Georgian historians have noticed a similar process in their own country that also coincided with feudalism and which I think created a convergence in personality and appearance with East Europeans that I’ll get to in a bit.
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In my first post on Polynesia I passed along what Houghton had noticed: that Polynesians should have long narrow heads but instead have a polar brachycephalic type instead. A perceptive commenter noted that North Europeans saliently defy this trend.
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Anthropologists have noticed the same anomaly, which is most true of the super-dolicocephalic Norwegians and Swedes. The interesting question about brachycephalization is not why it happened, but why it took so long to happen and why it never happened in the Swedes:pic.twitter.com/1Ff33n1X1b
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Skull type is not just a physical quality, it has an impact on national character as well.
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In dogs skull shape is the most powerful predictor of aggression, distinguishing ferocious Pitbulls from the dopey looking, innocent German Shepherds.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3864788/ …
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A junkyard dog hostility to foreigners is a famous Slavic tendency and this sharp difference from milkmen is maximally developed not in the genetically distant Russians but in the next door Czechs and Hungarianspic.twitter.com/LMJk56Vrf3
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There a similar, but weaker trend toward xenophobia in the German speaking Alps as exemplified by….well you can figure it out.
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One last famous Slavic stereotype relates to their good looks. Czechs are quite similar to East Germans genetically, but to me they’re the most foreign looking people in Europe, with elegantly spherical heads and thin, delicate bones.pic.twitter.com/zDW3LjmLs0
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Somebody can demonstrate it statistically, but I think the Czechs produce more supermodels per capita than anyone else except maybe the Dutch, who have the major advantage of not looking “foreign”. They are purty:pic.twitter.com/macLUVizDW
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The same combination of extreme good looks (Kim Kardashian and xenophobia (Mark Krikorian) can be seen in the recently brachycephalized peopled of the Caucasus.
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The uniquely American film genre of a tough, white guy and a tough, black guy moving past their differences to solve some problem sort of works because both races have a shared dolicocephalic innocence.
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