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I will try to give my opinion about yours (did you know that some people here thought/still think that i'm your alter ego? ).
1. Unfortunately, most people count only pigmentation/eye colour, even here where people know about phenotypes (which is kinda shocking to me, since tanned borreby or baltid is still northern looking, just to name example).
2.Yeah, a lot of ordinary people think that whoever passed through Balkans stopped to ate and fuck something. I have to include even my mom in this group, unfortunately. Despite the fact that she is educated and smart person (most likely smarter than me) she genuinely believed that some Serbs have Turkish DNA (including her father who looked and was of same pigmentation as me ) because of fact that some Serbs are darker than others. When I asked her why rest of her family (including her) have those large square heads/faces and pale skin combined with blue eyes, bassically stereotypical Slavic look, her answer was something like "Well, some of our female ancestors sucessfully escaped Turkish right of the first night", I was a bit shocked. When I explained her whole thing about genetics and phenotypes she admitted that my version have much more sense. But I can't blame ordinary people who know nothing about genetics when you have people here who have some anthropology/genetics knowledge but are still too stubborn and biased.
3. About color, I never paid enough attention to that but there is probably some difference. For example, I think that in Serbia most common non-brown eye colours would be various shades of green and hazel and this is truth for other neighbouring countruies as well but I think that percentage of these two is probably a bit different (there is probably bit more pure green and blue eyes than in Albania for example). But i'm not expert on this subject. As you (and perhaps other members) noticed, I was always more focused/fascinated on/with measurements than pigmentation/eye and hair colours. Yeah, i'm different than rest of anthrotards on this forum.
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