000 years there's been a significant Northern influence in Southern Europe that overall "whitened" the local population and made the genetic&racial barrier less visible between South and North Europe.

Luca Verna, full blooded Central Italian (not even Sicilian where recent Arabic is present) so it's very likely a remnant of non Barbarian influenced Romans.





Now compare the mentioned individual to Etruscan paintings



I definitely think it's a Nordic lie to consider the darker natives as recent newcomers from the Ex-Roman territories, when the natives of Italy had an olive-brown skin tone.

[decordoba]

You look Mediterran - no Germanic influence visible.

Maybe there is a West Asian admixture, but no one can say that your Asian ancestors migrated to Europe during the Roman Empire, as Phoenician, as Tuscan, in Neolithic age or 12.000 years ago,....

[Veslan]

Italian Pre-Indo-Europeans like Etruscans were probably swarthy, but Italic people who invaded them and brought Latin language into peninsula were originally Nordic, and many Roman emperors had Nordic features like light hair. So neither swarthy skin is necessarily non-Italian trait, nor blond hair is necessarily "barbarian/germanic" trait.

[sk3da]

You look Mediterran - no Germanic influence visible.

Maybe there is a West Asian admixture, but no one can say that your Asian ancestors migrated to Europe during the Roman Empire, as Phoenician, as Tuscan, in Neolithic age or 12.000 years ago,....

That's not me. I had an encounter with some Self hating Italian who bashed Arabs for the reason some of his countrymen end up looking Middle Eastern. I told him it's maybe the other way around - A few Germanic/Italic tribes cucked the general Mediterranean population and left a larger minority of people with clear North European/Germanic features.