0
large frames are more impressive in the sense that people with such body types can have thick wide wrists and tend to be muscular and big naturally despite not training their bodies in gym, ive noticed that germanic europe, especially Scandinavia tend to have the very large framed people the most
and for south europe more narrower, do you agree that there is a averaged difference in body type/frames between races within europe? for me i think so, tacitus described the germanic tribesmen to be generally "very large framed" on average as way to distinguish racial traits
from tacitus:
"For my own part, I agree with those who think that the tribes of Germany are free from all taint of inter-marriages with foreign nations, and that they appear as a distinct, unmixed race, like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and thirst they cannot in the least endure; to cold and hunger their climate and their soil inure them."
and as diet and genetic shift happened as well as the warlike and heavy labored instilled norms decreased, the homogenous body types and faces of the germanic/scandanvian race started diverging and getting narrower but more lankier and taller
Bookmarks