Why are Mediterranean phenotypes so rare in most of Northern Europe?

[Tooting Carmen]

Yes I know that, on the surface, this is a preposterous question. However, as I have said before, given how even in the remotest villages of Andalusia and Sicily it is still not hard to find very blonde/fair people, often with Germanic or sometimes even Slavic features, then why is the reverse scenario so much more unusual? I'd even say that truly Med phenotypes in Wales, Ireland and SW England are no more common than Nordish types in Andalusia and Sicily. Furthermore, Med types are certainly very rare in the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, and even elsewhere in Northern Europe probably no more than 5% at most. (N.B. France doesn't count here - it isn't fully Northern European either geographically or ethnically).

[Silver Lining]

Because we do not like them.

[Smeagol]

Why would you expect them to be common?

[cyberlorian]

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Mediterranid is more common among Brits and Irish than Nordid is in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Albania and etc.

[TheMaestro]

Vikings liked the med master race chicks.

[Tooting Carmen]

Why would you expect them to be common?

Because (a) Europeans are closely-related and have constantly travelled and mixed and (b) there is a high prevalence of light types in Iberia, Italy and the Balkans (at least when compared to the stereotype, at any rate), but like I said the reverse scenario is still much more unusual.

[Astarte]

Because we do not like them.

Lmao, we hawter than you.

[Tooting Carmen]

Mediterranid is more common among Brits and Irish than Nordid is in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Albania and etc.

No way. And among Scandinavians, Dutch and Northern/Central Germans even less.

[cyberlorian]

No way. And among Scandinavians, Dutch and Northern/Central Germans even less.

Nordid is not common among Southern Europeans.

[Smeagol]

Because (a) Europeans are closely-related and have constantly travelled and mixed and (b) there is a high prevalence of light types in Iberia, Italy and the Balkans (at least when compared to the stereotype, at any rate), but like I said the reverse scenario is still much more unusual.

Light types in Southern Europe are mostly of ancient Indo-European origin. There haven't been significant movements of Meds into Northern Europe in historic times, but having said that, Mediterranean influenced phenotypes are not particularly rare in much of Northern Europe.