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Have been thinking about this for a while because England, like many nations, has considerable variation in terms of phenotypic characteristics, but without any identifiable ethnic difference (think Welsh/English division). Reading De Gobineau who stated that during The Terror phase of French Revolution tens of thousands of 'blond' people were hunted and killed in Paris simply because being blond implied aristocratic credentials. In England, we have a tradition where it is bad luck for a blond person to enter a household first on New Years Eve before a black-haired, which originates from Viking raids. More nefariously, I would hear many stories from my own ostensibly working-class town from my parents generation. Never openly 'ethnic' attacks but young blond lads having their faces bashed in and skulls stamped on, really unpleasant stories of violence & aggression. A meandering post but is this division present in your country? One imagines it comes from prior class and caste distinctions that slowly dissipated with the Industrial Revolution.
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