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Do most Italian and Spanish (Spain) people really have "darker" features?

  • Like tanned skin, brown eyes and Black hair? Most I have met do have those features. Being North Indian (India) I have been mixed up for Italian quiet a lot. Now recently there was this debate that people from Mediterranean areas like Italy are purely White and nothing else and their features are due to weather, my teacher said it had to do with invasions from North Africans and Arabs. Now recently I was trolled and flamed, people said all Italians have pro European features like green eyes, white skin and brown hair. I need your help on the topic.

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    Most Italians do, in fact, have darker skin and hair than most Europeans, they are still typically considered white though. My whole family on my dad's side is pure Italian (Mom's side is mostly Dutch and English) and they all have very dark brown hair and green eyes. I'm not as dark in skin tone as most of my dad's side, but I'm still noticeably darker than most of my peers... Of course I'm in North Dakota so almost everybody is Finish or Norwegian. http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/just-what-skin-colour-were-europeans-before-the-slc24a5-mutation/

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LIKE I TOLD YOU YOU WOULD NEVER BE MIXED UP FOR ITALIAN OR SPANIARD IN EUROPE ONLY IN AMERICA WERE THEY BELIEVE STEREOTYPES YOU COULD ONLY PASS AS A PERSON OF ARAB DESCENT OR LATINO ITS NOT THE EYES AND HAIR ITS THE WHOLE FACIAL STRUCTURE AND HAIR TEXTURE AND MANY OTHER THINGS

john m

I have known people of all hair and eye colours from these two countries, including red and ash-blonde. They tend to have darker hair rather than lighter (but that is also true in many parts of Europe outside the Mediteranean.) I don't know many who have really black hair, mostly it is medium to dark brown. If they are away from the hot sun,say working somewhere like Germany or Britain, they get a lot paler too! Moors and other invaders have been shown to have contributed only a tiny amount to the Spanish and italian gene pools--far less than 10%

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If you are bored with the topic all the time In Spain and Italy are white as any European country unless: Sweden 7 out of 10 are blond hair blue eyes. In Spain and Italy are 7 out of 10 brown hair and brown eyes. a minority in the south of the country that is more brown, for example Pedro, Silva ( football players) are canary island if we have Arab blood, I think it is very low: 1 - were only the south 2 -not married to Catholics 3-were expelled 4-over 500 years ago ... : S 5 - and if you come to Spain you will see the difference between an Arab and Spaniard In Spain in the summer everyone goes to the beach to sunbathe, and there are much darker than winter. for example Al pacino in scarface is dark, but the godfather is white, geoge clooney in The Men Who Stare At Goats is darker, in spain is the Same, though it's hard to believe in Spain and Italy in winter is cold, I'm going snowboarding from November through March. I'll put some links for you to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNN9uFOeX0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWYbPnZ6Jgc&feature=fvw I in march http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex_vizuete/4669318417/in/set-72157624767689937/ I in august 1 week beach every day http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex_vizuete/4964263526/in/set-72157624767689937/ i have a lot friends with blue eyes, blond , hair.... in Italy is the same If you do not believe me come and Spain and will see, the TV and stereotypes are horrible.

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No. Black hair are rare and the skin is tanned only in summer. Italians can have also green eyes or blue eyes but the most common is brown eyes

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