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[–]PeddaKondappa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As a non-European I can't really tell the difference between Germans and Anglos. There's too much overlap in phenotype. However, I can almost always distinguish between Meds (e.g. Portuguese, Spaniards, southern Italians) and Northern Europeans. Greeks especially look quite different from Northern Europeans, and are more similar to Syrians and Iranians than to Swedes or Norwegians (but don't tell Greeks that).

France straddles the boundary between the Germanic and Latin world, along with Switzerland and parts of northern Italy. Although French is classified as a Romance language, it has more Germanic influence than the other Romance languages, and sounds quite different from Italian and Spanish (which are more similar to each other than they are to French). But it's worth nothing what we now call "French" is actually the language native to northern France around Paris, whereas France south of the Loire historically had their own local languages which were more similar to Italian and Spanish. In addition, the region of Brittany in northwestern France was historically a Celtic-speaking region which became Frenchified only in the last few centuries. The historic linguistic and cultural diversity of France probably has some counterpart in phenotypic diversity as well, but I haven't studied that in any depth.