Britannica on Slavs

[svin]

The physical type of the Slays [Slavs] is not sufficiently clear to help in throwing light upon the past o the race. Most of the modern Slays are rather short-headed, the Balkan Slays being tall and dark, those of central Europe dark and of medium height, the Russians on the whole rather short though the White and Little Russians are of medium height; in complexion the southern Russians are dark, the northern light, but with less decided color than fair western Europeans. In spite of the prevalent brachycephaly of the modern Slays, measurements of skulls from cemeteries and ancient graves which are certainly Slavonic have shown, against all expectation, that the farther back we go the greater is the proportion of long heads, and the race appears to have been originally dolichocephalic and osteologically indistinguishable from its German, Baltic and Finnish neighbors. In its present seats it must have assimilated foreign elements, German and Celtic in central Europe, Finnish and Turkish in Great and Little Russia, all these together with Thracian and Illyrian in the Balkans; but how much the differences between the various Slavonic nations are due to admixture, how much to their new homes, has not been made clear.

[Menydh]

Where is the surprise there, svin? Slavic is a too broad cultural term which encompasses many different peoples, even if it derives from one particular type in the past.

Germanic is no different. Look at the Austrian and Bavarian members of their parliaments, look at a good bunch of pictures and then come back to tell us how much light they throw into the past of a Germanic race.


Austrian Parliament
Representatives of the National Council (alphabetic order)
Members of the Federal Council (alphabetic order)

Bavarian Parliament
Members of Parliament (alphabetic)


Now compare he overall pictures with the members of the parliaments of the Germanic vagina gentium:

Norwegian Parliament
Swedish Parliament


What to say about Romance? And the same for Celtic.

[svin]

. In spite of the prevalent brachycephaly of the modern Slays

Is it true?

[Menydh]

Not from what I have observed. At the very least it is not a general rule.

[svin]

Well, that's my impression too. That's why I was surprised with this sentence. Also, southern Russians are not "dark", and Russians are not of low height.

Arghh... Ross must crush them.