Estonians and Finns are said to be the blondest (at least those who are of ethnic baltic/finnic roots and not recent slavic immigrants), then would be probably Eastern Norwegians, Swedes, Dutch and Danes. Western norwegians and Icelanders being slighty darker I reckon. Some germans are very blonde too specially those in the northern half of the country.
Its the norm in the US, UK and Australia… Adult male blondes arent any higher than 10-15% in any of those countries, and the figures for adult blonde females is lower , specially for the Uk and Australia. In the UK I reckon not over 5% of females 21+ are natural blondes…
Majority of Danes are blond? I don’t think so. And I have traveled more inside Denmark than your average native Dane.
Somebody posted a link earlier that put that number at one in three, which to me sounds more accurate. Would you happen to have a cite of your own to back up your “majority”?
Yes Most Danish people are blond, like it or not, the same goes for Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Iceland, North of GErmany, Finland, Estonia(ethnic estonians not russians) and maybe Latvia.
There’s a Dennis Hopper monologue that may be of help, but you probably shouldn’t watch it at work.
Cite?
Any links, Vinyl Turnip?
I am trying to find a second source for the “one in three” number mentioned above. I have found many corroborating my impressions but these were not authoritative enough for my taste. I noticed some, erm, special websites, like Stormfront, and I am afraid of ending in one of those. I am also on my phone…
Anyway, interesting article about the business of keeping Swedes blond: The Nonblond Leading the Blond: New York’s Go-to Colorist for Swedish Blondes - The New York Times
Nice article. And note she says pretty much what I said:
You think it’s true now just wait another 20 years. Though I guess that’s pretty much true for any nation that doesn’t already traditionally have a majority of dark haired people.
Migration of peoples will have had an impact on bringing blondism to new areas and Britain’s been invaded many times throughout history (e.g. Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans). Probably the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings had the biggest impact on genetic make-up, and both of these groups come from “blonder” areas - the Anglo-Saxons from Northern coastal Germanic tribes and the Vikings from Scandinavia.
The Anglo-Saxons invaded or migrated to Britain in the 5th to 7th centuries AD and ruled most of England. They only managed to rule over a small part of Scotland and didn’t make progress in Wales. The Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes from Denmark and the Northwestern coast of Germany.
Vikings invaded/migrated from Scandinavia from the 7th to the 11th centuries AD. They settled in much of Northern and Eastern England and parts of Scotland, Ireland and a small portion of Wales.
Welsh have less blondes and probably as a whole slightly darker hair than the English since, unlike most of England and much of Scotland, most of their land never fell under the control of either the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings. As such, the Welsh (and the Cornish) are the most genetically distinct of the people of mainland Britain. They are the British people that are genetically closest to the ancient Britons of two thousand years ago.
While the Norman invasion and conquering of England brought huge political, social and cultural changes to England, their genetic input was probably less than the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, since it was more about them supplanting the previous ruling class. So it was small numbers of people - aristocracy and those needed to support the apparatus of power - rather than large numbers of migrating people.
Anglosaxon and viking blood is minor in England and Scotland compared to pre celtic blood
The Anglo-Saxons, especially, added a significant amount of new genetic material to England. Wikipedia has a good summary:
Indeed, DNA testing described in the first paper mentioned (Weale) suggests the possibility of “an Anglo-Saxon immigration event affecting 50%–100% of the Central English male gene pool”. This could be because the invaders killed the British males and kept their women as wives or their higher social status meant they had access to more females, possibly along apartheid-style lines.
This interesting 2015 article describes a recent genetic analysis of the United Kingdom: “Genetic study reveals 30% of white British DNA has German ancestry. Analysis over 20 years reveals heavy Anglo-Saxon influence, with French and Danish DNA coming from earlier migrations than the Normans or Vikings”. It also has a map showing the U.K.'s genetic clusters.
As an anecdote, my husband and I have been together for 20 years. To this day I do not know what is the natural hair color of any of the females in his family. He’s not sure either, because they start to color their hair when they’re teens.
In contrast I only changed my hair color once when I was a teen, and it wasn’t permanent. It went away in a couple of weeks.
But, by your own definition, they look blond. What is blond if it isn’t how one looks under what’s normally considered optimal lighting conditions?
And to clarify: If you wanted to discern if a person’s hair was truly black or dark brown; why wouldn’t you go look at their hair in bright sunlight?
-scabpicker, who is 3 classes short of a BFA in Photography, understands color (subtractive and additive) pretty well, but can’t understand why you seem to have an objection to dishwater being considered blond.
To answer the OP in one two-word phrase - “Spanish Armada”. Some of those Spaniards were really good swimmers.
(Referencing a famous Cecil column.)
You are mistaken or just exaggerating. Yes, the majority of White Britons have brown hair and light eyes. Though there are those who could have darker hair and eyes in the minority. I know plenty of Brits who are blondes too! Anyway, brown hair is the most common hair color in Europe, so why shouldn’t it be in Britain.
Naomi Watts, late Princess Diana, Daniel Craig, Alan Shearer, Bobby Moore, Lewis Moody, Prince Harry, Prince Williams, Paul Scholes, Will Hughes, Dan Cole all are fair or red-haired people. The most common eye color in Britain is blue (48%), followed by green (30%), while the rest are brown-eyed.
Incorrect, British females or Anglo-Celtic females in Australia are much more likely to have naturally blonde or red hair than their males counterparts. Overall, 25% of White Britons (U.K.) have naturally blonde hair and around 8.2% have red hair not your 5 % joke. Many British and Irish males have a red or reddish tint in their beard color, no matter if their hair is blonde/brown/black.
The level of blondism in Belgium is lower than in the U.K. or Ireland.
These are Irish girls, most of them pale-skinned and are fair-haired.
These are English boys, most have light brown hair which is the most common hair color of the Isles!
English rugby players
http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/images/news/Burns_EngU18s.jpg