How come European people look different than Americans?

Question

Not all Europeans, but many you can usually tell they are recently immigrated from Europe. Especially Russians and Eastern Europeans, I can always spot them out. How come Europeans look different than Americans? Is it because they're more "pure"?

Answer 1

different diet, that is all of it, it influences the build and the skin...

Answer 2

Europeans tend to stay close to their birthplace. I don't mean just their country but their towns and cities. For example, Germans will go to work in a different city just because they cannot find work in their own community. Instead of moving his family there he will take a weekday apartment and return to his family on the days off. I think you have something when you say more "pure" The gene pools are not so extensive in their areas of birth. Therefore, those with tall foreheads tend to marry others with tall foreheads, in the case of Russians from St Petersburg they often look the same, straight small noses, blue eyes and blond hair. If you visit the Russian district of San Francisco California you will see recent immigrants walking on the streets who look like siblings. I once took an 18 year old exchange student from St. Petersburg to see the Russian district in San Francisco and the women there could have been her sisters, the men her brothers.

Answer 3

Well I wouldn't say any group of people is 'pure', but most European groups were involved in gradual breeding, and it was / is usually with nearby neighbouring groups that usually looked similar to themselves.

Due to the young age of their country, and the great influx of immigrants over it's lifetime, most Americans are a mish-mash of several lines of breeding. Since it's conception interbreeding between people groups has been a way of life in America. There's nothing ethically wrong with it. It's just that the exposure to various geographically differing groups of people all at the same time has created a collage of appearances in Americans.

Answer 4

Environmental, genealogical, social, religious and even ethnic prejudice all play their roles in the way any one certain group of people look. We Americans are from the melting pot of immigrants from around the world and are becoming an indistinguishable group of people unlike any other on earth. A product of intense crossbreeding.

Answer 5

Clothing (especially shoes), hair styles, accents and body language may be different; the humans are the same and look the same as the same genetic mix did hundred years ago or yesterday.

Answer 6

I know what you mean, not just build - but something facially, my ancestors came from Denmark and I can tell that they look diffrent from others ( although people tell me I look Italian!)

Answer 7

Im sorry i didnt really understand the question so i cant give a clear answer.

Answer 8

easy, every tribe has special characteristics. have you ever thought of that ?

Answer 9

It's creepy mistery

Answer 10

to me it looks the same
like turks look like european