Who is lighter Serbians or Romanians?

[Supercomputer]

I am undecided. From available studie Romanians have very slightly lighter eyes, but equal in hair color. On the other hand Serbians seem to genetically plot more north. Your thoughts

[Bosniensis]

Both in the same measure. You should have added 50% 50% option

[HungryLion]

I think Bulgarians from plovdiv.

[Mingle]

I think Serbs by a little bit.

[Pribislav]

Serbs of course.

Among Romanians East Med type is pretty common for their geographical position. Romanians on average are too dark for latitude 44 - 48 N where they live.

[Nurzat]

Serbs obviously but not by a large margin. also, "lighter" doesn't mean that average Serb has lighter skin than average Romanian, it means that Serbs have a smaller percentage of olive skinned people. though recently when the two teams played the Romanians seemed lighter, but a handful of footballers cannot be totally relevant for a whole nation, that's why I don't consider national teams representative. voted Serbs.

btw, no one asked, but of former Yugoslavia I support Serbia in sports

also, I think Romanians, Serbs and Bulgarians are so close from many points of view and it is a pity we don't trade more, know more about each other etc. we should create a common economic and cultural space disregard the actual borders

[Pribislav]

Serbs obviously but not by a large margin. also, "lighter" doesn't mean that average Serb has lighter skin than average Romanian, it means that Serbs have a smaller percentage of olive skinned people. though recently when the two teams played the Romanians seemed lighter, but a handful of footballers cannot be totally relevant for a whole nation, that's why I don't consider national teams representative. voted Serbs.

btw, no one asked, but of former Yugoslavia I support Serbia in sports

also, I think Romanians, Serbs and Bulgarians are so close from many points of view and it is a pity we don't trade more, know more about each other etc. we should create a common economic and cultural space disregard the actual borders

Serbia (white) - Romania (dark blue) handbal women.



I noticed among Romanians often yellowish skin tone (visible on some Romanian players on video), and that is very rare among Serbs and other Yugos.

[JMack]

Serbs. But not by a large margin.

[Roy]

Serbs are slightly lighter as a whole.

[Supercomputer]

Serbs of course.

Among Romanians East Med type is pretty common for their geographical position. Romanians on average are too dark for latitude 44 - 48 N where they live.

Yes it is dark for it's latitude, but it's more North than Serbia so it evens out. Serbia also isn't particularly blond for it's latitude either. I think if they're lighter that it's by such a small margin that you can't really say "of course". Maybe if you compared Serbia to Albania or Macedonia, but not Romania.

Available studies on the topic:

Pigmentation of Serbs
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ation-of-Serbs

Pigmentation of Romanians
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...=1#post5803711

Extraction from studies:

Pure Brown Eyes (men)

Romania 43%
Serbia 46-48%

Blue Eyes (men)

Romania 12-18%
Serbia 14-20%

All Light Eyes (men)

Romania 32%
Serbia 29-31%

Blond Hair (men)

Romania 8%
Serbia 7%

All Light Hair (men)

Romania 32%
Serbia 33%

Black Hair (men)

Romania 13%
Serbia 8-10%