Are light traits in Southern Europe due to the northern European admixture ?

[Žołnir]

Slovenia is sometimes considered Southern on maps. If that is the case then yes Slovene light hair come mostly from ancestors which came from more northern latitudes than Slovenia geographically is. The combination of Celtic (Taurisci, etc.), Slavic, Germanic, etc. migrators, settlers.... and so forth

[alfieb]

Sicily being much higher than Sardinia and Calabria (and marginally higher than Lucania) most likely has to be attributed to the Germanic/Celtic admixture.

[Peyrol]

These numbers seem exaggerated unless they include green/hazel eyes.

They aren't since i live in this country and i don't base my opinion over stereotypes and american sitcoms.
Green eyes are inlcuded, btw.

Btw, ''italian'' ethnicity never existed since our ''country'' exist only since 1861.

[alfieb]

Btw, ''italian'' ethnicity never existed since our ''country'' exist only since 1861.

True story. Frank Sinatra, f ex. was half Northern Italian (Liguria) and half Sicilian.

His mother was an immoral, evil woman who volunteered as an illegal abortionist... but her family didn't mind that. They did disown her for marrying his father, because he was a Sicilian tirruni.

[Driven Mind]

They aren't since i live in this country and i don't base my opinion over stereotypes and american sitcoms.
Green eyes are inlcuded, btw.

Btw, ''italian'' ethnicity never existed since our ''country'' exist only since 1861.

Green eye are not considered light by the anthropologists. Living in the country doesn't mean you know everything about it and its people.It is a fact that Italians have many people with light eyes,but 40% regardless the region is exaggerated my friend. Bavarians don't have that many let alone the Italians,again regardless whether being close to Slovenia or not.

[Peyrol]

Green eye are not considered light by the anthropologists. Living in the country doesn't mean you know everything about it and its people.It is a fact that Italians have many people with light eyes,but 40% regardless the region is exaggerated my friend. Bavarians don't have that many let alone the Italians,again regardless whether being close to Slovenia or not.

How much do you know about history of Northern Italy? How many times you been there?

Btw, bavarians are closer to 50-55% of light eyes, as i saw my last time in Munich.
...and Munich absorbed also a lot of non-german immigrants, so the percentage can be even higher...just ask to the bavarian members there.


I don't know why people consider bavarians and austrians some kind of mystical swarthoid populations.

...and yes, everybody on earth consider green eyes light...lol, how is this color, dark?

[Prince Carlo]

Light eyes = blue, green and grey eyes.

Dark eyes = all the rest.

[Peyrol]

Btw... Driven Mind, since you're bulgarian (and not austrialian as you claim to be), just take the first illegal boat from the balkans toward the Adriatic and come here to see the truth...

[bimo]

Btw... Driven Mind, since you're bulgarian (and not austrialian as you claim to be), just take the first illegal boat from the balkans toward the Adriatic and come here to see the truth...

mah

These numbers seem exaggerated unless they include green/hazel eyes.

not really , light eyes in italy are quite (not majority of course) , but in some area's of italy are really around 40% , where i live in central-north italy (emilia-romagna) on 10 people 3 have light eyes so those data seems accurate , and yes green/hazel eyes are considered light for sure not dark , at least they are more on the light side than the dark

[Atlantic Islander]

Light eyes = blue, green and grey eyes.

Dark eyes = all the rest.

Amber eyes are light too.