Guess my racial background
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Middle eastern ? Again maybe thats true but my eyes are closer to those of Javier Bardem and in a forum i saw while searching they classify him as Berid.After looking at what one earth a Berid is i can with confidence say that i share the eyes of plenty Berids.When i searched about "middle eastern eyes" i didnt really find anything close to mine apart from some very rare cases.I may be wrong about all this since im no expert but it still remains my honest and as much as it can be unbiased opinion.
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The reason why I think that your eyes look more Middle Eastern in terms of morphology(Eyelid, eye opening, shape):
North Africans or Albanians can have Middle Eastern looking eyes too.
North Africans or Albanians can have Middle Eastern looking eyes too.
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The reason why I think that your eyes look more Middle Eastern in terms of morphology(Eyelid, eye opening, shape):
North Africans or Albanians can have Middle Eastern looking eyes too.
Nice eye chart,i can definitely see the similarities.Put some berid or Javier Bardem eyes in there and youll see theyre close to mine too.For example look at this guys eyes and then look at mine,i may not be berid but the eye opening and eyelid are close View attachment 13319
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I don't think you have any middle Eastern similarities at all in my opinion. The first pictures and the other from the side is not even close to middle Eastern features. Your head is narrow and and forehead is pretty large, nose is straight, which I've seen in many Poles and Czechs, Germans usually calls their nose area Roman which have a slight bend. As I've earlier said I think the narrow face is a common feature up here in Scandinavia and sometimes in the British Isles and Italy. Your colours are darker than up here, but not unseen. I agree your DNA test would be interesting.
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I agree with Mordred, you don't look Middle Eastern, i see a lot of Palestinians around here and you are not the typical Palestinian, you look more like in Anatolian-Caucasus cline, but would pass around and in Balkans on general, but those people with more Kavkaz-Anatolian tendencies.
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Half Albanian/Kurd here. Having been exposed to many Albanian (Balkan) and Kurdish (Middle Eastern) people, plus thousands of Canadians varying in hundreds of ethnicities, I would say many comments here are misinformed and/or stem from lack of experience. You don’t look “Arab” (whatever that means).
Your skull, phenotype, nose, lips, and general features fit well within the broad Southern European look.
However, your eye shape/lids are very common in the Middle East which is throwing people off. Even if you had grey/blue eyes, it would not negate the ME shape.
You could pass as Greek, Italian, Western Turkish, Mediterranean, and also some Middle Easterners who themselves could pass as Southern European (like many Lebanese).
Even very distant DNA(less than 5%) could impact your looks.
My MtDNA is N9a from Japan/China, my grandmother has 5% Central Asian DNA and quite high cheekbones to prove it. Even 5% of something can change your look.
On a DNA test, I could see you as 80-90% European Greek + 10-20% West Asian on a DNA test.
Your skull, phenotype, nose, lips, and general features fit well within the broad Southern European look.
However, your eye shape/lids are very common in the Middle East which is throwing people off. Even if you had grey/blue eyes, it would not negate the ME shape.
You could pass as Greek, Italian, Western Turkish, Mediterranean, and also some Middle Easterners who themselves could pass as Southern European (like many Lebanese).
Even very distant DNA(less than 5%) could impact your looks.
My MtDNA is N9a from Japan/China, my grandmother has 5% Central Asian DNA and quite high cheekbones to prove it. Even 5% of something can change your look.
On a DNA test, I could see you as 80-90% European Greek + 10-20% West Asian on a DNA test.
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EXATLY my thoughts.10-20% is a lot and would show a lot more on my face,i would say half of that 5-10% definitely.I found some more pictures and from my fathers side,grandparents look really really Balkan,i may share these pictures later on if i feel like it
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5-10% is possible too. Doing a DNA test would be your best bet.
The correlation between phenotype and genotype definitely exists, but is quite small because it only takes inheriting a mere 10-20 genes to transform facial features.
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The reason why I think that your eyes look more Middle Eastern in terms of morphology(Eyelid, eye opening, shape):
North Africans or Albanians can have Middle Eastern looking eyes too.
Nice pics, but I don't see too much relevance in your posting of ONE choice for eyes of a country: we can accept some statistically relevant forms of eyelids for someones but in some other countries, the mix is so complicated and without clear numeric dominance of one model that it's of no use to choose one form among others. Your "spanish" eye can be seen easily in Northern Europe too.
Not to criticize your attempts.
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I agree. I'm as Italian as anyone can be, and my eyes, my father's eyes, and my mother's eyes, none of them look anything like the picture labeled "Italian".
Also, I have studied in Spain (in the north) and traveled throughout Spain numerous times, but I rarely have seen a Spaniard with eyes like that. Doesn't mean they don't exist ofc.
I do know that they exist in Italy: my father's eyes are like that although green, not blue, many of my uncles have those eyes, and there are numerous famous Italian men who have eyes like that.
Giulio Berruti:
Flavio Montrucchio
View attachment 13331
Fabrizio Zunino
View attachment 13330
On the other hand, from the "hollers" of Kentucky, from old stock Colonial ancestry, Johnny Depp, with his beautiful big brown eyes.
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Europeans have a thicker lateral area above the upper eyelid more often. When you search for pictures of attractive men, you will find that this trait will be selected by western people generally and they prefer this trait, even if it is rare in many etnicities.
Middle Easterns, Indians and Africans have broader Eyelids in general, this gives the eyes a protruding look (Googly eyes)
Two Indians:
Middle Eastern Eye Type: https://www.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Indian-Man-Dhoti.jpg
More European Type: https://mensopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Indian-men-office-outfit-ideas-in-2020-1.jpg
In my opinion “Its me” represent more the middle eastern eye type with broad eyelids and more googly eyes.
This seems to be the older type of eye shape, because it is also present in Pygmy: https://assets.survivalinternationa...m-pyg-baka-fw2-2014-237_article_column@2x.jpg
The opposite: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/49/31/2f4931cb0756e127bb5812df0afe3bca.jpg
Using betaface, the face recognition rhythm associates the young “Its me” with people like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_Headshot_2007.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashley_McKenzie.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JEREMY_SMITH.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Votivkirche_4.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yaniv_Katan.JPG
Middle Easterns, Indians and Africans have broader Eyelids in general, this gives the eyes a protruding look (Googly eyes)
Two Indians:
Middle Eastern Eye Type: https://www.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Indian-Man-Dhoti.jpg
More European Type: https://mensopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Indian-men-office-outfit-ideas-in-2020-1.jpg
In my opinion “Its me” represent more the middle eastern eye type with broad eyelids and more googly eyes.
This seems to be the older type of eye shape, because it is also present in Pygmy: https://assets.survivalinternationa...m-pyg-baka-fw2-2014-237_article_column@2x.jpg
The opposite: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/49/31/2f4931cb0756e127bb5812df0afe3bca.jpg
Using betaface, the face recognition rhythm associates the young “Its me” with people like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_Headshot_2007.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashley_McKenzie.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JEREMY_SMITH.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Votivkirche_4.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yaniv_Katan.JPG
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Only 10-20 ? Wow.Is that equally distributed in a sense that its 50% from your mother and 50% from your father or is it random ? Does it also have anything to do with gender and by this i mean if as a man-boy i get more from the father than the mother when it comes to purely external looks ?
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I agree. I'm as Italian as anyone can be, and my eyes, my father's eyes, and my mother's eyes, none of them look anything like the picture labeled "Italian".
Also, I have studied in Spain (in the north) and traveled throughout Spain numerous times, but I rarely have seen a Spaniard with eyes like that. Doesn't mean they don't exist ofc.
I do know that they exist in Italy: my father's eyes are like that although green, not blue, many of my uncles have those eyes, and there are numerous famous Italian men who have eyes like that.
Giulio Berruti:
Flavio Montrucchio
View attachment 13331
Fabrizio Zunino
View attachment 13330
On the other hand, from the "hollers" of Kentucky, from old stock Colonial ancestry, Johnny Depp, with his beautiful big brown eyes.
The Fabrizio Zunino guys eyes and mine have many similarities (at least thats what i believe),he also reminds me of a Greek singer whose name i cant currently remember.Its also true for my family,none of us have a standart eye type from both my fathers and mothers side
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