Myanthropologies
12-31-2016, 04:56 AM
A lot of people like to hatch at me because I will post like one blonde afghan for every 10 dark haired afghans in a set and whine and say "buhhhh that's atypical!!!" Well, I took it upon myself to find out how "atypical" light hair and eyes are in Afghanistan, and find out what the true average skin color of caucasoid afghan ethnicities is by looking at documents from anthropologists who discovered Afganistan before it was dangerous to be in the rural areas. And guess what?!?! Light hair and light eyes are not uncommon in Afghanistan at all. This is no shock to those of Afghan descent, but something to shut all you anthrotards up. There are many dark skinned Afghans yes, and they are beautiful, but there are also A LOTTT that arent. In terms of Afghan Pashtun (and Nuristani, formerly known as "Kafir" pigmentation):
The Afghans and Pathans, like the Persians, are usually brunet, and at the same time show a persistent minority of blondism, which in this case reflects Nordic admixture. They are heavy-bearded, and possess heavy body hair. Their facial features show a maximum of bony relief, and, on the whole, their facial skeletons seem much heavier and much more strongly marked than those of the more delicate Arabian Mediterraneans. They possess, in common with the Arabian Mediterranean group, a sharpness in definition of feature which stands in contrast to the coarser lineaments of the average Mesopotamian countenance.
In respect to the Dardic group, we have a certain amount of published and unpublished information which will be useful here.25
The Kafirs of the Kati tribe, who live in the easternmost section of Kafiristan, are taller and larger-headed than the Pathans, but still essentially dolichocephalic and leptorrhine.26 They seem also to possess a high ratio of blondism. Like the Pathans, their commonest skin color is a medium brunet white, von Luschan #9, but in hair and eye color they seem to be lighter than the Pushtu-speaking peoples. Thirty-four per cent have mixed or light eyes, as opposed to 20 per cent of Pushtus. Their hair color, according to Stein, is blond or light brown in 28 per cent of the group.27
http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/chapter-XI4.htm
34% of Nuristanis have light eyes, and 20% of Pashtuns have light eyes. That equates to one out of every 5 pashtuns having some light eye color, and 17/50 Nuristanis having a light eye color.
Average skin color of both Nuristanis and Pashtuns is von Luschan #9
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Felix_von_Luschan_Skin_Color_chart.svg/300px-Felix_von_Luschan_Skin_Color_chart.svg.png
Next, we will be discussing light hair.
It has already been mentioned that Nuristanis have 28% blonde and light brown hair, I also found sources indicating that Tajiks have 10% blonde hair, 20% light hair and total, and Pashtuns also having light hair colors 20% of the time. Tajiks also have 20% light eyes.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zZaQB6tZhz8C&pg=PA9&dq&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false]
So when you average out the percentage of light hair and eyes among genetically close afghan populations, light eyes is present in 26% of caucasoid Afghans, and light hair 15-23%.
Let's compare the light eyes ratio to the light eye ratio in Europe:
http://i.imgur.com/K9Oye.png
Afghanistan's caucasoid populations posses a higher rate of light eyes than all of the other near eastern countries do, more than Greeks do, and more than Albanians do. The rate of light eyes present in Afghan Pashtuns, Tajiks, and Nuristanis is comparable to rate of light eyes in Bulgarians.
So yes, the majority of Afghans are dark brown to dark haired (and majority of the afghans I post have that hair color anyways), but a lot of them also have light hair and light eyes as well. It is statiatically less weird for me to post light haired and light eyed afghans than it is for sikeloit to post "slavic looking light eyed" greeks. So next time, don't jab at me for posting a blonde afghan for every TEN dark haired afghans. Thanks.
The Afghans and Pathans, like the Persians, are usually brunet, and at the same time show a persistent minority of blondism, which in this case reflects Nordic admixture. They are heavy-bearded, and possess heavy body hair. Their facial features show a maximum of bony relief, and, on the whole, their facial skeletons seem much heavier and much more strongly marked than those of the more delicate Arabian Mediterraneans. They possess, in common with the Arabian Mediterranean group, a sharpness in definition of feature which stands in contrast to the coarser lineaments of the average Mesopotamian countenance.
In respect to the Dardic group, we have a certain amount of published and unpublished information which will be useful here.25
The Kafirs of the Kati tribe, who live in the easternmost section of Kafiristan, are taller and larger-headed than the Pathans, but still essentially dolichocephalic and leptorrhine.26 They seem also to possess a high ratio of blondism. Like the Pathans, their commonest skin color is a medium brunet white, von Luschan #9, but in hair and eye color they seem to be lighter than the Pushtu-speaking peoples. Thirty-four per cent have mixed or light eyes, as opposed to 20 per cent of Pushtus. Their hair color, according to Stein, is blond or light brown in 28 per cent of the group.27
http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/chapter-XI4.htm
34% of Nuristanis have light eyes, and 20% of Pashtuns have light eyes. That equates to one out of every 5 pashtuns having some light eye color, and 17/50 Nuristanis having a light eye color.
Average skin color of both Nuristanis and Pashtuns is von Luschan #9
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Felix_von_Luschan_Skin_Color_chart.svg/300px-Felix_von_Luschan_Skin_Color_chart.svg.png
Next, we will be discussing light hair.
It has already been mentioned that Nuristanis have 28% blonde and light brown hair, I also found sources indicating that Tajiks have 10% blonde hair, 20% light hair and total, and Pashtuns also having light hair colors 20% of the time. Tajiks also have 20% light eyes.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zZaQB6tZhz8C&pg=PA9&dq&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false]
So when you average out the percentage of light hair and eyes among genetically close afghan populations, light eyes is present in 26% of caucasoid Afghans, and light hair 15-23%.
Let's compare the light eyes ratio to the light eye ratio in Europe:
http://i.imgur.com/K9Oye.png
Afghanistan's caucasoid populations posses a higher rate of light eyes than all of the other near eastern countries do, more than Greeks do, and more than Albanians do. The rate of light eyes present in Afghan Pashtuns, Tajiks, and Nuristanis is comparable to rate of light eyes in Bulgarians.
So yes, the majority of Afghans are dark brown to dark haired (and majority of the afghans I post have that hair color anyways), but a lot of them also have light hair and light eyes as well. It is statiatically less weird for me to post light haired and light eyed afghans than it is for sikeloit to post "slavic looking light eyed" greeks. So next time, don't jab at me for posting a blonde afghan for every TEN dark haired afghans. Thanks.