Olive Skinned Scandinavians

Would you say that they have, yellow skin? You obsessive fucking freak.

Swullatoes!

The Swedes love to interbreed. Including the Brazilian royal family offspring.

This thread is useless without pictures

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True.

Maybe it's an adaptation to prevent sun-blindness, even though it can be pretty cloudy sometimes in some Nordic regions. There's some research to support that skin color variations are about human Vitamin D needs or protection against the Sun in different climates.

R6 Coreection, "ice /snow blindness"

R7 Correction: [Correction]

Never underestimate the diversity of human migrations.

It was the Moops

Genghis Khan!

I once dated a man of Norwegian and Greek descent: fair hair, corn flower blue eyes, olive-toned skin, chiseled facial features, cleft chin, with the body of an Adonis (and LARGE hands).

(Think, a young, sun-kissed Perry King.)

Is Scandinavian halitosis distinct from North American halitosis?

Yes, OP, it's like a light olive skin. I (Norwegian/Danish) have lost it now, but had it all through childhood, as did my 2 best friends (Swedish). You see it all over Minnesota and Wisconsin. But not all of us have blond hair.

Lena Olin is an olive skinned (and dark haired) Swede.

We see lots of astonishingly handsome fair German tourists who go wonderfully tanned down here in Australia.

[quote] who go wonderfully tanned down here in Australia.

Why do it happen to them and not others who are pink/red?

Like Alicia Vikander? I thought she was mixed race but she said she's full Danish.

OP, for all we know they could be high yellow!

It’s the Celts who don’t tan - not the Scandinavians.

How about the Czechs?

This trait runs in my family, who are Finns. My partner, who is very fair and burns like an albino bunny rabbit in the sun, is envious because I tan even on overcast days and it lasts... I have light blue eyes, light hair (more grey than anything, now) but olive complexion. It is still common in Nordic countries, not just people with that heritage whose families migrated elsewhere. Don’t forget that for months every summer, the sun is up 20-22 hours/day (the famous white nights), so perhaps the extra melatonin is to deal with that, too?

Oh please. Watch a plane load of Scandinavian tourists returning from their Greek vacations and you will see that Yes, it IS from tanning

R17 I suspect there's an infinite variety of skin complexions— especially when you see those parts of their body which don't normally see the sun.

I'm sometimes shocked at the pairing in porn movies— a pink-coloured man making love to a sallow man

I dated a Finnish guy like this. Unless he tanned, naked and unbeknownst to me, this is a real thing.

My mom was 100% Danish—blonde hair/blue eyes—and tanned beautifully. My dad is Italian so I’m as brown as a berry as soon as I step outside.

YST YST YST

My dad was Norwegian, and he, my siblings, and I all had/have fair hair and eyes, and light olive-ish skin that tans easily.

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What’s this?

Yellow Skin Troll, my favorite troll.

Princess Birgitta of Sweden is famous for her beautiful natural tan.

[quote] Yellow Skin Troll, my favorite troll.

Why is it your favorite?

My theory is that the Vikings raided every place they could get to by sea, and brought back wives and slaves from as far away as the Mediterranean and Russia. Maybe those easily-tanned Scandinavians have remnants of Spanish or North African DNA!

R33, I think YST is my favorite because he's pretty subtle compared to the other trolls. Other fetish trolls start threads with lots of pictures and exclamation points. Yellow Skin Troll takes his time and builds up to it. I appreciate that in a troll.

Names DL’s fetish trolls please. There’s the Nephew Troll.

The Ottoman Turks got all the way up into Scandinavian territories. Hence many of the interesting names that align w modern day Turkey (Birgit etc) and many of the Turkish sounding city names. Finnish actually shares some word, grammar and syntax structure w Turkish. Crazy, I know. MIght be this?

The Scandinavians tan very well. They have a very healthy outdoors lifestyle and no hang ups about nudity.

I spent summers in Sweden as a child and the rest of the year in the UK. As a result, I was never as tanned or blond as my Swedish family.

The Swedes are sun worshippers too. The minute the snow melts, they are out sunbathing.

It's because all the fashionable people in Scandinavia use this, OP:

Alicia Vikander is the perfect example.

Tomb Raider

Omigod, what is that nasal tanning stuff?

R41 Alicia has vallon blood hence her looks.

Most Scandinavians with that complexion usually has vallon or jewish ashkenazi ancestry.

what the hell is "vallon?" I googled it and its just a small region in Switzerland?

R45 You can translate this to English. It is quite interesting and explains a lot.

R45 basically, valloner was a group of french speakers from what is now southern Belgium and Northern france. They emigrated to sweden. They were naturally dark haired and swarthy skinned. Some swedes are descendant from them. They were also quite wealthy.

So other than Alicia Vikander, does anyone else look like this?

Whoopi said on TV a few years ago that she lost that Oscar to "Geraldine Fitzgerald". What a fucking idiot!

Wrong thread, R49?

So who are some examples of this?

But he's fat.

R44, I disagree. If anything, she looks like she has Asian in her heritage.

I mean Genghis Khan fucked A LOT. You never know...

I have heard 1/5th of the worlds population can trace its ancestry back to Genghis Khan. Don't know if it's true or not.

R54 and R55, meet R11.

My bad, R56. I didn't read that far down. I'm actually glad I wasn't the only one who thought so.

yes it is, either Genghis or his immediate family but it's 0.5%

If Ghenghis were around today, I bet he'd be like Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs. That motherfucker was ambitious as hell.

R58 OP's trait comes up on one side of my family who are partly from that region but mostly from central Europe. I took one of those DNA tests and nothing traces back to any Asian region, no Native American or Sub Saharan Africa but I do have some distant Moroccan, which appears to be ancient Berber if I match it to family history I already know. However, the family members who do have that trait are not the ones who have the Berber family history that I'm talking about.

What's also mysterious is Finnish heritage, which I do have because even though lots about the genetic uniqueness of this Northern Finland group can be tied to environmental conditions which would isolate groups of people, it kind of just pops up and there isn't any migration story that seems to fit this group. I do know my family history going back very far but the further you go back, the fewer records you have to collaborate anything and eventually, you get back far enough where you just have figurative storytelling and legend to go by.

Of all places I'd expect some distant Asian heritage to pop up from, it would be from that Finnish heritage but nothing shows up on DNA tests. Again, it's mysterious.

Very interesting, R60.

This person is a native-born Norwegian.

I can't relate. I'm Norwegian and I'm pale af.

Swedes are famous for their tans. Greta Garbo returned to Hollywood after going home for the summer looking toasty brown and immediately started a trend amongst the formerly milky-pale stars.

Bjork!

According to this robo-read Wikipedia article, even Nordic aliens come in both fair and tanned varieties!

This 17 year-old Norwegian athlete, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, is trending on Twitter. He has dark hair and looks fairly tanned, although it is summer. He definitely is not a stereotypical blond guy named Bjorn.

He looks quite typical to me, R67, but I could be wrong.

R66 - chocolate and vanilla!

I feel sorry for those olive-skinned Scandinavians. God blessed them with the purity of Aryan blood and then turned around and cursed them with swarthiness like the subhumans to the south.

They’re mostly tall fuckers.

Gabe the Babe ain't dark. The other guy, maybe slightly.

I pictured OP’s people as blond. None so far like that.

The OP has been quite bad at posting examples of what he’s referring to.

More controversy please.

Olive press.

Any American examples of this?

In my experience, Scandinavians and Germans actually have the ability to tan beautifully. It's more Celtic types who can't really produce melanin and must take precautions. Many Americans have the stereotype that all northern and central Europeans are porcelain white . I think we have become too paranoid about sunlight in the United States. People act like there is no happy medium between lounging for hours at a beach and slathering on sunscreen for a 10 minute stroll. Millenialls seem particularly neurotic about sun and often appear pasty and unhealthy as a result. For all the obsession with sunscreen, many of these creams are suspected to be carcinogens in their own right.

I'm in the same boat as R60, (or maybe we're from the same boat).

My dad is mostly Russian-German (Mennonite). He's olive- skinned with dark eyes and black hair that curls when the humidity rises. He took a DNA test awhile back and I anxiously awaited the results, fully expecting a bit of African or "Iberian", etc.

But when the results came back, it was just as he'd said all along. "Germans from Russia", German, and Northwestern European (probably more German).

R78, the more common problem from all the sun-avoidance is vitamin D deficiency, which is closely linked with all sorts of autoimmune diseases.

There are olive-skinned Skandis? We should tell Emma Hallberg - she's that Swedish instagram model who is very upset that people are accusing her says of pretending to be black. She claims she just tans deeply (doesn't explain the newly black hair or the african headdresses though). In early pictures she looks exactly like Cressida Bonas, but in the last few years she looks like along haired Sade....

[quote] Any American examples of this?

American or otherwise.

Bjork is Icelandic, famously, and there is famous controversy over her asiatic-appearing eyes—but nevertheless, she is Scandinavian, and going through photos over the years it appears she has an olive-ish tone to her complexion.

According to Ancestry DNA, I am just over 50 percent British, just under 50 percent Irish, with a little German and a little Norwegian mixed in. I have brown hair, gray-blue eyes, and I am very fair skinned but not ghost white. Makeup wise, my skin is closest to the next-to-palest shade. I burn pretty easily, but I also tan well. As a child, I was very tan in the summers and my hair wouldn get blond streaks. My sister is blond and just a little paler than I am, and she doesn’t tan quite as well.

My mother’s side of the family was mostly Irish; her DNA showed around 80 percent Irish. My father is mostly British and (to everyone’s surprise) Norwegian—and my mom used to remark all the time about how “dark” he is because compared to all the rest of us, he has an oliveish undertone to his skin and he tans quickly and without burning. So it’s interesting that he has the most Scandinavian in him and the brightest blue eyes in the family but is olive toned.

I think we’re inclined to believe there is some “pure” version of different ethnic-national groups that all look a certain way and that’s just not realistic. Yes, people from northern areas are paler across the board, but there’s a lot of variation, and people get darker as they approach the equator, but there’s a lot of variation. I know a brilliant Russian neurologist who is from Siberia of all places, and whon is Jewish, and she is just barely on this side of albino, with ghostwhite skin, very light blonde hair and ice blue eyes—and her eyes have a little touch of Bjorky Asian-ish appearance, so if I didn’t know her I would guess she might be Icelandic or Finnish or something, but she’s a Russian Jew ethnically. You just can’t really identify people by phenotype, not reliably.

Does Weinstein cumdump Alicia Vikander count?

Alicia Vikander looks mixed race...especially in the Four Weddings reunion for Comic Relief.

An article from an Irish publication about Irish influence in Iceland. It says that according to DNA tests, Icelandic women are up to 50 percent Irish and men are around 25 percent, speculating that Scandinavian men invaded Ireland, married (either by choice or captured) Irish women, and then ancient Irish kingdoms banned together and chases the Scans out, and they ended up settling in Iceland. That happened a long time ago...

...people didn’t just start moving around when cars and planes were invented. There has always been mixing among different ethnic groups. Scandinavian people are famously blond, but many are much darker, and overall if I had to generalize I would say people of Scandinavian heritage are tall with broad and stocky builds, lighter hair and eyes but medium complected, as compared with Celtic people, who when pale are much paler, almost translucent skinned, with freckles, red or blond hair, grey eyes and more diminutive and fragile builds. Both groups are fair but appear quite distinct from one another. And then among both groups you have a whole lot of people whose appearances defy those stereotypes—“swarthy” featured Colin Farrell is an Irish example, and this strange person is a Norwegian example.

A discussion of “black Norwegians” on Ancestry. It’s interesting; there are plenty of people whose families have been Norwegian tracing back as far as they know and they look different in ways that some describe as black, some as mixed race, some as Sami, some as American Indian—but they’re Scandinavian and do return DNA tests as Norwegian or almost entirely so. Appearances just vary among people. It’s unfortunate that people always isolate and marginalize everyone who pops up as different in any way, whether their skin is a little darker, they are gay, their hair is curly among straight haired people or vice versa.

You sound beautiful, R83.

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It's a myth that Swedes are almost universally light-skinned, blonde, and blue-eyed. I have a large percentage of Swedish ancestry from both my parents, and managed to get dark hair and dark eyes. That being said, I am fair-skinned, but there are many Swedes/Norwegians who have olive-toned complexions. Lena Olin is a good example of this.

Lena most likely has jewish ashkenazi ancestry like a lot of swedish public figures. That or vallon blood.

We need to examine some Danes for tan lines!

Any other examples??

My dad (100 percent Norwegian ancestry) had light brown hair, blue eyes, and tan (wouldn't call it olive) skin. My sister and I are much the same but we both have green eyes and her hair is blonde. Would have to agree with some others here, though, that obsessing over this shit is freakish.

Tannologie 101:

Saxons (Germans and Scandinavians) are fair but can tan.

Celts (Irish and Scots...) are very pale and cannot tan.

Saxon or Celt?

Dunno but it's true many Scandinavians have tawny skin with blond hair and blue eyes. Very attractive.

R97

Always loved you, my dear.