Who looks more out of place for their location: Scots or Romanians?

[Davystayn]

Mind you the few Romanians and Bulgarians I have met look quite different somehow despite being next door to each other.

[Tooting Carmen]

Mind you the few Romanians and Bulgarians I have met look quite different somehow despite being next door to each other.

How so?

[Davystayn]

Bulgarians seem more thick set somehow and more robust. Romanians seem quite gracile. It could be a hangover of seeing Bulgarians excel at weightlifting so this may be a daft observation.

[Septentrion]

How so?

Different phenotype. Hello?

[Tooting Carmen]

Scotland rugby team

[Tooting Carmen]

Romania rugby team

[Lioncourt]

Bulgarians seem more thick set somehow and more robust. Romanians seem quite gracile. It could be a hangover of seeing Bulgarians excel at weightlifting so this may be a daft observation.

Working out has really been a big thing in Bulgaria, that's why many people think Bulgarian male children are born with bull genetics lol. It's like the stereotype that every Brazilian woman has a big butt.

[Lioncourt]

On topic, Romanians genetically are Latin speaking Bulgarians, and according to a theory, their ethnogenesis happened in modern Bulgaria and Macedonia. So it makes sense that they are same as Bulgarians and Macedonians in pigmentation and often facial features.

[Tooting Carmen]

On topic, Romanians genetically are Latin speaking Bulgarians, and according to a theory, their ethnogenesis happened in modern Bulgaria and Macedonia. So it makes sense that they are same as Bulgarians and Macedonians in pigmentation and often facial features.

So is Romanians your answer to the thread's question?

[Tommie]

Romanians are "exoticized" on this forum, and it's South Slavs who look more out of place for their location, not Romanians. The original populations in the area were more South Euro in looks and genetics, while South Slavs are heavily non-Paleo Balkan in ancestry.

Romania rugby team

Many are not ethnic Romanian.




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