Who are the palest nation in Europe?

[Cynewald]

I'd have to say the Scottish or Irish, perhaps Faroes Islands too.

Scotland and the Faroes Islands have the most overcast days per year than anywhere else in Europe.

[kabeiros]

The answer is obvious, who is paler than Greeks? :rolleyes:

[Dengizik]

The answer is obvious, who is paler than Greeks? :rolleyes:

Sicilians?

[Sikeliot]

Baltics and Russians.

[Cail]

Balts, Northern Russians, Finns, Swedes.

[Hayalet]

On average, I'd say Scandinavians. Superlative palest individuals are probably from the British Isles, but there are also notable relatively dark strains there.

[Jackson]

Personally i wouldn't have thought people around the Baltic purely because they usually seem to be able to tan quite well, despite the fact that they are the fairest people in the world pigmentation wise. In terms of true pale skin, it would have to be somewhere in North-west Europe, but probably by a small margin.

For instance a lot of people from the east and north-east seem to tend towards a more golden hair, golden skin, grey eyes kind of look - While people in the north-west tend more towards red hair, red/ruddy/ivory skin and very blue eyes. Obviously a lot of overlap but i would think these statements are broadly true.

[Ouistreham]

Personally i wouldn't have thought people around the Baltic purely because they usually seem to be able to tan quite well, despite the fact that they are the fairest people in the world pigmentation wise.

Absolutely right. Many or most Swedes and Finns seem to be impervious to sunburn and indeed can get tanned pretty well, in sheer contrast to other North-West Europeans who tend to have a rather pinkish complexion.

But in the nearly permanent night of Nordic winter, they become eerily, impossibly pale (the dark-haired ones have an impressive look).

So, the palest in Winter: the Swedes.
In Summer: I'd say the Scots.

[pinguino]

Transilvania? I bet count Dracula is the palest.

[Sisak]

my skin is very pale

[Septentrion]

The Irish, then the Scots and also the Welsh are the palest and also the most freckled nations of Europe. After them comes the English, Icelanders, Faroese and other Scandinavians.

[zhaoyun]

Scottish/Irish

[Jägerstaffel]

Scottish/Irish

Anecdotally, I agree.

A few years back whilst at the beach with my wife I took off my shirt and she remarked "My god, your skin is the colour of pig fat."

After I stopped laughing I couldn't help but ask why she chose such a fucking flabby object to reference my complexion...

http://robbwolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pic-1.png

[SupaThug]

Irish

[Gooding]

Scottish.

[Visage pâle]

Irish

[♥ Lily ♥]

Depends on the individual person and their own ancestry. For instance Sean Connery isn't pale, but Annie Lennox from Scotland is pale. Russell Brand isn't pale, but this singer/violinist (Victoria in the video below) from England is pale. Redheads have the palest skin type and can't tan, whereas I've noticed Scandinavian people seem to tan better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7O3giqstc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYGwqYvPCI

[♥ Lily ♥]

I noticed this poem written by a child in Africa:



''When I was born I was black,
when I grew up I was black,
when I'm sick I'm black,
when I go out in the sun I'm black,
when I'm cold I'll be black,
and when I die I'll be black.

But you, when you where born you were pink,
when you grew up you were white,
when you're sick you're green,
when you go out in the sun you turn red,
when you're cold you turn blue,
and when you die you'll turn purple.

And you have the nerve to call me colored?''


Pale skin is thinner and more translucent as a result of the evolution process of living in a low altitude country that's often cloudy and rainy, so our skin is thinner and paler to absorb vitamin D from lower levels of sunlight more easily, whereas people in hot climates have evolved to have thicker and darker skin to protect them against skin cancer in those environments.

Being like a chameleon and having skin that reflects my mood and feelings and signals my health and well-being has advantages to it though, such as people will know;

- when I'm embarrassed (blushing when the blood rushes to the cheeks,)
- if I'm in shock (blood drains from the cheeks and the skin goes very pale,)
- if I'm feeling very hot, had a temperature or scarlet-fever (skin flushes and goes red,)
- when I'm cold (light blue veins show under the thin skin, and gives a blueish colour to the fingers and hands in extreme cold,)
- if I was to have jaundice (the skin goes dour and a dull yellowish off-colour, and the eyes go a yellowish colour too,)
- if I'm feeling well (cheeks are rosy with vitamins and iron,)
- if I was to have gangrene (skin goes green,)
- if I was dead (the blood drains to one side of the body giving a heavy purple-bruised colour and pale elsewhere,)

... so the skin lets people around me easily know how I'm feeling or indicates my state of health, so there's advantages to it.

When people have very thick and dark skin types, it's really difficult to see if they're blushing or feeling shocked or if they're unwell just by looking at their complexion.

[Valmont]

I would go with people from the British Isles as they get less Sunshine hours than some people in Scandinavians countries.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Europe_sunshine_hours_map.png

Looks like the Irish, Scottish, Icelanders and Western Norwegians get the least amont of sunshine.

My skin is kinda pink but I assume that's because parts of my ancestry comes from the blue area in France. That's probably why I "look" more "German" or "British" than "Spanish" or "Italian". My skin used to tan well as a kid, but now it just burns and then slightly tans (aka becomes pinkier).

[Dragoon]

I am quite pale (more so than most Poles).
But I voted Irish.

[Visage pâle]

I'm southern french, my skin is lighter than most northern europeans peoples, i don't think it's a question of sunshine , it's genetic, i have the red gene ( reddish beard ), those with red gene are the fairest skinned.

[Valmont]

I'm southern french, my skin is lighter than most northern europeans peoples, i don't think it's a question of sunshine , it's genetic, i have the red gene ( reddish beard ), those with red gene are the fairest skinned.

I think there's a heavy correlation between climate and genetics. Pale skin and light hair appeared as an adaptation to the lack of sunlight, for a better absortion of the D Vitamin. Populations then spread their genes when they started moving around (especially in Europe).

You can also have red hair while being from Southern France. Usually the 49th north parrallel marks the stop for the need of very pale skin and red hair. It becomes much rarer below the 45th north one (around Valence in France).

[sql]

I'd have to say Finnish people.

[drgnclbr]

There are different kinds of pale. In general though, the bloodless looking Scots.

[Costas]

Uhh Irish people.

Scandinavians tan pretty well actually. So do Germans.

[micika]

Scandinavians without any doubt

[Permafrost]

When people have very thick and dark skin types, it's really difficult to see if they're blushing or feeling shocked or if they're unwell just by looking at their complexion.

I know, right. Makes you wonder if they are really human in the first place. Like, can they even feel emberassment? What about sadness? My theory is they do, but to a lesser degree.

I love being pale it's awesome, I even love the sunburns during summer, I revel in them because I know they are proof of my superiority.

Unfortunately I will tan eventually, so I am still subhuman compared to the British.

[Nurzat]

Romanians

[Imamudin]

Russians.

British people have a good amount of pale skinned people, but they often tend to have more of a pinkish tone.

[Taiga Lake]

Baltics probably.

[Septentrion]

The palest-skinned people in the world, are those who have a skin which is least likely to tan or just doesn't tan at all. Their skin type, reddens burns very easily and freckles to various extents.

Group 1 (Highest frequency for red hair genes)
Irish
Scottish
Welsh
English
Bretons (Northwest France)
Group 2 (Highest frequency for blond hair genes)
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelander
Faroese
Estonian
Group 3
Other Balts, Dutch, Belgians, French, Germans, Polish, Byelorussians, Northern Russians, other Central and Eastern Europeans.

[Richard Alvarez]

English, Irish and Scottish.

[VC]

Jalisco.

It's European by proxy.

Duh.

[gixajo]

Jalisco.

It's European by proxy.

Duh.

It´s a joke? It´s Afghanistan, you denialist of the obvious.:mad: