North American White Vs. South American White --What is Typical?

[JohnSmith]

I think for North America Ben Affleck is typical:


South America is more I assume like Rodrigo Santoro??

[Arduti]

Ben Affleck looks so German in that pic. Blech. No he doesn't look like a "typical white" for my area, whose "white" population is mostly British or Irish.

And the guy in the 2nd pic looks like a dark version of Saif Ali Khan. White is a color, it's not an ethnicity, so do you mean Caucasian?

[JohnSmith]

Ben Affleck looks so German in that pic. Blech. No he doesn't look like a "typical white" for my area, whose "white" population is mostly British or Irish.

And the guy in the 2nd pic looks like a dark version of Saif Ali Khan. White is a color, it's not an ethnicity, so do you mean Caucasian?

Ben Affleck looks very Scottish/Irish to me not German per say. His type is very typical. Brazil and the USA both use White as a race. Caucasian is something different that includes MENA people.

[Arduti]

Hey you changed the 2nd guy's pic, now he looks like a cross between Jon Snow and that Gordon-Levitt guy.

So he's still not white

And Middle Eastern people aren't Caucasians. Research why they pushed for this official classification though.

[zhaoyun]

Depends on the region. Whites in the Northeast are probably heavily Italian/Jewish/Irish.

Midwest, German/Polish

South Scotch Irish/Anglo

West Coast Italian/NW Euro mix

[Cristiano viejo]

Typical white South American

Argentinian Juan Martín del Potro


Fernando Gago


Diego Godín


Nicolás Laprovittola

[Arduti]

They all look wheatish to me, not white. That Diego Godin guy looks whiter than the others.

I'm half Jewish and I'm still fairer-complexioned than all these guys

White's a description of complexion, not an ethnicity

[Loki]

Midwest, German/Polish

More German/Scandinavian. Poles did not make such a great contribution.

[Loki]

South America is more I assume like Rodrigo Santoro??

Bear in mind that South American white is not only Iberian. Especially in places like southern Brazil and Argentina, ethnicities such as German and Italian were very important to shape the modern population.

[Babak]

Italian and Argentinian intermarriages were(And are) pretty common.