That's a theme of Kipling's "Man Who Would Be King:" the Kafiristanis (neighbors of Kalash) look like Europeans, which boosts Daniel Dravot's naive optimism about how readily he will be able to civilize them. (John Huston wanted to include that, but had to film in Morocco.) https://twitter.com/FiveofSwords/status/1011446714933432320 …
Europeans have a weird habit of photographing only the light eyed Kalash. Look at a representative set of them: they look Iranian because that's what they are.pic.twitter.com/hYgCF9H0FZ