People living in different countries differ not only in their culture, traditions, language, psychology, lifestyle, but also in appearance. Of course, now no society lives in isolation. In the last one and a half to two hundred years, people have been actively migrating around the globe, adapting to new conditions, absorbing foreign culture and customs and assimilating other languages. But the anthropological type of a person cannot change within three or four generations.
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At first glance, nationality can be determined by facial features. At least in those cases when many generations of relatives lived in the same area and have a very characteristic appearance described in specialized literature.
Step 2
So, if they talk, for example, about Italians, in the minds of many people a picture arises: a narrow swarthy face, dark eyes, black, curly hair, fast, impulsive movements, emotional speech. The opinion of the Scandinavians is exactly the opposite: light, often white hair, very light skin, blue or gray eyes, tall stature, leisurely movements and conversations.
Step 3
The Chinese are distinguished by their short stature, dark, yellowish tint, skin, narrow brown eyes, small nose and thin lips. And the inhabitants of, for example, Peru or Chile are presented as people of short stature, black-haired, white-skinned, with smooth, beardless faces, small, slightly slanting eyes, a large nose and thin lips.
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But if you ask the opinion of anthropologists on this matter (and the inhabitants of these countries), they will disagree with such descriptions, because this characteristic, and even then not completely, corresponds only to a part of the population of a particular country. And the term "nationality" itself, which was introduced into use only in the 19th century, is used in many states to denote citizenship (citizenship), and not ethnic traits. That is why, if they tell you about some Frenchman, then he does not necessarily have thin facial features, a little dark skin, dark, slightly curly hair and a large, even or hump nose. He may turn out to be a black representative of the African continent, whose ancestors once rooted in the country of the Gauls.
Step 5
It is more correct to talk about human races, each of which has a similar gene pool and a certain geographical area of distribution. Traditionally, only three main races are distinguished: Eurasian (Caucasians), Equatorial (Negroids) and Asian-American (Mongoloids). But many anthropologists are of the opinion that, from a biological point of view, there are more races - about ten.
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In particular, they call the South African, Australoid, American and other races, which differ in the color of their skin, eyes and hair, features of the structure of the face, growth, etc. Races, in turn, are conventionally divided by scientists into small races and different types of the main race. For example, Africa has Sudanese, South African, Nilotic, Central African, and Ethiopian types. At the same time, scientists admit that there may be much more options, but the faces of Africans are poorly studied.
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But in Europe and Asia, facial features of people are classified by type much better. From the shores of the Mediterranean to the south of Central Asia, the Indo-Mediterranean minor race lives. The appearance of its representatives is generally distinguished by a dark skin, a narrow and tall face, almond-shaped eyes, a straight and narrow nose, and relatively thin lips. Their growth is usually not very tall, and their physique is elongated, fragile.
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To the north of this area stretches a chain of mountains - from the Alps and the Balkans to the Himalayas. The population of this belt belongs to the Balkan-Caucasian small race. It is characterized by light skin, lighter than in the first case, hair and eyes (often with a reddish tint), massiveness, high growth and stocky build. These people have a large nose, often with a hump, increased hair growth on the face and body, and often a wide face.
Step 9
To the north of the mountain belt, various types of northern Caucasians are distributed. They have lighter coloration of their eyes and hair, taller height, and a smaller palpebral fissure. It was also noticed that from west to east, people gradually increase the width of the face and decrease the growth of the beard and mustache.
Step 10
Central Europe - the so-called. belt of brown-haired people, the zone of habitation of the Central European race. People here are distinguished by light brown hair of different shades, mixed shades of eyes, different shapes of the nose and lips. But more common are a straight, protruding nose with a straight or curved back and thin lips.
Step 11
Also, the Atlanto-Baltic and White Sea-Baltic races are very different from each other. The first scientists even call the bleached Indo-Mediterranean race and believe that the roots of its origin are somewhere in the south. The more eastern White Sea-Baltic race is the lightest among all Caucasians.
Step 12
But it should be borne in mind that within all the described small races there are many different types, which are practically impossible for a non-specialist to understand. Moreover, the process of so-called cross-breeding does not stop - mixing of races as a result of the movement of people and the conclusion of marriages with partners of an “alien” genotype. Thus, it can be concluded that appearances are deceiving.
