Do people here overate the look-distance between Southern Europe and Middle East?

[Alberta]

Very few Syrians would pass here as natives, even in Malta they would be exotic:

Yes but they dont look roma. A few afghans do, but most look to mong for that.

But yeah, whiteness of syrians are overrated here. But on the other hand south italians tan as f*ck

[juliachild]

I argue that secularized middle eastern people easily pass as southern european, and even get mistaken as natives by southern europeans themselves...

Are you trolling?

[The Lawspeaker]

Overrate ? Everybody knows that Africa starts at Calais...

[Alberta]

Overrate ? Everybody knows that Africa starts at Calais...

Theoretically south europeans think they are really different. But in reality they dont recognize any secular iranian in swimsuit from their own haha

[The Lawspeaker]

And then there are always the people that take it seriously.

[Tauromachos]

Theoretically south europeans think they are really different. But in reality they dont recognize any secular iranian in swimsuit from their own haha

Absolutely nonesense

There are Iranians who pass in Southern Europe and don't look much exotic but also many who don't pass at all even in Fringe Zones
like Sicily not, because they have peculiar features that are entirely different from anyone in Europe.

What is indeed overrated here is the look-distance between people in Southern Europe from the same lattitude and regions with similar climate

Like some people who think that native Mainland Greeks would extremely rarely pass in Sicily or look similar to Sicilians or even in
the neighbouring Greek Islands which in the latter case is even more ridiculous in any regard.

Or that Iberian only very rarely pass as Italians or are similar to them

[Alberta]

Absolutely nonesense

There are Iranians who pass in Southern Europe and don't look much exotic but also many who don't pass at all even in Fringe Zones
like Sicily not because they have peculiar features that are entirely different from anyone in Europe.

What is indeed overrated here is the look-distance between people in Southern Europe from the same lattitude and regions with similar climate

Like some people make it seem here that native Mainland Greeks would extremely rarely pass in Sicily or look similar to Sicilians or even in
the neighbouring Greek Islands which in the latter case is even more ridiculous in any regard.

Sure the very dark ones maybe do not pass. But I know people who get perceived as natives there and they dont even especially "light". The variation in some southern euro countries are very big, so its not a suprise really, especially since a tanned canarian or south italian is much darker then menas who often avoid the sun.

[rein]

There’s a range of looks in Syria.

[Alberta]

There’s a range of looks in Syria.

the women are way lighter than south italian women I saw at the beaches. Its mainly their headscarves that spoil it

[rein]

Overrate ? Everybody knows that Africa starts at Calais...

Goddamit, I guess for Dutch (one of the whitest Europeans) it works this way.