Why do people automatically assume that blue eyes and blonde = Northern European genetics?

[Sikeliot]

People often assume that the more blue eyes and blonde in a population, the more Northern European admixture there is.
This is NOT always true.

1) People from the western half of Crete have more light hair and eyes that most parts of mainland Greece, but they are genetically much less Northern European genetically than any part of mainland Greece.

2) People often assume that people in western Sicily have more 'Norman' genes and are more genetically northern because of their high percentage of blue eyes and blonde.. but like Ashkenazi Jews, these light eyes often come with hooked noses and Armenoid influence..

3) Blue eyes and "Celtic" appearances that could pass in the UK are higher in Galicia and northern Portugal than in most of Iberia, but there are higher North African, West Asian, and SW Asian genes there than in Andalusia, if you look at autosomal DNA.

4) There are higher amounts of blue eyes and blonde hair in the Levant than in neighboring regions, but there is no Northern European genetic influence there to result in people having those eyes.

5) Ashkenazi Jews have a large percentage of blue eyes and even blonde hair, but they have less Northern European genetic influence, than European groups that are on average darker than them!


Why do people automatically attribute blue eyes and blonde hair to Northern European influence, when this is not necessarily the case?

[Damião de Góis]

People often assume that the more blue eyes and blonde in a population, the more Northern European admixture there is.
This is NOT always true.


3) Blue eyes and "Celtic" appearances that could pass in the UK are higher in Galicia and northern Portugal than in most of Iberia, but there are higher North African, West Asian, and SW Asian genes there than in Andalusia, if you look at autosomal DNA.

You are contradicting yourself. Northern European admix is higher in Galicia and North Portugal than in Andalusia:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...DcTZEYlE#gid=0

[Neanderthal]

They obviously correlate with Northern Euro admix, doesn't matter if it's as small at 1% People inherited them from Northern Europeans, fact.

[Tooting Carmen]

You are contradicting yourself. Northern European admix is higher in Galicia and North Portugal than in Andalusia:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...DcTZEYlE#gid=0

Indeed

[Prisoner Of Ice]

It probably came out of caspian area originally. North europe is just where it's best preserved.

[Septentrion]

People often assume that the more blue eyes and blonde in a population, the more Northern European admixture there is.
This is NOT always true.

1) People from the western half of Crete have more light hair and eyes that most parts of mainland Greece, but they are genetically much less Northern European genetically than any part of mainland Greece.

2) People often assume that people in western Sicily have more 'Norman' genes and are more genetically northern because of their high percentage of blue eyes and blonde.. but like Ashkenazi Jews, these light eyes often come with hooked noses and Armenoid influence..

3) Blue eyes and "Celtic" appearances that could pass in the UK are higher in Galicia and northern Portugal than in most of Iberia, but there are higher North African, West Asian, and SW Asian genes there than in Andalusia, if you look at autosomal DNA.

4) There are higher amounts of blue eyes and blonde hair in the Levant than in neighboring regions, but there is no Northern European genetic influence there to result in people having those eyes.

5) Ashkenazi Jews have a large percentage of blue eyes and even blonde hair, but they have less Northern European genetic influence, than European groups that are on average darker than them!


Why do people automatically attribute blue eyes and blonde hair to Northern European influence, when this is not necessarily the case?

1.) Please know what you are talking about next time!! Firstly, the reason why people automatically link blue eyes or other light eyes with blond/blonde hair, is because the bluest-eyed nations are found in Northern European countries which also have the highest frequency of blond/blonde hair reaching a frequency maximum in the Scandinavian and Baltic nations. A high frequency of blond hair in a European population, this means a higher frequency than the European average will in most cases signify Northern European admixture. Using Crete as an example is a joke or an example of irrationality. Crete and mainland Greece are both located within the Mediterranean region, so for the western part of Crete being slightly more blond-haired/blue-eyed than Greece doesn't mean much. Mainland Greece will offer naturally show a greater diversity than Cyprus due to a larger population. Northern Greece is still lighter than Cyprus though.

2.) Blue eyes in the United Kingdom? By the way, the United kingdom lays in the Northwestern quadrant of Europe and the most common eye colour in the U.K. is obviously blue (ScotlandsDNA Project 2014). Therefore whether "Celtic/Germanic" appearances will usually go with blue or light eyes in the part of Europe, anyway Celtic and Germanic people are closely related people who stem out from a larger group called "Beaker" people from the Bronze Age before they separated.

3.) Sicily might have a "higher" percentage of Norman ancestry, nevertheless, it is still much lower than the total Northern European admixture found in Northern Italian regions such as Veneto or Piedmont. Sicily doesn't have a higher frequency of blue eyes than even the national average for in Italy, let alone than northern regions Italy.
The Italian national average for blue eyes = 10.33%
Sicily (South Italy) = 7.7%
Veneto (North Italy) = 15.7%
We see the big difference.

4.) Ashkenazi Jews have Southern, Central, Western even Eastern European in additional to Middle-Eastern (Levant) genes. The European population closest to Ashkenazim are the Northern Italians.


5.) The Levant does not have a higher frequency of fair hair/blue eyes than Southern European countries. There is absolutely no proof of that.

[Meerkat]

People often assume that the more blue eyes and blonde in a population, the more Northern European admixture there is.
This is NOT always true.

1) People from the western half of Crete have more light hair and eyes that most parts of mainland Greece, but they are genetically much less Northern European genetically than any part of mainland Greece.

2) People often assume that people in western Sicily have more 'Norman' genes and are more genetically northern because of their high percentage of blue eyes and blonde.. but like Ashkenazi Jews, these light eyes often come with hooked noses and Armenoid influence..

3) Blue eyes and "Celtic" appearances that could pass in the UK are higher in Galicia and northern Portugal than in most of Iberia, but there are higher North African, West Asian, and SW Asian genes there than in Andalusia, if you look at autosomal DNA.

4) There are higher amounts of blue eyes and blonde hair in the Levant than in neighboring regions, but there is no Northern European genetic influence there to result in people having those eyes.

5) Ashkenazi Jews have a large percentage of blue eyes and even blonde hair, but they have less Northern European genetic influence, than European groups that are on average darker than them!


Why do people automatically attribute blue eyes and blonde hair to Northern European influence, when this is not necessarily the case?

Ashkenazi Jews don't really have a "large percentage" of people with blonde hair. I went to a high school that was 90% Ashkenazi and we had very few blondes.

However, I have been noticing more fully Jewish blonde people lately, and I'm not sure why that is. People here fetishize blonde hair and blue eyes a lot, which makes me really sad. I feel like the percentage of (fully blooded) Jewish blonde people born is the result of intense fetishism for blonde hair and blue eyes.

[Leto]

However, I have been noticing more fully Jewish blonde people lately, and I'm not sure why that is. People here fetishize blonde hair and blue eyes a lot, which makes me really sad. I feel like the percentage of (fully blooded) Jewish blonde people born is the result of intense fetishism for blonde hair and blue eyes.

What kind of bullshit is that? How can you make a dark population lighter without mixing it with other pops? And I seriously doubt in modern white guilt America JEWS (who don't really consider themselves white) "intensely fetishize" blonde hair and blue eyes.

[Meerkat]

What kind of bullshit is that? How can you make a dark population lighter without mixing it with other pops? And I seriously doubt in modern white guilt America JEWS (who don't really consider themselves white) "intensely fetishize" blonde hair and blue eyes.

Selective breeding perhaps????

Most Americans Jews consider themselves white. And not just Ashkenazi Jews. Many Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews consider themselves white as well.

[Leto]

Selective breeding perhaps????

That would take generations upon generations.

Most Americans Jews consider themselves white. And not just Ashkenazi Jews. Many Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews consider themselves white as well.

Only when it suits them. Down in their soul they identify as Jews first and foremost.