Do you agree that the most distinct feature of Europeans is the high prevalence of light hair/eyes?

[Cristiano viejo]

Genetically, no.

Genetically many North Europeans are closer to Asians.

[Marshall Theodore]

Genetically many North Europeans are closer to Asians.

Im not sure about your post, but Northern Europeans (probably with exception of Irish) have some small amounts of Nganassan, however they cluster perfectly with central and south europeans.

[alnortedelsur]

Yes. Here hair colour in a world wide context:



But if you go as for importance I think that the most distinctive features of Europeans are mental ones. In a generalising way you can mention: a strive for individual freedom in combination with a comparably high level of many aspects of living conditions such as technique, music, economics and state administration. The latter thing is actually an extra challenge when there is a strive for individual freedom.

Bull shit map. Spain, Portugal and all southern Europe have light years more light hair and light eyes than anywhere in Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.

[Cristiano viejo]

Bull shit map. Spain, Portugal and all southern Europe have light years more light hair and light eyes than anywhere in Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.

Not sure why you bother to explain such basic thing.

[alnortedelsur]

Hair, eyes, skin, and soul. And Northern Europeans are distinct from Southern Europeans too, who are as close to Near Easterners.

Cool story

[alnortedelsur]

Not sure why you bother to explain such basic thing.

Some dumb people on here don't get those very basic things. But you're right that is tiresome and a waste of time to explain those basic things to such people.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The wogs be mad. Creoda wasn't wrong about southern Euros being close to Near Easterners. Chimping is hazardous to your health. I don't understand why wogs get mad over this reality. With larger groups, you can break them down into much smaller groups based on whatever criteria.

He was wrong about the soul part; there is no mystical racial spirit. You take a Chinamen when they're an infant and put him in the Midwest of the US and their behavior will fall in line with the habits of the people they were raised around (with what variety exists being dependent on their own individual genetic predisposition + peer relationships + personal experiences).

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

If it wasn't for the dot in the forehead of the woman in the front I'd take them for Finns.

Serious poster who is serious about anthropology seriously thinks albinos can pass as Finns.

[Tooting Carmen]

Bull shit map. Spain, Portugal and all southern Europe have light years more light hair and light eyes than anywhere in Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.

Which is precisely what I argue in the OP: MENAs and Asians can be light-skinned but rarely have light hair or light eyes - at least not at a rate comparable to anywhere in Europe (including the far South of the continent).

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Which is precisely what I argue in the OP: MENAs and Asians can be light-skinned but rarely have light hair or light eyes - at least not at a rate comparable to anywhere in Europe (including the far South of the continent).

I still do not understand the point you're trying to make. All I see is someone stating the obvious, and what are people supposed to take away by reading the obvious?