where in west asia is his best fit ?

[Jana]

Ethnic Croat from Dalmatia.

https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/portrait/originals/44230-1517827308.jpg
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/croatias-midfielder-mate-males-listens-to-the-national-anthem-before-picture-id476961563
http://www.nk-rijeka.hr/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/males-person.png
https://www.tportal.hr/media/thumbnail/800x568/715122.jpeg?cropId=0
http://www.nk-rijeka.hr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/malesglavna1.jpg

[lameduck]

iran/afghanistan imo

give that Irano Afghan vibe

[Zroota]

Looks more Levantine or "Semitic". So I'd go with either Lebanon, Israel, Syria and perhaps the Nineveh Plains of the Assyrian homeland in Upper Mesopotamia (still though, he looks more Levantine shifted).

Was going to say Iran, but such full lips are atypical there.

[Viridian1]

He kind of looks east Med, Pontid. Would pass in Syria, Turkey.

[Kyp]

Turkey

[Bakha]

Wtf croats...looks semitic/africanid not european
Best pass in levant

[Voskos]

Albania-North Macedonia-Bosnia. Illyrian genes.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

His left ear looks like in the cartoons when the character is listening to something. He looks like a mix of Spanish and Iranian or something, very East Med.

[Jana]

Wtf croats...looks semitic/africanid not european
Best pass in levant

Croats range from Finnic to East Med looking. He is very handsome man.

[Jana]

Albania-North Macedonia-Bosnia. Illyrian genes.

He doesn't look Bosnian at all.

[Zroota]

Croats range from Finnic to East Med looking. He is very handsome man.
Do you find Croatian Australian soccer player Miles Jedinak attractive? He has a quasi East Med-ish look and seems kinda 'woggy', perhaps due to his excessive beard. Lol.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fifa/images/9/93/Mile_Jedinak.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20170904032611

[Jana]

^^^^I am not sure. Mile looks quite manly. He is not strange looking like this guy though, this guy is on exotic end of Croatian spectrum. I tought he looks Lebanese or something.
If we are speaking about southern looking Croats, this man is crush :)

https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/bozo-petrov/7915530/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_680/Bo%C5%BEo%20Petrov
http://metkovic-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bozo-Petrov.jpg
https://ip.index.hr/remote/indexnew.s3.index.hr/images2/Bozo_Petrov_FAH-1.jpg

[War Chef]

Abkhazia

[Oghuz]

Iran among Caspian type persians as a Cap med type. Also passes in Afghanistan IMO

Here are closest Iranians that I can find.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/irans-mohammad-bagheri-motamed-poses-with-his-silver-medal-on-the-picture-id150073329

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq5ctcMUjBQmT7pEUKG6li8Ca9dXmXm tGGrZIZGSXCuTYTit6oNA&s

https://avecdn.akamaized.net/Assets/Images_Upload/Actu24/2018/08/21/4c86b788-a53f-11e8-a76b-c73dad0b1fbb_original.jpg?maxheight=662&maxwidth=925&scale=both

http://greginhollywood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/43c05f12-7a04-4d69-9506-434924537189.jpg

[Bakha]

Abkhazia
Not even a bit
This africanid cant pass anywhere in Kavkaz

[happycow]

Iranian

[Bakha]

^^^^I am not sure. Mile looks quite manly. He is not strange looking like this guy though, this guy is on exotic end of Croatian spectrum. I tought he looks Lebanese or something.
If we are speaking about southern looking Croats, this man is crush :)

https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/bozo-petrov/7915530/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_680/Bo%C5%BEo%20Petrov
http://metkovic-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bozo-Petrov.jpg
https://ip.index.hr/remote/indexnew.s3.index.hr/images2/Bozo_Petrov_FAH-1.jpg
I agree, this one looks good and south slavic/european, but not that monkey in the op

[Balthier]

He kind of looks east Med, Pontid. Would pass in Syria, Turkey.

definetely no pass in turkey. maybe in the kurdish regions.

[Kyp]

Looks like this Turk
https://reshape.sport1.de/c/t/c464654b-2c0d-11e7-b3ce-f80f41fc6a62/640x400

[Decius]

Turkey.

[Zroota]

Iran among Caspian type persians as a Cap med type. Also passes in Afghanistan IMO

Here are closest Iranians that I can find.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/irans-mohammad-bagheri-motamed-poses-with-his-silver-medal-on-the-picture-id150073329

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq5ctcMUjBQmT7pEUKG6li8Ca9dXmXm tGGrZIZGSXCuTYTit6oNA&s

https://avecdn.akamaized.net/Assets/Images_Upload/Actu24/2018/08/21/4c86b788-a53f-11e8-a76b-c73dad0b1fbb_original.jpg?maxheight=662&maxwidth=925&scale=both

http://greginhollywood.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/43c05f12-7a04-4d69-9506-434924537189.jpg
Thanks for these pics, as they've proved my point I was trying to make earlier with someone -- That Iranians (light or dark) generally have thin lips. Whereas this guy has relatively fuller lips, thus making him more Levantine Arab/Jewish looking -- Many Levantines with light eyes look like him. People are only passing him as an Iranian because he's tanned and exotic with light eyes, since such features are affiliated with Irano-Nordoid type. Except, they have no idea that facial features are imperative as well.

[Jana]

I agree, this one looks good and south slavic/european, but not that monkey in the op

Monkey ? He just looks exotic. His cousin looks exotic too. One user wrote he looks like Spanish Gypsy few years ago, I kind of can see it.

[MustafaTekin]

Grek or Shqiptar

[Jana]

Grek or Shqiptar

Maybe Levantine shifted Greek. Albanian ? He doesn't look Balkan, he has softer and more eastern med features.

[FinalFlash]

Monkey ? He just looks exotic. His cousin looks exotic too. One user wrote he looks like Spanish Gypsy few years ago, I kind of can see it.

I'm sure he isn't that exotic.

[Jana]

I'm sure he isn't that exotic.

Oh yes he is. More exotic Croats don't exist, only some in similar range. His look is 1% of the population or less.

[Jana]

Less tanned

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/portrait-of-croatian-soccer-player-mate-males-of-dalian-yifang-fc-for-picture-id931723892?s=612x612

[CommonSense]

Levant region, I suppose. I would have guessed him as an Arab.

[FinalFlash]

Oh yes he is. More exotic Croats don't exist, only some in similar range. His look is 1% of the population or less.

Honestly, is his type more exotic than some Nordid or Berid types in Croatia? Can't imagine he sticks out more in Croatia than your run-of-the-mill Swede or Icelandic.

[MustafaTekin]

Maybe Levantine shifted Greek. Albanian ? He doesn't look Balkan, he has softer and more eastern med features.

greece and albania are good fits for him. he can even pass in south italy.

in addition to these countries he can pass in turkey, georgia, cyrpus and maybe armenia too.

[Jana]

Honestly, is his type more exotic than some Nordid or Berid types in Croatia? Can't imagine he sticks out more in Croatia than your run-of-the-mill Swede or Icelandic.

Croats are genetically more Northern than Southern European so yeah Nordics are much less exotic than he is. We are Slavs and not Semites.
Also Croatian Nordics do not look Scandinavian.

Berids are very atypical in Croatia, but they exist (his cousin actually is a a Berid who looks like a Brazilian pardo, posted him this morning)

[Jana]

greece and albania are good fits for him. he can even pass in south italy.

in addition to these countries he can pass in turkey, georgia, cyrpus and maybe armenia too.

I tought he would be good fit at Cyprus perhaps.

[FinalFlash]

Croats are genetically more Northern than Southern European so yeah Nordics are much less exotic than he is. We are Slavs and not Semites.
Also Croatian Nordics do not look Scandinavian.

Berids are very atypical in Croatia, but they exist (his cousin actually is a a Berid who looks like a Brazilian pardo, posted him this morning)

The OP doesn't look too far off Vrsajlko or Kovacic imo. Slightly more exotic maybe.

[Jana]

The OP doesn't look too far off Vrsajlko or Kovacic imo. Slightly more exotic maybe.

Kovačić ? I do not see any similarity.
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/cromos-futbol/tc/2015/08/14/14/50740534.jpg

Šime Vrsaljko is a mediterranean, but he looks completely European unlike this guy.

[FinalFlash]

Kovačić ? I do not see any similarity.
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/cromos-futbol/tc/2015/08/14/14/50740534.jpg

Šime Vrsaljko is a mediterranean, but he looks completely European unlike this guy.

Kovacic looks Med influenced for me despite being blue-eyed. I do think Vrsajlko looks closer to OP as OP is also very Med shifted. He probably scores higher-than-average EEF admix hence why he doesn't look as "steppic" as your average Croat would.

[Jana]

Kovacic looks Med influenced for me despite being blue-eyed. I do think Vrsajlko looks closer to OP as OP is also very Med shifted. He probably scores higher-than-average EEF admix hence why he doesn't look as "steppic" as your average Croat would.

I agree with that. There is something Greco-Roman about Kovačić's phenotype. His high rooted nose, downturned eyes, curlish hair....he looks southern despite his quite light pigmentation.
Vrsaljko is very med, and yeah OP is also. Just OP look non-Euro med to me primarly. Although he still has some Croatian details only visible to natives.

I know a man similar to him, but not so woggy and less West Asian looking, more Albanian/Illyrian probably.

[FinalFlash]

I agree with that. There is something Greco-Roman about Kovačić's phenotype. His high rooted nose, downturned eyes, curlish hair....he looks southern despite his quite light pigmentation.
Vrsaljko is very med, and yeah OP is also. Just OP look non-Euro med to me primarly. Although he still has some Croatian details only visible to natives.

I know a man similar to him, but not so woggy and less West Asian looking, more Albanian/Illyrian probably.

Given the elevated EEF and sizeable CHG in some southeastern ethnicities, it isnt surprising that a few can end up looking like they can pass in parts of West Asia. This individual happens to be one of those imo, though I'm sure this exists far less in Croatia than it would in southern Balkan states.

[Kamal900]

Passes more better among us Levantine Semites than in Turkey or Iran in my opinion. Just sayin.

[Kivan]

Levant or maybe Cyprus.



Turkey
He doesn't look Turkish at all.

[Kyp]

Levant or maybe Cyprus.



He doesn't look Turkish at all.

I know but he doesn't look west asian either

[Bakha]

Passes more better among us Levantine Semites than in Turkey or Iran in my opinion. Just sayin.
Yep. The more ugly the more passable in levant rule

[Evrim]

He looks very Georgian I think.

[Jana]

:laugh:

[Kamal900]

Yep. The more ugly the more passable in levant rule

Some butthurt mongrel, lol. :D

[Jana]

Some butthurt mongrel, lol. :D

Bakha looks middle eastern to me.

[Kamal900]

Bakha looks middle eastern to me.

Which is mind mogelling considering that he's half Russian half Uzbeki or whatever.

[Bakha]

He looks very Georgian I think.
Not even a bit

[Evrim]

Not even a bit

I have seen his a bit paler version ethnic Georgians from Black Sea region of Turkey.

[Ylla]

He could pass as Albanian but I've never seen lips like those before haha

[Bakha]

Bakha looks middle eastern to me.
Maximum i look Kavkaz. Not further south. OP is more mena looking than me

[happycow]

Yep. The more ugly the more passable in levant rule

xD

[Adamastor]

Maximum i look Kavkaz. Not further south. OP is more mena looking than me

You could pass as Egyptian/Levantine/North African. Get real, dude.

[Zeus]

I think he could pass in Iran for sure.... Probably Lebanon or something too....


Was going to say Iran, but such full lips are atypical there.

I think you're looking way too into it lol... I can't imagine any average person in day-to-day life saying: "You can pass in Iran! O nvm, your lips are a bit too full...."

[Bakha]

You could pass as Egyptian/Levantine/North African. Get real, dude.
Big lie

[21993]

Levant

[Zroota]

He's most definitely Levantine/Cypriot looking than Iranian.

The people here on page 2 got it right, finally.

[Kutlu]

Looks Semitic to me