Noted. Loren does have some of the physical features the OP noted, but being that she’s also got some Mediterranean features, she’s likely to be something of a “mutt” (like most people).
The Slavic face often trends to round, but this is not invariable. The Slavic eyes often trend to deep-set, but this is also not invariable.
These are among the features which, if several of them together trend a certain way, scream “Slavic!” but not all Slavic people will have them.
There are a lot of different looks in Africa, possibly because the genetic variation is greater there than anywhere else. Ethiopians and Somalies in particular always stand out to me. To me they’re probably the most beautiful people in the world.
There is also an amazing amount of variability in southeast Asia. The Lao look completely different from the Thais, for example.
Of course, to us folk descended from Sicily, anything above Calabria is northern Italy.
A cursory glance seems to indicate that the site is of legitimate intent. I’m not knowledgable enough about the science to tell whether their information is good or not, but it looks reasonable to a layman.
In the famed Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond has a similar pictorial section in the middle of his book showing physical examples of different races around the world. No one has ever slapped the “racist” label on Diamond.
IMHO, recognizing superficial physical differences between prehistoric populations != advocacy of racial supremacy.
Makes sense. The Slavs are probably even bigger mutts than the English are, having (depending on area) Viking, Tatar, Mongol, Turkish, German, Persian, Scythian, Gothic, and who knows what else blood flowing through them. I’ve met Russians who were indistinguishable from Han Chinese, and ones who were indistinguishable from Swedes.
Someone’s just asking to get invaded…again.
Here I am. Well, half of me, anyway (I’m the girl). 
I am half German (well, there’s a smattering of French on that side, but the vast majority is German), 1/4 Polish and 1/4 Slovak.
When a friend of mine saw that picture, she said that I looked exactly like I should have some traditional “ethnic” Slovak/Polish/whatever dress on in the middle of a herd of goats, heh. So, to add to this discussion: knowing what my ancestry is, what does my half-of-a-face look like?
You look quite a bit like a woman I used to know who was of Carpatho-Rusyn ancestry (i.e. from the meeting point of Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine).
I remember being home from college one year and heading out to Baltimore. I was in the polish section of town and it really hit me that the people looked different from the North Carolinians I’d been schooling with. The Poles were generaly blonde with pale, wide round faces whereas I was used to narrower jawlines and darker blonde hair.
After I moved down to FLA I remember once seeing a man and thinking, “That guy is a North Carolina law man.” And I was right! It seemed to be more about his manner of dress and behavior than physical build, however.
I remember a woman researcher in the middle east describe having to completely cover herself in the long robes. Despite this, locals could always pick out the non-local women. American women bounce when they walk while the Iranian women move with a gliding gait.
I forgot to say: There are so many different types of women: blondes, brunettes, red heads, round-faced, pointed chins, brown eyes, blue eyes, etc, etc…
And yet they all look pretty.
VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!
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- How about them Orientals… http://www.alllooksame.com/
(fun stuff, see how dumb you is)
-BTW, I looked around on that Nordish site for a bit, and it seems like the “examples of types” they have bear little resemblence to each other at all. That, or maybe I’m just not a very good racist.
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That’s because people other places never smile!
It was very strange spending half a week in Copenhagen last year. It was a very warm summer and everybody was out with their babies in these old-fashioned sturdy baby carriages. The homogeiality (homogenousness? homonegenity?) of the adults was odd enough, but I could have sworn they all had the same baby. 
It was even more noticeable after we passed an Indian couple with their child and noticed how strikingly different it was to see a child who didn’t look just like every other one. Really, they might have just had one baby they switched off when they rounded the corner and I wouldn’t have known.
We thought it odd that they’d leave the kid outside the shop for a bit, but then we realized, hey, nobody’d steal the kid, they’ve got one just like it at home.
If someone asked me what an irish person looks like [URL=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/]Colm Meaney](http://belleofsavannah.tripod.com/) would be the person I’d use as an example. (I’d love to know if Emerson Hart of Tonic is Irish, since he brings " Irish" to mind…but that could be my mind connecting his looks to their " Celtic Aggression" song. hmmm.)
It’s kind of weird how you can normally pick out the person who is not native to your area, even when they are not substantially different in appearance. When I lived in California we could usually tell tourists from the midwest right away. I’m not just talking about the pasty-legged, black sock and hawaiian shirt wearing midwesterners.
I think it has to do with a lot of different things: clothes, body language, the way someone interacts with other people, not really any difference in “race.” I visited a friend of mine in Wisconsin after he moved there from California. The people there look overwhelmingly Nordic, Slavic, or German in ancestry. Lots of tall, sometimes heavy people with blonde hair. I’d wager money that most Americans and Europeans would be able to tell the difference between someone from Wisconsin and a German, Russian, or Norwegian tourist at a glance even though the ancestry seems to be pretty close.
I myself am one of those odd mutts who kind of look like everyone. I shocked one of my ex-girlfriend’s friends when she first met me because I looked exactly like someone she knew in high school. She showed me a picture of him, and I’ll be damned if we couldn’t pull a “Parent Trap.” Of course, I’d have to learn Arabic and get brown contacts first, since he’s from Saudi Arabia. Odd to run into your double that way. On another surreal occasion, I was in a bar in Tokyo and a guy came up to me and said something in Gaelic. When I said, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand,” he replied in a distinctive Irish accent, “Oh, sorry, I thought you were one of us.”
I’ve also been told I look: Italian, Puerto Rican, Jewish, and French, though only the latter has any connection to my actual ancestry. Take the British Isles (all four major groups), mix in a Swede, a German or two, a couple of French settlers of Canada, and two tribes of American Indian (Iroquois and Cherokee) and you’ve got me.
Maybe it’s our American hair?
It’s weird the way Americans always smile. Like they they’re having some secret joke on the whole world or more to the point; you in particular – makes you want to check if you’ve got a spot on the shirt or the fly is open or perhaps he has been banging your wife or something. I was in a train once, where some man who had had a few too many bottles of vodka got fairly upset with one of them there yanks, shouting he should stop smiling at him or tell him what was wrong. But it was like he just couldn’t stop smiling, so the poor man smiled some more to apologise – which went over really well.
“Homogeiality”? I think the word you’re looking for is “greatness” or “supreme excellence”. Anyway why would anyone want to steal a baby - seems kind of silly? But it’s true there was a case a few years back where a Danish woman on vacation in New York got jailed and the baby put in foster care all for leaving the baby in the baby carriage outside a café while having breakfast. Boy, did that ever stir up some shit here in ole Copenhagen!
I don’t smile a lot. Doesn’t mean I’m not happy, but I don’t smile a lot. And believe me, I get a lot of slack for it here. “You should smile more”. or
“What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.”
“YES there is. What’s the matter?” Ugh.
In Art class once we were drawing faces of our classmates and the teacher came up to me and guessed right off that I was of Scandinavian ancestry (well, she guessed Slavic first and then Scandinavian). Here’s a pic of me (and I’m not smiling), so I dunno.
Well, we smile to be friendly, and then we smile when we’re nervous, too. There’s this fascinating essay in Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, written by a westerner in Japan in the Meiji era, about the Japanese smile. It was all about why these Japanese people smiled when they were embarassed or upset or any number of cultural reasons, but the Westerners they worked for were infuriated by it. It was obviously very culturally different from the smile we Americans are always smiling, but similar in how significant unfamiliar body language can be.
It’s very strange for me to go to other places like France, where we’re told that making eye contact and smiling with a man is interpreted by him as you coming on to him! I never noticed how hard it was to not make eye contact and smile at people. Then again, I’m not from New York or anything.
None of that had anything to do with physical characteristics of people around the world. Sorry about that.
Not sure how relevant this is but…
I was in a cafe in Montreal a few years ago, they just sold coffee and sandwiches and things like that. I was behind about 5 or 6 people and as each reached the cashier he would greet them/say what they owed in French. Every one of them. When I reached him he said “Hi, that’ll be $3.76”. In English?! I was too surprized/confused/ :o to ask him how he knew the difference but I wish I had.