Kim Kardashian: is she "white"?

[Rhobot]

Some Armenians are racially a borderline case. Some can be considered borderline European but most are non-European racially for the most part. There are even Indid, Iranid and Berberid elements that can be found in Armenia, no homogenous nation in Europe has such elements.

"White" Armenians:

The first girl is 1/2 Armenian & 1/2 Swedish, and the second girl is all Armenian:

Personally I would consider the first girl who is 1/2 Armenian & 1/2 Swedish as racially European even though she's "1/2 Armenian" judging by the way how Nordic she looks, I'd also bet she has some European influence on her "1/2 Armenian side" as well, there were diaspora ethnic Russians and Germans that also settled in Armenia in the 19th century. The second girl could be considered a Southern European nationality and probably also has European influence.



This Armenian to the right looks to have some Slav Russian influence, hence she'd be in modern day terminology "White" but nevertheless borderline European.



On the other hand, this Armenian is racially completely non-European.

I don't think that guy is Armenian. He does not look Armenian at all- he looks Indian and would be seen as a foreigner in Armenia.
The northern-looking girls you posted don't look particularly Armenian either.

[Equinox]

[Rhobot]

She seems to be darker and more exotic-looking than average for Armenians as a whole, even though she is only half Armenian.
As for whether she is White, that's subjective. If White = Caucasian, yes. So Diabloblanco would consider her White.
If White = Northern European, definitely not. AEmeric, Inese, et al. would probably consider many, maybe even most Greeks and Southern Italians non-White, never mind Miss Kardashian.

[Guapo]

Her father looks Armenoid/Cromagnoid.I guess her gracile features are from her mother.

[Rhobot]

I think we should have some minimal standards. And I think any male who gets a woody from the sight of Michelle Obama should feel a sense of shame & keep it to himself.



Doesn't the iod in Caucasiod mean partially Caucasian or like Caucasian? But not fully Caucasian? In which case, yes Armenians are Caucasoid but are they Caucasian? Some persons (with multiple college degrees) might consider the people of the Horn of Africa to be "Caucasoid'. And the natives of the subcontinent. Large numbers of New World Hispanics are Caucasoid. They are also Amerindoid.

I think the Armenians are mixed race - European with Mongolid & Dravidian, with maybe the European portion being the greatest, in most cases. It's currently politically & legally correct (for the time being) to call them "White" but they are obviously alien & not European. They are more closely related to us then the Congoids of Central Africa but then so are the Chinese & Koreans.

Like it or not, the Armenians are, in all probability, more closely related to Europeans- (and not just the southern ones)- than to Chinese and Koreans. They may even be more closely related to Europeans than to many populations on the Indian subcontinent, according to this graph from a recent 10K SNP study.


Bauchet et al, Measuring European Population Stratification with Microarray Genotype Data, Am J Hum Genet. 2007 May; 80(5): 948–956.

[Tony]

Fully lips aside (I'm assuming she made some surgery there as I now know what kind of woman she is , a Paris Hiltonoid...) the oddity of Kim that strikes me the most are her high and large checkbones , it's a feature mostly found amongst Tibetans , Tungids , Taigids and many Amerindians too ; since Armenia is a well know borderland and it has been that for centuries it's not that bizarre one can find it suspect.
Also her steatopigya looks very odd for a Caucasian.

[Goidelic]

Fully lips aside (I'm assuming she made some surgery there as I now know what kind of woman she is , a Paris Hiltonoid...) the oddity of Kim that strikes me the most are her high and large checkbones , it's a feature mostly found amongst Tibetans , Tungids , Taigids and many Amerindians too ; since Armenia is a well know borderland and it has been that for centuries it's not that bizarre one can find it suspect.
Also her steatopigya looks very odd for a Caucasian.

You think one of these in particular was swinging around the Kardashian Armenian genepool?

[Loki]

You think one of these in particular was swinging around the Kardashian Armenian genepool?

The KhoiSan is possibly the most ancient type of human in existence -- it is likely that the ancestors of all races, including Europeans, looked similar to that.

[Freomæg]

Interesting how neither of her parents look as non-European as she does.

I don't understand how backsides get like that. It seems to defy both gravity and natural skeletal/biological structure.

[Loki]

I don't understand how backsides get like that. It seems to defy both gravity and natural skeletal/biological structure.

In the case of the San tribes, it seems to act as an energy storage mechanism. Living in the harsh Kalahari desert, they often have to survive on very little, and good meals are irregular. Thus - the body stores more fat in certain areas.