aherne
12-14-2018, 06:15 PM
I've just returned from a cathedral tour in Palermo and Monreale, so I wanted to share my view of how locals look like.
Unfortunately, on every corner, it's not possible to get past "diversity": Niggers and Indians (especially Bengalis and Gypsy beggars looking completely Indian) on every corner, but still far from France's levels. The following analysis will concentrate on indigenous sicilians, only:
1. they are good looking people (both men and women), the best looking Italians I've seen. Girls have nice bodies and very nice feminine faces: they are rarely gorgeous, but keep standards reasonably high. Overall, they are a bit better looking than Romanian girls, who tend to have short legs and peasant hands and body constitution. Guys, however, are definitely MUCH better looking than ours: slightly taller and frequently with masculine faces and bodies.
2. light hair is very uncommon among adults, but blonde children are common. Average hair pigmentation is dark brown, with medium or light about as common as black. They are DEFINITELY darker than Neapolitans but well within European range. Individuals with light hair have a French/Italic look, while those with black hair tend to look Middle Eastern.
3. facial features are definitely European, surprisingly more European than Greeks, especially those from Crete or Islands. 80-90% of locals can fit only in Europe, 30-40% in all parts except far North and East. Middle Eastern features are common, too, enough for some Maghrebis to pass as individuals and for some reason they are more common in males than females. But they are minority phenotype, about as common as Turanid among Turks!
4. they don't look like Greeks, as others here claim. Having visited all parts of Greece many times, I think my opinion is sound enough. What they resemble is first and foremost other Italians, followed at a large distance by people of Balkans.
5. by and large, population seems to be descending from Neolithic farmer migrations 8000 years ago, hence the vast majority belonging to a blend of: Med, Alpine and Dinaric, same that dominates in most of Europe.
6. there is little CM or Aryan. When it comes, however, light features are almost guaranteed and faces look strikingly Roman.
7. there is pronounced sexual dimorphism in facial features. Girls look mostly Alpine, with Med, Dinaric and Middle Eastern influences. The vast majority can pass as Romanians without a problem! Guys look mostly Med, with significant Middle Eastern, Dinaric, then followed by Alpine. Those that look too Middle Eastern would be mistaken as Arabs here in Bucharest...
As a group, Sicilians I saw look like what they are: Europeans with an extra Middle Eastern influence than usual. They absolutely do not compare with Ashkenazis, claimed here based on genetics to be Sicilians' brothers. First of all, Ashkenazis are lighter (skin, hair, eyes). Second of all, a large minority looks Arabian (which is after all what they should, considering their ethnicity). I haven't seen a single Palermitan that looks Semitic...
Unfortunately, on every corner, it's not possible to get past "diversity": Niggers and Indians (especially Bengalis and Gypsy beggars looking completely Indian) on every corner, but still far from France's levels. The following analysis will concentrate on indigenous sicilians, only:
1. they are good looking people (both men and women), the best looking Italians I've seen. Girls have nice bodies and very nice feminine faces: they are rarely gorgeous, but keep standards reasonably high. Overall, they are a bit better looking than Romanian girls, who tend to have short legs and peasant hands and body constitution. Guys, however, are definitely MUCH better looking than ours: slightly taller and frequently with masculine faces and bodies.
2. light hair is very uncommon among adults, but blonde children are common. Average hair pigmentation is dark brown, with medium or light about as common as black. They are DEFINITELY darker than Neapolitans but well within European range. Individuals with light hair have a French/Italic look, while those with black hair tend to look Middle Eastern.
3. facial features are definitely European, surprisingly more European than Greeks, especially those from Crete or Islands. 80-90% of locals can fit only in Europe, 30-40% in all parts except far North and East. Middle Eastern features are common, too, enough for some Maghrebis to pass as individuals and for some reason they are more common in males than females. But they are minority phenotype, about as common as Turanid among Turks!
4. they don't look like Greeks, as others here claim. Having visited all parts of Greece many times, I think my opinion is sound enough. What they resemble is first and foremost other Italians, followed at a large distance by people of Balkans.
5. by and large, population seems to be descending from Neolithic farmer migrations 8000 years ago, hence the vast majority belonging to a blend of: Med, Alpine and Dinaric, same that dominates in most of Europe.
6. there is little CM or Aryan. When it comes, however, light features are almost guaranteed and faces look strikingly Roman.
7. there is pronounced sexual dimorphism in facial features. Girls look mostly Alpine, with Med, Dinaric and Middle Eastern influences. The vast majority can pass as Romanians without a problem! Guys look mostly Med, with significant Middle Eastern, Dinaric, then followed by Alpine. Those that look too Middle Eastern would be mistaken as Arabs here in Bucharest...
As a group, Sicilians I saw look like what they are: Europeans with an extra Middle Eastern influence than usual. They absolutely do not compare with Ashkenazis, claimed here based on genetics to be Sicilians' brothers. First of all, Ashkenazis are lighter (skin, hair, eyes). Second of all, a large minority looks Arabian (which is after all what they should, considering their ethnicity). I haven't seen a single Palermitan that looks Semitic...