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France is on a range of pigmentation which can be seen as similar with the area going from Austria and Slovakia to Northern Balkans. Spain is on a range of pigmentation which is similar with the area going from Northern Balkans to MENA countries. The problem is that there's a point, when you are as dark as non-Europeans, when you start to be too dark for your own good. That's why Spaniards are in denial of the existence of their numerous MENA and South Asian looking people.
French don't have that issue, they are reasonably dark, but not excessively, with also a frequency of light eyes and blondism which is lightyears higher than among Spaniards.
Manliness is not related at all with darkness anyway. The light-haired and light eyes Germanic warriors who protected, and then conquered the Roman Empire, were far more manly than the swarthy and decadent weakling who populated South Europe at that time. This is an humiliating truth that South Europeans don't like to be reminded.
Iberians and South Italians are the swarthiest AND the poorest of the Western Europeans. And also the least productives and innovative. While these facts are not necessarly correlated, it doesn't prevent that they are true.
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