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| Inquiring Mind | May 7 2010, 11:59 PM Post #1 |
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| Toiletman | May 8 2010, 12:16 AM Post #2 |
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I think I could fit into most Northern, Western and Eastern European countries and everywhere, where those countries have colonies. Atleast in those countries, where I have been, people never tried to speak English with me or thought I was a tourist (except East Asia). Well, I've always been with native people, too. |
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| Manu | May 8 2010, 01:22 AM Post #3 |
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anywhere in southern europe (including france) |
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| topos | May 8 2010, 08:30 AM Post #4 |
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According to Delilah and Dude: Germany and England. |
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| Arch Hades | May 8 2010, 05:31 PM Post #5 |
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Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, FYROM, Albania, Western Turkey, Various regions of Italy from Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna southward, but mostly it's south from Naples to Sicily. Possibly Southern France or Spain as well.
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| Ulrich | May 8 2010, 07:39 PM Post #6 |
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UK, Norway, Normandy France, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA, and Canada. Possibly Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia as well.
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| Avbdill | May 8 2010, 07:54 PM Post #7 |
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Central Europe, Spain, Greece, Albania, Turkey, Georgia, Chechnya.
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| Delilah | May 8 2010, 10:35 PM Post #8 |
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LOL at this thread. According to topos, probably only Latin America. According to Funk, non-Anatolian Turks. |
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| Toma | May 10 2010, 05:14 PM Post #9 |
Audio, video, disco.
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Europe and such as. |
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| Alberta | May 10 2010, 05:33 PM Post #10 |
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Arabia, India, and Tajikistan |
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| Caudium | May 10 2010, 06:46 PM Post #11 |
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Are central and northern Europeans hesitant to ask if a Mediterranean-looking person comes from the Middle East or North Africa? Like they fear they would be insulting that person to assume he or she could come from a non-European country? Just asking. |
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| topos | May 10 2010, 08:38 PM Post #12 |
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That's not a very serious problem, Caudium, because people from Italy usually are not called Rashid, Muhammed, Abdul etc. so way should anybody ever ask something like that? Apart from that you can usually tell where someone is from. Also, if you see a stranger on the street, do you go to him and say something like: "Hey, you look like you could be from the middle east!"? Perhaps in the past, hardly today. I would definitely feel embarrassed, if I told an Italian that he looks like an Arab, but neither have I ever done so nor do I think that I'm ever going to do so. And I must repeat that they do not on average look that similar. I mean, this is the stereotypical Arab:  Not every Arab looks like that, but it's the general direction. There are not many Italians who look particularly similar, or are there? Edited by topos, May 10 2010, 08:40 PM.
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| Caudium | May 10 2010, 09:21 PM Post #13 |
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Well, when I say "Middle East", I am including the Near East (Levant and Anatolia as well). I'm saying this because I've met Germans and Swiss people (both these countries have established Turkish immigrant communities; so I'm assuming that they could have had some familiarity with their looks) and they all said that I looked like I come from "Southern Europe" (ancestry wise). Oh, and they hadn't known my name yet, at that point. We were introduced through a mutual friend and were at a dinner at that time. |
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| topos | May 10 2010, 09:39 PM Post #14 |
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Hmm, I once met a girl from Calabria in the community kitchen of the dormitory I was staying then and even though she was quite dark, I knew that she was either from Southern Italy or Greece. I remember also a guy from Jordan, a christian, who looked European, Greek more precisely, though he was rather tall. So, yes, there are some people from the Levant who look Southern European. But I have never seen a Turk in person where it wasn't clear that it was a Turk. |
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| Caudium | May 10 2010, 10:01 PM Post #15 |
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Thanks for clarifying, topos. It sounds like you have a really good eye. |
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| vanillagorilla2 | May 12 2010, 06:47 AM Post #16 |
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Mostly southeastern Europe (Italy, Greece, Balkans), and the northern Near East (Armenia, Georgia, western Turkey, and probably Lebanon as well). Spain and the south of France would also work. |
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| Funk | May 12 2010, 06:54 AM Post #17 |
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And how many Arabs really look like that? It's an extreme type found among Arabs, but it is not the majority type by far. What people not in these circles might compare such types to are extreme, dark Dinarics, verging on Armenoid, who could look similar, if you don't know the mechanics of it all. Such types are not rare in parts of Italy. Edited by Funk, May 12 2010, 06:57 AM.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3lfOaFVtLE[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC4pt6iFhRI[/youtube] |
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| mixed.dude21 | May 13 2010, 04:55 AM Post #19 |
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Anywhere in Central and Eastern Europe: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Finland, Germany? (maybe more toward the east/south)
Edited by mixed.dude21, May 19 2010, 03:45 PM.
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| topos | May 13 2010, 06:35 AM Post #20 |
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@Funk. He might be an extreme case, but the Arabian Arabs I personally met went in that direction and I didn't think for a second that they could be anything else. |
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