At present, almost all black sprinters in the world have ancestral homes from West Africa, such as Bolt and Lewis, whose ancestors were sold to America from the coast of West Africa. These black people of West African descent have great talent in sprinting.
In contrast, East African blacks are slightly thinner, but they have better endurance, such as being dominated by East African athletes in marathons and long-distance races.
The gap with the yellow race is not small. There are obvious differences in looks between East Asians and Southeast Asians. Koreans and Vietnamese can basically see it at a glance.
As for white people, they are not all blond. The blondes we usually see are mainly from Central and Northern Europe. These white people are called "Nordic people", among which the five Nordic countries have the highest proportion of blond hair.
At present, the country with the highest proportion of blond hair in the world should be Iceland, which is a country established by immigrants from Norway, Sweden and Denmark in northern Europe. Due to the closed geographical environment, there has been little communication with the outside world for thousands of years, the ethnic composition is relatively simple, and there are few cases of intermarriage with foreigners, so the proportion of local blond hair is very high, and almost all Icelanders are blond. (Icelandic beauty)
The high proportion of blond hair in Nordic countries is mainly the result of local people's evolution to adapt to the environment. Due to the higher latitude and less light in northern Europe, the local people are getting lighter and lighter in order to get more sunshine. Similarly, only polar bears have white fur, and bears in other areas are black or brown.
Blonde Nordic people originally lived mainly in northern and central Europe. Later, with the great national migration, these northern Europeans began to expand to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Western Europe and Southern Europe. The once glorious Western Roman Empire was destroyed by Germanic barbarians (northern Europeans) from the north.
After that, the Germans swept through western Europe as far as North Africa. In 429 AD, a Vandal from Germany established the Kingdom of Vandal in North Africa.
Today, quite a few countries in Europe are founded by blond Germans, such as Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. The languages of these countries belong to Germanic language family, and they are all differentiated from ancient Germanic language. (German sprinter Alicia Schmidt)
In contrast, the proportion of blond people in southern European countries is much less, because the latitude in southern Europe is low, the sunshine is abundant and even hot, and the local whites belong to Mediterranean whites.
Mediterranean people are mainly distributed in southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Their skin color, hair color and eyes are dark, their hair is wavy, their noses are long and narrow, their heads are long, and their bodies are shorter than those of northern Europeans.
Mediterranean people are widely distributed, divided into Atlantic-Mediterranean type and Indo-Mediterranean type. Today's Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, Arabs, Iranians and Indians all belong to this race. (Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo has black hair and skin)
For a long time, Europeans were fascinated by blond white people, so the monarchs of European countries were basically imported from Germany, because Germans had a high proportion of blond hair and were regarded as a superior race in Europe.
For example, today's British royal family, Dutch royal family, Belgian royal family and Luxembourg royal family are all of German descent. Before World War II, the royal families of Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Russia were all Germans.
Before 1950s, Anglo-whites in America did not regard Italian, Hispanic and Russian whites as real whites. For a long time, Americans only thought that whites from western Europe and northern Europe were real whites. It was not until the end of World War II that mainstream American society stopped subdividing white groups.
Mainly due to geographical and cultural factors, many people in southern European countries have black hair.
First of all, the "black hair" of southern Europeans is not black, but dark brown under strong light. All nationalities in the world have black hair. Europeans generally have wavy black hair, Asians generally have straight black hair, and Africans have curly hair.
Geographically speaking, black hair is particularly common in southern Europe (especially Apennine Peninsula and Balkan Peninsula), and the population of black hair in northern Central Europe (including Britain) reaches 65,438+00% ~ 20%, but it is very rare in Norway. In northern Italy, the proportion of people with dark hair reached 30%, and in central and southern Italy it basically reached 50%.
Secondly, in the eyes of people in these countries, black hair has always been a symbol of elegant femininity. Even monica bellucci has always insisted on black hair, because it will outline the face and highlight the facial features, so that many southern European women take the initiative to dye black hair. Another point is that the skin color of southern Europeans is darker, which is more suitable for black hair. Nordic white skin and black hair will make the whole person pale and weak, so there are more black hair in southern Europe.
Jesus is black, Audrey Hepburn is black, Harry Potter is black, and even Snow White is black.
In Europe, generally speaking, there are many blond hair in the north, black hair in southern Europe and red hair or brown hair in western Europe.
Since Roman times, European traditional culture has thought that black hair is more elegant and closer to human civilization.
Europeans with snow-white skin rarely have pure black hair at the same time, and more are dark brown.
In fact, most people on earth have black hair.
In fact, among the five mainstream natural colors of human hair, black hair is the most common.
Around the world, about 84% of the population has black hair, mainly distributed in Asia, Africa, Oceania and America, and the least in Europe.
Although there are relatively few black hair in Europe, the absolute number is also large, especially in southern and eastern Europe.
What may surprise many people is that in Eastern Europe, which is full of "blondes", there are actually more people with black hair than blondes.
Compared with black hair, people in Europe and America think it should actually be blonde, and there are not so many people who really have blonde hair. The number of blond hair in the world is less than 3%, which is a real rare group.
The formation of hair color is closely related to the environment.
At present, the mainstream view is that the appearance of blonde hair is actually related to the evolution of skin lightening.
In Europe, especially in northern Europe, the sun is not so strong, so there is no need for dark skin to prevent ultraviolet damage, so the more northern Europe, the lighter the skin color.
At the same time when the skin color becomes lighter, the sun will trigger the formation of vitamin D, and vitamin D will also affect the color of hair, making the color of hair gradually fade and eventually become blonde.
The main gathering place of blond hair in the world is northern Europe, while most blond people in other areas come from the blond population in ancient northern Europe.
It's colder in northern Europe. The ancient humans who settled here in the early days gradually became a group with light skin and blond hair, and then migrated to other places through population, carrying blond genes.
Unlike northern Europe, southern Europe does not have this condition. In fact, if you have been to Italy and other regions in southern Europe, you will find that although the locals are white, their skin color is not as white as that in East Asia.
Residents of southern Europe, such as Italy, generally have black or dark brown hair, and their skin is closer to East Asia or even darker. Only the outline of the five senses is obviously white.
The coastal areas of the Mediterranean belong to the Mediterranean climate, with relatively warm, hot and rainy summers and wet and rainy winters, which are completely opposite to the ice and snow in the north.
For this reason, in order to protect themselves, ancient humans in southern Europe became darker and darker, and the color of their hair gradually turned black, which was quite different from the blond hair in northern Europe.
The status of black hair in Europe is much higher than expected.
Modern Europeans are proud of their white skin, so they divide different ethnic groups into white, yellow and black according to civilization, so it is true that Europeans look down on ethnic groups with skin color.
Even within Europe, dark-skinned southern Europe has been alienated by white-skinned people in western Europe and northern Europe, but there is one exception, that is, the color of hair.
In European fairy tales, blond hair and silver hair are generally elves, beautiful but rare, and black hair is the color of real human hair, representing vitality and vigor.
Traditionally, although Europeans are proud of white skin, they also admire black hair, because Europeans with real white skin rarely have real black hair, mainly brown hair.
As we all know, the early powerful European civilizations were ancient Greece and Rome, and they were all in southern Europe, and the main residents were the mainstream of black hair.
Influenced by different levels of civilization development, black hair was noble around the Middle Ages. As for the Germans, Slavs, Celts and so on, they are all regarded as barbarians.
However, with the decline of Rome, especially in the era of great navigation after the Renaissance, the center of European civilization shifted to the Atlantic coast, the black-haired European civilization declined, and the blonde European region rose.
It was also during this period that blond hair and brown hair soared in European culture and became symbols of beauty and nobility.
Although black hair is still highly respected, it has gradually become synonymous with conservatism and stubbornness. Especially Italy, Greece and Iberia, the development level in Europe is very poor, which makes Europe have black hair.
Asia is not all yellow, Africa is not all black, Europeans and Americans are not all blond, and even Europe has more black hair than gold.
Man is the product of adapting to the environment. Today, different races in the world belong to the same species-Homo sapiens. The evolution of human beings as the same species into different races is the result of ancient humans adapting to the local environment and forming different physical characteristics in the process of migrating to various parts of the world. In the past, the races in the world were generally divided into three categories: yellow race, white race and black race. Later, the Australian race (brown race) was separated from it, forming the present four races: yellow race, white race, black race and brown race. However, it should be noted that the integration and communication between races have always existed in human history. When Qin Shihuang went south for Baiyue, Jiangnan and Lingnan were still wild places where Baiyue people haunted, but now these areas all use the same script. So where did the ancient Vietnamese, who are indigenous to these areas, go? Obviously, the ancestors of some southern Han people are ancient Vietnamese. In fact, the history of mankind is a history of continuous ethnic integration and evolution. So far, there are almost no absolute purebred in the world.
Comparing the two pictures, it is not difficult to find that China and Indian, both yellow people, have obviously different physical characteristics.
Although the races in the world are generally divided into yellow race, white race, black race and brown race, due to historical migration and racial integration, a number of transitional races between the four major races have emerged. For example, American Indian species are usually classified as yellow people like East Asians, but their skin color is thicker and redder than East Asians, and their blood type characteristics are different from East Asians, so in fact, Indian species can also be regarded as an independent transitional race. Melanesians is similar to Australian in appearance, and is usually classified as Australian (brown race), but melanesians has a higher incidence of shovel-shaped incisors and B and S blood groups, which is different from Australian. Polynesians have lighter skin color, less body hair, similar facial features to East Asians, but lighter skin color, curly hair and thick beard are similar to whites, and their blood types are quite different from East Asians and whites. Micronesians are considered to be a mixture of Southeast Asians, melanesians and Polynesians.
Although they are all black, Ethiopians from East Africa are still relatively whiter than Nigerians from West Africa.
It can be seen that the classification method of yellow, white, black and brown is only a rough classification method: the East Asian race and the Indian race, who belong to the yellow race, have obviously different physical characteristics. Black people in East Africa and West Africa look different: black people in West Africa are tall and burly, with large muscle density, extremely slender limbs, good explosive power and excellent jumping ability, and have great advantages in sprint, basketball, football and other fields; In contrast, East African blacks are slightly thinner, but they have better endurance and advantages in marathon and long-distance running. In fact, the skin color of Ethiopians in East Africa is not as black as that of West Africans, but more like a transitional race between blacks and whites. Similarly, not all whites look the same inside: whites in southern Europe, the Middle East and other places are relatively darker in skin color and expression in their eyes than those in northern Europe, and their hair is mostly black, which is obviously different from the blond Nordic Germans. Therefore, some people in the academic circles advocate that the races in southern Europe and the Middle East should be regarded as dark whites (Mediterranean races) independent of whites, but at present, domestic textbooks basically define this race as white.
Although they are all white, the blonde Nordic Germanic beauty and the brunette Southern European Latin beauty are still two different styles.
Mediterranean people can be subdivided into Atlantic-Mediterranean type and Indo-Mediterranean type. Today's Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, Arabs, Iranians and Hindus, the main ethnic groups in India, all belong to the Mediterranean race. Mediterranean people generally have black hair, but their black hair is still different from that of East Asians and Africans: East Asians generally have straight hair and Africans have curly hair, while Mediterranean people in southern Europe and the Middle East generally have curly hair and black hair. Italian actress monica bellucci is a typical brunette. In fact, people in southern European countries such as Italy, Spain and Portugal prefer black hair, because their skin color is darker than that of Nordic Germans, so their skin color is actually more suitable for black hair. In contrast, Germans in northern Europe, because of their fair skin, look pale and powerless if they are paired with black hair. In fact, black hair and blond hair are almost distributed in the north and south of Europe: Italy, Spain, Portugal and other countries in southern Europe are dominated by black hair, but in fact, the proportion of black hair population has generally declined from northern Italy to northern Italy. The black hair population in Central European countries such as Britain and Germany only accounts for about 30% of the total population, while the Nordic countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland can hardly see black hair.
Why are there differences in physical characteristics between southern Europeans and northern Europeans? This is first and foremost a product of adapting to the environment. Southern Europe has a low latitude, abundant sunshine and even hot weather, which is completely different from the cold northern Europe. People living in two areas adapt to different environments, and naturally form different physical characteristics. It seems not inconceivable that southern Europeans with relatively hot climate have relatively dark skin color and hair color. The civilization of ancient Europe originated from southern Europe near the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, this region has had frequent ethnic exchanges and integration with neighboring Middle East and North Africa, so the pedigree of southern Europeans is actually relatively complicated. In contrast, northern Europe was restricted by the cold climate in ancient times and was not developed until very late, so northern Europe is basically dominated by Germans, and its lineage is relatively simple. From the 3rd century A.D., the Germans took advantage of the God-given opportunity of the decline of the Roman Empire and invaded the territory of Rome to the south until the Western Roman Empire was finally completely destroyed. After that, the Germans swept through western Europe as far as North Africa. Today, the populations of Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland are mainly Germans. In contrast, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and other southern European countries retained more Greek and Latin ancestry in the ancient Greek and Roman times.
Although European civilization originated in southern Europe, after the demise of the Western Roman Empire, it was the Germans from northern Europe who ruled Europe. Since then, southern Europe has had to be politically attached to northern Europe. After the arrival of the era of great navigation, Europe's trade route shifted from the Mediterranean coast to the Atlantic coast. At this point, after losing political dominance, southern Europe lost its economic and cultural advantages, and northern Europeans also formed a sense of superiority towards southern Europeans. This sense of superiority has made northern Europeans proud of their blond hair and blue eyes for a long time, and this atmosphere has even infected southern Europeans, so that southern Europeans themselves think that blond hair and white blood in northern Europe are more noble. Throughout Europe, the British royal family, the Dutch royal family, the Belgian royal family, the Luxembourg royal family, the Serbian royal family, the Bulgarian royal family, the Romanian royal family, the Greek royal family and the Russian royal family have all introduced the bloodline of the German prince. Before 1950s, Anglo-Saxon whites in America did not regard Italians, Spaniards and Russians as real whites. For a long time, Americans only thought that Germans from western Europe and northern Europe were really white. It was not until the end of World War II that the mainstream American society no longer subdivided white groups.
Objectively speaking, there is indeed a gap between southern European countries and northern European countries. In the process of European integration, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other so-called "European pig countries" in southern Europe did not hold the whole EU back in the economic crisis. In fact, there have always been two different economic systems within the EU: one is represented by Germany and Nordic countries, and the other is represented by Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other southern Mediterranean countries. The friction between the two economic systems has split the euro zone into two regions: the south and the north. In fact, this risk has already been shown: in September 20 16, when the finance ministers of the euro zone discussed whether the Greek reform process met the requirements of creditor countries in Bratislava, seven southern European countries held an anti-austerity policy summit in Athens, which actually reflected the contradiction between the north and the south of the euro zone. In fact, the contradiction between North and South Europe is only because the economic crisis has expanded. But before that, the two sides had been lurking in race, religion, culture, currency and other aspects. If western European countries regard Russia as a Mongolian "White Tatar" that reflects the contradiction between the Middle East and the West in the process of European integration, then there has always been a contradiction between North and South Europe.
Black-haired people in North Africa are mainly caused by Arab invasion and mixed blood.
Mediterranean race is a classification of European Caucasian race by anthropology in the 20th century. They are distributed in southwest Ireland, southern Scotland, western England, Wales, some places in Eastern Europe, southern Europe, North Africa, East Africa, Northeast Africa, the Middle East and India.
physical features
Mediterranean people are characterized by black and white skin color, darker skin color than yellow people in Northeast Asia, black hair, hooked nose, strong body, black eyeball, narrow head (head length-width ratio is 73), long face and short figure (about five feet and five inches).
Be distributed
Huxley also believes that Mediterranean people are a mixed type of Caucasians and Australians. These people include Irish, Welsh, bretons, southern French, Iberians, southern Italians, Berbers, Greeks, Armenians, Georgians, Arabs, Iranians, Egyptians, Punjabis in India, Moors, Ethiopians, Somalis, Afghan Pashtuns, Tajiks, Kass and so on.
Sardinia and Corsica have authentic Mediterranean people.
Racial theory
/kloc-Before 0/9th century, Mediterranean people were the founders and disseminators of Indian civilization (Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, India, Carthage, Greece and Rome). However, after scientific racism and the rise of white supremacy at the end of 19, the evaluation tended to be low, and Mediterranean people were accused of living with blacks, which led to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Not really white in the eyes of Nordic racists. /kloc-after the 1950 s, anthropologists regarded the Mediterranean race as a whole white, without further subdivision.
Giuseppe Sergi, an Italian anthropologist in the early 20th century, said that they actually originated in East Africa, and their kinship with early Homo sapiens was closer than that of other races.
Not only these three countries, but also Europe such as Greece, southern France and southern Eastern Europe.
Look at their geographical location, and you will find that they are around the Mediterranean region. Because from ancient times to the present, almost all the great empires across Asia, Africa and Europe are wrapped in a ring in the Mediterranean Sea, that is to say, this region has been a mixed-race region of three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe since ancient times, and genes have been mixed countless times in the process of constant conquest and conquest! So southern Europeans don't look like traditional whites, and their hair color and eyes are mostly dark.
Similarly, North Africans are not like other African blacks, but more like whites, and the northeast African part is basically Arabs. West Asians are not like the so-called yellow people in other regions, except that their hair and eyes are black, their noses are high and their eyes are deep, and their skin is white and hairy, which is as close as that of southern Europeans.
Therefore, why the hair of Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese is black is the result of thousands of years of war history. There are also Russians, especially some Russians in Asia, most of whom are of Mongolian descent, because Russia was originally occupied by Mongolia and is no longer a pure Slavic race!
They are all in southern Europe, geographically close to Asia and Africa, and have frequent exchanges since ancient times. Southern Europe was colonized by Asian Middle Eastern Empire for hundreds of years. They must be of mixed blood, so it is not surprising that they have black hair.
All Latinos! Latin people have black hair and eyes! He is short and grumpy.
Nordic people are pure Europeans and have never been assimilated, so they are light-skinned and blond.
Southern Europeans are close to Africa and Asia, and wars often occur in ancient and modern times, so their skin color is darker than that of northern Europeans.