Why do Australians seem to look different from Americans?

[Richmondbread]

I notice that Australians on average and Americans look different, but I can't put my finger on it, or why that is. Conversely, Americans and Canadians are almost indistinguishable. You would think there wouldn't be much difference. Australia, a penal colony, was settled roughly the same time as the States were. The Australians to me look a lot more Anglo/British. As if they were native to there. Or perhaps more Euro. Whereas Americans look apart from the Brits, even Americans with high Anglo ancestry, such as myself. Americans have a distinct look apart from Brits and Australians. Does anyone have any theories?

[CrazyDaisy]

Maybe the penal population looks different. I’ve been wondering about the same thing. I’ve noticed there’s more autists in Australia.

[Rouxinol]

Australians are mostly of unmixed British stock whereas Americans in general have intermixed more with other Northern Europeans and there are also very common combinations like Irish or British Islander in general + Italian. Hence why they look different.

[Knight Slayer]

Well if you look at a lot of Americans, they seem to be more Nordo-Mediterranean inspired, for instance Keltic-Nordic (Nordo-Mediterranean + Dinaric) and Sub-Atlanto-Mediterranean, also called Northwestern (Nordo-Mediterranean + Alpine) seem to be more common in North America than in Australia.

I've never been to Australia, but the people there seem to be significantly more Anglo-Saxon types, or Tronder types. There is a lot of Upper-Paleolithic looking people in Australia in my opinion especially Nordeby and Tronder types.

Edward Norton and Tom Cruise are good examples of Keltic-Nordic, while Alec Baldwin and John Travolta are good examples of the Northwestern type in my opinion. All 4 of the aforementioned men look to be mesocephalic, although Edward Norton is approaching dolichocephaly.

However I think that there is a healthy mix of both types in both Continents.

[meiliren]

Trønder is main type among White Australian women.

[Richmondbread]

Australians are mostly of unmixed British stock whereas Americans in general have intermixed more with other Northern Europeans and there are also very common combinations like Irish or British Islander in general + Italian. Hence why they look different.

Or simply, Americans have a lot more Germanic in the mix. I think there are very few Germans who settled in Australia.

[Richmondbread]

Maybe the penal population looks different. I’ve been wondering about the same thing. I’ve noticed there’s more autists in Australia.

I think more CM and Borreby amongst Australians.

Steve Erwin comes to mind as a prototypical middle class Aussie. I could not imagine passing as American typically. Even though he could.



This is a picture of his wife, and I knew right away she was American, and not Aussie, even before she opened her mouth

[CordedWhelp]

Someone's probably touched upon this, but you have per capita more Germanic and other ancestries found among White Americans. Not to say this is utterly lacking in Australia, but it's certainly less. Australia has (again, per capita) more people of pure British Islands/Irish descent.

[Dacul]

Lol Richmondbread, are you trolling?
Because Australians are mostly British and Irish people, while Americans are mostly English,Irish,Scottish,German and Scando people.
Also, Americans have some Italian and Polish ancestry.
So Australia is more Keltic while the US is more Germanic.

[Westbrook]

I knew this is what you were hinting at. You have to let go of this obsession.

Or simply, Americans have a lot more Germanic in the mix. I think there are very few Germans who settled in Australia.