Does Ignazio Abate look Swedish?

[Lockout]

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http://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/sport/calcio/2013/03/25/864236/images/1985279-abate.JPG

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[Sikeliot]

I hate this question. He looks Albanian. Blonde doesn't mean Swede .

[Hayalet]

Looks like a Central European Noric to me.

[Hayalet]

I hate this question. He looks Albanian. Blonde doesn't mean Swede .
Do you mean he looks more Albanian than Italian? The percentage of Albanians who look like him should be about the same as that of Italians.

[Ulla]

I hate this question. He looks Albanian. Blonde doesn't mean Swede .

Abate is a typical Southern Italian surname. He is born in Sant'Agata de' Goti, province of Benevento. It's an area where there were many Lombards (the Germanic Longobards) settlements. Goti itself coud derive from the name of the East Germanic people called Goths.

Duchy of Benevento

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento

[Ulla]

Do you mean he looks more Albanian than Italian? The percentage of Albanians who look like him should be about the same as that of Italians.

He doesn't look Albanian.

[Cleitus]

Looks very Gheg.

[iNird]

He doesn't look Albanian.

There is something off about him being completely Albanian but he would pass easier in Albania and the balkans than Central Europe/Northern Europe.

[Smaug]

"Looks Albanian" :bowlol::bowlol::bowlol:

[Baldur]

I could see him pass as a swede, yes.

[Ulla]

Looks very Gheg.

Sure, the typical Gheg is blonde, as all the world knows.

[iNird]

"Looks Albanian" :bowlol::bowlol::bowlol:

He looks primarily Noric/norid and has robust features. He would pass as Albanian pretty easily.

[Smaug]

This forum makes me laugh, only here the Albanians are stereotyped as blonde and blue-eyed. Anyway, Abate looks Central European, German or Austrian.

[cally]

He doesn't look Germanic just Blonde Italic.

[Roy]

Nope.

[safinator]

Abate always looked Austrian to me, Norid-Nordid mix but a little bit more the latter hence Central Europe.

[Sizzo]

Not at all. Nordicized Italic.

[Ulla]

He looks primarily Noric/norid and has robust features. He would pass as Albanian pretty easily.

Many Albanians, called Arbereshe, settled to Calabria and Sicily after the Turkish conquest of Balkans. Most of them are very dark hair.

[Cleitus]

Sure, the typical Gheg is blonde, as all the world knows.
Many Ghegs are blonde you ignorant rattler.

[Tooting Carmen]

He looks primarily Noric/norid and has robust features. He would pass as Albanian pretty easily.

Exactly. When it comes to facial traits, there is nothing Scandinavian about him.

[Tooting Carmen]

Many Ghegs are blonde you ignorant rattler.

But many more are not.

[cally]

Many Albanians, called Arbereshe, settled to Calabria and Sicily after the Turkish conquest of Balkans. Most of them are very dark hair.
You shouldn't look at pigmentation but facial features. We are not saying Albanians are blonde (wtf). We are just looking at his features and general phenotype. Italic is a very noble phenotype.

[Cleitus]

Many Albanians, called Arbereshe, settled to Calabria and Sicily after the Turkish conquest of Balkans. Most of them are very dark hair.
They are lighter pigmented than southern italians.

[Cleitus]

But many more are not.
Yeah of course

[Ulla]

Many Ghegs are blonde you ignorant rattler.

Sure, and you forget to tell that Ghegs are all gentlemen.

[alb0zfinest]

This forum makes me laugh, only here the Albanians are stereotyped as blonde and blue-eyed. Anyway, Abate looks Central European, German or Austrian.

:picard1:

Because we claimed one guy who is blonde can pass as Albanian?

[Ulla]

They are lighter pigmented than southern italians.

"the Ghegs resemble Kosovar Albanians in having a higher frequency of E1b1b1."

http://dienekes.blogspot.it/2010/03/y-chromosomes-of-albanian-populations.html

[Ulla]

You shouldn't look at pigmentation but facial features. We are not saying Albanians are blonde (wtf). We are just looking at his features and general phenotype. Italic is a very noble phenotype.

I agree.

[safinator]

"the Ghegs resemble Kosovar Albanians in having a higher frequency of E1b1b1."

http://dienekes.blogspot.it/2010/03/y-chromosomes-of-albanian-populations.html

I'm not going into OT but what has this to do with anything? Unless you believe a Y-DNA line to be connected to phenotype?

[Cleitus]

"the Ghegs resemble Kosovar Albanians in having a higher frequency of E1b1b1."

http://dienekes.blogspot.it/2010/03/y-chromosomes-of-albanian-populations.html
And now ? Haplogroups have absolutely nothing to do with Race, you are misinformed now go into the kitchen and make me a sandwich.

[Smaug]

:picard1:

Because we claimed one guy who is blonde can pass as Albanian?

One guy? One guy? Have you joined TA today?

[iNird]

This forum makes me laugh, only here the Albanians are stereotyped as blonde and blue-eyed. Anyway, Abate looks Central European, German or Austrian.

Well Italians and Albanians overlap to some extent.

And no one is claiming all blondes, another Italian footballer Daniele De Rossi for example does not look Albanian. Vito Mannone can easily pass as Albanian.

[Ulla]

And now ? Haplogroups have absolutely nothing to do with Race, you are misinformed now go into the kitchen and make me a sandwich.

You still live in a cave, probably.

[Germaniac]

Abate looks like a Central European Noric. If I didn't know he's Italian, I'd think he's Austrian, Eastern German or Slovenian.

[Smaug]

Well Italians and Albanians overlap to some extent.

And no one is claiming all blondes, another Italian footballer Daniele De Rossi for example does not look Albanian. Vito Mannone can easily pass as Albanian.

I agree, but according to the guy with pink username, all blonde Italian look Albanian, which is ridiculous.

[Cleitus]

You still live in a cave, probably.

No, but you in a lesbian commune, with your Femen Girlfriends.

[Sikeliot]

So the idea of him looking Albanian, another south euro group is somehow nuts but we are supposed to think he looks Swedish? That's ridiculous. He's a depigmented southern Euro.