Brits are Northern Europeans! Firstly geographically located there and genetically they are much closer to Northern and Central Europeans than they would to Southern ones. Roman blood did have any significant impact on the Brits populace as a whole. Iron Age Brits were very similar to other Northern Europeans genetically.
Blue eyes are the most common eye color in the British Isles, commonest in southeastern Scotland.
Perfect example.
http://i2.listal.com/image/2022822/936full-kerry-condon.jpg
Red hair runs in the highest frequency worldwide in the British Isles, approximately 20 million Brits have the gene responsible for red hair.
http://jp2.r0tt.com/l_3acf6b50-8e31-11e1-8a1a-dd34d5500002.jpg
Reddish hair is very common in Wales, at 38% of the Welsh populace carry the gene. This colour is much more scarce on continental Europe.Only 3.1% of the Whites in the U.K. have the actual black hair, most of the dark hair is dark brown!
Take a good look at the reddish hair of these Welsh people, only 1-2% of Europe has red hair!
http://www.s4c.cymru/corcymru_2009/img/plant_ceredigion_home.jpg
http://www.watsdyke.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/st-davids-day1.jpg
!
None of those two are not average in either Germany or the Netherlands, if they are, then this Irishman is too in Ireland, right?
http://cdn2.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/migration_catalog/article25731178.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/pic981484
Most Dutch or German have brown (light) hair, not blonde.
Nope. Most Welsh have brown hair, followed by blonde and red, then black. Additionally the dominant eye colour is blue. The most common combination is a pale skin, brown hair and blue eyes. The second commonest eye colour is green. Hazel and brown are in the minority. You should not be surprised to see a Welsh person who has black hair and piercing blue eyes! Wales has a lower frequency of blonde hair than eastern regions of Britain, but not that of blue and light eyes. In fact, Wales has a slightly higher percentage of blue eyes than Southwest, Southeast, East England. Wales is definitely not less blue-eyed than the Netherlands, is only slightly less blonde, but with much more red hair!
Not when I was in Belgium or the Netherlands; maybe there were more blondes than the US average, but most people still had something that we’d call “brown hair”
Similarly, Scotland wasn’t overrun with redheads; there were more of them there, but most everyone still had brown hair of some shade.
It’s a consequence of brown hair being more dominant; to get really blonde or really red hair, you pretty much have to avoid the brown hair genes altogether, because they tend to mask/darken other hues you may have.
So it’s entirely possible that places like Northern Europe may have more people carrying the blond hair genes, but it also stands to reason that most of them are still likely to be brown haired.
The other thing to keep in mind is that one person’s dark blonde may be another person’s light brown; I suspect that this is the primary cause of confusion here- it’s entirely ambiguous what’s blonde and what’s light brown, much like the difference between auburn and red headed, or strawberry blonde and red headed.
There are Black people all over Europe.
Exaggerations are not good. I could also make a long lists of Germans or Dutch people who are dark-haired.
What nonsense are you talking about? Studies have already pointed that 50-100% of the Y-chromosome sequences of Central English population is of Anglo-Saxon derivation and identical to those of Frisian populations. The study was published in 2002! Now the most recent study by a German university in 2016, which published their finds, that in the overall English DNA, 38% is Anglo-Saxon not counting Vikings and for the Welsh and Scottish DNA is 30%! The Anglo-Saxons did eventually intermix with the Celtic-speaking people of Britain. Initially Saxons were usually male warriors, thus many took Keltic wives. So no Anglo-Saxon blood alone was not minor. In East England, the overall genome ranged anywhere from 25% to 50%!
Just so you know, the person you are replying to hasn’t logged on to the message board since September.
Do you have any evidence for your claim that the most common eye colour in Wales is blue, followed by green.
Because if true that would be extraordinary.
It is probably genetically they are more mixed or similar to people in France than Europe that more blonde hair.
Southern Europe is more typical of what you describe here.
Extraordinary? Why? Wales is in Northern Europe, the fact that there is a higher percentage of Welsh people with blue eyes than brown shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone! The other way round would be extraordinary. Now, this has been substantiated by a relatively recent study done by the ScottishDNA Project led by geneticist Alistair Moffat. They found that the commonest eye colour in the British Isles is blue! However, not all regions are equally blue-eyed, the northern parts of the British Isles have higher frequencies than the southern parts such as SouthWest England, Wales, etc…
Proof:
Extraordinary? Why should it be? Wales is in Northern Europe, not Southern Europe. thus, we should not be suprised to see that the most Welsh are blue than brown-eyed. This is proven by ScottishDNA Project study done in 2014 led by geneticist Alistair Moffat, that the most common eye colour in the British Isles is blue! However, not all regions are equally blue-eyed, there are variations as in every country. The northern regions have higher frequency than those of the south like Southwest, Southeast, East England. Despite the fact that East England has most likely the highest “Germanic Dna” input from the Anglo-Saxons, it is not the most blue-eyed region of Britain.
Yes, this health news magazine has published the truth.
https://www.healthnewsuk.co.uk/family-health-news/blue-eyes-more-common-in-britain-than-any-other-eye-colour/
Frequency of blue eyes (excluding gray or green eyes) in some Caucasoid populations
Denmark - 50.7%
Germany - 35%
Belgium - 28.9%
Switzerland - 28%
France - 20.2%
Spain - 11.75%
Portugal - 8.5%
Algeria - 2.6%
Morocco - 2.1%
Tunisia - 1.2
Frequency of blue eyes in the British Isles
Southeast Scotland - 57%
Connacht (Ireland) - 53%
Leinster (Ireland) - 52%
Ulster (Ireland) - 50%
Munster (Ireland) - 50%
Central England - 50%
Southwest Scotland - 49%
Northwest Scotland - 49%
Yorkshires (England) - 49%
Central Scotland - 48%
Northeast Scotland - 48%
Northeast England - 47%
Wales - 45%
Southeast England - 44%
East England - 41%
Southwest England - 35%
Both Ireland and Scotland are within the Scandinvian level when it comes to light or non-brown eyes.
I’m sitting in an office in Stockholm right now. If I stand up from my desk I can see fifteen people. Three are blonde and I am pretty sure one of those is a bottle blonde.
The rest are dark haired. One woman is, hmm, “mousy”. I forgot to count myself as well, I’m a redhead.
In Sweden kids seem to be very blonde but they lose it as they get older.
Shit. I didn’t realise that this was an old thread that I’d already posted in.
Good to see those three people are still there keeping it real, though.
All that Berber DNA (well, at least in Scotland): Study reveals 'extraordinary' DNA of people in Scotland - BBC News