Uriah

The stereotype we associate with Scandinavians is blondness; this is rooted in truth but goes a bit too far. Norwegians and Danes are blonder than say, Germans, but much less than Finns and Latvians. So now the obvious Jerry Seinfeld question: “What’s the deal with blond hair!?

Blond girls are purty, they’re so purty that people should wonder why all North Europeans (South Euros have to worry about the sun damaging light skin) don’t have Targaryen hair: shouldn’t through sexual selection they decimate the competition?

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.)

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.