Do they pretty much have the same physical characteristics? Are there any differences?
2007-08-20 05:07:01 · 4 answers · asked by mao ying 3 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Other - Europe
When you see one person walking you will not be able to tell where he is from, but if you see a whole group, like tour groups or school classes, you might be able to tell, as some characteristics are more common in one country and not in others.
But if it hard to tell, specially if you just have the looks to go for.
As a rule, the Scandinavian people are blond, often a fair skin that will tan in summer. No real difference I have noticed between Norway and Sweden, but Danmark is a little less light.
UK and Ireland have more red haired people, specially Ireland, and people with freckles. Not always just with red hair.
England is more mixed, with people from all over Europe in the last 25 centuries, and from all over the world in the last 3 centuries at least.
Many brits do not seem to tan, whatever they do.
Dutch people are as mixed a bag as the Brits, but in a slightly different way.
Germany has many different regions, and the characteristics are more regional, less country wide. The Northern part is more like Scandinavia, the western part like the Netherlands or France, and the south seems to have an amount of meditarenian mixed in.
I used to be pretty good in guessing where people came from, but often fashion was more a telltale than looks. (But in some cases they helped.)
As all the peoples you mention have been mixing for as long as people live in Europe, and the last and current generations travel even more, with lots of people from the rest of the world coming in, you can not expect any person to be of any race.
2007-08-20 09:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by Willeke 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I spent some time in Scandinavia and Germany. The only real difference that I remember is that people from that region of the world tend to have sharp, angular facial features.
2007-08-20 19:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by aquilifer180ad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they are not identical. They vary a lot, however they are predominantly from Northern and Western European phenotypes (Borreby, Alpinid, Nordid, North-Atlantid, etc....). However, they are all a bunch of Germanic speakers.
2016-05-26 19:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont like how this question is phrased...
No, we all have different characteristics, we arent just clones
2007-08-20 05:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Pope Barley 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋