Blondism in Australian Aborigines

[Graeme]

I have read on other forums about, and seen dubious pictures of blond Australian Aborigines. And living in Australia I want to say the following:

Blondism is exaggerated in Australian Aborigines. Yes, there are unmixed Australian Aborigines who are blond as children. The blondism can be quite light blond but it occurs in a very small subset of Aboriginal nationalities. It is non existent in Northern Tropical Aborigines, the pygmoid Aborigines or the less dark skinned Southern Aborigines. In fact the blond group is very small in population though spread widely through the deserts and arid zones of the Central West of Australia. All male blonds and most female blond children end up with dark brown hair in adulthood. Some females maintain the blondness artificially using native plants similar to Henna and some ochres. Aborigines are unlike West African negroes in that they can be bred out, that is, lose their Aboriginal features in a few generations with mixing with Europids. All unmixed Aborigines have dark brown eyes. Unlike negroes, Aborigines are hairy like South Asians and have mostly thick wavy hair.

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

I have never heard that Aborigine adult women bleach their hair before although I have seen pictures of these blonds in text books. One book from the 1970s claimed that the blond gene in Central Australia was spreading rapidly and that if Australia had not been discovered by Europeans and the people upset, so to speak, by this contact, that the blond gene (as they called it) would have spread through the entire population. I do not remember the title of this book.

Have you ever seen them yourself?

[fael]

Could you eventually post a picture of such a blond Aborigine?
Dank und Gruß
fael

[Menydh]

Extracted from here: http://www.heretical.com/bjerre/aborig2.html

[Menydh]

Some more:

[Menydh]

A map of hair colour frequencies among aborigenes

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

Looking at the distribution of blond hair in Australia, it is centered far away from the coast. This could be a vitamin/mineral deficiency of some sort, assuming H. sapiens was a coastal, water-world creature.

Also, in the highlands of New Guinea there are also Australoid blonds.

[fael]

Thanks a lot for the information. I´m helped with these pictures and of course the informative map, showing the distribution of Blondism amongst Aborigines. Very interesting indeed.

[Welund]

Originally Posted by Dr. Solar Wolff

Looking at the distribution of blond hair in Australia, it is centered far away from the coast. This could be a vitamin/mineral deficiency of some sort, assuming H. sapiens was a coastal, water-world creature.

Also, in the highlands of New Guinea there are also Australoid blonds.

I think that's clear enough. Is "blondism" even the correct term here?

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by Welund

I think that's clear enough. Is "blondism" even the correct term here?

We can call it "blondism", I think but yet one must admit that is not the same kind of blond that in europeans. We find also blond individuals as far as north-India and central Asia but yet one might notice that is not the same kind of blond than in nordoids & east baltids.

I'm still amazed that nordicist has not boasted the argument of blond aborigins to prove a nordic colonisation of Australia in prehistoric times

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by searcher of truth

We can call it "blondism", I think but yet one must admit that is not the same kind of blond that in europeans. We find also blond individuals as far as north-India and central Asia but yet one might notice that is not the same kind of blond than in nordoids & east baltids.

I don't look at real blondism as a Nordid/Nordic trait. It's more Europid IMO. I think blondism occured even before the Nordids appeared. Nordids just retain blodism, a certain trait that occur in childhood in other Europid subraces, because of adaptation. That's my opinion.

I'm still amazed that nordicist has not boasted the argument of blond aborigins to prove a nordic colonisation of Australia in prehistoric times

Certainly because there is no pre-european great civilisation to claim.

[Señor Malo]

I don't look at real blondism as a Nordid/Nordic trait. It's more Europid IMO. I think blondism occured even before the Nordids appeared. Nordids just retain blodism, a certain trait that occur in childhood in other Europid subraces, because of adaptation. That's my opinion.

Yes, it's kinda the opinion I made my self, I always figured out that blondism first appeared in some caucasoid groups either as
-A paedomorphic trait
-Exceptional trait among scattered adult individuals.

As caucasoid populations migrated north, a growing number of individuals retained blond hair (nad they we might talk of "mass" depigmentation)...is my personal speculation though I still use terms such as "blondism in the nordic sense" aetc aetc aetc...

[Ariets]

imo this is not a blond hair, just other variant of brown.
On one tv show i see white australoid (mix of irish/aborigen) wow, with blue eyes. Another irish mutant - chuck norris (half indian) Strongest genes are irish genes? ;-) maybe from CM ?

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by nordskelt

imo this is not a blond hair, just other variant of brown.
On one tv show i see white australoid (mix of irish/aborigen) wow, with blue eyes. Another irish mutant - chuck norris (half indian) Strongest genes are irish genes? ;-) maybe from CM ?

May be the correct term for Australoid abos should be "yellow haired" more than "blond haired" -let's keep the "blond" privilege for europids -

According to the SNPA site Chucky is borreby type.

[Carnyx]

A variant of brown hair? It looks blonde to me.

[Ostrogorski]

Definitely blond...

Most Australids are black haired rather than blond. Also, around Melenasia and Papuan New Guinea are Australoids with blondism.