This contributes to a boyish quality to their faces which goes beyond a pure lack of facial hair. You often Scandinavian men described as "boy scouts", like the Untouchable Norwegian Eliot Ness.
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I’ve argued before that because of higher Vitamin D stores the Irish have a greater inborn resistance to schizophrenia. When schiz is less of a problem, the result is that interesting, psychotic dark haired men sexually outcompete blond dullards.pic.twitter.com/OrHRzsH5MD
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What I’m contending here is that if Schizophrenia didn’t exist, then the result would be that North Europeans would evolved to have white skin and raven dark hair of the king seen in ultra-charismatic Lotharios like Elvis (who was about half Scottish himself.)
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I should mention for a second that the Irish also drift in an African direction in the great thickness of their skin.pic.twitter.com/sDwybO9RAz
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I think a lot about how popular idioms about the body and personality might be reflecting something real ("thin skinned"), that part of the psychological toughness of the Blacks/Irish might be apparent in their skin.
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Norwegians are dullards by any reasonable standard, but for their small population they’ve produced more recognizable creatives than the more numerous Swedes: Grieg, Munch (seen here), Knausgaard. Blonds are dull.pic.twitter.com/SfqhKCVOvj
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Because schizophrenia is associated with low IQ, it is not a surprise than Finns are both the smartest and blondest people in Europe. And while I don’t know any personally, I would predict that the world’s most boring man is probably a Finn.
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One last note: part of the reason people don't know that Scnados are bad at producing facial hair is that Vikings universally wore beards (they shaved them when they converted). This is a great clue as to how they're changed so dramatically in the last millenium.
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Schizophrenia barely exists in rural populations like the Amish and before about 500 A.D. there don't seem to have been any serious cities in Scandinavian at all. The distinctive nordic personality probably is of very recent vintage and this leads to the really big point:
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Finns and Swedes have high schizophrenia rates RIGHT NOW. We always think of evolution as something that happened in the past, but Nordics are getting duller, smarter, and blonder with every incoming generation. YOU CAN'T STOP WHAT'S COMING!
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This thread partially inspired me. I’m a little Nordic myself.
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