No they are not.
I don't get how people would think that, especially on forums where people are obsessed with differences in details between people.
Examples of KN-looking people rarely resemble stereotypical Flemish. I don't care if Coon said so, or any other "expert". I am not saying there aren't any people here (yes I live here in Flanders, being 100% native Belgian) that resemble this phenotype, but to state that they dominate is downward wrong. They're overal too dark, have a cephalic index that is too high (you can even see it without measuring: the distancee between face and back of the head is way too short).
On The Apricity forum it is stated by many, mostly people never been in Belgium. I also tend to think that those who did visit, tend to think that people without this phenotype were foreigners. It is extremely exasperating.
There is only an emphasys of Nordic traits around Antwerp, mostly north of the city, but even those people rarely look typical "KN", let alone they resemble Scandinavians. I think many people are simply "shape-blind" and get overwhelmed with Nordic sentiments whenever they're blinded by seeing a person with bright blue eyes and light hair.
Nobody in my family resembles this phenotype, not even the light haired ones.
I don't have any illusions: people will always be superficial about a tiny country like Belgium and especially even tinier Flanders, and will always compare them to British (who are significantly lighter skinned), Dutch (who don't look the same everywhere in the country).
Also the notion that Flemish and Walloons look "very different" is complete nonsense. It is just pan Germanic agenda.
I personally don't look that way either, i have a very different facial structure than "KN".
I assume many other countries or regions are "classified" wrongly as well, but people particularly enjoy doing a shitty job about Belgium.
I don't get how people would think that, especially on forums where people are obsessed with differences in details between people.
Examples of KN-looking people rarely resemble stereotypical Flemish. I don't care if Coon said so, or any other "expert". I am not saying there aren't any people here (yes I live here in Flanders, being 100% native Belgian) that resemble this phenotype, but to state that they dominate is downward wrong. They're overal too dark, have a cephalic index that is too high (you can even see it without measuring: the distancee between face and back of the head is way too short).
On The Apricity forum it is stated by many, mostly people never been in Belgium. I also tend to think that those who did visit, tend to think that people without this phenotype were foreigners. It is extremely exasperating.
There is only an emphasys of Nordic traits around Antwerp, mostly north of the city, but even those people rarely look typical "KN", let alone they resemble Scandinavians. I think many people are simply "shape-blind" and get overwhelmed with Nordic sentiments whenever they're blinded by seeing a person with bright blue eyes and light hair.
Nobody in my family resembles this phenotype, not even the light haired ones.
I don't have any illusions: people will always be superficial about a tiny country like Belgium and especially even tinier Flanders, and will always compare them to British (who are significantly lighter skinned), Dutch (who don't look the same everywhere in the country).
Also the notion that Flemish and Walloons look "very different" is complete nonsense. It is just pan Germanic agenda.
I personally don't look that way either, i have a very different facial structure than "KN".
I assume many other countries or regions are "classified" wrongly as well, but people particularly enjoy doing a shitty job about Belgium.