Quote: (03-26-2012 03:13 PM)sheesh Wrote:
You are right Eliogablus, the Dutch and the Scandinavians have much more blondes and they do have the light blondes that are very rare in Germany.
Whoever invented this myth about Germany being blonde anyway ? That's certainly not the way Germans portray themselves.
American media stereotype germans according to Nazi ideals whom in some ways promoted blonde and blue eyed people. I've never heard a german telling those things. And also the fact thats Germany is the "big country" in europe with more blondes per capita, if you consider spain and italy are nearly homogeneously dark haired, france has a few blondes with a majority of chesnut haired people, and the Brits are definitely more medium/mousy brown hair (with a lot of "celtic" black haired types) and the vast majority of the blondes there are all fake (similar to the US). Germany although not the true blonde land of people has still much more blond haired/stereotypically germanic looking people than any of those populations. I found also people in poland tend to be less blonde haired than germans overall, although not by much. Many germans look like they could fit anywhere in europe, specially in central european countries, poland, austria, germany, belgium ,etc. Dutch and Scandinavians in the other hand look almost always only northern european, even the ones who arent blond haired, and have much more homogeneous looking populations than germany do.
Those smaller countries play a less important role worlwide wise hence they are less mainstream than germany.