Most common "Mediterranean" type in southern Italy: Atlanto-Med, Gracile Med, East Med or Pontid?

[Alessio]

How do you consider yourself? Light, dark, medium dark, medium light dark, light dark, pale dark ?

I love how people criticize me for saying what is "dark" and what is not. Maybe I just have a different standard of what is light versus dark.

[Sikeliot]

How do you consider yourself? Light, dark, medium dark, medium light dark, light dark, pale dark ?

I think I look standard SE European.
So I would say I am not dark for Sicilian standards.

Also it's not even that the pigmentation differs so much from say Palermo to Agrigento to Syracuse, it's the features. And having more "western" features makes one seem lighter even if they are not any lighter in pigmentation.

[Alessio]

I was being sarcastic but you're right.

I think I look standard SE European.
So I would say I am not dark for Sicilian standards.

[The Illyrian Warrior]

East Med, is more common in Southern Italy its understandable taking in account large migrations from ancient and medieval from Southern Balkans such as Albania and Greece.

[Sikeliot]

What annoys me is when people who are clearly lighter than average claiming they are the average, so as to make their regions of origin seem lighter than what is actually the case.

[Prince Carlo]

There is no East Med according to old Anthropology. Or better it was some kind of Pontid, not the semi MENA looking type that Sikeliot mean.

People talking about the phenotypes of people, they have never seen IRL, make me really laugh.

[Sikeliot]

There is no East Med according to old Anthropology. Or better it was some kind of Pontid, not the semi MENA looking type that Sikeliot mean.

People talking about the phenotypes of people, they have never seen IRL, make me really laugh.

When people on here say "East Med", they mean a Gracile Med with a subtle West Asian influence. If it is supposed to mean "Pontid" then that is not how it is being used.

[cally]

I think dinaromed.

[Ianus]

East Med, is more common in Southern Italy its understandable taking in account large migrations from ancient and medieval from Southern Balkans such as Albania and Greece.

So Albanian are East Med?

[Alessio]

Do you think I look too ''Southern'' or dark for someone who is half Dutch (with Frisian and German ancestry) ?

I think I look standard SE European.
So I would say I am not dark for Sicilian standards.

Also it's not even that the pigmentation differs so much from say Palermo to Agrigento to Syracuse, it's the features. And having more "western" features makes one seem lighter even if they are not any lighter in pigmentation.