Some of Russia lies in Europe, but most of it lies in Asia. I'm wondering why most Russians I've seen in the media are white and why I've not seen so many Asian or mixed looking Russians. With mixed I mean Asian-European mix. #Russia#White#Race
Most Russians I've seen in the media look like this. Similar to Germans and other North-Europeans. I don't see so many Russians looking like this: Or this: Or European-Asian mix (Not saying these celebs are that, but Euro-Asian people often looks like this from what I've seen):
Why are many Russians white if it's a partly Asian country?
Most of the Russian population live in the western Russia (read European Russia). Most parts in Eastern / Asian Russia are inhabitable because of extreme climate conditions. As opposed to your question, one's skin colour and facial or rather body build up does not depend on the country or continent they are from but in the geographical conditions they are living in. I think you are asking why don't Russians look like the Chinese or Koreans - the stereotyped Asian or why aren't they brown skinned like the Indians and Bangladeshis. So just take a world map and see where that kind of population is concentrated.
1) Most Russians live in Europe. About three quarters live west of the Ural.
2) The Asian parts of Russia would be more north than the regions where typical Asians live, which is why they look different. Yes, parts of China lay north of Vladivostok, but not much. Those from that area do actually look somewhat like the Mongols.
3) Most of the stuff that happens in Russia happens in the European part. That's why the media tends to show those parts. That's just where things are at.
That map is great. If shows where the population really is. The European part, the gates to the Caucasus and that blob at the Pacific. Turns out that Caucasians look like western Russians, look like other Europeans. Who knew?
Thanks for a very helpful answer! : ) I didn't know that. I've always believed almost the whole country was filled up with people since the population is big.
The population is not even two hundred million, I think. It's mostly a packed west followed by endless patches of nothing, especially in the North.
Places like Spain have a much higher population density, for example. When talking about population density in Russia then European values apply for the west (from Warsaw to Moscow it's pretty similar, metropolitan areas aside), but for the east you can go with a population density somewhere around zero. Not quite, of course.
Thanks for MHO. Now on to something else: If you think two hundred million on such a large country would be filled to the brim remember that Germany currently has over eighty million citizens.
What you consider as white or Caucasian people came out of the eastern steppes into Europe. Nomadic Caucasian tribes wandered the Eurasian steppes for thousands of years even before civilisation. Different ethnic groups and races intermixed with each other long before and after the first civilisations. We also cross bred with otjer humans like neadrathal and denovians. Racial purity is a myth.
Most French and other South-European people looks dark. It's the Nordic people that is mostly white. If you look up Adriana Lima's background, you can see she's mixed of Afro-Brazilian, Portuguese, Swizz, native Brazilian, Japanese and West-Indian.
So she's both an Asian, African, South-American and European mix. She's also never white. Even when she don't tan, she is still darker than Nordic people and has a yellowish-beige color.
In France she would like like any other Southern French, she wouldn't stand out. Only in the Northern part of France where people look mostly like Belgian people, they're much lighter than the Southern French.
She has European facial features and blue eyes, so she would definitive pass as an European. But I wasn't surprised when I read about her ethnic background.
For me she looks South-European, but she could also pass as a South-American. She don't look typically Asian, but if she told me she was, I would be convinced since Asian-European mix may look like her; ending up with European facial features and being dark. She don't have typically African features, but I know the humanity have roots from Africa.
Both many Chilean, Argentinian, some Colombian and Venezuelan people looks like that. They looks South-European. Peruvians and Bolivians tends to be more Native-American looking. In Brazil there's people who looks South-European, Native-American and African.
South European are mostly White though... Very fews are brown. We're White. I know for a fact if I go next to a brown person it's obvious I'm White. i have pale skin and light eyes even though my hair is very dark. For French people we have very latin feature for the majority but we're a light version of it in the majority of the time. "Brown" people are quite rare even in countries like Spain. For a fact people from Bosnia, Romania and Serbia are darker. I've seen plenty of them in France and they're darker than French.
South-Europeans in general speaking don't look white. If they traveled to either Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Estonia, you would see they looks different.
South-Europeans tends to be tan, have brown eyes and black or dark brown hair. Some have blue or green eyes too, but are still darker than Nordic people when it comes to hair and skin complexion. It's possible to be light-skinned and still being brown. I use the term brown from South-Europeans to West-Africans. It exist both light and dark brown. Brown don't mean African or Asian. Nordic people are more pinkish-white.
South-Europeans also tends to be mixed with dark people from other continents like North-Africa and West-Asia, in addition to being mixed with North-Europeans. In the past there were immigration too in most countries and a lot of trading. You can often see at people they're mixed with something more than only white. i.pinimg.com/.../...421134a06d26cd6df3ec8d654b.jpg
I never seen someone looking like the first guy here, never. South European hadn't been mixed with West Asian it's East European who have been mixed with them. (I never heard of this before). As for being mixed with North Africa there's very few who have been to what I've read. Is it said they didn't mix at with each other, they settled there but didn't mix with the local. Too I think some look similar to the North African because they live near (South Spain and Sicily, Malta, etc.. are very near from the African continent so it make sense some look similar because they're near, I don't think it mean they have mixed with each other). Too even if Some south European are "brown" we can tell if they're European or not by their face feature.
Sorry for being very unclear. I posted the picture of the first guy to demonstrate it's often possible to see if someone is mixed or not. He's a mix between white and black. In the same way we can see that, we can see South-Europeans have some similarities to certain Middle-eastern groups.
I think we can agreeing in being disagree. For me South-Europeans in general speaking don't look white. They looks like dark/brown Europeans.
We can agree to disagree though most south European in France have light brown eyes, light brown eyes and light skin for women. (men are darker). So I think even by your standard they would look White no?
Depends what you mean. If they've greenish eyes, is light-skinned and has hazel-blonde/light brown hair, they would be more white. If they looks like Emma Watson when she has darker hair, they wouldn't look totally white. Then they would look mixed. Partly white, partly none-white. But mostly or almost white. i1.wp.com/.../Emma-Watson-26.jpg
I say looking like Emma Watson. For me being White is about skin color and face feature. So even if someone have dark hair if he have a light skin and European face feature then they would be White to me.
My definition on white: - Being albino regardless of facial feature and racial/ethnic background (E. g. West-African albino) - People with blonde/ginger/hazel-blonde hair, blue/green/gray eyes and light-skin
Most white people have European facial features, but not everyone have. If they've albino, they don't have to look European.
People like Emma Watson looks mostly "white", but is darker and therefor don't fit into my definition completely. Watson is light-skinned, but not lighter the other places on her body. I see on the whole person, not on a body part alone.
Dark people are people with black/dark brown hair, brown eyes and beige/tan/brown skin. Having a beige-brownish or beige-yellowish skin tone is also common for dark people when they're light-skinned. White people tends to have a more pinkish or a more cold under toned skin tone.
People with albino sometimes literally looks white, or is very close at least. White and brown is colors. Most Africans are brown, but those one with albino looks closer to white. As I said, I'm looking on the whole person and not a body part alone. If your body stores a lot of pigment and it's visible, then you may not fall into the completely white category. Dark pigments are dark pigments regardless if they're stored on only the top of your head or is covering the rest of the body too.
The problem with your definition it's that White is a synonymous with European. If you look at what the definition of a White person is it have to do with their face and body structure, not really with the color of their skin. A White person is a synonymous for Caucasian, face structure is what is the most important, not the color of their hair, eyes or skin. You're taking the word White and Black too literally.
For exemple a Asian person is a person with monolid and certain face structure. They can have dark or light skin. Color of the skin doesn't mean anything, it's the face / body strur cture that really count. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mongolian are Asian but Iranian and people from Pakistan aren't Asian because they don't have the face feature for being considered Asian. They're Caucasian. White people are Caucasian. Asian is a synonymous for Mongoloid (face feature). Only the face feature count and not the color of the skin, the hair or the eyes.
It's face feature that count so even if people are living on the Asian continent they wouldn't be considered Asian if they don't have the face feature for it, they would be considered Caucasian, just like Georgian are considered to be Caucasian and not Asian. They don't look Asian / Mongoloid at all so they aren't Asian in the racial definition.
By this the color of the skin, eyes or hair don't matter only the face / body, feature / structure matter not the color. An albinos who have Asian or Black face feature is a Black / African person not a White person. The White terms is stupid we should use the word Caucasian because if not it lead to many problem... White mean Caucasian and European, it don't mean you're blond with blue eyes.
Too if Black look brown why are we calling them Black? Why not Brown? And why South European would be Brown then? No Southern European are darker or have the same skin color than a Black person, they're much lighter.
So you shouldn't use it as ways to determine is someone fit the standard. You should use Caucasian, Mongoloid, etc.. Which are better terms. Focusing on color is just confusing.
Modern Russians descend from two different Slavic tribes. From Wikipedia: "The tribes involved included the Krivichs, Ilmen Slavs, Radimichs, Vyatiches, and Severians. Genetic studies show that modern Russians do not differ significantly from Belarusians and Ukrainians. Some ethnographers, like Zelenin, affirm that Russians are more similar to Belarusians and to Ukrainians than southern Russians are to northern Russians. Russians in northern European Russia share moderate genetic similarities with Uralic peoples,[42][49] who lived in modern north-central European Russia and were partly assimilated by the Slavs as the Slavs migrated northeastwards. Such Uralic peoples included the Merya[50] and the Muromians.[49][51]
Many Russians are descendents of the Rus During the Viking times Danes and Norwegians and some Swedes did their did across western Europe mostly only a bit to the east one particular tribe or group or whatever you wish to call them from Sweden the Rus travelled down the rivers in Russia and settled there Kiev amongst others was a town founded by them And of course the natives were Slavics who are white as well and they intermingled The "asian" look really mostly is found on the eastern/southern side of Asia which is a huge continent So the vast majority of the people in the Russian part of Asia are whites a mix of Scandinavian central European and Slavic types If you go south you start hitting the various -stan contries and you start getting some Asia minor type people go east/south east you get what we generally associate with the Asian type epicant folds and the skin tone we call yellow that really isn't yellow at all
Major population centers are in Europe. Moscow, St. Petersburg, basically every famous Russian city is in Europe. Sure, they pushed FAR east, and have a city called Vladivostok (I think that's what it's called) and do have non-white citizens, but the population of Siberia, which contains the vast majority of the Russian land, has a population somewhere around 40 million, which I believe is like 1/3 of Russia
You know, you can have many of one thing even if the country is partly something else too. One doesn't negate the other? And I'd say a lot of the Russian footage you see are from areas where the population is mostly white in appearance, so... Again, the question is a bit silly.
You literally answered your own question. And while yes the majority of Russia is in Asia, the majority of Russians live on the Europe side so obviously they would be Germanic in nature.
It's not about region, it's about geography, weather and and position, that's why people from warmer countries have black skin, mostly. And ones like Russia or Iceland got white people. It's all about heat
Because Russians are exactly that. Northern Europeans. That is their ancestry. Having said that there is a difference between a Russian and a citizen of the Russian Federation.
Well, most Russians live in Europe. During most of the 1900s their borders were closed which means only the European group was there. This meant that almost everyone was white.
The inhabitalbe parts of Russian are in the western part of Russia, closer to Europe than Asia, most of Russia is uninhabitable
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Most of the part that is in Asia is basically unlivable. The majority of the population is near the European side. So that may play a little bit of a role.
I actually saw a Russian on YouTube that looks like a Mongolian, and I met a Mongolian girl in real life, she looked like Russian she was even blond with light eyes.
Actually there are many ethnic groups in Russia. Slavs, Siberians, Caucasians, Balts, Uzbeks, Turkmens, etc. Slavs make 75-80 percent of the population.
Many White Russians are descendants of Slavic people who came to the area that is now Russia from what is now Ukraine (I think it was around 4th century). Therefore they look like other Slavic people, not like Asian people.
The middle-eastern are both West-Asians and North-Africans. You didn't answer my question on why Russians looks more European than Asian, if the country also is a part of Asia.
Because most of the population is in eastern Europe
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I am going to be that one annoying guy and say that I personally see race as an urban myth, and that we are all part of the homosapien species, but in this context, that is a very interesting question... Perhaps one would need to look at socio economic issues from the past and present in order to measure the construction of Russian demographics
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Because "asian" is not really a one race. In American context east, southeast Asians, south, central Asians are all lumped up together.
With "Asian" I'm including more than one "ethnic" group. I do talk mostly about Mongolian and Kazakhstans, but I do also include other Asians. I can't the names on all the groups in the world.
@tinkerth3, most Indians are brown. Almost all of them have black hair and brown eyes. The brown skin color they've varies from tan/beige to very dark brown. It's not so common for Indians to look like Scandinavians.
No , I don't know what part of India you have seen , check out marathi koknasth , guys /girls those are blond, check out assam, mizoram girls they look chinese , and pretty fair, check out the notrth india , mostly dark , mumbai persian people are all white. There are all colours , and all type of people in INDIA, From complete veg to complete non. Veg., Mixture of both, everything.. everything..
Caucasian aren't synonymous with white. Both South-Europeans, some Middle-eastern groups and some South-Asian groups are seen as Caucasian because of the skull. It's not the color that's determining it.
@mdn12345, why? I understand it may be a bit confusing if I said someone outside Europe may be Caucasian too, but South-Europeans are both Caucasian and Europeans. They're often not white.
Actually Caucasian is a misused term. True Caucasians are the people who are from Pontic Caspian steppes. Most true Caucasians are genetically between Anatolians (today’s Turkish people) and Siberians. Actually, ethnic Russians look more oriental when compared to Germans, French, Austrians and even Czechs. I guess this is one of the reasons of Russians’ more oriental faces.
@mdn12345, oh, I thought languages changes with time and that the word "Caucasian" has got a new meaning. Sometimes similar words gets a new meaning. "Gay" in the past meant something different than what it does today.
Exactly 😊👍🏼 When you tell a Russian “Caucasian”, they would think about Armenians, Georgians, some Turkic people, Ossetians, Circasans, Chechens. However, it has a different meaning in the Western World.
Conclusion: Most Russians are Europeans since the population mostly lives in Europe and there's few people who lives in the Asian part. Most Russian people are white. Perhaps European is a more right definition than Caucasian.
@mdn12345 I am turk and I consider myself as mongoloid. I have white skin and slanted eyes. Dont call me a caucasian. My ancestors came from central asia.
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