Is there a specific look for people of Welsh origin?

Question

For example, the Scottish and Irish have a higher percentage of people with red hair.

Answer 1

A sensible, not long drawn out answer - the Welsh were usually described as small, dark haired people, sometimes with a darker skin than the English. Their women are often very attractive with dark looks (Catherine Zeta Jones is a good example).
Welsh men were called "Goats in Boots" by the English as they were often wiry and bearded. This name lives on in the names of British pubs called "The Goat in Boots", which was how the English described Welshmen who drove sheep and goats to markets in England
It is very obvious that good singing voices are a genetic trait of Welsh people as many British singers are Welsh - Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church are three, but there are scores of others in UK bands. Welsh male voice choirs have hit albums in the UK charts even now.

Answer 2

The Union Jack is flown from ships of the fleet. The Union Flag is the flag of the nation. Ulster doesn't have a 'national' flag, it has a provincial flag. Northern Ireland has a flag tho. If it is supposed to represent the four nations of the UK then yes it should be updated and yes it should have a bit of Wales in it. Don't know about the dragon though. The Irish bit should be looked at again too. Maybe just a four quartered flag with a rose, a thistle, a dragon and the Red Hand of Ulster!

Answer 3

I'm 1/4 Welsh, and I have observed that a lot of Welsh people have large chins (Griff Rhys Jones for example.) All of my Welsh relatives have dark hair and relatively tanned skin.

Answer 4

Interesting Q...I am about 20% Welsh. The rest is English, German and Italian, nice mix, Eh? My father, 100% Italian, when asked, used to say, "what does an Itailian look like"?

Answer 5

Yes there is Welsh people don't look the same as English people Irish people Scottish people they will be some differences English people tend too have high cheekbones small to medium eyes small cleft chins small jawlines biffed noses with a sharp point that is v shaped medium oval shaped faces Irish people have long oval shaped faces small eyes slightly up turned noses medium too high cheek bones round and prominent chins Scottish people have wide square jawlines medium round faces small to medium wide eyes and low cheekbones Welsh people have large chins medium round faces low to medium cheekbones and long wide eyes.

Answer 6

Yes the welsh gene or y chyndrome is the highest in all celtic origin higher than ireland england and scotland. This mean that aroudn 88% of welsh dna is purely celtic origin an the celts originated from the mediteranian therefor u'll find alot of dark features in them such as hair and eyes and skin colour.

Morginn wteva u sed is a load of bollocks. i wouldn't listen to him . Cymro Cymraeg yma a dwi yn gwybod fod yna wahaniaeth rhwng y ddoi ohonynt.

Answer 7

lol . . . no, as someone else mentioned above the Welsh look English.

the difference between the Welsh, Scottish & Irish, it that Wales is on the same island as England & worse it's a primarily low-lying area. Wales was conquered first & earliest, starting in the 1100's & the last holdouts were annhiliated in 1415.

In contrast - Ireland had the Black sea between them & England & were fairly independent up to 1600's. Eevn at Ireland's occupation was at it's first, they were never as overrun by the English.

likewise Scotland, had Hadrian's wall & the highland to protect them. they entirely independent up to 1700's.

genetic differences like the red hair & freckles of the Irish & Scottish are visible because of the relative isolation of those gene pools in that 500 or 600 years before they were invaded. Wales didn't have that, they were conquered 900 years & they mixed with the English population ever since.

whatever unique genetic characteristics the Welsh had were long since absorbed into the English population. other than through tracing your family tree back to Wales, you'd have to get a DNA to "prove" a genetic heritage in Wales.

sorry, i'm Welsh too, but there is no definitively "Welsh" look & that is the truth.

~~~ morgannia

{edit} "a load of bollocks"? excuse me, lol, but where's your proof?

"The majority of the gene pool of the British Isles is very ancient and dates to the era after the last great Ice Age. It has nothing to do with Celts or Anglo-Saxons or any more recent ethnic labels.

"The Ice Age made Britain a polar desert and there was nobody living here around 13,000 BC until the first settlers came to the British Isles from the Basque country of northern Spain between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago.

"Something like three-quarters of the ancestors of our modern gene pool arrived then.

"The ancestors of some 88% of the Irish, 81% of the Welsh, 79% of the Cornish, 70% of Scots and 68% of the English arrived here during that period. None of the later immigrations contributed anything more than 5% to the gene pool."

dated Jan 16 2007

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/tm_headline=-most-of-the-gene-pool-of-the-british-isles-is-very-ancient--it-has-nothing-to-do-with-celts-or-anglo-saxons--------&method=full&objectid=18479183&siteid=50082-name_page.html

maybe you're the one, people shouldn't be listening to & FYI note the feminine ending to my nick . . . i'm a chick, dude {{{rolls eyes}}}

Answer 8

It varies, but many Welsh people have dark hair and dark eyes with a somewhat swarthy complexion. They tend to be somewhat shorter than the English.

Answer 9

Oh yes. We have four nostrils and three buttocks which make a very unusual sound when sliding down a banister.

No. We look just like anyone else from the British Isles.

Answer 10

Yes the welsh like the Cornish have dark hair and eyes almost like the Romanies.