
I travel to Denmark and Sweden quite a bit for work. One thing that’s always perplexed me is the large number of natives who have blond hair and tan skin. It’s very striking. You can tell it’s not from tanning, how did this happen?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 28, 2022 5:49 PM |
A former college colleague, who I've remained friends with, is American of Swedish descent. His grandparents came to the US in the 1940s, no one in his family married into other races or nationalities, which makes him 100% Swedish descent on both sides of his family.
My friend and his siblings are olive skinned with dark eyes and small features. His sister looks a lot the actress Alicia Vikander. actress.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 23, 2022 9:57 PM |
I take it Alexander Skarsgard does not count?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 23, 2022 10:56 PM |
During the height of the Ottoman Empire, Turks got way up there. Hence, towns in Finland like “Turku” and some of the (first) names sound distinctly Middle Eastern.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 23, 2022 10:59 PM |
Are Finns Scandinavians though?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 23, 2022 11:01 PM |
Isn’t pale skin a mutation, like blue eyes? It’s more likely that most people, even in northern countries, would have some coloring.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 23, 2022 11:14 PM |
[Are Finns Scandinavians though?]
R5. Finland is one of the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden...along with the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland (constituent countries within the Kingdom of Denmark) and the autonomous region of Åland (the smallest region of Finland in the southwest of the country whose official language is Swedish).
The three Scandinavian countries are: Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 23, 2022 11:21 PM |
Finns do not identify as Scandinavian.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 23, 2022 11:38 PM |
[quote] Finns do not identify as Scandinavian.
Saying that is literal violence!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 23, 2022 11:38 PM |
Not another fucking skin color thread.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2022 2:16 AM |
White people tan. This is not news.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 25, 2022 2:21 AM |
Part II Why all the Germans with dark skin? Newsflash DL, the original Europeans had a darker skin tone.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 25, 2022 2:27 AM |
My father had DNA testing done. Scandinavia was its own category, and so was Finland. Are people from Finland that distinct?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 25, 2022 2:32 AM |
R14 Yes, by language also. They're their own ethnic group, categorised along with Estonians. Known as the Finnish Baltic ethno-group.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2022 3:12 AM |
I believe the native Sami may be distantly related, known as Lapps, or Laplanders, speakers of the Finno-Ugric language group. Magyar Hungarian is in this group as well.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 25, 2022 3:16 AM |
For all we know, they may be high yellow!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 25, 2022 3:19 AM |
Fucking A, Yellow Skin Troll. How long have you been doing this? A decade at least
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 27, 2022 12:32 AM |
[quote] Fucking A, Yellow Skin Troll.
Isn't this thread about olive skin?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 27, 2022 4:33 AM |
The Yellow Skin Troll likes to start many, many threads about this topic R20. It all has the same end goal of getting pictures, and debate on blonde men, who have natural yellow, or olive undertones to their skin. I don't care that he does it, I just want a clear explanation as to why!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 27, 2022 4:40 AM |
[quote] I just want a clear explanation as to why!
Intense fetish I'm sure. However, yellow and olive skin are very different.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 27, 2022 4:53 AM |
I wanna know whhhhy… WHHHHHHYYYYYYY!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 27, 2022 4:56 AM |
Threads like this should have “Moo! Bitch, I’m a sea cow!” as a warning.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | April 27, 2022 10:08 PM |
Never marry, or even dally with, a Scandinavian: they're all quite insane.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 28, 2022 4:42 AM |
One of my exes was Finnish. He was hung.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 28, 2022 4:54 AM |
I tend to find that Scandinavians fall into two different categories in terms of looks: There are the stereotypical fair-haired ones who sometimes have a sun-kissed appearance that could be interpreted as "olive" skin; and the brunette Scandinavians with brown eyes who almost look more Russian than they do the blond/blue-eyed, stereotypical Swede or Norwegian. Alicia Vikander is a good as example of the latter as R2 notes; the Swedish singer Lykke Li is another. Both have dark hair/eyes and a slightly olive skin tone.
I am mostly of Swedish and Russian/Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry. I have dark brown hair and hazel eyes, and share enough features with someone like Lykke Li (full cheeks, big round eyes) that we could pass as brother and sister. That being said, no one in my paternal lineage (which is where the Swedish comes from) looks like that. They are all, for the most part, blond or dirty blond, pale, and have green or blue eyes. My great-grandfather immigrated to the US from Sweden, and you can see those classic Scandinavian features in my dad.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | April 28, 2022 5:03 AM |
Many Southern Swedes and coastal Norwegians can trace their ancient DNA to the Yamnaya people of the Pontic-Caspian steppe.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | April 28, 2022 7:54 AM |
The butter-yellow skin characteristic could be more a Germanic gene: I had a physically flawless ultra blond boyfriend who had it, and he was from the Rhineland. I was on a London train two years ago, and there were a group of German tourists, and one teenager would have made the Yellow Skin Troll faint in ecstasy: he seemed to have a double gene helping of it. It's definitely rare and breathtaking: like the hue filter on Photoshop turned up a notch. Not just their skin, but their iris, and hair seem more intense in colour as if they're super healthy. It's going to be so cool when gene editing enables racheting up beauty. Let's hope the Big Dick Gene discoverer scores the Nobel Prize.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 28, 2022 9:53 AM |
There is a song I really like from the 1970's, called " fool if you think its over", sung by a man named Chris Rea. When I recently looked up more information about the song, it said he was a Sammie person. His appearance changed so much from when he was younger to now, that I thought It was the wrong man. I'm not saying anything anything disparaging, I just thought it was interesting. He said that Sammi people can have blonde hair and light skin when theyre young and then get to their 30's and then their appearance changes. I just thought it was interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 28, 2022 10:01 AM |
What the fuck is a Sammie?
Wikipedia says he's German-Irish.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 28, 2022 10:04 AM |
R31 Funny that... Zellweger looks the same fairness, and she's of Sámi descent.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 28, 2022 10:59 AM |
There’s a pretty wide variety of skin tones and hair and eye colors in ethnic Scandinavians. You don’t need to have any recent non-scandinavian heritage to be an easily tanned brunette.
That said, in Sweden unusually dark coloring is often anecdotally explained through Walloon heritage. Walloons (from southern Belgium/northern France) were recruited to work in the iron industry in the 16th and 17th century. They eventually assimilated into the general population, but it’s pretty popular to claim Walloon heritage nowadays, and any vaguely French sounding surname or swarthy complexion is taken as evidence of it.
The Sámi people are also, I would say, on average a little bit darker in complexion than your average non-Sámi Scandinavian. A lot of Swedes and Norwegians from the northern parts of Scandinavia have some Sámi heritage even if they don’t identify as Sámi. People who identify as fully Sámi tend to also have finno-ugric features.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 28, 2022 5:49 PM |
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