How Did Blond Hair & Blue Eyes Spread to Europe?

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

Don’t forget that childhood blond hair that turns brunette with adulthood is a different gene than blond ‘persistence’ into adulthood.

[@StrangeBrewReviews]

check my hair, it turned "sandy" blond brown in my teens...green eyes....but had yellow denis the menace as a kid.

[@byza101]

Yep, up until age three I had blonde hair and blue eyes. From 3 onwards my hair has been mousy brown, both of my children followed the same pattern, although my youngest at age 7 has hair almost blonde. Good chance our ancestry is in Scandinavia.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Yup among white South Africans majority of children are blonde when schooling starts. Light brown/. greyish most common by end of high school. One of my children though is white blonde in her 20s

[@ParisAcacia]

The kelts , not celtes, was dark haired ans stop to explain our history, pur nrc have autoroty on 85 % of the roman and greek archives , stop your raciale crazyness and fake history of our People

[@ParisAcacia]

Stop its too racist and stupid , go to explain the history of the pakistanese , never again our hostory its à disaster full of ridiculous mistakes

[@aag3752]

Fascinating! In Lebanon we have a minority occurrence of blonde hair and blue eyes. Not nearly as high as in northern Europe, but on par with the West Asia/Levant section of the map you showed at the beginning. The connection between West Asia, Siberia and Western Europe in terms of genetics is really mind blowing and good to know. Thanks for the info.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

Because The Phoenicians were originally "Nordic" or maybe more accurately Celtic, still related people.

[@aag3752]

@@chrisnewbury3793 Lol no. We are mostly Phoenician by dna, yet we don't mostly look Nordic. Most of us look like proper Mediterranean people.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

@@aag3752 mostly yes but the original "Phoenicians" were not from The Levant.

[@LeoSaab-ty3cj]

Yes, I heard about this. I heard that there is a village or town in Lebanon that's predominantly of blonde haired blue eyed people

[@volkerr.]

Actually those Lebanese women I know all have colored hair 😂. And if not, then their hair is very dark blond 😊

[@violetmoonofthenorth]

My mam had blonde hair & blue eyes.. she passed away two yrs ago. I have blue eyes like her 👀 my dad dark curly hair with green eyes 😊 thanks for the video. From UK.

[@blingbling574]

My mom had full on gingervitis. My grandchildren are so white, they are clear.

[@Daverotherham]

Ugh! Creepy Valley! Great script , but you should have read it out, not AI’d it

[@danythrinbell1596]

she did not had many children if like 7 or 10 for sure some will be blond , and blue eyes , no matter brothers or sisters we all born with some different appearances ones more others less i had 6 brothers , ones tall others blond gold other blue eyes my parents were gallos gaul

[@Rakeshsharma32q]

Your eyes are not blue stop yapping brit

[@philipethier9136]

@@Rakeshsharma32q And how the heck would you know that?

[@CENTRIX4]

Blonde Hair And Blue Eyes Both adaptions to low ambient Ultra Violet levels at the earths surface. Blonde hair the light reflected from snow can penetrate Blonde Hair to reach the skull on the skin to increase Vitamin D3 levels. Increased Vitamin D3 levels will result in a stronger immune system. Pregnant women also require higher Vitamin D3 levels for the pregnancy to reach full term thus new born infants will be healthier with a higher probability of surviving childhood due to a stronger immune system when they are born. Blonde hair will confer a survival advantage in regions with very low ambient Ultra Violet levels at ground level. Maternity problems experienced by black women and women with dark skin in Northern Europe and in Britain and Ireland within the Atlantic Climate Zone are due to very low Vitamin D3 levels and often zero Vitamin D3 levels not racist medical staff. Without the modern Western standard of living black women and women with dark skin would not be able to have children in Northern Europe and in Britain and Ireland within the Atlantic Climate Zone are due to very low Vitamin D3 levels and often zero Vitamin D3 levels. The negative health issues of women covering their skin all the time by wearing traditional clothing, specifically for pregnant women have never been touched upon by the medical profession and this is an issue of grave concern and must be addressed immediately. Blonde hair is an adaption that increases Vitamin D3 levels conferring a survival advantage on those with blonde hair especially for pregnant women and children whose mothers have blonde hair thus blonde has proliferated and remained within the population. Sexual selection of blonde hair is something that I personally do not agree with. Grey Eyes ---- Blue Eyes ---- Green Eyes Density Of Cloud Cover and Density Of Precipitation and Type Of Precipitation Cloud cover reduces ambient Ultra Violet at ground level by the droplets that clouds are made of blocking Ultra Violet light. Denser the cloud cover the higher the percentage of Ultra Violet UBV light blocked. Volume of precipitation is a constant however type of precipitation is a variable. Grey Eyes --- Extreme North dense cloud cover dense mist micro droplets. Blue Eyes --- Far north dense cloud cover dense mist mini droplets. Green Eyes --- North dense cloud cover dense rain droplets. The smaller the droplet the greater the percentage of Ultra Violet UVB in sunlight that is blocked. The size of the droplet is the variable that dictates ambient UVB at ground level thus controls eye colour pigmentation being melanin in the eye. The lower the Ultra Violet UVB at ground level and the lower the sunlight at ground level thus eyes with depigmentation being less melanin confer an advantage. This is what we witness from the map of European eye colour and blonde hair dispersal in Europe. ==== Ginger Hair R1b L21 MC1R Ginger hair proliferates within the Atlantic Climate Zone. The further West within the Atlantic Climate Zone the higher the percentage of ginger hair within the population. Dense cloud cover dense precipitation and the precipitation is statistically a dense drizzle of mini droplets. Eastern Europeans living in Ireland comment the rain is not like normal rain but a dense drizzle of mini droplets that at times lasts for weeks on end. Within the Atlantic Climate Zone blue eyes will proliferate and this is what we witness. Ginger hair consistency is different to other hair type, Individual hair strands are finer but the hair follicles are more dense. The bandwidth of UVB that can penetrate the very dense cloud cover and very very dense drizzle of mini droplets can also penetrate Ginger Hair to reach the skin on the skull to increase Vitamin D3 levels. Thus with Ginger hair have higher Vitamin D3 levels than other hair types thus Ginger Hair confers a survival advantage for the population specifically pregnant women with Ginger hair and newborn infants whose mothers have Ginger Hair due to higher Vitamin D3 levels than other hair types when the infant is born. ==== R1b L21 Ginger Hair MC1R Even without Ginger Hair R1b L21 proliferates within the Atlantic Climate Zone and this is due to depigmentation of the skin being less melanin in the skin enabling this sub-clade R1b L21 to produce Vitamin D3 more effiecntly within the low ambient Ultra Violet levels of the Atlantic Climate Zone. Geographic distribution density of R1b and R1a in Europe correlates with cloud density and volume of precipitation. Significance of wind speed lowering temperatures from wind chill within the Atlantic Climate Zone. Atlantic Storms can at times be like mini hurricanes thus lowering the temperature from wind chill. Is this influencing eye colour and/or hair colour being Ginger Hair within the Atlantic Climate Zone? Research project about the significance wind speed within the Atlantic Climate Zone? ======

[@morwickchesterham3875]

You are an autistic case arn't you?

[@messservice]

I totaly agree, you must be more intellingent than the average

[@Adelajda-lz7wf]

Dobrze napisane 👍 Rude włosy mają być pozostałością po krzyżowaniu się z Neandertalczykiem. .

[@lovetopoop4u]

All that book to say that brown people are disadvantaged

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Crazy good comment, respect.

[@ingemarsmit4840]

I'm from the north of Belarus. We have a lot of children, blonde and light brown girls. Then some of them darken a little. And many light eyes, and gray and blue-gray and steel-gray. We have a term for a certain hair color, flaxen And I was blond as a child, but became light brown. There is such a color in the Russian language, rusi, many Slavs have it.

[@TheEggmaniac]

Its the same in Britain, many children have blonde or light brown hair, but when they reach adulthood, their hair can sometimes change to brown or black. Also the term 'flaxen' has been traditionally used to describe children or people with that blonde to light brown hair. I only found out recently, why 'flaxen' was used to described that. It was because when the plant flax, is harvested and processed, the long fibres have the look of that light sandy brown / blonde colour. Peoples hair was often described as looking like it. The flax industry in the UK declined rapidly from the 1950s. So most people wont even know what that means now.

[@somedutchguy9184]

vlasblond?

[@hakanliljeberg790]

In Dalarna there is Orsa, and In Belarus Orsha.. I think vikings came there...

[@TheEggmaniac]

@@somedutchguy9184 I think that translates as flaxen blonde, in English.

[@TheEggmaniac]

@@hakanliljeberg790 Im sure the eastern vikings did travel there. The eastern Vikings, who mainly came from what is today Sweden, travelled down many of the large rivers into what is today, eastern Europe and Russia. Down to the Black Sea. Infact their descents started many of the early states in these regions. They were called the Rus and gave their name to Russia and Belarus. Though Im sure blonde hair and blue eyes, which is common in those regions, didnt just come from these vikings. Ive read that these features were already well established there, before the arrival of the vikings.

[@barryoconnor721]

They came from the Land Of Ice And Snow And The Midnight Sun Where Hot Springs Blow, obviously.

[@JosephHolness-u2m]

Zeppelin ❤!!!

[@goranmarinic2923]

🤣

[@ninja1970fin]

Hot springs? Nothing here 🇫🇮

[@ericellquist7007]

"Blue eyes, baby's got blue eyes..."

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

@@ericellquist7007 And they are beautiful, In Holland we are lucky with 80% blue eyes. I have red hair and blue eyes myself, Exotic af, 0,17 % Proud to have Viking ancestors.

[@maunasiliandergamba2387]

Steven MacMillan should record an audiobook because the accent is just to die for, it’s so calming I love it!

[@mattbarbarich3295]

Hmm, u think so, I find his speech rather difficult to listen to. Not all Scots is like that.

[@jersey714]

I would love to know more about red-haired people with blue or green eyes, and how that might be related to the blonde/blue-eyed subject of this video. Thanks. Enjoyed this video.

[@FairnessFobe]

Yes, and I'd like to know why if a child begins life with ginger hair but over time it fades to blonde or tow. And why a child's auburn hair fades to brown over time. Does a child with both red-haired parents remain red-haired, but if it has 1 brown haired parent's gene dictate that the child's hair will turn to dark brown over time? I always thought the red gene was dominant!

[@JaccoSW]

@@FairnessFobe Red hair is a recessive gene. So only if the child gets it from both its parents can it be red haired as well.

[@nitholav5583]

Well you forgot to mention that some are born blonde but later at the start of puberty become brown haired blue eyed, I was blonde until I was 6 or 7 years old and then my hair changed to brown. Now I'm grey-brown blue eyed. ;)

[@celtichistorydecoded]

My dad was similar

[@VictorVæsconcelos]

Yeah but then you gray into a weird blondish gray. I myself have dark hair and beard and as I age I get more and more completely random neon red strands. This business is a lot weirder than I imagined as a kid.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Isn't that a general trend? I seem to remember reading somewhere that blonde hair always grows darker with age.

[@AdalbertPtak]

My blond hair changed later. In teenage it changed to brown and then very dark brown, still blue eyes. My sister and a younger brother kept their blond hair and blue eyes. But the hair just a little darker as they got older.

[@MichaelDouglas-vd7yc]

I know friends that were blonde on their childhood, but after teenage their hair became brown or nearly black

[@st-ex8506]

Some... 20 years ago. I was having a drink at the bar of my hotel in Fès, Morocco. The waiter was a young man, very tall (about 1.95 m, 6'5''), slender, blonde and with blue eyes. I was absolutely certain that he was Scandinavian, so I asked him were he was from and what he was doing in Fès. It turned out he was a local, coming from a little mountain village about 20 km from Fès. He was a Chleuh berber... and sure enough, he confirmed that many people in his village were tall, blonde and with blue eyes! Well. it seems that some centuries ago, the migration went in another direction than it does nowadays! It also means that these berber population did not mix much with the Arabs, who came much later. Otherwise, those recessive genes would express themselves only very occasionally nowadays.

[@yllbardh]

Might be some descendents of Vandals.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

@@st-ex8506 I believe immigration started thousands of years ago and people always mixing! Isn't that great?My mom and dad have brown eyes and brown hair my two grandfathers had green eyes and so does my brother but not me and my sister .Both my grandfathers were Greeks from Anatolia!

[@st-ex8506]

@@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ Of course. Clear eyes are a recessive gene... so a baby with blue eyes can appear in families whose ancestors have had only brown eyes for generations... without any foul play!

[@user-li1gp2jw8k]

Could be a descendent of the Barbary European women

[@st-ex8506]

@@user-li1gp2jw8k the origin of blonde berber populations of North Africa is an unsolved mystery! There are a number of hypotheses going around… some reasonable like descendants of Vandals, to significantly more far-fetched ones like descendants of Atlantis survivors…, but I have seen no decisive paper on the topic.

[@vidopliasov]

There is also a third component of the Northern European area. To light hair, eyes, we can add the ability of an adult to digest milk.

[@JangianTV]

Beautiful people. 💙🤍👱‍♀️

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

You can´t say that in 2024, the truth is forbidden.

[@vladdrakul7851]

@@PROVOCATEURSK I am against censorship but you exaggerate. Notice this comment unlike many of mine (and many others!) get removed daily. I myself love blonde blue eyed women and married one (my mom is German) but the fact is there are beautiful and ugly people of every hue and shade. Stop playing the victim like the 'woke' do. You are not profound just a whining pseudo provocateur.Those who are persecuted and silenced are those (See Assange, Snowdon etc) that threaten power and MSM lies, something you don't do but you do that 'virtue signalling' just like the 'woke' MORE ONS do. Our liberties are dying but you just want ATTENTION like a five year old! LOSER!

[@TheGreatResist]

Now, ugly is pretty. Bad is good. Chaos is order.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

@@JangianTV Oy vey!

[@Elena-l6g5s]

​@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115That's so Jewishy 😂

[@AdorableSenses_AdoraReal1]

Nordic genes are absolutely fascinating and beautiful! But I have to admit that Celtic and Gaelic genes are also beautiful.

[@TheMariepi3]

When you are looking at a beautiful Nordic woman with almost white blonde hair and almost white grey eyes, you are actually looking at a "Mulier Neanderthalensis"

[@brianjob3018]

@@TheMariepi3 So you've ID'd a new species, "Marriable/Legal wife Cave Woman." How did you arrive at that?

Well what about Afghanis, even Pakistanis (in some parts there), and then some island black people in the Pacific with blond hair and blue eyes? That's pretty weird and surprising, but yes it does exist

[@AdorableSenses_AdoraReal1]

I used to have friends who were Persian/Iranian, had blue eyes and blond hair. I also had friends who had red hair and blue eyes from Turkey. So, we are humans and immigrated from one place to others mixed up with different ethnic groups. My Scottish friends used to call me ‘sister’, because they all believed that their ancestors came from Anatolia, and we had common ancestors. And they were tall, blue eyed, blond and red haired!!

[@TheMariepi3]

@@AdorableSenses_AdoraReal1 In Turkey (the ancient Byzantium) there is a huge mix of "subraces" given its extremely complex history. I repeat that Turkey is the ancient "Byzantium" or second Rome. Also as a curious fact, in Byzantium they were very fond of hiring Scandinavian and Slavs "mercenary warriors" during the Middle Ages and when it was already in the hands of the Muslims, from 1450, they were very fond of buying women for the harems captured in places as remote as Ireland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Russia, etc. etc. (blondes and redheads)

[@letsgosouls]

The Vikings and Saxons have definitely influenced the British isles with hair and eye colour , my town is an old danish settlement and most people are clearly of Saxons and Viking origins

[@guleet75]

Name of the town ?

[@jeanmackenzie4781]

That is more of a stereo image.Like all scots , i've got red hair I need statistics in the archipesa's Like brown hair obviously blue eyes and Viking? Blonde hiar Take me all different colours of hair.And not everyone was blue eyed.But you find the inhabitants of Britain.Scotland island were very feared with blue eyes and all types o Colour of hiar

[@publicminx]

​ @guleet75 wanted make a joke about a town with the name 'Saxvik' (SAX + VIKings). While looking up I noticed that there are family name combinations with that (Saxvik, Saksvik, Saxvigen, Saxvig), especially used in Norway (but maybe also other parts of Scandinavia, maybe UK etc.) ... I wonder if this really has something to do with Saxons + Vikings, due to the different variations and because the origin of this name is unknown (and there are ten of thousands on one hand, on the other hand its not a huge number compared to most other names which might fit for a certain time period when this combination might have inspired some few people back then ) ....

[@caravanlifenz]

Blonde hair makes me think of carefree summers at the beach when I was a child. Because hair turns blonde in the sun, it symbolises summer and warmth. In high school, we all lightened our hair as it brought back happy summer memories.

[@maggan82]

Summary: Blue eyes came with Western Hunter Gatherers. Blond hair with Eastern Hunter Gatherers. The fusion is called Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers.

[@neiljohnson6815]

Blue eyes and blonde hair here. Although now it's blue eyes and gray hair. North European ancestry.

[@Phantom-sl9qv]

A lot of people think blonde hair and blue eyes is the prettiest combination, but for me personally I think brown hair with brown eyes is such a calming and naturally alluring combination.

[@annecarter5181]

I really love this series. Genetics 🧬 is such a fascinating subject. Many thanks. 😊

[@luvslogistics1725]

Also the rarest people on earth, blonde hair and blue eyes. I was born with blue eyes and blonde hair but now my hair has gradually darkened into eventually dark brown

[@pamelagileno5483]

Red hair is more rare than blonde hair. Highest concentrations of true ginger hair are in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the Udmurts of Russia. Also the Netherlands, Northern France, and Belgium

[@TueSorensen]

I wouldn't say they're the rarest people on Earth. Lots of blue-eyed blondes in the local populations of Northern Europe, and also America and Australia.

[@luvslogistics1725]

@@TueSorensen yes but compared to continent of Asia, Africa and Latin America where dark eyes and dark hair predominate, they are rare.

[@luvslogistics1725]

@@pamelagileno5483 good point

[@quantumchang4410]

Blonds and red heads are the most beautiful race of the human race on Earth with almost perfectly shaped facial structures. This is not a racist comment. This is the truth from my opinion.

[@Spongemonkey26]

Leftoids will never openly admit it but it's true.

[@hectorcardenas2171]

That’s just an opinion, not fact.

[@WorldlyBudget]

Agreed

[@jaimebergner]

There are strikingly beautiful people of all skin tones, from very dark to very light, so striking they turn heads everywhere. That is my opinion which I have formed traveling everywhere. I am a natural blonde with brown eyes.

[@fgvfgv5976]

I'm not white, I agree.

[@AxionXIII]

You’ll find a lot more blonde people in Lithuania, I was quite surprised to see even more than I had in Sweden. Specially outside of Vilnius.

[@guleet75]

In Sweden it depends on the region ! Some regions are 70% to 80% Blonde !!

[@Joey-be8eh]

It is true that Lithuania has the highest portion of blonde hair. Sweden most people dye their hair.. at least in Stockholm.

[@neilferguson5940]

​@@guleet75Swedish women dye their hair blonde or highlight it true .

[@np1663]

I will soon visit Lithuania. I can’t wait. What an amazing history of old European tribes there.

[@eily_b]

Swedes are mixing with dark skinned and haired foreigners for decades now. Lituanians pretty much didn't up until recently probabyl. Don't know how much invaders they have now

[@PaulStewart-jr3gm]

White blonde my whole life with blue eyes as well… I sure got lots of stares in Asia and the Middle East.

[@hounaidafarhat9396]

Nothing fascinating to the Middle Eastern people I have cousins uncles /unties with blue /green eyes and blonde hair.. as do many other people from the country. Not mixed ...I myself have natural red hair and green/hazel eyes..

[@PaulStewart-jr3gm]

@ - tell that to the locals where I’m at… they stare all the time. It may be how blonde I am…

[@nostromo.]

I'm blond, tall with Blue/Green eyes. I didn't hardly think about it before visiting Asia and the American continent. People there often stare at me. Not in an evil way but more curious.

[@minervaminerva7906]

Love your accent! Very interesting Video, thanks. The migration of peoples over the millenia make up what is our world today.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@ronaldwinfield307]

You actually answered questions I was wondering about. I was wondering about the origin of blond hair, what Scandinavian Hunter gatherers looked like & the origin of the nordic race.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

I didn’t feel that was answered. Just these north Eurasian people were very fair….. so connection to N Europe? AND nowhere else not established. ?

[@timothy6283]

Wherever they came from they are best

[@brigittelehmann9749]

Love your accent good information greetings from the Netherlands

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@jeanglendinning1860]

both my parents had blue eyes and blond hair, and although i have blue eyes i have light red hair, which i i have been told is some times called "strawberry blond"

[@guleet75]

Strawberry Blonde is when red hair mixes with blonde hair ! Seen it in Scandinavia !!

[@basswars7060]

My Hungarian father, aunt and uncle had blue eyes and blonde hair. I always wondered why they did. Thanks for the video.

[@johngiles6376]

I had blonde hair up until I was 5. Now, I have brown hair and blue green eyes.

[@jackjones7062]

Same! Even our names are similar... Are you from the uk?

[@user-yv4sh4zv7j]

Very interesting. I wish I understood what you were saying without subtitles😉 Thanks

[@Mylogcabin]

None of us can understand him, and he only lives two miles from us. Lol.

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

Greetings from Groningen, Netherlands ( Frisia ). I have red hair and blue eyes

[@SunsetHoney615]

My family 3 generations back all spoke like this bloke but I can’t understand a word 🤣 nar love this. Great video 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💪

[@jepcartusch1084]

Members of a truly beautiful branch of the creation of life. I don't want to be a pessimist and hope that this human flower will continue to grow in the garden of humanity until the end of all things.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

There is very powerful thread in contemporary society celebrating people of colour. This will lead to the extinction of us fair folks as our genes are recessive. Why are they recessive? Never heard an explanation. But yes we are doomed. Being black is now “beautiful” and “cool”

[@user-ee9vj7ov4e]

I appreciate the information but to follow what you were saying, I definitely had to read the subtitles

[@KurtLoth]

There were Blonde hair people living in the Sweata Mountain Range in the HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS not to far from the Wusan red haired people next to Mongolians.

[@ViolentRainbow]

And now they're extinct.

[@JimMork-r9u]

There was a famous Afghan girl with blue eyes. Her picture was on a magazine cover. I think this may reflect the fact that Macedonians conquered that whole area

[@JohnVKaravitis]

​@@JimMork-r9uAnd?

[@maggiemay3520]

​@@JimMork-r9uNo dear, she probably got those blue eyes from one of the many indo european tribes who passed or settled the area

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@maggiemay3520 "Dear"? How OLD are you? Pre-1945? She is living NOW. Heck, maybe she got it from a parent who got it from some English soldier. Have to consider most recent and likely sources. With her swarthy skin and piercing blue eyes, it was striking photography.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Lots of blue eyed Aussies too mate

[@coling3957]

something to do with British settlers i'm guessing, mate.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@coling3957 A lot of Irish Scots and others too my boy

[@raygunn737]

It's all Germanic

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@raygunn737 I`ve met blonde blue eyed Irish mate and they`re not Germanic

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@coling3957 Naturally. The aborigines have NO people with these traits.

[@radiozelaza]

The lightest population in prehistoric and pre-Indo-European Europe was the Globular Amphora and Funnelbeaker cultures - they already had around 25% blond hair/blue eyed phenotype. How? Both from Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers and from Early European Farmers. Because it takes two to tango - namely, EEF had the alleles for light skin which neither WHG nor EHG had. Selective pressure or selective breeding also helped. Guy from Andrei DNA channel who analyses the DNA of fossils made a lot of videos about it.

[@hakanliljeberg790]

On YT?

[@radiozelaza]

@@hakanliljeberg790 yes, Andrei DNA on YT, his channel is a well of knowledge on recent DNA studies

[@AndrewGraziani-k7d]

I heard that blue eyes give you an advantage in low light conditions while dark eyes cut down on the glare. Might not be true, but it kind of makes sense.

[@esaiedescotes2391]

Blue eyes and blond hair are quite common in Western Europe.

[@Shining-Star-]

You forgot to mention Scotland has a high proportion too of Blue Grey eyes and blonde or light brown hair.

[@guleet75]

Viking influence if that is true !

[@SrdjanBasaric-w2s]

I don't understand the insistence on the Yamnaya culture when long before them there was a Vincan culture in Central Europe with already developed agriculture, metallurgy and trade.

[@aag3752]

Because the Yamnaya replaced this with their language and mythology. Even in the Levant and Caucuses they had some impact, and that's a long way away. Their influence was not only great but long lasting even to the present day.

[@SrdjanBasaric-w2s]

@@aag3752 And you know the Yamnaya language and their mythology? I would really like to read that mythology, where can it be found?

[@aag3752]

@@SrdjanBasaric-w2s Umm...ever hear of Hinduism? Ever hear of Norse mythology? Those are its living descendants. Indeed its continuation in the present time.

[@anthonyrab9468]

Yamnayas didn't have blue eyes or blond hair, it's the African homosapians like in the west island of the Pacific have dark skin, blue eyes and blond hair. The study of the dna proves it.

[@SrdjanBasaric-w2s]

@@aag3752 Did you ever hear of Slavyan mitology? Slavyan vedas?

[@vjcarter4657]

Blonde hair and Blue eyes is my fav, I must say. I have literally been obsessed with it since I was child!

[@Ramparts2009]

In northern part of Anatolia , as south part of Black sea , in modern Turkey , many people has blue eyes and blond hair, another proof of your theory

[@hakanliljeberg790]

Goths and heruls were pirates there for a hundred years...

[@aramisone7198]

People mixed and its complicated with genes and which will be dominant if one parent is blond the other not .

[@gizemg.8827]

They are not originally turks.

[@sktt1488]

​@@gizemg.8827Aşağılık kompleksi .senden daha mı türksün?

[@aleksandrovna_y]

​@@hakanliljeberg790 nope, it's because the lazica region is basically looking like this ethnically.

[@j.c.ca.o.l7035]

Interesting video

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Yup 👍. There a rare good looking group of humans 😄

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Follow your painting career.

[@JosephHolness-u2m]

And "certain people" should stop pretending to be blondes ie cultural-appropriation.

[@EmpireOfLuciferSatanson666]

@@JosephHolness-u2m Blondes are dumb and meh anyway, gingers and brunettes with hazel eyes are way hotter.

[@boxsterman77]

@@PROVOCATEURSKI wonder how many got it.

[@JonnyDee]

Great video! Thanks

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@callum9679]

These people should be protected

[@Patrik6920]

from Sweden here, we dont need protection, we can take care of ourself

[@opmacace523]

@@Patrik6920lol country with the most SA

[@darkcrow9]

@@opmacace523 Bullshit. It's just more often documented because Sweden has good laws in place for people who have to deal with SA. So no, this is an uneducated and bullshit comment. Wouldn't be shocked if you are American with your ignorance. As Patrik said, we don't need protection! Thank you very much.

[@Patrik6920]

@@opmacace523 uh?

[@thebeautifulones5436]

@@Patrik6920. You are not doing a very good job

[@tigritsa74]

Great video👍Lovely accent ❤

[@MrRabiddogg]

the Greeks, Norse and other European mythologies claim their gods were typically blonde. If one follows the theory that the gods were ancestors or rulers from the days of old, (Father Zeus/Odin etc) this would collaborate with the theories in this video as well.

[@09conrado]

Apparently certain groups of extraterrestrials look just like blond people from Scandinavia, hence they're popularly called Nordics. I wonder if the tales of the Norse and Greek 'gods' are based on these people. Anyway, it seems like an awful waste of space if we'd be the only ones.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

African gods, Wawas, were blond as well.

[@MrRabiddogg]

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 the dim witted are going to use what I am about to say as racist for Adolf thought the same thing, but what if the Atlanteans were really blonde haired and blue eyed? this mutation seemed to have started about the same time as they would have been refugees from the flood. If my memory serves me, the Europeans who discovered the Azores mentioned that they too had that complexion and the Azores would have been the mountains Plato described back when the waters were lower

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

@@MrRabiddogg and forget not the Canaries Islands native population, the Guanches. AD Hitlerum fallacy Is mandatory among leftards and envious non-whites. Try to not mention the Wawas to them.

[@MrRabiddogg]

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 I love Wawa, they have like 14 flavors of coffee fresh ground at every location. I just wish their hot foods had more variety

[@WorldlyBudget]

Blonde hair and blue eyes are beautiful features but I love bright red hair green eyes with freckles the most.

[@RichardLucas]

I'm not sure that blonde hair and blue eyes are inherently more attractive. I think that the scarcity and novelty of a certain kind of pigmentation relative to what is more common produces the appeal. For men who grew up knowing only blonde, blue-eyed women, a brunette or redhead could be especially attractive.

[@stigblichfeldt4455]

Your taste

[@petergibson2318]

There are 2 different gene combinations involved. In Eastern Europe you see a lot of people with dark brown eyes and light blond hair. Very unusual in Western Europe. In Western Europe you see a lot of people with light blue eyes and dark hair. Almost everybody in Ireland has light blue eyes but only a minority have light blonde hair. Scandinavians have both genes...for light eyes and light hair.

[@Jonna_Sweden]

My blonde hair and blue eyes stems from a common ancestor who is Noah.

[@HeriJoensen]

Very interesting!

[@janesda]

A less popular topic to examine is, "Where did the combination of mousey hair and grey-green eyes originate?"

[@MichaelDouglas-vd7yc]

I think that green/grey eyes are a special mutation, and kinda random. I know a friend who has grey/green/blue eyes, his eyes changes color due temperature and sun exposure, and he is a black (afro-American) it’s real unique and rare

[@Joey-be8eh]

@@MichaelDouglas-vd7ycgrey eyes originate from Poland / Belarus / Lithuania… 2nd more rare eye color.

[@Dishfire101]

Scotland has the highest quantity of Red Heads and Blue/Green eyes❤

[@Milestonemonger]

My husband has the most gorgeous green eyes. I have boring brown eyes. I'm so jealous 😢😫

[@LEXIXON]

I eyes green, to 2% world people ... (Czech Republic)

[@Foxtrottangoabc]

Good research 👌

[@theomnisthour6400]

Not to diss the blonde and blue eyed beauties, but I've always found green eyed redheads the most bewitching

[@JimMork-r9u]

Any small locality with the red hair green eye combination? Why was Leif Ericsson's father called The Red?

[@theomnisthour6400]

@@JimMork-r9u maybe he was a Chinese communist spy?

[@peterwilliams2152]

Yes! YES! YES!.My first love was a green eyed redhead! My daughter are both blond haired and blue eyed, though their mother is dark haired and deeply blue eyed. I was born with red hair that turned brown, but my beard was red until it finally turned grey. My eyes were hazel, green or brown, they seemingly changed regularly.

[@theomnisthour6400]

@@peterwilliams2152 Always makes me wonder if I was a pirate king in a past life ☺

[@sharonburmeister4149]

Blond hair, ,blue eyes and fair skin works well in northern areas while a dark complexion better fits the equatorial regions.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

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[@JimMork-r9u]

We are "black Norwegians". Not one of us have blond hair or blue eyes. For whatever reason, Finns and Baltics are full of blonde hair and blue eyes.

[@volkerr.]

what has been on my mind for a long time: there’s basically 5 different shapes of female vulvas. 😊 any clue where that comes from? It for sure must be related to some different human races like Neanderthals or so, isn’t it? Or is there another trigger related to this 😊

[@volkerr.]

I’ve read some “studies” about the origins of male penises (size, shape etc. Compared with those of apes..), but about female sexual organ there’s basically almost nothing out there 😜

[@MrGunnar69]

Did you not look at the maps you yourself used in the video. According to them, Scandinavia and Iceland did not have the highest proportion of blondes and blue-eyed people.

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@MrGunnar69 I didn't make any video. I am unaware of a map. When I've seen videos of Iceland, I didn't think to notice features. The sagas claim Eric moved on. There aren't any pictures, the Edda was written centuries later. So Icelanders probably don't come from Norway.

[@RegisMichelLeclerc]

In Western Brittany, we have a long line of black thick straight hair with deep blue eyes, possibly coming from as far as the Cornish exodus (the Breton language is actually pure Cornish). I always thought it was an adaptation to the sea (many older sailors have their eyes become near-colourless), as the villages where you can find them the most are located on the northern and western shore of Finistère (and somewhat Côtes d'Armor). I'd say they came with the Norman push around the 9th-11th century, but that's a wild guess. Anyway, it was well before the French set foot there. We also have these dark-skinned people with curly hair with light-brown or even green eyes (which is a rarity in the world, even in Ireland), mostly in Southern Finistère, and most likely coming from Spain (and farther) very long ago (I'd wild-guess around the 9th-10th century), You might have a look at the origins of the population of Brittany and how the genetics evolved there at different times.

[@TroyDowVanZandt]

The Indo-Europpeanization of Europe was most likely highly complicated. Those of you who've read David W. Anthony's The Horse, The Wheel, and Language (congrats, btw, for that book's so big it has its own Congressman) will remember him likening the process to franchising. Adopt the sky gods, patrilineal descent, and other central concepts of Indo-European culture, and you get all the goodies like horses, chariots, arsenical bronze, etc. I suppose it could've been that the material culture spread faster, and the genes took time to catch up. Proto-Germanic has some features that suggest a second wave of Indo-Europeanization. This would definitely complicate things.

[@mr.purple1779]

Proto IE is a prehistoric South Volga horse breeders. Then they mixed with the Dnieper locals and formed IE. These groups were or were not connected with IE because the dna is distributed unevenly. That's where the Europeans came from. Volga core horse breeders spread to Siberia, where they mixed with ANE and Paleo-Siberian ancestry and by the Iron Age formed classic nomadic cultures aka proto-Tatar - Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns.

[@scottgraham1143]

It’s interesting how differently blond is perceived by different nations. I found it amusing when I heard Spaniards describe anyone with light brown hair as rubio, whereas I saw them as brown haired. Also, I remember the term fair-hair being used much more in the past. Maybe I’ve set my own parameters, but I still see fair-haired people who I wouldn’t describe as blond. For instance my daughter is fair-haired whereas her Dutch friend is more distinctively blonde.

[@Leif208]

Non Europeans (or even southern Euroepans) will call anything lighter than black as "blond." As a Scandinavian American I wouldn't call anything blond that wasn't Nordic blond.

[@bbsaid218]

Blue eyes did not start in humans. Blue eyes has been around for 500 million years before humans ever existed. You need to explain why other animals have blue eyes. There are 2 types of evolution, divergent and convergent. Either every creature that has blue eyes has blue eyes for the same reason, or they all share a common ancestor that lived 500 million years ago. There are tropical fish that have blue eyes, so hair and eyes are not related. There are tropical birds, monkeys and many other animals that live near the equator that have blue eyes, so it can’t be an adaptation to low light levels. The most likely explanation is that blue eyes is an example of divergent evolution and that all blue eyed creatures share a common ancestor that lived 450-550 million years ago.

[@thinkerpanda]

I agree, he is pushing this narrative in numerous of his videos even though there is no proof of it.

[@TheEggmaniac]

Other animals have blues eyes, blonde hair etc, its doesn't mean that humans have inherited them from animals. Infact Im sure this mutation was not inherited from any earlier human hominds. The mutation for blue eyes has occurred separately many times in different animals including humans. Its just a lack of pigmentation or melanin in the iris. Which make the iris look blue in colour. Which may have an advantage over eyes with more melanin, in certain environments. It more likely an example of convergent evolution. Ive read it the mutation for blue eyes in modern humans may have occurred more than once in different locations.

[@aitoolresearch]

Monkeys in tropical forests live in dark, dense environment jungle. Very little light penetrates their habitat. They need less melanin in their skin and eyes etc, just like the Nordic Zone where there is less light.

[@yanoshack]

My cousin has red hair and blue eyes and her husband has black hair and blue eyes and their children are all blonde with blue eyes. And I know another family where it's exactly the same. Greetings from the Czech Republic.

[@silvieb2024]

My Czech mom has black hair and blue eyes and my Czech dad has brown hair with blue eyes. I'm blonde with blue eyes.

[@yanoshack]

@@silvieb2024 I think that brown hair is red hair in some cases. I would call it dark red hair. It is a lack of pigment, these people also often have brown eyes and freckles.

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

Super interesting video. Oddly enough, the high amount of ANE ancestry among some siberian and amerindian tribes did not produce blond hair. Another oddity is that blond hair was more common among funnelbeaker and globular amphora ( both were a mix between EEF and WHG) tthan among Yamnayas. It would be interesting a video about the spread of red hair, considered a typical celtic trait, but present at high percentage even among the Udmurts.

[@mr.purple1779]

Udmurts are closely related to ANE.

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

Ireland is notceltic

[@dude7127]

Why "even among the Udmurts"? Udmurts are Finno-Ugric people. And the Northern European Finno-Ugrians have a large number of fair-haired people. In my opinion, even Russians with blond hair are most likely of Finno-Ugric origin rather than Slavic. I am a red-haired Kazan Tatar. We are genetically close to the Udmurts. In fact, blonde and red hair, blue and green eyes are not rare even among us compared to other parts of the world.

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

@@dude7127 interesting. Chinese chronicles described the Wusun as red haired with blue eyes.

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

@@veronicalogotheti1162 Gaelic is a celtic language though

[@sonjatomazin7516]

Blond hair and green eyes here, from Slovenia. ❤️

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

I am from Greece and blue eyes are quite common although green and brown is the majority!In ancient times Hellen of Sparta was white like a rose and had golden hair and blue eyes so Homer quotes!Also goddess Athena of Athens had blue eyes and white skin .We also have people who have red hair with either blue or light brown eyes .Not very common though!Thank you for your video!

[@vask3863]

Greek man here. Also with blue eyes.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

@@vask3863 γειά σου κουκλε!

[@janeslater8004]

There is also a small area in southern crete that haa a lot of blonde blue eyed people. I cant remember the reason though

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Were the Greeks fair in earlier times?

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

@@Wolf-hh4rv Greeks are of all shades of complexions Some are very white skin with black curly hair and dark brown eyes !You must know that not until the 60s women were not subjected to sun .!Some others from islands were Mediterranean olive skin and green or greenish or light brown eyes! Others are blond with blue eyes!There a mixture since ancient times!Women with light complexion were admired because that meant the were of high status in society as they didn't have to work in the fields!Also there are short and tall people say I am 1.60 my husband is 1.90 !His father was 1.70 and his mother 1.73. Also his grandfather was red haired!

[@FatimaSiddiqui87]

I'm neither blond haired nor blue eyed, but i admire these features😊

[@J1ss3ncy]

People with fair skin need much less sunlight to synthesize vitamin D, which makes them better suited for northern European climate. I'm from Eastern France, and the only blond member of my whole extended family, but it comes with a very red skin. I never sunbathe since I had four melanomas removed as a young adult. Similarly, my blue eyes are extremely photosensitive. Regular folks with dark hair would get ill with such a small amount of sun exposure.

[@MichaelDouglas-vd7yc]

Colors and ethnicities are ways that human body find to survive different environments. Dark skin and hairs are good for warm and sunny areas, while light colors are good for cold and cloudy areas.

[@TheSuperSpecialOne]

Not true. Explain the Eskimo with dark skin and hair being as north as you can be then...

[@Yk9o]

​@TheSuperSpecialOne the supposed explanation is that the Eskimo get their vitamin D from their fish diet, that's pretty much all they eat/ate. Also, they simply dont carry the recessive genes for light skin/hair/eyes.

[@MichaelDouglas-vd7yc]

@@Yk9o also the Eskimos get too much sun exposure, even being extreme cold on Siberia, some times have massive sun exposure that reflect light on ice/snow, that causes their eyes to be smaller working as a light filter, and their skin yellow due excessive radiation from sun light. While on Europe have cold or temperate climates, but sun exposure is low in most areas, Europe skies are very dark compared to other regions, the lack of sun exposure cause people to be pale white, it’s the only place on world that have native whites

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Yes I am very fair and have had 2 melanoma tumours removed. Melanoma cancer is rampant in South Africa.

[@rocksandoil2241]

I was a "cotton top" kid, turned sandy brown, then as hair thinned in late 30s, I was nigh a redhead, (i always had some freckling too) before turning gray and male pattern baldness. Blue eyes.

[@Epsillion70]

I am Scottish/ Northern England and part Norwegian on my fathers side and I have, “ Blue eyes, blonde hair and a red beard.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴💪🔥😎

[@willbee6785]

Keep shaving.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

@@Epsillion70 oh you must be very handsome!

[@Epsillion70]

@@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ Thank you 😘

[@jockorabeni4618]

I love that accent of yours ❤

[@larsemilarnason4029]

Wonder where all the green pink and blue haired people originate from, and many sport a metal ring hanging from the nose, can't make out the eye colour, they avoid all eye contact.

[@Lamiamusicadelcuore]

I have brown hair and dark eyes..and when I lived in Uk for more than a year I started feeling very bad in my health for the lack of the sun and vitamin D! I had my skin innaturally pale :(

[@JimMork-r9u]

Circassians have blue eyes.

[@lucarmyfool4800]

Circus people???

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@lucarmyfool4800 he Circassians or Circassian people, also called Cherkess or Adyghe (Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: Adygekher) are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former country in the North Caucasus.[26

[@birgitlucci9419]

​@@lucarmyfool4800 circassians were a ethnicity from the north-west caucasus There was a genocide by Russia in the 19 century. Those who were able to flee, settled down in the middle east. There are diasporas in Turkey, Lebanon, Irak, and other countries in that area. They have great dances and are famous for that,

[@HarryGuit]

Thank you for that one. I‘d like to know, where your dialect of English is spoken.

[@SchoolforHackers]

Scotland/Wales.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Scotland - the best country :)

[@SchoolforHackers]

@ Aye, my ancestral home.

[@6teeth]

We got all the good looks and good brains.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

and all the natural humbleness

[@sevenprovinces]

@@eljanrimsa5843 Some 'blondes' even argue, quite publicly, that they have 'the best brains' and 'the best words'. Bigly! 🤣

[@dethfr491]

Salute to you white guys 💪💪💪🙌🙌🎉🎉 most powerful and beautiful race

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

I agree my parents moved all over the world when we were kids (we are all blonde) countries that were darker were always filled with dumb people.

[@xNightZuNx]

​@Wolf-hh4rv From a historical perspective, Northern Europeans relied a lot on others' inventions or resources. Wheat, gun powder, guns, Jesus, Americas resources, Arabic-Numeral system. Etc

[@Remcore020]

Am I the only one wondering,... Where are all the people with blue hair and blond eyes?

[@volkerr.]

Here. In southern Germany. My whole family has blond hair and blue eyes. But additionally my Estonian wife has blue eyes and blond hair too and so do all of our children 😅

[@JimMork-r9u]

Haha. Senior ctitizen homes?

[@artificialintelligencebird]

Replaced by immigrants

[@Heidi_137]

I've read that blonde hair people are more fertile as well. I have naturally strawberry blonde hair (colored to look less red and resemble my younger baby blonde hair :) - I have blue eyes with a greenish circle in the middle. My DNA test shows that my mom had pure blue eyes and dad green so I guess that's where I got this mix. I haven't met them as I'm an adoptee but it's nice to know more about ethnicity, the health issues and advantages that comes with DNA and ancestry.

[@volkerr.]

Ob blond, ob braun, ob schwarz, ob henna… There’s much more than hair and eye color that attracts me on women😅 It’s that they are women 🥰

[@rullvardi]

Agreed-everyone has their own tastes, but for me it's mostly in structure of the face and body, not the color of your hair or eyes or skin.

[@garyyakamoto2648]

My dad had blue eyes and my mom green but she was blonder. I got green eyes, and none of my kids have green or blue eyes. They took after my wife's brown eyes, we both are dark blondes.Growing up among green and blue eyes, it feels odd that none in my family has green or blue eyes.

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Do you know how many people are descendants of the Yamnaya?

[@celtichistorydecoded]

A lot I would say. Most people with European ancestry probably have some relation to them on some level.

[@SrdjanBasaric-w2s]

Very little, half of Europe comes from the Balkan Vinca culture.

[@mr.purple1779]

Сheck dna presentation on Afonasievo and Yamnaya cultures. Determine the average statistical between Neolithic, Bronze Age and K13 grafs. Let's say the first three top encountered populations will have the closest relationship.

[@kevinmariuszsmith8915]

The way he says hunter-gatherers is so funny

[@sheriff1178]

The most beautiful ethnic group ever. Nordic genes should be preserved, never mixed with Mediterranean.

[@Lory6116]

con i mediterranei possono restare biondi.. casomai se si mescolano con i neri addios tratti nordici 😂😂

[@ivanbangov43]

When looking at the maps I don't see Russia on them. But we all know that Russians are mostly blond. Also, many blond kittens are wandering in Bulgaria. I have two tween sisters. One has dark hair and brown eyes, and the other is fair having blue-green eyes.

[@josefadario6593]

Sadly, my niece at University , blue eyed and blond haired, was defined ? as a 'recessive type' 😢 in our country, was very sad, even though the public in general Loved her, but due to circumstances ended up emigrating to the UK.. she never finished University though here she was brilliant ?, but saw her bursery being withdrawn 😢

[@boxsterman77]

Do you even know what a recessive gene is? It’s not a pejorative.

[@theScotian24]

None of that makes much sense, dear.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

What on earth??

[@Melvorgazh]

Thanks to that kalergi great replacement it's gonna be rarer if people let it happen.

[@adriansjahsam7314]

I'm a Hunnic-Turk of Austronesian male descent. I'm a yellow swarthy with light brown eyes and dark hair. My brother is the first of this Austronesian family to have blue eyes. He lighter skinned and has or had a red beard wilth brown hair. My sister is blonde and blue-eyed. My father is half-Indonesian and half Dutch, has almost black hair, dark brown eyes not black, and has or had a red beard. My mother is vastly Irish but there may be some Welsh, Scottish or English, has light blue eyes and black hair. Both my brother and I were towheads as babies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWeVl5p9ir1qZ8U Mom was a towhead too.....and I had the red spot under my chin....once. It takes 2 generations for any race from outside Europe to be born with blue eyes. It all takes time. I saw WWII...my Indonesian grandfather and Dutch mother did. In Holland. More honesty about this effect of recessive genes should be acknowledged and continues to be an unsaid reality of race. But then, there are many southern Europeans who would take 2 generations to gain both blue eyes and blonde hair. Even if their genes had them in the past.

[@volkerr.]

The question is: why do blue eyes and blond hair attract so many of us..?! 😜

[@JimMork-r9u]

To the point that Marilyn Monroe changed her hair color when she was famous. She had a quite different appearance in her small roles.

[@volkerr.]

@@JimMork-r9u but that is no answer to the question?! 😜🤷

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@volkerr. "Gentlemen prefer blondes"? Maybe at that time that was a popular notion. We know ONE "gentleman" who did, and Marilyn sang Happy Birthday to him.

[@volkerr.]

@@JimMork-r9u actually I recognize myself looking behind every blond. That doesn’t happen to any other hair color. And normally I first look on the bud or front side but somehow blond hair subconsciously causes me looking behind it.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Yes ! Friends of ours with 2 blonde teenage daughters went to holiday in Egypt. They tried to walk around Cairo, but the men kept reaching out to touch their daughters, they didn’t leave the hotel after that.

[@tommack9395]

My grandparents were born near Sulwaki Poland (North East Poland) So naturally, being of Polish/Lithuanian heritage blonde hair and blue eyes are prevalent in our family, Though mine are green... a mix ;-)

[@JimMork-r9u]

Oh yeh. Polish are full of Nordic mixing with Slavs.

[@volkerr.]

It’s most likely Suwalki - isn’t it..?! 😜

[@Kim-J312]

​@JimMork-r9u I assume that's why most of my family members are blonde 👱‍♀️, blue eyed and very tall. Moms side are from (what was czechslovkia). My father side English/Welsh and Dutch . All the men (dad-grandpa-uncles) in my family are 6f 2in- to 6f 6in , us girls are 5ft-7in to 6ft . I figured it the mix of the Scandinavian, Danelaw , and alot of Slavic people have blonde/blue combo. We have a few that are short, oilve skin tone brown eyes an thick black hair , the family joke is that the gypsies left them on our doorstep 😂

[@JimMork-r9u]

@@Kim-J312 Nice joke.

[@tommack9395]

@@volkerr. Yes, my fingers are sometimes dyslexic and prone to typos. ;)

[@therealmr.incredible3179]

Pure Aryan Gods. They truly are Superior.

[@monicacall7532]

My dad’s side of the family is almost exclusively from Denmark and England. We are the stereotypical blonde haired, blue eyed giants people automatically assume are Scandinavian. Some years ago my family and I visited Iceland and Norway. Everywhere we went people would begin talking to my son and I in their native language. When we explained that we were American the first thing we were asked was if we had Scandinavian ancestry which we certainly did. (My paternal grandfather’s family was Danish.). Both my son and I automatically felt at home in these countries even though we’d never been to either of them before. My husband, who is also tall, blonde and blue eyed, felt badly because nobody assumed that he was Scandinavian. When he asked a dear Norwegian friend we met up with in Oslo why this was so, our friend said that he looked German and not Scandinavian. Just before our trip my husband had just learned that his mother’s birth parents were originally from Hamburg before coming to America! None of us could tell the difference but our friend assured us that it was easy to see. Go figure.😮

[@johnathandavis3693]

I'm a California native. Everyone knows that blondes originated in California. You're welcome, world...

[@JimMork-r9u]

Well. BOTTLE blondes!

[@rafi3993]

ha ha ha, dream along

[@ankra12]

😂

[@hhin]

Well the dumb blondes did for sure👍

[@billhitchcock4683]

I suspect that blond hair is attractive because it is a sign of youth. Many (most?) born with blond hair find that their hair darkens as they age. This is purely anecdotal and I would like to see if a careful study would confirm this.

[@overtonpendulum2071]

Pure blue eyes by country (indigenous population) Sweden 58% Norway 55% Iceland 54% Ireland 52% Estonia 52% Denmark 49% Lithuania and Latvia 49% Scotland 46% England 44% Belarus 42% Germany 38% Poland 36% Czech Republic 35% Austria 31% Belgium 31% Slovenia 28% Switzerland 25% France 24% Hungary 22% Croatia 20% Bosnia and Herzegovina 16% Romania 15% Serbia 13% Spain 10% Kosovo 9% Portugal 7% Greece 5%

[@eskoheiskari1384]

Finland 89%

[@overtonpendulum2071]

@@eskoheiskari1384 Finland is about 89% for all light and mostly light eyes. For blue alone it's about the same as Sweden and Norway.

[@vladm5920]

That stat can’t be real. I know Russia isn’t on the list, but if we’re talking about ethnic non-mixed Russians then I’d bet over 80% have blue eyes based on my observations living here, and I’d expect indigenous Scandinavians to be higher. p.s. if grey/green eyes are not included then yes, I’d agree.

[@overtonpendulum2071]

@@vladm5920 This is only for pure blue eyes, excluding greyish blue.

[@silvieb2024]

I'm Czech, and I clearly see blue eyes as the majority here, not 35%.