User talk:70.50.22.159

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[edit] Portuguese people

Hello 70.50.22.159! You said:

eh - Listen guy, give me a break here. I know alot of Portuguese people, and I only know one who has MIXED blonde shades. No one in Portugal has lightest blodne shades seen in northern Europe and there is now way that 20% of the whole country has blonde hair ? Have yo uever been there ? There is NO way the country has that much blondes and I would bet my life on that. England barely has that percentage even though the majority of people there are of pale complexion. DOn't be riduloucs. The website you referenced is a joke. Portugal has one of the highest percetnages of darker complexions in all of Europe, and the smallest in lighter complexions.

First of all I must tell that it is a bit annoying to have to talk to an anonymous IP adress... Why don't you register? Secondly, regarding our small "war" in the Portuguese people article, let me tell you that it was never my intension to say that 50% of the Portuguese have blond hair! I also made a mistake, I meant light coloured hair, not blond. This includes various shades of brown and red hair. Notice also that the percentages are shown in intervals. The references I used are also shown in the articles White people and Hair color. And I am Portuguese! And I live in Portugal! And I am not a nordicist of any kind. I was just trying to find some sources and numbers to qualify the assertion. And there are a lot of Portuguese with light coloured eyes (I would say about 30%, but that is just my impression), as there are a lot of Portuguese, albeit and obvioulsy not the majority, that have some shade of light coloured hair (and I do known many that have absolutly blond hair). I wrote what I wrote because the article by Peter Frost (Why is Frost, Peter (2006), "European hair and eye color - A case of frequency-dependent sexual selection?", Evolution and Human Behavior, n.27, 85-103 "a joke"? Isn't a published article in a scientific paper a legitimate source?) is a recent source with numbers! I won't add it again soon. I'm waiting for reactions. Let's both relax a bit. Cheers! The Ogre 20:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

The maps shown in White people:

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