Scandinavians are darker than Finns, Balts, and British Islanders. Is it because Scandinavians have

Scandinavians are darker than Finns, Balts, and British Islanders. Is it because Scandinavians have more Central European admixture than the others?

Do you mean darker hair? Or skin?

Depends on what you mean by dark. But if you mean hair and eye color then scandinavia is not darker then the others exept finns. I have hazel / light brown eyes and brown hair that turn blond in the summer and people here call me "dark"

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Originally Posted by Pansarkamrat

Depends on what you mean by dark. But if you mean hair and eye color then scandinavia is not darker then the others exept finns. I have hazel / light brown eyes and brown hair that turn blond in the summer and people here call me "dark"

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Actually I mean skin colour but I am not sure whether Scandinavians have more Central European admixture than the others or not :)

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Originally Posted by xiperyum

real vikings are brunette

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really?

Scandos are the lightest europeans.Brits have med admixture and balts have slavic input.

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Originally Posted by leonj

Actually I mean skin colour but I am not sure whether Scandinavians have more Central European admixture than the others or not :)

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Ah ok. It depends how you would define it. If you define dark as being able to get a tan then probably Finns and balts have darker skin and then Scandinavians.

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Originally Posted by visar

Scandos are the lightest europeans.Brits have med admixture and balts have slavic input.

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England has med admixture.... but scotland (and maybe Ireland) has lower EEF than Norway

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Originally Posted by Pansarkamrat

Ah ok. It depends how you would define it. If you define dark as being able to get a tan then probably Finns and balts have darker skin and then Scandinavians.

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I will not comment people of British Island now.

What comes to rest...honestly...there are not huge differences between Finns and Swedish ...what comes to being ''darker''. Estonians are also close to Finns. Other two Baltics are bit ''darker'' (having more brunettes).

It really goes with hair color. Sand brunettes Finns and/or Scandinavians tans better that light blonds. All have all of those. This ends to question which ethnic has more brunettes and which one blonds. Differences are small anyway.

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