Young MPs from Malta versus young MPs from Cyprus - compare and contrast

[Tooting Carmen]

What similarities and differences do you see between the two groups? They are, after all, the most homogeneously Mediterranean ethnic groups/nationalities in Europe.

Maltese: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?156258-Young-MPs-from-Malta
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?156258-Young-MPs-from-Malta&p=3344707&viewfull=1#post3344707
Cypriots: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?111940-Young-MPs-from-Cyprus
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?111940-Young-MPs-from-Cyprus&p=2862677&viewfull=1#post2862677

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Sikeliot]

They look fairly similar but there are a moderate amount more of Maltese who have a "northern" influence. Maltese are basically transplanted Sicilians, and Cypriots are pre-Greek islanders, and do not have much mainland Greek ancestry.

[Tooting Carmen]

Anyone else?

[alfieb]

Maltese by and large less exotic. You've got your Meds as expected, but also Alpinids, Borrebies, Berids, etc.

[Trun]

Maltese have a few who look Western and a few who look Levantine. Cypriots are more homogenous.

[Tooting Carmen]

Maltese have a few who look Western and a few who look Levantine. Cypriots are more homogenous.

Do the Cypriots look more Greek or more Levantine to you?

[Sikeliot]

Do the Cypriots look more Greek or more Levantine to you?

They don't look Levantine to me but they also look homogeneously darker/less European than a typical group of Greeks. Compare them for instance to the people Faklon posted the other day and you'll see a clear difference.

[Leto]

They look fairly similar but there are a moderate amount more of Maltese who have a "northern" influence.
I agree.

[Trun]

Do the Cypriots look more Greek or more Levantine to you?

More Greek.

[Casandrinos]

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/684/0/toni_bezzina.jpg

:smilie_auslachen:

[Trun]

^^blond hair and blue eyes. Looks Swedish.

[Odin]

Maltese are mainly Berids, Cypriots are East-Meds.