An HBD question: What difference in appearance would you say, exist between British, German, and French peoples?

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[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

There are distinct visual differences between ethnicities that sorta give away a person heritage (sometimes, at least). They're very hard to describe accurately but I think your descriptions hold. I can often estimate someone's ancestry but I've never put it to the test really. Sometimes it's VERY obvious (Hmm, I wonder where that redhead with the freckles and paper-white skin is from, what a stumper!) whereas others not so much. It's also easier among better-looking people, for whatever reason.

I would say Saxons/Germans/Norse people have somewhat more square, severe features, Anglos/Anglo-Saxons have a more rounded/oval element to them (this goes doubly so for Irish/Scots). I can think of many others but they are difficult to describe in a manner linguistically distinct from my descriptions of the others.

Body type is also something of a tell, with Germans obviously tending to be taller and Meds being shorter and stockier. Body type varies greatly with genetics, nutrition, and health though obviously so it's not always a good predictor.

Being an Amerimutt also complicates matters as there's a sort of phenotype associated with Amerimutts too, which is sort of a mix of multiple European types/somewhat generic as one might expect.

[–]Sapphire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How mixed are White Americans outside of the major coastal states/cities?

It seems (to me, as someone not from the US) that there's an obvious Germanic/Nordic look in many white Americans from states like the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee etc.

I was in TN and remember seeing a lot of white mothers with blond(e)-haired kids somewhere outside of Nashville.

My understanding of US immigration history (between the 1840s - 1920s or thereabouts) is that the Irish, Italians, Polish, Jews, etc tended to congregate in ethnic neighbourhoods in NYC, NJ, Philly and Chicago, whereas immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany were more inclined to move out West and spread out. I know there were cohesive German communities, where German was spoken etc, but WW1 sort of killed that off.

I used to be under the impression that it was trendy in the US to be of Irish or Italian stock, but apparently that's mainly just a NYC/NJ/Boston thing that's been overemphasized in popular culture due to things like The Sopranos, Jersey Shore, and so on. At least according to /r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit.

[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I live in the Midwest (Ohio specifically) and a lot of the Whites I've seen are quite obviously mostly/completely White. Whites of Germanic descent, made obvious by surname and/or phenotype, are very common and the rest I'd say are probably Anglo or of indeterminable White admixture.